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The United States has, until now, been a (if not "the") world leader in scientific research and the development of technologies. This has been the backbone of public policies that navigate reality, and it has brought us our highish standard of living and our economy of relative priviledge. But I think we’re on the way out of that role. When ideologies replace knowledge, it is always the people who pay. Certain fundamentalist groups, suspicious of all intellectuals, "eggheads," and independent…
Ok, Exxon Mobile beats out my entry on Chevron’s profits. The world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, has announced its record-breaking profits for 2005 — $36.13 billion. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. Again. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. ExxonMobil uses its billions to sabotage efforts to slow global warming and to lobby Congress in support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off…