This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

Q: Why Are We Letting Infectious Diseases Make A Comeback? - Digg

A: Because public health precautions and interventions require taxes, and the rich have become so brain damaged by their greed that they prefer the return of eradicated diseases to taxes, because think they can buy immunity for themselves and their children from the collapse of modern public health systems.*

http://digg.com/2015/tropical-diseases-united-states?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg 

(* In this they are wrong, of course, but then history is mainly a litany of catastrophically stupid delusions of the rich and powerful anyway.)

"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."

Interesting new documentary: Special showing Wednesday 12 August: UNITY

A nice young person I met at the terrific "Cowspiracy" movie sent me some info on this, an intriguing movie from the looks of it:

https://www.facebook.com/events/750346865091785/

Cable News Charnel - The Baffler

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/cable-news-charnel

"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."

Climate Chaos -- We can't pretend we didn't know or weren't warned

Rolling Stone has a powerful article on

"The Point of No Return: Climate Changes Nightmares are Already Here."

Read it and weep.

The Chamber of Commerce plan to destroy America is on track and ahead of schedule.

Out of the Mouths of Babes: How a 14 Year Old Girl Decimated a Conservative Academic Orthodoxy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/05/1408880/-How-a-14-Year-Old-Girl-Decimated-a-Conservative-Academic-Orthodoxy?detail=email#

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White American Male With a Weapon - Pacific Standard

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/white-american-male-with-a-weapon 

"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."

The crippling blindness of the punditry]

I normally like the CSM, but publishing this idiot has me doubting things.

If there's anything that's true about the United States of Amnesia, it's that our crisis of armed violence against African-Americans has everything to do with decisions of the founders.

All of this happened in the wake of the tragic and totally senseless shooting in Charleston, S.C., an event that had little if nothing to do with any of our Founding Fathers.

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How an obscure motion to 'vacate the chair' spoils House GOP's August vacation - CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2015/0731/How-an-obscure-motion-to-vacate-the-chair-spoils-House-GOP-s-August-vacation
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The other most under-appreciated president ever nails it at 90

http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2015/07/word-jimmy-carter-on-american-oligarchy.html

(LBJ being the other)


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WORD: Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/30/1407166/-Catholic-Nun-Explains-Pro-Life-In-A-Way-That-May-Stun-The-Masses?detail=email

> "I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."


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Sugar, the sweet poison

The most familiar chemical additive may be the most deadly.

The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/upshot/the-evidence-supports-artificial-sweeteners-over-sugar.html

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