Showing posts with label Ralph Nader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Nader. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Ralph Nader is Still Ralph Nader

As evidenced by his suggestions here, with which "progressives" would probably agree: Ebola! Prevention and Responsibility

Friday, August 08, 2014

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Has He Passed the Nadir of His Influence?


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Ralph Nader on the Two Conventions

Profiles in Decadent Cowardliness
The Republicans put three themes in just about every speech. Tell your personal story, recount your humble beginnings, and describe how you pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps. Show the people you’re human or at least humanoid, not corporatist. Keep heralding small business so you don’t have to talk about Big Business which has bad vibrations these days around the country. Also, praise, praise, praise Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as family men with family values. Imagine Republicans telling the press that the convention was to “humanize” Romney and give the voters a warm, fuzzy feeling about their candidate so as to forget that his campaign is a clenched-teeth mouthpiece for Big Business.

The Democratic Convention evokes pity. They too had similar scripts at the podium – narrate your humble, hardworking family lines, talk incessantly about jobs so you won’t have to talk about wages. Especially muzzled was the willing Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, who, since 2009, has been given the back of Obama’s hand on “card check organizing rights” and on an inflation-adjusted minimum wage. His staged remarks even withheld any mention of a $10 minimum wage (See H.R. 5901 bill “Catching up with 1968”) and the raiding of worker pensions by corporate raptors.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Items of Interest, 25 July 2012

Ralph Nader, Prisons As Growth Industry
Kevin Carson, The Predictable “Scandal” At The FDA

Taki, The Magic Mystery of Monarchy

The Confederate Colonel:
The Cultural Destruction of England
Romney on The Confederate Flag

Top 10 All-American Food Myths: What You Don’t Know About Our Food Chain Will Shock You

Building a civil economy by Adrian Pabst (EB)

I thought it was interesting that Vox refers to Ugo Bardi - Complexity and the fall of empires I. I can't recall if he's discussed peak oil.

The mayor of Boston is making life difficult for Chick-Fil-A: Michelle Malkin, Hey, Boston: Leave Chick-fil-A Alone. Looks like he's not the only one: Chicago Alderman to Chick-fil-A: No deal

Chick-Fil-A is still a chain and not an ideal form of business organization for many reasons. The company probably relies on CAFOs for its chickens. Let those politicians seeking to impose their PC values on the company do so; give those who support a more traditional view of morality their own space and leave them alone, then. It's unfortunate that the LoS and other organizations are not that effective in building up regional identities and independence.

So the Muppets are now being used as a front for PC causes? It's time to do away with mass entertainment, now matter how much we may have enjoyed it as children. Hicks: Muppets break ties with Chick-fil-A over gay marriage

Opponents can't stomach Chick-fil-A's plans in Mountain View

The SJ store is set to open on August 16.

Catholic:
Student Design for a Proposed Benedictine Monastery
The Life and Thoughts of Cardinal Merry del Val - VII
Sarto and Merry del Val, communion of thoughts and ideals - and a long recess
Louis Bouyer and Church Architecture by Uwe Michael Lang
RESOURCING BENEDICT XVI'S THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY

SOFREP: Breaking Down the Pattern of Success by Randy Kelley

MovNat:
Resurgence article
ERWAN LE CORRE: THE 10 MOVNAT PRINCIPLES

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Items of Interest, 12 July 2012

Kevin Carson, “Green Economy?” We’re Not Green Enough to Buy It
Carson: Time to decide, "Green" Capitalism or Solidarity Economy? You shouldn't have to think about it long.

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, One Big Continent of Pain

Rod Dreher, A Tragic Journey To a Monastery


From Counterpunch:
Information Overload by DAVE LINDORFF
Driving a Stake Through the National Security State

Fukushima And The Nuclear Pushers by KARL GROSSMAN

Jolting The Mind For Action by RALPH NADER

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Items of Interest, 15 March 2012

John Michael Greer, America: Modes of Expansion
What would paleos make of his series on American culture and history?

Republicans Pushing Mandates on State Courts

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Myth of the Rational Market
BARBARA EHRENREICH, Rediscovering Poverty

The Rise of the Machines by Stratford Caldecott

PJB: Rush Limbaugh and the New Blacklist

The death of manners by Kristin Marino

The Higher Education Monopoly is Crumbling As We Speak by Kevin Carey

Does College Destroy Your Faith? By Zachary Gappa
Is the Chronicle of Higher Ed a dependable source? It is noted that RC institutions may have a detrimental impact on students, as was noted many years ago by Arbishop Fulton Sheen and repeated by many Catholics since then. But what of public and non-religious private schools? Are the culture and the environment of these schools toxic to someone who is a beginner and still trying to resist temptation?

Relocalization and Resiliency:
RALPH NADER, The Parasites of Big Finance
The U.S. does not need to be shackled by the global corporatists to what may happen in Greece or Spain or Portugal. We should be less dependent on financial economies abroad and more self-reliant and independent of the global economy’s dangerously contagious risks.


That is why the more community-based economic activity there is in our country – credit unions; renewable, efficient energy; community health clinics; community food markets, etc. – the more insulated we will be from global seismic ravages. Those same community economies would have helped shield the Greek people from the wily clutches of Goldman Sachs and other aggressive casino creditors.

INVEST IN YOURSELF: Building Personal Economic Resilience & Community Strength

Towards economic resilience: Local Dollars, Local sense, an interview with Michael Shuman by Monica Hadley & Caroline Kilbourn (EB) [mp3]

How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

Preventing the Fall of Rome by Gar Alperovitz

10 Alternatives to the Sliced Tomato in Your Winter Sandwich

Peak Oil and Energy:
Tom Whipple, The peak oil crisis: surging gasoline
Reflections on Energy Descent Action Plans: a response to Vera Bradova by Rob Hopkins

Feminism and Misandry:
The Daughters of Feminism Expose the Lie
The Thinking Housewife and Phyllis Schlafly on VAWA.

Catholic:
Looking Again at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, Fréjus-Toulon
Pugin’s Church Becomes Official Shrine of St Augustine

The Party's Over: Mary Eberstadt on men, women, and what the sexual revolution has wrought (via Insight Scoop)
Is she putting too much blame on the sexual revolution, that is to say the technology behind it, rather than the pre-existing culture/ideology (feminism) that made use of that technology?

Celebrating Fr. Buckley's Golden Jubilee: 50 Years in the Priesthood


Teaching Children the Value of Pre-Web Pages

Christendom to Graduate Largest Class in History; Honoring Rev. Kenneth Baker and Mother Agnes Donovan

Diet and Health:
Mysterious Honey Kills All Bacteria Scientists Throw At It




TV:
Bad 'Luck' for HBO Series
HBO ends 'Luck' after equine deaths
‘Luck’ Director Michael Mann Cites TMZ As One Reason Why Show Ended
Michael Mann needs to make some more movies.

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Items of Interest, 5 January 2012

Thomas Fleming, Newt Gingrich, RIP and For the Last Time and Gaffes

Daniel Larison, Why Haven't Republicans Repudiated Bush on Iraq?

Clark Stooksbury, Pink Buckets of Chicken

Refuted Congressional Lies about NDAA Kidnapping

Peter Hitchens, Don't forget, it takes a cynical knave to create a dodgy knight and Einstein Versus the Atheists

Intellectual Conservative, No Evidence for God?

Prophet of Conservatism, Russell Kirk

Mike Church: Interview with Kevin Gutzman on the state of conservatism

Mike Church & Winston Elliott discuss Conservatism, Russell Kirk and the Humane Economy

Paul Gottfried, Enough with Family Values and When Democracy Murders Liberty

America: Christian or Jacobin? by John Zmirak

End the Violence, End the War on Drugs

Srdja Trifkovic, Obama's Strategic Doctrine: W Lite
Daniel Larison, Syria and Interventionism Run Amok

Peter Hitchens, The Tory Party, Who Needs It?

Rebellion: Abbeville Institute Conference

Ron Paul:
Scott McConnell, Ron Paul and His Enemies
Patrick Buchanan: Ron Paul: Reactionary or Visionary ?

Iran:
Philip Giraldi, Another War on the Cheap
Chairman of Joint Chiefs to Israelis: U.S. Won’t Join Your War on Iran by Gareth Porter
US Frets Israeli Attack on Iran
Daniel Larison, Israel Is Not Going to Attack Iran

On Recent Economic Figures:
Auomatic Earth has a new url. Who Killed the Money Printer?
Paul Craig Roberts: Economics 101 and The Real Economic Picture
Fabius Maximus: About the January jobs report – mildly good news, but bought at great cost

Economics:
John Médaille, There is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan
Ralph Nader, The Health Care Racket

Peak Oil and Energy:
Janet Napolitano Personifies US Myopia
Peak Oil Crisis Election 2012

History:
Romance of the Middle Ages
Kathryn Boughton, A Book on James Madison by Dr. Kevin Gutzman

Christianity:
Thomas Fleming, Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites
Ethiopian Iconography
Christian Jihad
The Christianity of Modernism by Cleanth Brooks

Feminism:
The Feminist Mystique

Diet and Health
What happens when you eat Ramen.
Regrowing Your Own Teeth

Misc:
Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family for only 3000 Pounds

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

More Links of Interest

More stuff I missed while I was in Arizona...

Dear Friends . . . or Maybe Not! by Mary Vander Goot

America Loses Control by Patrick J. Buchanan

Paul Gottfried Discusses Paleolibertarianism with Richard Spencer - Ron Paul, Rothbard, and Race

Lee Cheek, W. H. Mallock Revisited
Daniel Larison, Scruton’s The Uses of Pessimism

Peter Hitchens, Welcome to 2042, the Year When Britain is No More Than a Memory and Small Expectations and Our Conversation Resumed

A Jeffersonian Kansas

A Catholic's Case for Ron Paul

Revenge of the Nerd By Daniel J. Flynn
It’s Ray Bradbury’s future—we’re just living in it.

Obama Signs Legislation Killing Bill of Rights; Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Rachel Maddow Skewer Obama; Road to Tyranny; Complete List of Senatorial Cowards Backing the Bill

Decentralize Now

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak Oil: The Implications for Planning Policy (review) by Rick Munroe

Michael Shedlock, Additional 2012 Predictions: Trade Wars, US Election, Precious Metals, Energy and Population: The Elephant in the Room; Peak Oil Implications on Population Growth; What Level of Human Population is Sustainable?

James Howard Kunstler, 2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper

Counterpunch:
The Sunni-Shia Wars by PATRICK COCKBURN
Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack on Iran by GARETH PORTER
Ron Paul and the Killing Machine by MIKE WHITNEY
Arise, Students of California by RALPH NADER
12 Great Books by RALPH NADER

Feminism, MRA, and Marriage:
Fathers Matter
As Recession Drags on Young Women Too Picky for Jobs, Choose School
American Sex Roles Unnerving to Eastern European Women
Dealing With Her Time Release Brain Bombs
Captain and Bored Passenger
Elusive Wapiti, So Close, Yet So Far
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hate Porn for Feminists
Finding Our Own Truth
Brainwashing Norway
Conservative Woman Misses Point

Diet and Health:
Introducing The Primal Blueprint, Updated and Expanded Paperback Edition
My Primal Transformation: Discovering the Art of Fit

Catholic:
The Name of Jesus Makes a Contemplative Man
The Holy Name of Jesus and the Holy Face

Rorate Caeli:
SSPX-Rome: Écône theology professor responds to Opus Dei vicar general
How the Neocatechumenal Way defended their liturgy in 2004

Reform of the Reform: is the Kiko Rite approval coming up?
Six years of Pontificate and the Sacred Liturgy: So this is it?
The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 3 - the Bishop of Antwerp on celibacy and the ordination of women

Dominican Rite:
On the Vesture of Deacon and Subdeacon in the Dominican Rite
Gospel Canticles in Dominican Chant

Anglican Ordinariate:
Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
Thirty Seconds Out!

Jeffrey Tucker, Chant has a tradition
On that alto in the Shrine choir
Chant: The Master Path
“The rediscovery of Gregorian chant is a sine qua non condition to give back dignity to the liturgical music.”

Milestone in Decline in Latin
Cardinal Ranjith calls for return of Vetus Ordo

The Church Militant By Frank Borzellieri
PC is the Dogma
Catholic Layman Says: Despite The U.S. Bishops, Church Doctrine Is Not Pro-Immigration!

Catholic World Report's new editor introduces himself, and the new online CWR
The Catholic World Report Archives are Open

Requiem for the Third See of Christendom by Robert Spencer

Beijing's Bishop Declares Support for Communist Party

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Items of Interest, 1 December 2011

Proxy War With Iran by Philip Giraldi
Rod Dreher, Attention, Copts: Time to pack
William Lind, Reshaping the Pentagon for an Age of Austerity
Alexander Boot — Author, Critic, Polemicist, and Blogger
Daniel Larison, The Useless Moralizing of Hawkish Interventionists

Economics:
Thaddeus Kozinski, Ivory Tower Capitalism (via Patrick Deneen)
Pre-order Hound of Distributism Today
Two New Books for Distributists

How Rising Education Costs Can Lead to Incest

Counterpunch:
DIANA JOHNSTONE, Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War
RALPH NADER, L. L. Bean and the Myth of “Made in America”
GARETH PORTER, Pak Border Post Attack a Big Loss for U.S. War Policy

Diet and Health:
Rod Dreher, Medicare fatheads
More promotion of the CW by the government, I suspect.

Low Carb Explained
Kitchen table talk. Review: Farmstead Chef
Are You Part of the Global Middle Class? Let me see your Smile......
MDA: How to Eat More Fat

Education:
Towards ecological literacy: A Permaculture approach for junior secondary science
The Thinking Housewife: Do impersonal settings prepare children for real life
"Impersonal care impedes self-restraint and the ability to form healthy relationships."
Rod Dreher, How fantasy helps us think historically

Catholic:
Holy Resurrection Monastery: Eastern rite monastery opens doors
The Family Celebration of the Divine Office by Shawn Tribe
Rorate Caeli: The Roman Rite: Old and New - VIII
The New Mass destroyed centuries of propers
Captivated by Death by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Feminism:
The Pedestal Breaks

History:
Medievalists.net: Customary law before the conquest (pdf)

Movies:
First Image From Chilean Abortion Social Horror Movie APIO VERDE (AITH)
I can't tell if the filmmaker supports the ban or opposes it.