Protest against anti-immigration law tomorrow in Phoenix

Alto Arizona Marc Cooper will be there

Clarke and Dawe on Euro debt crisis

And he only lost a million dollars during the interview, a fine accomplishment indeed. So how do countries that went broke lending money to broke countries find more money to lend them?

Of course banksters will have siphoned off most of the money and don’t care if they crater countries in the process.

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Obama’s curious inability to confront corporate thugs

If the US is in charge of the Gulf oil leak remediation as Obama says, did he also ok the BP’s 16 hr delay in reporting the halt in trying to fix the leak? If so, why? If not, then they lied to him.

Obama says he’s in charge but knew nothing about the MMS [...]

YouTube and Politics – Part 3

This is the third in a series written by D. J. Mitchell and Susan Cain.

Susan has over 100 Muslim and Arab friends on Facebook, from whom she is learning about their religion, their culture, and what it is like to be an average citizen in the countries in which they live.

One evening [...]

Cancun mayor arrested on corruption charges

Federal authorities on Wednesday said Sanchez provided information and protection to two feared groups — the Zetas and the Beltran Leyva gang — to help them ply their trade in the region.

If so, the rot there is very deep indeed. Don’t think it can’t spread here.

Dueling Pro-, Anti-War Victories in the Senate

18 senators voted in support of an exit timetable, but there were still some notable senators who voted No. And we know why. [...]

Vertical wind turbine design

Wind power is one of the fastest growing forms of alternative energy in the world. More and more, wind power mills are seen in the countryside, in large wind farms and for the most part, away from city life. But a new form of wind power is now designed to work in an urban [...]

The economy is not well

Alan Abelson in Barron’s

One in every 10 Americans missed a mortgage payment in the first quarter of this year — a new record. One in 10 Americans’ credit-card usage is being written off — also a new record.

One in six Americans are either unemployed or underemployed. Over four in 10 of those [...]

Pecan Street Project. More than smart grid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC5a3Wv2OsQ&feature=player_embedded

The Pecan Street Project [in Austin TX] is a community-wide collaboration to fully reinvent the energy delivery system. It’s more than a smart grid project. Pecan Street is an ambitious effort to empower customers and innovators to use the energy system in new ways while making energy cleaner, water usage more efficient and the [...]

Liberal blogs wistfully propose what Obama should do on Gulf oil leak

There’s been a spate of articles from liberal and progressive blogs lately saying what Obama should do on the spill. The tone is wistful, like they’re finally realizing that no, he isn’t going to do the right thing, that’s he’s not liberal but rather a corporatist, and a rather timid one at that.

HuffPo

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