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The Great Recycling Con video story – recently noted

December 9, 2019 Comments Off on The Great Recycling Con video story – recently noted
The New York Times published this video 12/8/2019. Over 90% of “recycleable” plastic materials in the consumer marketplace end up in landfill dumps. A fraud fomented by the plastics and retail marketing industry. Note: There is a ten second ad before the story begins.
environment

Recently Noted – Your Burger vs. Transatlantic Flight – how much CO2?

October 4, 2019 Comments Off on Recently Noted – Your Burger vs. Transatlantic Flight – how much CO2?
The New Yorker published “Value Meal: Impossible Foods wants to save the world by inventing a better burger” by Tad Friend in the 9/30/2019 issue. During the introductory paragraphs the following statistic was cited: Every four pounds of beef you eat contributes to as much global warming as flying from New --->> read more -->>
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A Major Shift in Emphasis – the environment

September 6, 2019 Comments Off on A Major Shift in Emphasis – the environment
Friday 9/6/2019 Over the last several months I have been working on a restatement of the fundamental characteristics of the capitalist system. In doing this I have been thinking afresh about the current crisis of global warming and the surrounding environmental disasters of species extinction and the general defacement of --->> read more -->>
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Plastics and Run Amuck Capitalism

August 20, 2018 Comments Off on Plastics and Run Amuck Capitalism
Plastic packaging is swamping the world with refuse that never degrades and flows into mountains of trash in land dumps and pollutes the oceans. For example, the bottled water industry produces over 50 billion bottles per year for the American market alone. Roughly 38 billion are not recycled and end --->> read more -->>
political system

Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)

November 30, 2017 Comments Off on Trump Republican Policy Crimes (some only attempted at the moment)
Trump – Republican Positions and Crimes (some just attempted) against the poor, working and middle class Not to be obsessive, but the current Trump Republicans effort to cram their bill to pay back their corporate and rich supporters with giant tax breaks has me frothing a bit. I wrote down --->> read more -->>
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Recently Noted: The Environment under Trump – from National Geographic

November 5, 2017 Comments Off on Recently Noted: The Environment under Trump – from National Geographic
The National Geographic has a running list of the Trump regime’s efforts to save the environment for capitalism. A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment  “The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.” Here are --->> read more -->>
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free-market ideology

Recently Noted – about free market capitalism – is capitalism the real problem?

July 14, 2017 Comments Off on Recently Noted – about free market capitalism – is capitalism the real problem?
Capitalism is driven by a single internal logic that requires the transformation of people and nature into commodities to produce profits. This logic is amoral and the system, excepting for external controls by government and social institutions, just churns on. Despite the enormous increase in the economic output over the --->> read more -->>
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Recently Noted – free-market capitalism

June 17, 2017 Comments Off on Recently Noted – free-market capitalism
Companies must externalize as many costs as possible in free-market capitalism. Without adequate government protections you will end up with this kind of environment. from the New York Times: Nearly 14,000 Companies in China Violate Pollution Rules By EDWARD WONG “Environmental inspectors in northern China have found that nearly 14,000 companies, or --->> read more -->>
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Dumping Concrete: a law of capitalism In action – a local example

May 6, 2017 Comments Off on Dumping Concrete: a law of capitalism In action – a local example
The May 3rd post “Unbelievable” on our favorite local blog GossipsOfRivertown.blogspot.com caught our attention. This F.H.Stickles concrete truck dumping waste concrete next to a stream running into the Hudson River is a local demonstration of one of the central laws of capitalism. For more pictures of this incident go here. --->> read more -->>
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BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) at TSL Hudson

March 4, 2017 Comments Off on BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) at TSL Hudson
This 2015 movie by Chinese director Liang Zhao is filled with great cinematography and sounds. It trades back and forth between scenes of enormous horizon gulping coal mines, under ground mines, iron making, and ends with scenes of a ghost city filled with enormous apartment blocks in a newly developed --->> read more -->>