Thought for the day

Civil Rights might be possible with a few more civil whites.

(From a Facebook friend)

Gulf oil leak. Obama’s Katrina

Over the last month, it’s become increasingly clear that there is a coordinated information operations campaign in place to downplay the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The US government and British Petroleum have imposed a scientific and media blackout to prevent the gathering of the information on the oil leak needed to [...]

Home delinquency rate. One in 7 homeowners

The reason for the foreclosures is mainly due to extended unemployment rather than onerous subprime mortgages. Many of the defaults are with prime fixed-rate mortgages by people with good credit. Some of them may well be underwater on the home and are simply choosing to walk away.

New Observations forecasts that one in ten [...]

Oil in the Loop Current

It’s official, oil is in the Loop Current, Florida braces for impact

UBS trader pleads guilty in massive bid rigging scandal

The first in hopefully a long line of criminals in expensive suits has pled guilty to fraud and conspiracy in a massive scam.

His higher-ups had to know. They belong in prison too. Look, in the S&L debacle of the 1980′s, thousands of high-level executives went to prison. That needs to happen again. After they [...]

Salmon Water Now

Salmon Water Now! was founded to raise public awareness of the plight of wild Pacific salmon, fishermen, and coastal communities dependent on healthy freshwater delta flows. Salmon Water Now! will shed light on the inadequacies of the current water allocation regime and champion the restoration of the Bay-Delta’s legacy of strong salmon runs. Great [...]

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shores

Obama plans to create a commission to investigate the cause of the spill, evaluate industry practices and study government oversight.

Gosh, that’ll certainly help the situation now.

The response of the Obama Administration to the leak has been underwhelming, overly protective of big business, secretive, and apparently mostly focused with putting on a [...]

Wave power. Oyster 2

The Oyster 2 wave energy converter will output 800kW and generates power from the motion of ocean waves. This version is more powerful, modular, has few moving parts. Twenty of them could power 12,000 homes.

Here’s how it works

Tip: Inhabitat

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Arizona to Los Angeles. Rescind the boycott or we cut power to you

A substantial amount of electricity for the City of Los Angeles comes from coal plants in northern Arizona, so this is not an idle threat.

Oil from Deepwater Horizon spill enters Loop Current -NOAA

So far, it’s a “small portion” of the oil and could eventually hit Florida.