We all want it, but from whom or what are we seeking freedom? Is it the Middle Eastern oil Sheiks who have us enslaved? Not so much. Is it the petrochemical industry whose money and power now control all facets of American life: Maybe so. Or, is GREED our real Slave Master? Current estimates of […]
David Deick
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It’s the environment, stupid
Atascadero
Green will be the new economy. But as long as the petrochemical industry owns our government, environmentally friendly jobs will have the back burner. Drill, baby, drill continues to be the mindset of politicians beholden to Big Oil. We need jobs, but not at the expense of planetary destruction. Creating thousands of relatively short-term jobs […]
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Flee the temples of consumerism
Cheap products made overseas by U.S. corporations cost us dearly
There is a big new box store, across the street from the other giant box stores: more than half a million square feet of box-store mania, collectively. I opened boxes at the new box store, almost all of which were marked “made in China”—boxes for every department, from cosmetics to candy, house wares to infants, […]
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Pick the most loving path
Atascadero
Our founders wrote in the Preamble of the Constitution “in order to form a more perfect union.” What did the mean by that? Did they mean a union with more control, more fear, more manipulation, more war, more dropouts, more poverty, more pollution, more genetically modified food, more global warming, more drug use, more corporate […]