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Excerpt: Let the gangsters rule the street While teachers try to make ends meet I despise all bleeding hearts I don’t patronize the arts Give it to me, Give it to me Give to me my Aspen winter Sorry bout the world trade center I can’t help the ones in need I’ve got my [...] Google, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others are hosting The Summit Against Violent Extremism to explore how social media can be used to stop people from joining violent extremists groups and also the block the influence of such groups. Unions are supposed to practice solidarity, but what just happened in Connecticut is the opposite of that. Two unions voted to reject a deal involving multiple unions and the state. Since the deal took months to negotiate and can not be redone quickly, the state will immediately fire 7,500 workers (more than would have [...] Some heart-breaking problems here “My refrigerator is so full I have to reach way back and my sports car doesn’t even have an audio jack…” Pumped hydro is a time-tested way to store energy. Excess power is used to pump water uphill into a storage area, usually a lake, then released as needed to power turbines. Germany plans to use wind energy to pump water into abandoned coal mines inside a mountain for later use. The water will be continuously [...] “JPMorgan Chase chose to enable Madoff’s fraud, not just through the various ways it participated in its activity, but by helping to cover Madoff’s naked theft with the imprimatur of a globally recognized financial institution,” the 155-page amended complaint said. Yet there are no criminal prosecutions against JPMorgan executives. Do we still have rule of [...] "Who would have thought chasing farm workers out of the state would result in a shortage of farm workers?" And discovers their crops will now be rotting in the fields. Well, duh. The governor of that fine state suggests that perhaps 2,000 criminals on probation could be hired to harvest the fields. I am [...] Girls Guns and Glory just performed at the 11th annual Groovefest in Cedar City UT, which features two days of bands in the park for free. GGG is hard-edged Americana with some Hank and near rockbilly tossed into the mix too, which makes for some really good music. [...] Treehugger profiles CleanPath, an investment firm with a new $800 million fund that plans to finance 1 gigawatt of solar in the US in the next 5-8 years. While this is certainly laudable, it is absolutely not – much as Treehuggger would like it to be – “large-scale solar power.” 1 GW is 1,000 megawatts. [...] |  | ||||
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