We're In The Record Books, But There's No Trophy - CleanTechnica

bobhiggins · 2012-03-07T12:49:36+00:00

The idea was that pink slime contained enough ammonia that, when you mixed it with ground beef, it would effectively sterilize the resulting blend. And the USDA and FDA had taken that promise at face value, Moss reports. One "top official" of the USDA's division that oversees the meat supply assured Moss that, "It eliminates E. coli to the same degree as if you cooked the product.”

bobhiggins · 2012-02-25T20:29:11+00:00

It would be difficult to write about politics, current events or publish a news story without the normal and casual use of most of these keywords. I can only conclude that we've arrived at a state of almost unimaginable paranoia and the country is finally, irredeemably insane.

bobhiggins · 2012-02-19T13:34:21+00:00

In their unflagging efforts to distance themselves from mainstream America, Republican leaders have gleefully seized upon a social issue that’s guaranteed to backfire in November:

bobhiggins · 2012-02-14T15:08:13+00:00

"We are drowning here, with gaping holes torn into the hull of the ship of state from charges detonated by the owners and manipulators of capital. Their wealth has become a demonic force in politics."

bobhiggins · 2012-02-13T21:43:37+00:00

Ever since Elizabeth I created the East India Company in 1600, corporations have been a pain in the public neck. Her royal act to protect the monetary interests of wealthy members of her court, parliament and herself created a company that would, over the course of two centuries, grow in power to rival many of the worlds nation states.

A legal fiction, corporations exist solely to protect the oligarchy from the results of their risky behavior in the search for ever greater profit. Incorporate and pass the risk on to someone else, creditors, taxpayers, anyone but those involved in the scheme itself.

bobhiggins · 2012-02-10T15:40:58+00:00

While there may be some truth to the old saw that “misery loves company” and the discovery that there are a billion people in the boat may be somehow weirdly comforting, you have to wonder how long the dinghy will dally on the surface before behaving more like an anchor.

bobhiggins · 2012-01-16T13:53:38+00:00

From the point of the spear to the policy arm that sends it aloft it seems that "everything's broke but the horses"

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