Bob Morris on Jul 27, 2010, 12:01 am The Aerogenerator is a vertical axis off-shore wind turbine that will output a whopping 10 MW, 3 times more powerful than anything now. The first machines will be built in 2013-2014 after two years of tests. Rolls Royce is one of the companies involved. Other firms are also working on 10 MW machines, each [...] Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 5:45 pm Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 2:18 pm Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star. (Photo available for purchase) Josie is unique not only because she transitioned from being biologically male to identifying as female at such a young age, but because she and her family are so public about it. The family has been criticized for going public with it but [...] Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 10:30 am Socialist Unity on Venezuela’s threat to stop selling oil to the US if attacked by Columbia If actually carried out, such a threat would be a big blow for the Venezuelan economy. More than 90 percent of its export earnings are from oil. The United States is the top buyer of oil from Venezuela, which [...] Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 8:25 am Thanks to the six year archive of secret documents on the war in Afghanistan released by Wikileaks and amalgamated by three newspapers, we now know what a hopeless mess we are mired in (if we didn’t know that before). NO question this is the modern equivalent to The Pentagon Papers. The key element, I think, [...] Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 5:30 am Radicals at Work, “activists building a stronger labor movement”, detail six points about what a good organizer does and how being a doctrinaire radical can get in the way of organizing effectively. What they’re saying is very much in the Saul Alinsky mode. He was a genuine radical who had little use for [...] Bob Morris on Jul 26, 2010, 1:16 am As thoughtfully provided by Phoenix New Times, where they know what hot weather is. My favorites Don’t sweat the petty things. Pet the sweaty things. You look so hot that I could cook rice on you. By the way, it can get plenty humid in Arizona too. It’s currently monsoon season in Tucson (that’s [...] Bob Morris on Jul 25, 2010, 10:03 pm Intelligence professional Sylvia Longmire debunks the Examiner.com-spread rumor that the Zetas have seized Texas ranches. Longmire reports extensively on Mexico’s drug war and she can be considered authoritative. Normally I wouldn’t dignify a story like this with a post, but it’s making enough rounds across the Internet that I feel compelled to dispel the rumors [...] Josh Mull on Jul 25, 2010, 5:24 pm According to intelligence reports, Pakistan Army and ISI, their spy service, are directly involved with supporting, plotting, and carrying out attacks on American soldiers. [...] Bob Morris on Jul 25, 2010, 3:53 pm David Dayan ponders the role of progressives trying to work for change and the Netroots Nation goal of electing more of them within a Democratic Party establishment that doesn’t much care for them. He sees some hopeful signs among organizers but little from DC. And yet. On the panel in which I participated on the [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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