Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 22:37 - Category: Election 2008 Tags: Clinton, Obama;
Obama could pick up a net gain of three delegates [in Texas], after all the dust settles.
Hey, I favor Obama over Clinton but this is nuts. Primaries should be on straight votes on the people. Nothing more, nothing less. If you get 52% of the votes, you should get 52% of the delegates. Period.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 21:41 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: fuel cells;
Instead, they will focus on improving EV batteries so a car can go 300 miles without recharging. Among the reasons, fuel cells remain too expensive for mass transport and there is no infrastructure in place to distribute hydrogen.
However fuel cells still have applications in stationary power generation, etc.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 17:30 - Category: Unfiled ;
Binary ‘deathstar’ has Earth in its sights
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 14:45 - Category: Anti-war ;
UFPJ has initiated a massive day of creative, nonviolent action and civil disobedience in the nation’s capitol, focusing on the “pillars of war” to interrupt business as usual for those promoting and profiting from war and empire building.
This is looking really good. There will be multiple events by different groups including Blockade the IRS by the War Resisters League and Code Pink, a Veterans for Peace march, nonviolent civil disobedience everywhere, self-Guided Monopoly Board Walking Tour (!), the Granny Peace Brigade will knit stump socks for amputee vets, a Critical Mass mobile bike protest, and lots more.
(This is just one of many actions planned in DC. I’ll be posting on the others soon.)
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 11:18 - Category: Anti-war ;
The Vermont towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro have voted to indict Bush and Cheney for crimes against the Constitution and have instructed police to arrest them should they set foot in their towns.
May hundreds of other municipalities do the same.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 10:26 - Category: Unfiled Tags: globalization;
In The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman discusses how in our flattening, globalized world, determining just who is getting exploited isn’t always that simple.
Consider this. The state of Indiana contracted with an outsourcing firm in India to create a better, more streamlined unemployment claims processing system for them. The firm in India bid $8.1 million less than anyone else. Of course, when the politicos learned about this, they huffed and puffed and blew the deal down, replacing it with a much more expensive and probably worse system.
Friedman asks, ok, who is the exploiter? Indiana for trying to use cheaper (but still highly qualified labor) or India for trying to grab work from the US? Did Indiana exploit their own citizens by deliberately paying too much for something? And who will the traditional Left support here, Indiana labor or the India Third World workers?
He sees a shift in alliances coming. Republican protectionists might align with US unions and anti-globalization activists against Democratic social liberals and the free trade business wing of the Republican Party. He calls this the Wall Party vs.the Web Party. It could happen.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 08:22 - Category: Election 2008 ;
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on last night
The big headlines tonight are now in focus. Hillary takes three of four primaries, and the two big states. Yet the delegate spread didn’t budge.
The Clinton campaign got rough and nasty over the last week-plus. And they got results. And what we’ve seen over the last week is nothing compared to what Barack Obama would face this fall if he hangs on and wins the nomination.
So I think the big question is, can he fight back? Can he take this back to Hillary Clinton, demonstrate his ability to take punches and punch back?
Almost everything remains stacked against Hillary. There’s no denying that. But I think this does point to what this debate — literal and meta — will turn on over the next couple weeks.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 07:12 - Category: Socialism ;
Fun to watch, brilliantly done.
Tip. Lefti on the News.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 03:23 - Category: Credit crisis Tags: TIPS;
Investors are currently buying TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protection Securities) avidly, forcing the price up. TIPS pay the interest rate plus the inflation rate, which makes them a safe haven in inflationary times.
Bizarrely, the price has been risen so high that the yield currently is minus, but buyers still want them, assuming the coming inflation will make them even more profitable.
Bob Morris @ Mar 5th 2008 00:20 - Category: Renewable energy ;
Sintex Industries in India has introduced a biogas digester that will use animal dung, human excrement, and kitchen scraps to produce enough methane to provide a family of four to cook all their meals, as well as sludge for fertilizer.
The future can be glimpsed on a dusty, rutted road in a poor South Delhi neighborhood. Here 1,000 people use an immaculately clean public toilet constructed by a nonprofit foundation, the Sulabh Sanitation Movement. The biogas digester attached to toilets provides cooking gas for a 600-student school and vocational-training program.
This not only provides free energy, it eliminates the obvious sanitation problems caused by the common practice of open defecation in India.
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