June 2011
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Robert F. Kennedy on GNP
Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwoods, and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm, nuclear warheads, and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in...
May 2011
17 posts
Netanyahu: No return to 1967 borders - Americas -... →
"Prince Charles takes on agricultural lobbies on...
“Today’s food system works against those growers and consumers who want sustainably produced food, the prince said, and ‘favours overwhelmingly’ intensive agriculture which leads to environmental damage.”
“‘And so this raises an admittedly difficult question – has the time arrived when a long hard look is needed at the way public subsidies are ...
“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the...”
– Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971 (via mohandasgandhi)
The People vs. Goldman Sachs
“Defenders of Goldman have been quick to insist that while the bank may have had a few ethical slips here and there, its only real offense was being too good at making money. We now know, unequivocally, that this is bullshit. Goldman isn’t a pudgy housewife who broke her diet with a few Nilla Wafers between meals — it’s an advanced-stage, 1,100-pound medical emergency...
August 2010
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December 2009
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“If the climate was a bank [the U.S.] would already have saved it.”
-Hugo...”
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