US citizens: call on the Senate to move quickly on judicial nominations. 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!

In a Greek town that was devastated by a wildfire in 2018, Christy Lefteri found that people sought small and proximal causes or enemies to blame for it, in a desperate effort to avoid confronting the great enemy: the planet roasters.

Eating meat, and raising cattle, are associated in the US with masculinity. Big Food takes thorough advantage of this.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "indigenous" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.

Freedom of speech, under the US First Amendment, does not cover the words used to carry out a crime. It does not cover setting up criminal conspiracies, perjury, fraud, or intimidation of witnesses.

Therefore, freedom of speech is not a defense for the crimes that the corrupter/insurrectionist is charged with, or the ones he might commit now.

*Biased Bank of England blames pay for inflation, never profit.*

*Data suggests prices are rising even though production costs are flat. Yet wages remain policymakers’ chief concern.*

This makes evident the bias that Robert Reich pointed out for the US a year ago. I must conclude that central banks have an ulterior motive: to knock workers down.