YouTube launches Citizen News
Bob Morris @ May 20th 2008 20:59 - Category: Unfiled ;
Citizen News, a new YouTube channel, is specifically for user-produced journalism and reporting. Looks promising.
Archive for May 20th, 2008
Zionism in Israel not as extreme as in US
Bob Morris @ May 20th 2008 14:57 - Category: Unfiled Tags: Israel, Palestine, Zionism;
From Josh Marshall of TPM
In case you missed it, I want to commend to your attention Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in the Sunday Times: “Israel’s ‘American Problem“. The premise will be a familiar one to anyone who’s thought seriously and sanely about Israel’s future and America’s relationship with Israel. The breadth of acceptable opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is vastly greater in Israel than it is in the United States. Indeed, as Goldberg suggests, if Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Barak were running for president in the US, they might not be deemed sufficiently pro-Israel to be acceptable in the American mainstream.
Much of this is due to the neocon / extreme Zionist alliance as practiced by Bush et al. One quibble: the American mainstream doesn’t really understand the situation there, and gets little if any, actual information about the settlements, the plight of Palestinians, or how they were forced from their land. This is due to the until now quite successful lobbying by extremist Zionists in the US to muddy the waters.
Josh Marshall, who named his son partly after the commander of an elite commando unit of the Haganah and who thus knows the territory well, concludes.
By conflating being pro-Israel with supporting the continued colonization of the West Bank, many of Israel’s ‘friends’ in the US are placing Israel in great danger and doing no favor to the United States either.
Seriously rogue cops
Bob Morris @ May 20th 2008 11:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
A former LAPD officer was sentenced to 102 years in prison for participating in a home-invasion ring. He and other police officers would stage fake raids on drug dealers while wearing their uniforms, then rob them.
Rogue cops who robbed and beat drug dealers will not have a happy time in prison, I’m guessing.
VW L1 concept car
Bob Morris @ May 20th 2008 08:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
VW says it’ll be in production by 2010 and will get 230 miles per gallon. It could make a perfect commuting car - if you like driving crowded freeways in a toboggan on wheels, that is!
Truck runs on coffee grounds
Bob Morris @ May 20th 2008 03:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
It uses a wood gas generator to burn coffee grounds, thus creating combustible gas that is filtered before going to the engine.
So, where does one get enough coffee grounds to provide reliable fuel stock? Starbucks does give coffee grounds to anyone who asks for them. But since coffee grounds make excellent fertilizer and compost material, much of it is already spoken for.
More importantly, how many MPPCG (Miles Per Pound of Coffee Grounds) does it get?
