I'm just so pleased to see thoughtful comments! Having no strong opinion on the issue myself, I just want to praise participants for showing that there's still people out there who can read, think, understand each other's points of view, and respond with civility.
- just one more reason that CMD is worth my time.
Of course she is responsible. She has endorsed the "Second Amendment Solution" to political differences. She uses violence based images in her speeches. She cheers the crackpots on. Too bad we can't indict her.
The recent appointments of White House staff and advisors follow the pattern of appointments from the start of the Obama administration, favoring the corporate and financial corporations who payed for the election and who benefited from the bail-out. Major investment firms, banks and insurance companies made Obama's election possible. They also reflect his deep ties to the Daley machine politics in Chicago, replacing Rahm Emanuel with his mentor, and putting a son of the notorious former Mayor Richard Daley and brother of the current mayor in Chicago, which also explains the support for Obama by the Kennedy family. These political operatives and opportunists follow the corporate agenda of late-stage monopoly capitalism, where the corporations merge with the state, as Mussolini put it in his classic definition of fascism. Of course, those who control the vastly concentrated wealth and power of this waning democracy are not monolithic, and the interests of the Bush administration and its supporters are not identical to those of the Obama administration, but there is enough crossover to insure control of the financial situation to the benefit of the few, and to maintain a permanent war and debt economy at the cost of the country and the people. The collapse begun in the Bush years was handed to Obama. Presidents come and go. The real institutions that run society, the corporations, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies sit and grow. Who else would you expect him to appoint? To be surprised or outraged is like someone who plays piano at a brothel acting shocked at what goes on upstairs.
I believe that a class action lawsuit against Bayer and EPA should be organized. I am not a beekeeper ourselves. The class affected might not only include beekeepers, but the farmers that do not use pesticides that rely on bees for pollination.
I can see a bill in congress the "Chemical Transparency Act" to require all pesticides and herbicides including ones previously approved by EPA to have multiple studies by independent 3rd parties. It should remove all control of the company from design of the studies to remove conflict of interest. All studies should also be made public for review. Bad studies will be revealed via the transparent process and peer review.
Don't count on it. She, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck will all most likely state that their comments cannot be taken as vitriol, but as free speech - which, ironically, it is. Buckle in. It's gonna be a bumpy decade.
Of course she is responsible. She has endorsed the "Second Amendment Solution" to political differences. She uses violence based images in her speeches. She cheers the crackpots on. Too bad we can't indict her.
I believe that a class action lawsuit against Bayer and EPA should be organized. I am not a beekeeper ourselves. The class affected might not only include beekeepers, but the farmers that do not use pesticides that rely on bees for pollination.
I can see a bill in congress the "Chemical Transparency Act" to require all pesticides and herbicides including ones previously approved by EPA to have multiple studies by independent 3rd parties. It should remove all control of the company from design of the studies to remove conflict of interest. All studies should also be made public for review. Bad studies will be revealed via the transparent process and peer review.
Don't count on it. She, Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck will all most likely state that their comments cannot be taken as vitriol, but as free speech - which, ironically, it is. Buckle in. It's gonna be a bumpy decade.
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