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"Festivalgoers’ urine to fertilise trees in Brecon Beacons restoration scheme"
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A dysfunctional United States government is fertile ground for an authoritarian takeover
But instead of addressing needed changes to address the dysfunction, opinion writers too often choose to focus instead on merely how democratic principles are being sabotaged and by whom.
Until the causes of government failure to live up to democratic principles are actually addressed,
the trend towards more authoritarian rule will continue
regardless of complaints in the media,…

War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/business/middle-east-war-fertilizer-supplies.html

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/free-agriculture-from-oil-fertilizer
> Many experts question whether regenerative agriculture can actually take the place of industrial agriculture. A decades-long study by the Rodale Institute, which advocates for …

Soil, Not Oil | Common Dreams
​Petrochemical fertilizers built modern agriculture. The Iran War may be what finally breaks it—and opens the door to something better.

🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

Rollins says 80% of US farmers will be unaffected by rise in fertilizer prices (Molly Parks/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4517743/rollins-farmers-fertilizer-prices-iran-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p88#a260406p88

For what it’s worth, we have a system in MN that’s not too far from this: if you’re not already registered to vote, you can show up on election day with one from a limited set of approved gov-issued photo IDs, •or• proof of residence such as a utility bill plus a registered neighbor who will legally vouch for you.
The result? We have some of the highest voter turnout rates in the country (often •the• highest), and just •vanishingly• small rates of fraudulent / illegal votes (because the consequences for such votes are just as severe as ever, not changed at all by the ease of same-day registration).

War on Iran and the metabolic rift. Another argument for agroecology rather than high (fossil fuel) input industrial agriculture. Of course such a transition can't be done overnight.
How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming
Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force Uncovers $6 Billion In Suspected Fraudulent Government Contracts (Reagan Reese/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/08/jd-vance-task-force-eliminate-fraud-six-billion-government-contracts-gsa-edward-forst-taxpayer-waste/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p100#a260408p100