Wednesday, March 5
Joe Fornelli - artist
Known for: Wildlife, Botanics; painter, sculptor, illustrator, Vietnam artist, museum president, commercial artist
Joseph Fornelli was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 21, 1943. He graduated from Steinmetz High School in Chicago in 1961, and then attended the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, who served as a United States Army Helicopter Crew Chief from 1965 to 1967.
His Vietnam artwork was done while in Vietnam, where he was able to capture his emotions and impressions which were rendered with the materials available in the field, such as C-ration coffee, map ink, teak wood, and spent .50 caliber brass shells. Upon returning to the United States he founded a group of veterans from that war who shared art as an escape.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
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Science & Technology
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Business & Markets
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> Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC announces it will invest at least $100B to build chip manufacturing facilities in the US over the next four years (More) | Nvidia-backed cloud provider CoreWeave files for US initial public offering (More)
> Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen resigns from his role at the nation's largest grocery chain; comes after internal probe found McMullen's personal conduct was inconsistent with Kroger's business ethics policy (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Senate confirms Linda McMahon to lead Education Department by a vote of 51-45; the former WWE executive previously headed the Small Business Administration during President Donald Trump's first term (More)
> Man pleads guilty to murder and attempted murder charges for mass shooting that left seven people dead during 2022 Fourth of July festivities in Highland Park, Illinois; the 24-year-old faces sentencing April 23 (More)
> Pope Francis, 88, back on noninvasive ventilation after suffering two episodes of acute respiratory failure, Vatican says (More)
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Politics
I was fascinated with JFK mainly because my mother had requested that I read the book, PROFILES IN COURAGE... which I did and it changed my life, but not from the motivation that she had intended it to create. I stood up for what I believed which seemed to always go against the status quo.
I never joined a political party nor attended a political rally or convention. I began as a Democrat and was very much into social reform, realizing the conservative approach to life was better after receiving my MBA in 1981.
Social programs and reform is still desired but only if you can afford it. Our problem is that both political parties have protected the wealthy with tax shelters. If the wealthy paid their fair share of taxes, we could have all sorts of social reforms and not be in debt like we are.
Politics and Life are not complicated:
- Tell the truth - don't lie
- Everyone pays taxes - no exceptions
- Don't borrow money unless an emergency
- Everyone is entitled to a reasonable profit
- Greed is uncontrolled selfishness
- Respect others so they will respect you
- Be kind to animals
- Work to end poverty/homelessness
- No redistricting
- Do not weaponize the justice system
- No Censorship of any kind
Why America is losing its 50-year 'war on cancer,'
The United States officially launched its "war on cancer" by signing the National Cancer Act of 1971. Broadly, the intention was to spur research into the biology of cancer to better treat — and potentially cure — the disease.
However, the nation has now been embroiled in this "war" for over 50 years, and we are nowhere closer to victory, argues Nafis Hasan, a cancer scientist and associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
In a new book called Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care (Common Notions, 2025), Hasan writes that cancer research has hyperfocused on finding treatments for individuals at the expense of driving down cancer rates overall.
In a new book called Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care (Common Notions, 2025), Hasan writes that cancer research has hyperfocused on finding treatments for individuals at the expense of driving down cancer rates overall.
For example, in the passage below, he describes how a fixation on "somatic mutation theory" — which states that mutations in specific genes are the primary drivers of cancer — ignores the dangers of environmental carcinogens and the benefits of public health efforts in curbing cancer incidence and mortality. READ MORE...
Tuesday, March 4
TAKING THE LEAD IN ENERGY
The Bayan Obo mine, located in Inner Mongolia, is believed to hold vast reserves of thorium, a promising alternative to fossil fuels.© Stringer China (REUTERS)
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Robert Reich
Democrats! Wake the hell up!
Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.
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