Donald Trump and New York governor Andrew Cuomo have joined forces in destroying our economy and environment.

While Trump wages global war on the climate, Cuomo demands a statewide bailout meant to keep failed nuke reactors on line until they melt and/or explode, Fukushima-style. 

Trump and Cuomo are both apostles of radioactive obsolescence. 

The global climate treaty Trump wants to break has been signed by every nation on Earth except Syria and Nicaragua (which wants stronger terms). 

Trump is globalizing the US legacy of breaking 800 treaties with indigenous peoples.

Like America’s indigenous tribes, the nations of the world will never trust us again.

Trump has shredded our global standing, as Germany’s Angela Merkel (CEO of the world’s #4 economy) has pronounced us an unreliable trading partner and China (#2) moves to partner directly with the European Union. 

As Trump sabotages the dollar, watch him blame our economic death spiral on Muslims, commies, immigrants, and people of color.

Trump’s wedge between the US and Germany is a dream come true for Putin’s petro-mafia.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- An American Buddhist nun said the U.S. Embassy
rescued her from Thai men who wanted to kidnap her, but they later
allegedly burned down her temple dormitory because she intentionally
disobeys Thai Buddhist clergy by supporting women to become nuns.
   Leaura M. Naomi's confrontation earlier this year is the most vivid
example of a wider revolution by women across Southeast Asia demanding
equality to allow female ordinations within Theravada Buddhism.
   In Theravada -- the oldest and more conservative of Buddhism's two
main branches -- a male monk's ancient Pali-language title is
"bhikkhu".
   A nun is a "bhikkhuni".
   About 95 percent of Thailand's population are Theravada Buddhists.
   Theravada also exists in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India
and Indonesia.
   In Thailand many, if not most, families arrange for at least one
young adult son to live in a temple -- perhaps for several days or a
season -- to be ordained as a novice or monk.
   Ordination bestows spiritual "merit" which is often a major reason

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A chubby Thai woman sits on a plastic sheet on
the ground, meticulously hand-sewing colorful wristbrands embroidered
with the words, "CUNT PAIN" "FUCK MY LIFE" "FREE BOOM BOOM" and an
array of similarly poetic declarations.
   Other females, wearing the bubbly silver hats of Thailand's
minority ethnic Akha tribe, are selling gaudy gewgaws while stroking
wooden frogs which produce an obnoxious but attention-getting,
croaking sound.
   Nearby, giddy foreigners chew fat black scorpions and other fried insects.
   Some people are getting tattoos or having their hair braided with
bright plastic beads.
   Throbbing and wondrous, Bangkok's amusing Khao San Road flaunts
itself at the swarms of sweaty culture-shocked tourists who are
walking and gawking at their first revelations in Thailand, hours
after arriving by air.
   Other travelers are wistfully saying farewell during their last
night in Bangkok before departing to less vivid destinations.
  The desperate, decadent touts have seen it all.

ermont, of all places, offers the latest example of how marijuana makes people crazy, the people in this case being the Republican governor and most of the Republican Party. For all the “Reefer Madness” propaganda from governments over the past century, the real madness comes from opponents of marijuana, not its users or proponents. 

Vermont governor Phil Scott waited until the last possible moment on May 24 to issue his veto of the 24-page bill (Senate bill S.22) passed by both houses of the legislature (Senate 20-9, House 79-66): An Act Relating to Eliminating Penalties for Possession of Limited Amounts of Marijuana by Adults 21 Years of Age and Older. The bill stops way short of full legalization, treating marijuana like aspirin, but it represents a major shift toward sanity and scientific reality that American populations seem to be slowly insisting that their governments address.