Can Homemade Heroin Save Mexico From US Drug Habits?

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We can look at the illegal drug problem, first as an individual tragedy, something that destroys ordinary lives and secondly, and probably more importantly, as an enormous business that moves billions of dollars beyond the control of legitimate state authority and which corrupts said authority in a worldwide chain of crime and violence that degrades the lives of millions of people, especially in poor and disorganized societies.

“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” — Porfirio Diaz

The oft repeated quote above has become a classic because it would be impossible to condense more truth in fewer words. Continuing in this long tradition, the insatiable appetite of Americans for “recreational” drugs, and America’s endless supply of freely available automatic weapons for Mexican narcos is literally destroying Mexico.

Wisconsin’s Climate Gag Order Part Of ALEC’s War On Science

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On April 7, Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands voted 2-1 to ban those employed by the agency from doing any work pertaining to climate change or global warming while doing public lands related work.

Although the story was covered by multiple media outlets, lost in the public discussion so far is how the vote fits into the broader multi-front industry attack in America’s Dairyland-turned-Petro State and which industry interests may have played a role in the vote.

The historical roots of the vote appear to trace back to an April 2009 congressional testimony given by Tia Nelson, executive secretary for the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands and daughter of former Wisconsin Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson, in favor of passage of the American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009.

Is Geoengineering Necessary To Survive Climate Change?

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Current carbon emissions are a problem. Few across the world would deny this statement as anything but true. Furthermore this is not an issue that rests solely on one specific country – the whole of the global community must take equal responsibility for our individual and collective carbon footprint. With the Arctic ice caps melting at a rapid rate it is becoming increasingly important for world leaders to be proactive in achieving results and reducing the heating up of our planet.

Although geoengineering has been bandied about for a number of years now, it was the recent article in the Guardian — where a professor for climate and environmental sciences was asked by the CIA probing questions on geoengineering’s potential for controlling weather — that the idea was brought back into the fore. The concept of geoengineering, at its most basic, attempts to reduce, and ultimately prevent, the increasing threat of climate change.

If, internationally, we are unable to make acceptable strides to reducing CO2 emissions geoengineering is, in essence, the idea of using technology to cover up the heating up effect and funnel away the CO2 we release. Scientists are researching “a tech-fix that excuses continued carbon gluttony in the industrialised world” according to, an arguably cynical piece on Gulf News. It may be pessimistic but it’s not entirely inaccurate: geoengineering will pull back the heating of the planet without addressing the root cause.

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