Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus fertilizer obtained from mines, but the mines are heading towards exhaustion, leading towards food shortages. Meanwhile, the runoff of fertilizer into waters creates toxic algal blooms, which then convert into planet-roasting methane in the air.

Before modern agriculture farmers gave plants phosphorus as part of urine. Some countries, even some modern ones, still use this method.

*Silicon Valley Bank's CEO pressed Congress to weaken risk regulations [designed to keep banks from failing].* He said that his bank's operations were risk-free. We now know empirically that that was false.

Basically, our officials (elected and appointed) believe too much of what business executives and their mouthpieces say. I speculate that that is due to lobbying, campaign funds, and the revolving door — in one word, corruption.

US citizens: phone your senators and representative and call on them to undo the changes made in the Dodd-Frank bank regulation law to the strength it had in 2015.

This law, if not for being weakened by the corrupter, would have prevented Silicon Valley Bank from doing the risky things that caused it to fail.

The Dodd-Frank law was a weaker replacement for the previous Glass-Steagall Act, which was abolished in 1999 by Republicans in Congress. It is described in this history of US bank regulations.

I think we should bring back Glass-Steagall with its full force, rather than an inferior substitute. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus fertilizer obtained from mines, but the mines are heading towards exhaustion, leading towards food shortages. Meanwhile, the runoff of fertilizer into waters creates toxic algal blooms, which then convert into planet-roasting methane in the air.

Before modern agriculture farmers gave plants phosphorus as part of urine. Some countries, even some modern ones, still use this method.

Faux News edited the security camera footage of insurrectionist Jacob Chansley on Jan 6 to omit his criminal acts, then claimed that the absence of those scenes exonerates him.

What liars say doesn't prove anything, except, occasionally, that they lie.