{"id":22917,"date":"2016-07-29T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22917"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:27:07","slug":"jill-steins-ideas-are-terrible-she-is-not-the-savior-the-left-is-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/07\/29\/jill-steins-ideas-are-terrible-she-is-not-the-savior-the-left-is-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Stein\u2019s Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slate<\/em> has proven that the corporate media are finally taking notice of Jill Stein.\u00a0 The article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2016\/07\/27\/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Stein\u2019s Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For<\/a> is one poorly written attempt to tear her down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She would also \u201cBan neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.\u201d This is a nod to the discredited theory that some pesticides are driving the collapse of honeybee populations (which, by the way, are not actually collapsing).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Purely by coincidence, before reading this story I had read an article in <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/insecticides-honey-bee-sperm-court_us_579a4aaae4b01180b5323dc8\" target=\"_blank\">Our Chemicals Are Killing Honey Bees\u2019 Sex Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new study, however, suggests two common neonicotinoid insecticides are not only shortening the overall lifespan of male honey bees, known as drones, but also inhibiting their ability to produce viable sperm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I leave it up to you, if you want to, to read the rest of the <em>Slate<\/em> article\u00a0 to see what other pure bunkum is in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has proven that the corporate media are finally taking notice of Jill Stein.\u00a0 The article Jill Stein\u2019s Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For is one poorly written attempt to tear her down. She would also \u201cBan neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22919,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions\/22919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}