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AZ AG talks legalizing drugs and gun control Why? Because of the raging drug wars on the Mexico-US border. 90% of weapons recovered in Mexico are smuggled in from the US. So, they smuggle drugs one way and guns the other, the guns being bought by straw buyers in the US first. The AG [...] They want to make it 50% by 2025. After all, Alaska has huge renewable energy resources just waiting; tidal, wave, and wind. So the state has pledged $300 million in grant money for renewable energy in the next five years. Alaska has more than half the country’s ocean wave energy resources and more than [...] Followed by other Religious Right states. I’d say such folks are seriously conflicted. Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don’t explicitly restrict gay marriage. “One natural hypothesis is something like repression: if you’re told you can’t have this, then you want it more,” [...] Beacon Power energy storing flywheel That’s what Merrill Lynch calls it in an investor’s advisory (PDF), prompting Alternative Energy Stocks to comment that our current times bears resemblance to the opening of Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” It’s official! Cleantech, the [...] Channel stuffing is when companies inflate their revenue by pushing more into distribution channels than can be sold. The retailers return much of it later, after the company has recorded it as profits (and may have gotten sweetheart deals or kickbacks.) Two ClearOne execs convicted of channel stuffing Prosecutors claimed that starting in 2001, Flood [...] MIT undergrads have invented a shock absorber that not only smooths things better than conventional shocks, it also generates electricity and improves fuel mileage. In their testing so far, the students found that in a 6-shock heavy truck, each shock absorber could generate up to an average of 1 kW on a standard road [...] From a vulture investor interviewed in New York Magazine NYM: Give me the bad news then. V: The top five U.K. banks have $10 trillion of assets and their GDP is only $2.13 trillion. The whole country could fall into the ocean. The top five U.S. banks represent only about 60 percent of GDP [...] The Phoenix Principle on the cluelessness of newspapers Just as I predicted in this blog months ago, when Sam Zell leveraged up Tribune in his buyout, the odds of any particular newspaper surviving is not very good. It was 3 years ago when I was talking to the CFO at the LATimes about the future [...] Where did the billions go? Lenin’s Tomb Once more, instead of demanding more employment, the union is demanding that Polish and Spanish workers are replaced by British workers. How can this strategy not end terribly? How is it not a grubby disgrace to the working class movement? It is sometimes a conceit of the Left that a) there is a [...] |
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