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Stephan: When you read about the Dark Ages, and ask yourself: why would a people destroy the infrastructure and accumulated wisdom of several thousand years, and reduce themselves to squalid darkness. This is how it is done.
In biology class, public school students can’t generally argue that dinosaurs and people ran around Earth at the same time, at least not without risking a big fat F. But that could soon change for kids in Oklahoma: On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Common Education committee is expected to consider a House bill that would forbid teachers from penalizing students who turn in papers attempting to debunk almost universally accepted scientific theories such as biological evolution and anthropogenic (human-driven) climate change.
Gus Blackwell, the Republican state representative who introduced the bill, insists that his legislation has nothing to do with religion; it simply encourages scientific exploration. ‘I proposed this bill because there are teachers and students who may be afraid of going against what they see in their textbooks,’ says Blackwell, who previously spent 20 years working for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. ‘A student has the freedom to write a paper that points out that highly complex life may not be explained by chance mutations.’
These bills are ‘a kind of code for people who are opposed to teaching climate change and evolution.’
Stated another way, students could make untestable, faith-based claims in science classes without fear of receiving a poor […]
Stephan: This is an essay that gives some flavor of the human experience of the New American Slavery trend. We are paying to create a population of people, numbering into the millions, most of whom come back into society at some point, warped by the American Gulag. Just how crazy is that? The privatization of prisons trend is like a cancer eating away at the social body.
Marela, an undocumented immigrant in her 40s, stood outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J., on a chilly afternoon last week. She was there with a group of protesters who appear at the facility’s gates every year on Ash Wednesday to decry the nation’s immigration policy and conditions inside the center. She was there, she said, because of her friend Evelyn Obey.
Obey, 40, a Guatemalan and the single mother of a 12-year-old and a 6-year-old, was picked up in an immigration raid as she and nine other undocumented workers walked out of an office building they cleaned in Newark, N.J. Her two children instantly lost their only parent. She languished in detention. Another family took in the children, who never saw their mother again. Obey died in jail in 2010 from, according to the sign Villar had hung on her neck, ‘pulmonary thromboembolism, chronic bronchiolitis and emphysema and remote cardiac Ischemic Damage.’
Stephan: This is one of the most extraordinary trends in human history. An attempt by a few companies to control all of humanity's food. It's breathtaking to watch, and it amazes me how few people even see it.
NOTE: According to the latest research, see SR Archive, the claim of increased yield cited in this report is incorrect, thus the keeping food prices down, is also incorrect. The Roundup system is expensive.
Note also that nowhere in this report is there any mention of the long term ecological consquences of this model of agriculture, or the significant issue of unintended cross-breeding, gene stacking problems, insect and fungus mutation, ingestion consequences, or a host of other unanswered problems. I chose this piece because its addresses the Supreme Court issues.
And finally, note the multiple industries this will impact.
Say you’re a Hollywood studio who spent a couple hundred million dollars on a blockbuster movie. Someone buys it on DVD, and then proceeds to copy the DVD and sell those copies at a profit.
That would be against the law.
Can you make the same argument about buying patented seeds to grow a crop, and then keeping some of that first crop to reap seeds and grow a second crop?
The United States Supreme Court will decide that in a case involving a 75-year-old farmer from Indiana named Vernon Bowman. Monsanto sued Bowman in 2007, claiming the farmer has for years used seeds reaped from a first crop of Monsanto Roundup Ready soybean seeds to grow another crop.
Monsanto said that violates its patent, as farmers sign an agreement when they buy the seeds to only use them once. The resulting crop can be sold for things like feed or oil, not to create another generation of seeds.
From Monsanto’s perspective, what Bowman has done is like the farming version of Napster. From the farmer’s perspective, to force him to buy new seeds every year is a monopoly, and Monsanto’s patent should ‘expire’ after the first crop.
Monsanto won in lower court, but Bowman […]
Stephan: When I was a boy, and lived at Wilson Creek Farm, in Gloucester County, Virginia, we took oysters from the creek, a kind of tidal baylet off Mobjack Bay in what is called The Tidewater. The oysters were about five to six inches across then. Joe Nichols, the county historian, older than my father, told me that when his father was a boy, probably about 1870, the oysters were as big as saucers, and that when Wilson Creek was built in 1653, old documents said they had been as big as dinner plates. I tell this story to give a sense of continuity and context to this very sad report; another consequence of climate change.
Behind the counter at Seattle’s Taylor Shellfish Market, a brawny guy with a goatee pries open kumamoto, virginica, and shigoku oysters as easily as other men pop beer cans. David Leck is a national oyster shucking champion who opened and plated a dozen of them in just over a minute (time is added for broken shells or mangled meat) at the 2012 Boston International Oyster Shucking Competition. You have to be quick, these days, to keep up with demand. The oysters here were grown nearby in Taylor’s hundred-year-old beds, but the current hunger for pedigreed mollusks on the half shell stretches to raw bars and markets across the country.
A similar oyster craze swept the United States in the 1800s, when the bivalves were eaten with alacrity in New York, San Francisco, and anywhere else that could get them fresh. Development of a fancy new technology, canning, meant there was money in preserved oysters, too. Gold miners in Northern California celebrated their riches with an oyster omelet called hangtown fry. New Yorkers ate them on the street; late at night they ate them in ‘oyster cellars.
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