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A light at the end of the Covid tunnel?
A light at the end of the Covid tunnel? In farming and food systems, as in every other avenue of public life, context is everything, as I said during a discussion on Al Jazeera’s ‘Inside Story’, this past Thursday. On the programme, which asked how coronavirus is threatening food security, I pointed out that all […]
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity
False Solutions to Climate Change: Part 1, Electricity It’s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is finally feeling the urgency—and during a time when COVID19 has much of our frenetic commerce on hold, giving us a space for thinking and discussion–what […]
Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years
Exxon Crushed By Pandemic, Reports First Quarterly Loss In 32 Years Exxon Mobil Corp. has reported its first quarterly loss in 32 years amid oversupply conditions, a crashed economy, and a pandemic that continues to destroy petroleum demand. The company reported a $610 million loss for the quarter ending March 31. That is equivalent to about a 14c loss […]
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans” So, was the film “Planet of the Humans” a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers’ phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, “The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is […]
Coronavirus: Something’s Not Right Here…
Coronavirus: Something’s Not Right Here… It’s hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played? Following yesterday’s pimping of Gilead Science’s antiviral drug remdesivir on scant and suspect results, it’s hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played? We’ve argued in several past videos that there is ample enough evidence […]
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides
The Pandemic Is Deepening America’s Many Divides And so we’ve reached the precarious state of disunion in which the only thing the warring elites can agree upon is that the Federal Reserve should rescue their private wealth, regardless of cost or consequences. America’s divides are proliferating and deepening by the day. The key political and economic […]
The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most
The Global Contagion Impacted Silver Production The Most According to a new report released by GlobalData, the global contagion impacted silver production the most while gold mine supply fared the best. The two largest silver producing countries, Mexico and Peru, have issued temporary shutdowns lasting nearly two months. Peru, which started its lockdown on March […]
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town)
Banana Town: Where Michael Moore Is Censored by the Left and Promoted by the Right (Episode 24 of Crazy Town) Paying attention to the buzz around Planet of the Humans, the new film by Michael Moore, is like standing in the middle of a three-ring circus. In ring #1 are the filmmakers, who raise critical questions […]
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth generation and carbon emissions (the […]
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
The Syrian Job: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret Cancerous lesions have developed across Keith MacDonald’s body and his son is dead from leukemia. His life has disintegrated, and in his eyes fault lies with the third richest company on earth. It is headquartered in the Netherlands, incorporated in the United Kingdom, and is an […]
Permaculture and Money – Part 1
Permaculture and Money – Part 1 Cash, conflict and crisis: How is money connected to limited and violent beliefs, and how can we transcend these beliefs? Permaculture design is about finding ways in which parts of a system can harmonise together, creating regenerative patterns and structures which can help us to develop as part of […]
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain
“Crisis In Processing” – Pandemic Exposes Fragility Of Food Supply Chain Today’s food supply chain crisis began in the meat industry has been developing for decades, and Tyson Foods has helped to create the disaster that is currently unfolding. The problem is consolidation, and with Tyson, JBS SA and Cargill Inc, three mega-corporations that control 66% […]
How sand transformed civilization
How sand transformed civilization Preface. No wonder we’re reaching peak sand. We use more of this natural resource than of any other except water. Civilization consumes nearly 50 billion tons of sand & gravel a year, enough to build a concrete wall 88 feet (27 m) high and 88 feet wide right around the equator. […]
Tyson Foods Offers Workers $1000 Bonus To Return To Corona-Factories
Tyson Foods Offers Workers $1000 Bonus To Return To Corona-Factories Tyson Foods is set to double bonuses, increase wages, and better protect employees amid one of the worst health crises to strike the nation’s meatpacking plants. Several Tyson plants have now been shuttered due to COVID-19 outbreaks. The company is now offering “$120 million in “thank you bonuses” for […]
