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Filmmaker Joe Berlinger has a guest post in Gas 2.0 on why he did Crude, a documentary about a $27 billion lawsuit by Ecuadorean inhabitants of the Amazon against Texaco for despoiling an enormous area of the Amazon. He had to be convinced to do it and the film made a point of getting [...] What’s more, the parts are interchangeable and can be swapped out during flight. This is the first entry in a contest Darpa is having for extreme-endurance planes. The commercial and civilian spinoffs from this contest could be significant. It could have civilian applications: Langford imagines it as an atmospheric buoy, monitoring storm development, climate [...] Michael Jackson’s death ruled homicide by LA coroner And not manslaughter? Yikes. Prison denies Madoff dying of cancer. I mean, Lordy folks, The NY Post quoted unnamed sources quoting inmates who say Madoff told them he has cancer, and they didn’t even ask the prison for confirmation. This is just garbage journalism. Let me spell [...] A plausible case can be made that Megrahi was in fact not the Lockerbie bomber. The Guardian What are the arguments for his innocence? Megrahi’s legal team say they have proof that a key witness, a Maltese shopkeeper called Tony Gauci, wrongly claimed that Megrahi had bought clothes allegedly found in the suitcase bomb on [...] Now that’s recycling. And a huge win for everyone involved as well. The many advantages of wastewater-to-bioplastics over petroleum include easing pressure on landfills, converting a municipal waste disposal liability into a marketable asset, reducing the amount of petroleum-based plastic in the waste stream, and virtually eliminating environmental disasters related to oil spills and accidents. [...] WSJ graphic WSJ: Goldman Sachs gives preferred clients early tips, letting them buy early, then later tells everyone else, which allows those clients to sell at a profit. Not only that, at first they tell the retail clients something totally different from what they tell preferred clients. Naked Capitalism Putting the prop [...] From Juan Cole, here’s a few, read them all. 1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries. 3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels. 7. Worried about 47 million uninsured, not about 47 thousand idle rich multi-millionaires. In just 10 months, Zero Hedge, a pseudonymously-written blog by financial insiders, has played a major role in forcing issues like Goldman Sachs’ machinations and the inherent unfairness of High Frequency Trading into the mainstream press and the Halls of Congress. They’ve done this by brass-knuckled, well-researched articles, not being afraid to make serious [...] There are now multiple, reliable reports of the government of Iran using rape, multiple times, as a deliberate way to emotionally and psychologically destroy jailed protesters. Bizarrely, the hard left is still having a argument as to whether the government of Ahmadinejad should be supported either because it supposedly opposes imperialism or because the US [...] |  | ||||
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