Diesel Civil Trust

soupsoup:

mohandasgandhi:

“Well let me tell you about Halliburton, the company I ran. I’m very proud of what I did at Halliburton and the people of Halliburton are very proud of what they’ve accomplished. And, uh, I, frankly, uh, don’t feel any need to apologize for the way I’ve spent my time over the last five years as the CEO and chairman of a major American corporation.” — Vice President Dick Cheney in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’

Michael Moore has uploaded a very important scene from his documentary ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ to his YouTube account.  The military industrial complex was something Eisenhower and Roosevelt warned us about and it continues to be ever more relevant as our wars progress into what feels like a never ending saga of conflict. 

Imagine an Internet where consumers paid a low price for basic service and more for add-ons such as 3-D video.

Or imagine if Comcast Corp., now seeking approval to acquire General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, let its customers download Universal movies at superfast speeds, while relegating the latest Harry Potter film from rival Time Warner Inc. to the slow lane.

suburbananarchist:

The real enemy behind the untold millions of deaths inflicted by Empire are what C. Wright Mills called “Crackpot Realists”:  the sane, sensible, serious people who know what needs to be done to keep the only world they know running, and just quietly do it.  As C. S. Lewis put it, the greatest crimes in human history were committed by men with clean fingernails and pleasant, well-modulated voices, sitting in tastefully appointed offices.  For these people, a global system of corporate neoliberalism enforced by the United States, the G20, the World Bank and UN Security Council is the only conceivable way of doing things.  And to keep this system going — as the only possible basis for what they call “peace and prosperity” — they do what’s necessary.  When there’s “collateral damage,” they regret it.  But they don’t flinch from the task.  Because, after all, America is the indispensible nation.

dailyrenegade:

Why you should never vote for another Republican as long as you live.
schmolitics:

soupsoup:

fuckyeahpoliticalcartoons:

Follow  the money, if you can
The Republicans  are filibustering a bill that would require political ads to  disclose who funded them. Democrats need only a single vote to break the  filibuster, but not a single Republican will support the bill. This  bill is a small thing that would reverse some of the Supreme Court  decision (“Citizen’s  United“) that opened up the floodgates for corporations to spend  unlimited amounts of money on political ads, with no accountability.
I don’t think there could be a clearer signal of who owns the  Republican Party, and whose interests they represent.

dailyrenegade:

Why you should never vote for another Republican as long as you live.

schmolitics:

soupsoup:

fuckyeahpoliticalcartoons:

Follow the money, if you can

The Republicans are filibustering a bill that would require political ads to disclose who funded them. Democrats need only a single vote to break the filibuster, but not a single Republican will support the bill. This bill is a small thing that would reverse some of the Supreme Court decision (“Citizen’s United“) that opened up the floodgates for corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political ads, with no accountability.

I don’t think there could be a clearer signal of who owns the Republican Party, and whose interests they represent.

azspot:

Even though deep snowdrifts cover his fields in eastern Kansas, Luke Ulrich, a corn and soybean farmer here, is thinking about spring. It’s time to buy seed again, but hundreds of seed companies have gone under in the past two decades.

Ulrich remembers the days before genetically modified seeds upended the industry. Critics of the big agriculture biotech company Monsanto say its popular Roundup Ready technology is to blame for that. Roundup Ready is a line of gene-modified seeds that inoculate plants against a herbicide, Roundup, also made by Monsanto, that kills just about everything else.

“Ever since they’ve come out with the Roundup Ready trait and that became popular and basically took over farming, we’ve seen significant increases every single year,” Ulrich says.

Ulrich says his seed costs shot up almost 50 percent last year. That’s because farmers are contractually prohibited from saving seeds and planting them the following year.

Farmers face lawsuits if they try to save and replant the genetically modified seed because they don’t own the technology. While they bristle at that, they love the Roundup Ready seed.

“There’s nothing like Roundup. A monkey could farm with it,” Ulrich says.

As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals.

The first of many broken promises around healthcare, I’m sure. Emphasis mine.

Freelance photographer Lance Rosenfield [1] was working on assignment for ProPublica in Texas City, Texas, last week, when a BP security guard began following him. Rosenfield was later detained by police after taking photos for two ProPublica stories. One revealed that BP’s Texas City refinery had illegally emitted 538,000 pounds of toxic chemicals [2] into the air in April and May. The other reported that the Texas City refinery continues to have serious safety violations [3] five years after an explosion at the plant killed 15 workers.

The decision by BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward to spend a day with his family in England Saturday was perhaps defensible. Two months into the Gulf oil spill, some Americans might grudgingly admit that even a man charged with solving the worst environmental crisis in US history needed a day here or there to recharge the batteries.

The fact he spent that day yachting with his son in an exclusive race off the English coast was perhaps the starkest evidence yet of the BP chief’s deep misunderstanding of American public opinion – or his dismissal of it.

Stan Moody has served in the Maine State House of Representatives both as a Republican and a Democrat, pastors a small country church in Central Maine and served as a chaplain at the maximum security Maine State Prison, where he ministered to inmates in the Supermax unit. He has authored several books on the state of the evangelical church in America, including “No Turning Back: Journal of an All-American Sinner,” “Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship: A New Look at the Second Coming of Christ” and “McChurched: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry.”

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