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“Panic dollar selling is setting in,” Gartman, a hedge fund manager and author of “The Gartman Letter,” wrote in his daily commentary. “This may carry farther than any of us dream of or, worse, have nightmares of.” The dollar is cratering, and the deliberate policies of the Fed and Obama are a major reason. The [...] (Crossposted from CAIVN. It’s clear that the push towards renewable energy can be just the same old slimy lobbyists and special interests ramming through bills that benefit them and hurt the rest of us. There is no rational reason why hydropower should not be considered renewable energy in California except that, I’m guessing, the [...] Gravity Power proposes boring holes in the ground, perhaps thousands of feet deep, and filling them with water and a large weight. Surplus electricity would be used to raise the weight, creating a form of underground pumped storage. The weight would be dropped during peak periods to produce electricity in a turbine. What [...] media.photobucket.com Gov. Brown’s “concessions” from public unions have, as usual in the convoluted, interminable, and deeply opaque process by which California eventually stumbles to a budget agreement, turned out to be less of a cut than what state employees are experiencing under their current expired contract. But since it’s less than what they would [...] And from the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs), no less… However, outraged listeners have forced KPFA to not cancel Democracy Now. In this interview by al Jazeera , intelligence professional Sylvia Longmire says the cartels are hybrids, insurgencies as well as criminal, and the solution must be multi-faceted. We need to discuss legalization as well as social programs and economic reform so drugs aren’t the only way for desperately poor Mexicans to make money (BTW [...] A wide variety of organic produce is grown by Brooklyn Grange on a rooftop in Brooklyn, It’s nearly an acre in size. Inhabitat has the details. This is positively inspiring. What other abandoned and unused space in cities can we find useful new purposes for? The video features several urban gardening projects in NYC. [...] Unassuming looking, aren't I? The Black Current is the first street-bodied all-electric dragster to reach the 9 second mark in the quarter mile. [Originally posted at IndependentPoliticalReport.com, hence the somewhat dry tone about a campaign I actually have been slightly involved in. The Green Party of Philadelphia will also be nominating candidates for other offices this Thursday, and we've been keeping busy with fracking protests, a May Day event, a monthly dinner, among other things.] The Green [...] Burning a Koran is front of a mosque is a deliberate incitement to violence. The US allows far more freedom of speech than most countries. Germany, for example, bans any favorable reference to Nazism. Even here in the US, there is not complete freedom of speech. You cannot threaten violence against someone or advocate the [...] |
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