California being warmed by urbanization
This on top of global warming… “Exhaust from the SUV is just piling on,” he said. “One is heating you from above, the other is heating you from below.” Urbanized areas do not cool at night as well as land…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month March 2007
Subprime racism
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data from 2005 reveal that more than 50 percent of black and 46 percent of Latino home buyers received subprime loans, compared to 17 percent of white borrowers. Many of the minority borrowers could have qualified…
The battered wife syndrome
Medea Benjamin says she feels like a battered wife with the Democratic Party as the husband. I’m happy she finally figured it out. Lefti has more.
Spanish island to be first in world powered completely by renewable energy
It’ll be a mix of hydro and wind power. Maybe one day, hopefully soon, lots of islands and towns will also be energy self-sufficient. Decentralization of power is coming, we will have multiple sources of energy generation, and they will…
Chavez calls for united socialist party in Venezuela
Chávez said that they were beginning a new phase of the process and warned that the “deepening of the revolution is going to sharpen the contradictions,” both on a national and international level. For this reason he explained the urgency…