Nova Scotia Power plans to test the 1 MW turbine, which is 10 meters in diameter, for a year to assess environmental impact and durability. It sits on the seabed and generates power from the strong tides there.
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Forget about that democracy and grassroots stuff, he says. Only the super wealthy can save the world, once they get convinced to do the right thing, that is. The title of Nader’s new book and first novel is “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” It apparently is not satire. I am not making this [...] Are we just totally adorable or what? The proud and very busy Mom AKA The Eating Machine We interrupt this contentious political blog for an important heart-tugging announcement: Bob and I volunteer with a Los Angeles-based no-kill shelter, Cat Connection. They’ve asked if we know anyone (out to 6 degrees of separation) who [...] The rural to cities brain drain is made worse by the propensity of small rural towns to encourage gifted people to leave and doing little to encourage them to stay. Skilled immigrants are going back to India and China because job prospects there are better and because of our onerous immigration and residency restrictions. [...] Justin Kownacki thinks so (I tend to disagree, but he makes some telling points) Dear protesters (and those who feel like shouting while at home), Protesting is, with rare exception, a waste of your time and effort. The appalling political and socioeconomic atrocities you seek to call attention to (if not overthrow completely) will [...] Vampire squid Matt Taibbi This is a potentially gigantic story. It seems that a court has ruled that about half of the mortgage market [MERS, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems] has been run as a criminal enterprise for years, which would invalidate any potential forelosure proceedings for about, oh, 60 million mortgages. Global Research [...] And the sky turned black…. From Dave Riley in Australia (on Facebook) Blogger ponders the Apocalypse If you live in Sydney or Brisbane — today you are in a dust storm.The outback has come to town in trillions of bits and pieces. Here in suburban Brisbane the sky turned red a half hour ago [...] US Chamber of Commerce [PG&E] criticized the Chamber for taking an extreme position on climate change, which [PG&E CEO] Darbee said does not represent the range of views among Chamber members. In particular, he took the Chamber to task for its recent demand that there be a “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” [...] Gosh, what could go wrong with a risky conflict of interest like FDIC borrowing money from banks so it can prop them up if they fail? |  | ||||
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