As I watch the corporate/financial/political elite in the US rediscover more and more of the advantages and habits of aristocracy — from Enclosure to divine right — and build their tacky monuments to ego and accumulation (what a pity none of said monuments are as pretty as Neuschwannstein say, or the Taj Mahal), I keep [...]

De’s post on the new peasant revolt got me thinking. Let’s talk about this. In some depth. Raj Patel on Food Sovereignty The latest enclosure scheme: On 18-20 April 2011, a gathering of some 200 farmland investors, government officials and international civil servants will meet at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC to discuss [...]

I just did an article for my employing content mill on the ecological effects of the European starling. Pretty interesting. At any rate, they are among the USDA’s top 100 invasive species, numbering well over 200 million in the US. I guess they compete pretty hard for food with others, snatch cavity nests from other [...]