This guy's got the right idea. IN ISOLATION, how much total biodiversity is required to sustain a stable ecosystem that can support humans and is resistant to systemic failure?

"37 percent of respondents who fully agreed that U.S. regulators are suppressing access to natural cures,"

Cannabis, anyone?

I don't think it really needs any discussion. I visit Slashdot precisely because of its layout and discussion style. If they take that away, there's nothing keeping me here that I can't get at any one of the bazillion gawker sites.

Bottom line, really: if they change it, I have no reason to come back.

Are you wondering why on Earth Obama would think it's a good idea to bomb Syria, when Libya was such a disaster? I'll give you a hint: both countries are non-members of the WTO, with state-owned banking systems. So is Iran.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/making_the_world_safe_for_banksters_syria_in_the_cross-hairs_20130905/

The people who financed Obama's elections -- and who are the only folks for whom he's been a good president -- are the ones who have the most to gain by regime change in Syria.

"They were not enemies but the US was not an Israeli client."

FTFY

Or, you know, maybe because it's the language spoken by the other half of the western hemisphere? Just a thought.

"Drones killing civilians is an accident; people thought there was a military target there. Sometimes mistakes happen, and innocent people die, but the intent is to target military forces and largely that is what happens."

According to whom, the government that won't officially acknowledge the program exists?

It is perfectly fine to strip away the rights of a person if they are nuts in a way that is a danger to the physical safety of other human beings.

FTFY

Bah, ignore me. I misread; only the section on MDMA references a Scientology article. That part was still bullshit, though.

Anybody else notice that a good chunk of that article's references are articles by a Scientology front group?

Cynical describes the arms dealers. You're just being a realist.

For what, impersonating a corporation?