Battleangel

As predicted, the US took a firm stance against science and progress when Geordie vetoed a bill expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. So far so good. Yes really. Well, I suppose I should be fuming. But I look at it like this: The US dominates many scientific fields due to its rather unique funding model and its deceitful military-academic connection. The US also usurps a great many intellects every year from countries all over the world. If they want to handicap themselves, well, I’m not going to argue with that.

But I will still note that it rings hollow to claim to save lives (or embryos which wouldn’t by most standards be ‘alive’ and by all accounts were discarded anyway) with a dimwitted measure like this while having killed millions abroad. Some respect for human lives that. But it’s the same foul stench that runs right through the American project such as it has become. The same nickelodeon mickey mouse show that obscures the true horrors and the price of maintained nationality and hegemony.

However, it’s too early to break out the champagne because Germany just started pushing a similar idea for a EU that is currently deeply divided. We do seem to have our share of fundamentalists to purge over here as well.