Author: Daniela

  • Pope Francis Calls for Redistribution of Wealth

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    I am thrilled the most recognized moral authority in the world – The Pope – is calling for a “worldwide ethical mobilization.” VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that is taking hold…

  • Mental Health Break

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Monks with mad moves: MCA-DAY “Buddhist Monks” from KNARF® New York on Vimeo.

  • Absence

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    Have spent the last several months moving back to my house in Illinois and starting a new job.  Every available moment’s been devoted to getting rid of trash left by the tenants, cleaning walls, cabinets and surfaces and making repairs.  I finally took a breather this weekend and watched a gorgeous Korean film on Netflix –…

  • Chinese Populace Rejects GM Foods

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    The resistance to genetically modified foods by the populace is consistent in almost every country where they are “literally” trying to ram it down people’s throats.  Here’s an article about the uncertain fate of GM food imports into China posted in Want China Times: In November of 2013, China rejected imports of 600,000 tonnes of US-grown corn…

  • Pollution Is For Poor People

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Emily Badger flags a new study adding to the large body of evidence that environmental problems disproportionately affect poor and minority communities: [R]esearchers at the University of Minnesota, writing in the journal PLOS ONE, have created a sweeping picture of unequal exposure to one key pollutant — nitrogen dioxide, produced by cars, construction equipment and industrial sources…

  • Vermont on Track to Mandate GMO Labeling

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    By Reuters: The Vermont Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would make it the first state to mandate labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Unlike bills passed last year in Maine and Connecticut, which require other states to pass GMO labeling laws before they can be enacted, Vermont’s contains no…

  • Vermont GM food labeling bill clears key hurdle

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    Vermont last week took a key step towards becoming the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved labeling legislation without a trigger requiring other states to act, a signal that lawmakers and the state’s attorney general are prepared to battle litigation if the bill is signed…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    The Angel (A god who renounced his faith) You asked me what I would like to be in your eyes, I said: God. For a time I granted you favours and punished you. Were you fleeing my grief, when you failed to tell me That you had a cuckold Lord bestowing gifts upon you all…

  • April 8 will leave topical Mars visible from Earth

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    Bring out the telescopes because on April 8, Mars will come nearest to Earth as it has since 2007 in a configuration astronomers call “opposition.” This is when both Earth and Mars, the third and fourth planets out from the sun, respectively, fall in a straight line out from our sun. If the skies are…

  • Distributism – Essential Reading

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    For those of you who are interested in Distributism, here are a few good places to start. Belloc’s book, The Restoration of Property and Chesterton’s An Outline of Sanity. Wilhelm Ropke is clearly sympathetic to many distributist ideas in his A Humane Economy. A more recent treatment is by John Medaille titled Toward a Truly Free Market. These will get…