Author: craigshields

While Germany has a far-right party, the AfD, Alternative für Deutschland, which received 10.4% of the vote in 2021, there really is no equivalent to the low-brow MAGA movement in the United States. Perhaps that’s because the average German is …

Germany Has Its Own Distinguishing Charactistics Read More »

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As suggested at left, big money bets on science every single time. As Aesop noted 2500 years ago, “A fool and his money are soon parted.”  And, since generally the wealthiest individuals and corporations are anything but fools, they can …

Who Are These Climate Deniers? Read More »

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The answer is simple: There are issues that are far higher priorities than Trump’s lies and criminality.  More than half the voters in this country place extreme amounts of value on: • The supremacy of white people. • The rationing …

Why Wasn’t the January 6th Insurrection the End for Trump? Read More »

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As we read the words at left, a kind of incredulity comes over us.  This couldn’t really happen, could it? All this turns around the state of world capitalism.  As long as our socio-economic system is based on greed, and …

Achieving Utopia Read More »

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The United States, at 13.4 million barrels/day, is by far the largest supplier of crude in the world.   Saudi Arabia is second at 10.8 million barrels/day.

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I don’t wish to be mean to these people, but there is something both funny and appropriate about this.

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Here’s an idea: If you don’t believe that the United States has border security, you could plan a trip with your daughter to the border and see what the ~64,000 federal employees are actually doing on a day-to-day basis (see …

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Read More »

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If one takes the meme here out of context, we’re doing pretty well.  The problem is that the rate at which species are going extinct is going through the roof, due to the intrusion of humankind into animal habitats, coupled …

Extinction Read More »

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To some people, the meme at left implies that they can extend their lives by reading more.  Perhaps in a few rare cases, that may be true. However, it’s far more likely that there is no direct causation, and that, …

Correlation vs. Causation Read More »

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We don’t hate you, but we encourage you to learn more about this subject. The United States is unlike many countries, in that it has no official language and makes no attempt to force immigrants to abandon the cultures, customs, …

U.S. Citizenship Read More »

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