Five acres of land zoned for agricultural and residential in southern Utah (located near a freeway with water rights for a home) sold three years ago for $110,000. A few days ago it went at a foreclosure auction for $14,500. That’s a 87% drop in price.
Many other [...]
This time it was SWP in Britain who purged Clare Solomon, apparently for thought crimes that led to traitorous behavior. As one who was purged from a far left US Marxist grouplet a few years back, I can sympathize. The process is jolting. But then you realize those [...]
Brazil Pellet has developed a way to process bagasse, the waste from sugar cane processing into pellets for use in coal plants. They are thinking very big, like 520,000 tons of pellets a year that would produce 2,420 GW of power.
Most bagasse now is dumped where it decomposes and [...]
Jim Kunstler in one of his finest moments
How infantile is American society? Last night’s CBS “Business Update” (in the midst of its “60 Minutes” program) featured three items: 1.) The New Moon teen vampire movie led the weekend box-office receipts; 2.) Cadbury shares hit an all-time [...]
Russia ‘is now a criminal state’ says Bill Browder, who was once their leading foreign investor.
[...]Columbia is the only country there that still freely allow the US to militarize within its borders. So the US is building seven new bases there and planning to station nuclear weapons there too.
This is complete madness, dealing with the most thuggish government in the area while deliberately provoking [...]
Culture is politics. Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first black president and from the intractability of the Great Recession for those Americans who haven’t benefited from [...]
A two meter long protrusion on the back of trucks cuts fuel consumption by up to 7.5%
WhiteHouse.gov now runs on Drupal. At a recent Drupal meet-up, White House representatives said they plan to “openly participate in and help foster open source projects.”
[...]Sure, she’s news. But too many liberals and lefties foam at the mouth at the mere mention of her name. I’m sure she appreciates the free publicity.
Here’s a tip, don’t try to understand her. It’ll just make your head hurt. She sometimes doesn’t make much sense and appears immune [...]
Their projects include algae biodiesel, biobutanol from wheat straw in Britain, and partnering with Verenium in Louisiana using enzymes to breakdown grasses into alcohol.
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The President of Venezuela has just praised Robert Mugabe, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, wait for it, Idi Amin – even if he was a cannibal.
Oh, and Carlos the Jackal too. Can’t forget him. Selfless fighters against imperialism, all of them.
Lordy, what a lunatic blowhard Chavez has turned [...]
Creating a worldwide Secession Network promoting the Right to Secede – Community-Based Secession – Libertarian/Decentralist Political Processes – Nonviolent Secession and Institutions
Via Global Guerillas
The wave-powered generator is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed, with each wave moving the flap to drive a hydraulic piston.
[...]Where criminals are still free and desperately arguing for a continued coverup of their crimes:
I’m not amused that the Wall Street Journal solicited an op-ed attacking the decision to try KSM in civilian court from one of the people–John Yoo–with the biggest conflict on such a decision. It’s [...]
Lynne F. Stewart with husband, Ralph Poynter on left, before surrendering on Thursday. (John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
She’s 70, and began serving a [...]
We had a nice few days with DJ Mitchell and his wife at their ranch in southern Utah earlier this week. They’re in the process of building on to their cheese facility so they can start making it in 100 lb. lots. That’s me of the left [...]
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
Director admits hacked files genuine
The files were taken from the East Anglia Climate Research Center, a leading research center of climate change. The leaked emails appear to show deliberate attempts by researchers to falsify data to make global [...]
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh recently announced that they have engineered a strain of bacteria that glows green in the presence of explosives, making mine detection a snap.
The inexpensive bacteria are sprayed over an area and shortly begin to glow green in the presence of explosives.
Video via SFist where a commenter says
I’m confused. I missed the part where the UC regents have access to a magic wand they can wave to produce $500 million out of thin air.
The whole freaking state of California is broke. No, wait. “Broke” implies you just have no money. [...]
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Clearly Grayson has this story cold. Equally as clearly, Barney Frank is a liar who never supported a true audit the Fed proposal in the first place.
Sen. Dodd of Connecticut is another slithering weasel who loudly and publicly pretends to champion financial reform but when the votes come, backs [...]
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama’s weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill [...]
With the collapse of tourism in Hawaii, relatives on the Big Island tell us they and many others increasingly are growing their own food, as well as fishing and hunting (like for wild pig.) There are few jobs there now since tourism dropped off sharply [...]
A Lawrence Berkeley National Labs spin-out has developed the new technology, which is dramatically cheaper than existing waste heat conversions.
The U.S. consumes around 100 quads (100 quadrillion BTUs) of energy a year and 55 to 60 quads get dissipated as waste heat
[...]“The best known investor in Web 1.0, involved in the founding of Amazon, Netscape, and Google,” John Doerr and his firm, Kleiner Perkins, have raised a billion dollars to be channeled into greentech.
“Greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” said Doerr.
Unlike investment banksters, venture capitalists [...]
The New York Times shows what side of the class war they are on by explaining that US workers really are just so overpaid, something Fenian Rising finds obnoxious. So do I.
[...]Beans, Rice and Gold has been following this story since it started.
British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of burnt lungs, the Daily Mail reports.
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From their home page
“Democratic Green Socialist is a bi-monthly online magazine for socialism, independence, the environment and peace. ‘For those who think outside the box.’”
“Socialism Yes – Egon, No” – Banner at the Alexandraplatz demonstration, 1989, (Egon Krenz had succeeded Erich Honecker as the last leader [...]
The Army is researching hybrid and fuel cells for vehicles as well as better battery systems. They understand that energy security means creating your own energy.
The Army is well aware of its potential for pulling the entire civilian market into a more sustainable future in which oil and other [...]
News Corp. stunned by forces they do not understand and can not control
There is no changing the shift to on-line news readership.
Google doesn’t need the News Corp. newspaper output to succeed [...]
Their new way of doing desal also needs less pre-treatment and chemicals and is ideal for usage in arid areas, exactly where it is needed.
[...]Yesterday I came across this video on You Tube of a young man named Robert Erickson giving a speech at a Minnesota Tea Party Against Amnesty. Erickson is introduced as a resident concerned about illegal immigration. He says the usual litany of complaints about immigrants: they steal our jobs, [...]
The Breakthrough Institute, an environmental / climate change think tank, says influential Joe Romm at ClimateProgress.org is a Green McCarthyite who through his hyper-partisanship is blocking genuine progress on climate change. Because, if you disagree with him, then you must be Republican. In other words, he’s a Green version [...]
Their new bottle is composed 30% from byproducts of sugar cane and molasses processing. Plus, the manufacturing process reduces carbon emission up to 25% compared with traditional bottles.
[This] “sets the course for us to realize our vision to eventually introduce bottles made with materials that are 100 percent recyclable [...]
Come again? Wait a minute. Let’s get this straight. The Executive Director of the SFHA, the agency responsible for putting roofs over the heads of the San Francisco’s poors and downtroddens, has never heard of a drug that has been the scourge of [...]
It’s less acidic. Really.
A National Trust park in the UK now has a pee bale for men to relieve themselves on (although not during visiting hours) to aid in the all-important composty activation.
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Their members consist of major corporations across multiple industries and venture capital too.
This excerpt is from email to Joe Bageant (who is probably a small “s” socialist) about WTF is up with lefties having a religious crusade against smokers and overweight people, using that as metaphor for the unfortunate tendency of lefties to preach to the underclass and working class about what [...]
Did someone order an apocalypse?
Black Sun Gazette.
As Ragnarok Approaches (that’s the final destruction of the world)
Capitalism is dying. Industrialization is dying. The suburbs of today will become the slums of tomorrow. There will be an energy apartheid. People will form tribal communities [...]
The Space Shuttle Atlantis rumbled safely off in to space this afternoon and some other interesting interesting stuff is now out there, as well:
Amelia Earhart’s Scarf to Fly Again
A scarf belonging to famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart will circle the Earth repeatedly as part of [...]
“I looked as hard as I could at how states could declare bankruptcy,” said Michael Genest, director of the California Department of Finance who is stepping down at the end of the year. “I literally looked at the federal constitution to see if there was a way for states [...]
In a report (pdf) titled “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties”, Neil Barofsky, special inspector for TARP, wrote that the “negotiating strategy to pursue concessions from [AIG] counterparties offered little opportunity for success, even in the light of the willingness of one of the counterparty to [...]
What the governments of the world are negotiating is simply the continuation of the industrial machine in the face of global environmental change, but almost no public opposition.
Oh, there’s lots of blather about how We Need To Do Something… sometime, but not now.. Down the [...]
From Dec. 11 to Dec. 21, the days get shorter but sunset is later. Thus, the shortest day does not coincide with the earliest sunset.
No one believes this when first told (I didn’t either.) Here’s the chart for Los Angeles as an example.
Washington’s Blog has been running a provocative series of posts about the possibility the US might start a war to get out of the recession. He thinks the argument is bogus, that war in fact creates recessions rather than ending them, but that [...]
Indigenous Mayans are also quite annoyed by the new Hollywood film 2012, it is a false myth they say to suggest the world will end, this is the wrong way of understanding their calendars.
Well, factual details have never stopped Hollywood before, have they? Even as they insult and denigrate [...]
Poop from a dairy farm will be converted to biogas and will provide heat for up to 1,100 homes. Not only is this recycling at its best, it also saves diary farms time, money, and hassles because they don’t have to maintain gigantic manure ponds.
Bob Morris, Connecticutman1, Buddhagem, Sue, Byron DeLear, DJ
