A bipartisan majority on the House Judiciary Committee this week passed the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act” — a good bill that would use antitrust law to protect “Network Neutrality.” It is a credit to all Americans who made those crucial phonecalls to the key members of Congress who cast the deciding votes on this issue. But the overall battle is not over. Money talks………

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Why more monoculture to ruin our forests? Genetically alter those trees
of but one kind, actually using MORE pesticide to contaminate the waters
around the forests, as the mad scientists get free reign from our
moronic govt polluted by corporate $$$$$$$$$$$$…
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Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are spending tens of millions of dollars in Washington to kill “network neutrality” — a principle that keeps the Internet open to all.

A bill moving quickly through Congress would
let these companies become Internet gatekeepers,
deciding which Web sites go fast or slow — and which
won’t load at all — based on who pays them more. The rest
of us will be detoured to the “slow lane,” clicking furiously and
waiting for our favorite sites to download.
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Not content to just sell nuclear plants all over the globe,
the Bush administration now wants to accept nuclear
waste from all around the globe and reprocess it HERE in
the USA.
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Horizon Organic (a subsidiary of Dean Foods) & Aurora Organic, a supplier of private brand name organic milk to Costco, Safeway, Giant and others, who together control 65% of the market, are purchasing the majority of their milk from feedlot dairies where the cows have little or no access to pasture.
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Last day. Sky purple blue black over the Mediterranean outside our sliding glass door. We should have left it open all night to breathe the fresh briney breezes, but we’d fallen asleep quickly after dinner at the Olio Grosso.
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So there we are, travelling back west from Albenga along the Italian Riviera, to sight Cervo, which is a lovely yellow-pink town on a hill. The restoration here is near complete. No houses are rotting like in Gerassio’s borgo medieval with the cold river running past.
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We decided to try the mountains next. Enough of the seaside, the Riviera seaside, as lovely as it could be. Though it did prove to be very crowded on the French side, back west. We would now head for Garessio, up in Piemonte.
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