Bob Morris on Mar 19, 2011, 9:47 pm Mocavo has just launched. The world’s largest free genealogy search engine, Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy information. [...] Bob Morris on Mar 19, 2011, 4:23 pm Step 2??? We don’t need no steenkin’ Step 2! Step 1, Bombs away. Step 3, Peace and democracy. We’ll figure out Step 2 later on. Bob Morris on Mar 19, 2011, 12:17 pm From a psychologist who was in Los Angeles during the Northride quake. With every fractional increase in the Richter scale, there is an exponential increase in the violence and destruction. Surviving a 9.0 seems a miracle to me. The Japanese people are living in fear, pain, loss, grief, and courage, with all the symptoms of [...] Bob Morris on Mar 19, 2011, 8:32 am This from Al Jazeera and BBC. Bob Morris on Mar 19, 2011, 6:10 am Capitalism doesn’t just profit from disasters, as Naomi Klein says. It also, through greed, shortsightedness, and corruption, creates disasters. It could be a real estate bubble, inflated by corruption and a deliberately asleep government, that finally popped and took down the US economy with it. It is also nuclear plants built to inadequate specs and [...] Bob Morris on Mar 18, 2011, 11:00 pm This massive tidal turbine is designed by Iberdrole, the giant Spanish wind turbine company. They plan to install them off the inner Hebrides where they will generate 10 MW, double the power needed for two nearby islands. Bob Morris on Mar 18, 2011, 7:20 pm The big problem with renewable energy is variability in the generation of power. This is also the big advantage of coal, natural gas, and nuclear. The power is generated consistently, day or night. What the grid needs, and does not have now on a massive scale, is the ability to store energy for future use. [...] Bob Morris on Mar 18, 2011, 2:44 pm “The only way people won’t panic is if they receive open and truthful communication” from authorities, [Mary Dickson of Downwinders United] said. “Otherwise, it’s easy to expect the worst.” Downwinders know quite a lot about governments lying to them. In the 1950′s, the federal government deliberately did open air nuclear tests in Nevada when the [...] Bob Morris on Mar 18, 2011, 10:03 am As in, invade their inner sanctums and beat the crap out of them. Lemmy never has been known for subtlety. Get Back in Line (excerpts) We live on borrowed time, hope turned to dust, Nothing is forgiven we fight for every crust. The way we are is not the way we used to be [...] Bob Morris on Mar 18, 2011, 5:45 am Tonight’s show was lively. Among the topics discussed: The Libya ‘no-fly zone’ is a full-scale attack from the air. But this is akin to the South Park underpants gnomes whose business plan was 1) collect underpants, 2) something happens, 3) make money. The invasion of Libya is 1) bomb Qadaffi, 2) something happens, 3) [...] | Independent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues |
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