Bob Morris @ Dec 31st 2002 11:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
Israel bribery crisis deepens.
“Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dismisses a deputy minister implicated in a scandal in his governing Likud party.” [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
Bob Morris @ Dec 31st 2002 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hybrid car rendezvous at upcoming L. A. Auto Show, Fri Jan 3.
This should be fun. Dozens of hybrid cars outside the L. A. Convention Center, lots of reporters, with the event sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Check their webpage for info both on the event and about hybrids.
My green (of course) Toyota Prius and I will be participating.
Hybrids are dual-powered, with gas and electric engines. The gas engine recharges the electric motor battery. Thus, they do not need to be plugged in and recharged like all-electric vehicles.
The Toyota Prius can run both engines at once,or just one at a time. A computer chooses which engine to use, and does so effortlessly, and a digital readout tells you what the engines are doing.
Driving a Prius is like driving any other car, including handling and acceleration. Except, of course, when you stop at a traffic light. Then you have silence, because the gas engine automatically shuts off when the car stops - and starts automatically when you hit the gas pedal.
In L.A., driving in the city during the summer with the air conditioning on, I get 45 mpg. The tank holds 12 gallons, so that’s 540 miles on a tank of gas!
Bob Morris @ Dec 31st 2002 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Well put
“The United States remains the great conundrum of the planet. Americans have been so traumatised by a single large terrorist attack on their own soil that they have effectively handed the country over to an administration with a radical right-wing agenda for domestic change and foreign expansion, though fewer than a quarter of them actually voted for it. The question is whether the American people can recover their balance without having to go through some painful and expensive, though ultimately instructive experiences in the Middle East. The answer, at the moment, appears to be no, so a great deal of the rest of the world’s business is being put on hold.”,
Gwynne Dyer on Global Business Network, via the Viridian mailing list.
Bob Morris @ Dec 31st 2002 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
The spirit of Philip Berrigan lives on…
“You cannot wash the blood away”. Protestors pour blood on the Pentagon and near the White House.
Audio feed from Democracy Now.
From dc.indymedia.org
“At 7 am this morning over 50 people gathered at a brand new Metro entrance to the Pentagon. Three people were able to pour the symbol of blood on the Pentagon walls, columns, and doors before being arrested. the group stood vigil holding signs and banners for about half an hour before ordered to leave by military police and the defense protective service, and others. chants included: “this is the blood of the innocents, you cannot wash the blood away,” “no more war, no more terror,” and “thou shalt not kill–leave the military.” Workers streamed past on the way in and out of the building. The soliders grabbed the camera of a 16 year old trying to take a picture of the blood on the wall. Almost everyone was pushed back but around 10 stayed and were arrested along with the three who had poured blood. They are still in custody.
On Saturday December 28th at the White House, over 75 gathered and 16 people were arrested protesting the war on Iraq. Four people poured blood around the bodies of people dying-in on the sidewalk in the no protest zone in front of the White House. At this writing, two are still locked up and waiting arraignment for a possible felon charge for pouring blood. These actions were part of an annual Faith and Resistance Retreat of the Atlantic Life Community celebrating the Feast of the Holy Innocents.”
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