The Sun UK to Gordon Brown. Don’t you know there’s a bloody war on?

The Sun, while hardly antiwar, hits PM Brown upside the head, saying the Afghanistan war is incompetently run.

The 207 faces of our Afghanistan dead are stark reminders of the bloody war we are fighting.

Each represents a sacrifice made for democracy and freedom in the name of Britain. Yet, to its shame, our [...]

Climate Camp UK

Socialist Unity

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This really shows how a relatively small group of activists can capture the media’s attention through a combination of a clear political message, professionally presented, along with imagination and audacity.

Absolutely. They have lots of videos, photos, and information on what’s happening. Including meeting with the [...]

Turning manure lagoons into algae farms

Logan, Utah will attempt to turn noxious, reeking manure lagoons into biofuel factories by using algae. Not only does this turn a liability into an asset, it is way less expensive than building expensive facilities to treat the sewage.

The algae cultivated in the lagoons is to be converted to methane and used as fuel [...]

It’s on: Harvey Milk Day bill under attack

This again?

OK, folks, time to man up. Or woman up. Just get up, and listen. Noted hate group Catholic Exchange, a site that promotes bigotry and homophobia under a simulacrum of God, is asking its followers to demand Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto Senator (and future Mayor of San Francisco?) Mark Leno’s “Harvey [...]

Wasted watermelons could be biofuel source

About 20% of all watermelons are left to rot. USDA says those spoiled and misshapen watermelons can be biofuel feedstock. Farmers just junk them now. Instead, they could be an income stream.

The wonderful image of a watermelon VW comes from Inhabitat, who has more on the story too.

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Fed uses scare tactics to try to forestall loan disclosures

In a show of how much our government thinks that serving the financial oligarchy, rather than the citizenry, is its prime duty, the Fed is fighting to stop the court-ordered disclosure of who borrowed money under the Fed’s various lending facilities. The reason I lump the Fed in with “the government” is that the [...]

Chamber of Commerce wants climate change trial so they can slime it and get back to ignoring science

The Chamber of Commerce announces their position on climate change

“They don’t have the science to support the endangerment finding,” Bill Kovacs, the chamber’s vice president for environment, regulatory and government affairs, said in an interview. “We can’t just take their word for it.”

Hey Bill. Trials are supposed to be about finding the [...]

To lefties who support Iran against the protesters because the US must have been interfering somehow

Iran’s supreme leader disagrees with you.

“I do not accuse the leaders of the recent incidents to be subordinate to the foreigners, like the United States and Britain, since this issue has not been proven for me,” said Ayatollah Khamenei, in a statement read out on Iranian television.

For the rest of you wondering what [...]

Kids hate Twitter? That was so last week

They like it now. So all you kids-hate-Twitter fossils better get with the program.

Hemcrete. Carbon negative building material made from hemp, lime, water

Good looking, environmentally friendly and 100% recyclable, Hemcrete® is as versatile as it is sustainable. It can be used in a mind-boggling array of applications from roof insulation to wall construction to flooring. Hemcrete® is waterproof, fireproof, insulates well, does not rot [when used above ground] and is completely recyclable. In fact, the manufacturers [...]