I have a 89 year old relative whose chief occupation is watching Catholic TV, specifically at this moment the Pope in Australia. I told her my problem (or one problem) with the Pope is his opposition to family planning, something I personally find perverse. There are 9 billion people on Earth and there is insufficient …
Jane asks “shouldn’t we be doing something?”. O.k , here are some ideas. It’s early in the morning so my brainpower is limited: 1. Make time to protest more to elected representatives. Start with the right-wing media monopolies. Why should Murdoch have the final say as to who runs Britain? Why should there be 5 …
Apparently the Bush Administration is trying to redefine contraception as abortion. Are there no lengths to which these people will not go?  The world is over-populated, there is not enough food, oil and raw materials to go round the 8 billion people, and there are still such ostriches with their superstitious heads in the sand. …
In his new 464 page book “Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century‘, the ubiquitous and prolific Tony Judt says:” Both liberal and neocon thinking has suffered from an ingrained provincialism that, when combined with grandiose schemes for rebuilding the world on the American model, helped to precipitate the foreign policy disasters of the Bush …
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The U.N Food and Agriculture Organization say that livestock on farms account for 18% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, including 9% of all CO2, 37% of the methane and 65% of the nitrous oxide. The warming potential of methane and nitrous oxide is , respectively, 23 and 296 times that of CO2. The problem …
