The treasure we’ve lost, both in lives and money, is obscene. The corruption and graft this has stolen our children’s and our grandchildren’s futures.

US money to support Afghan irrigation ‘helped’ poppy cultivation – watchdog
Published time: 3 Aug, 2018 12:17

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As the world shakes and rumbles beneath the feet,
the spinning top retains its balance,
The external motion having no purchase upon
its dance, energy imparted that will be completed

and so I act the toy.
Let the cruel marvel at my motions and beat,
let my hands weave patterns they interpret
as the flap of a wing, or the flow of water.

Twenty-four days, eight thousand miles, nine national parks and more than a dozen high mountain passes, but alas my indulgent adventure has come to an funkin' end.

When tyrants bloom among the dung of the city
first they strike against me and my roses
that I offer to the city freely, without demands
save that the thorns are observed and prepared for.

But the grey and wise scream against my thorns
for they shall rend the fragile hands of children
The scent is too strong, they warn, and it will lead astray
those that should revel in the smell of civilization.

Climate Change/Global Warming is rapidly killing our planet.

There is almost no mention of climate Change in the MSM and people are not talking about it. Right wingers in Redding, CA are sure there is no connection between Climate Change and the 200K+ acres that are still burning there.