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Sturdyblog I have never been more desperate to explain and more hopeful for your understanding of any single fact than this: The protests in Greece concern all of you directly. What is going on in Athens at the moment is resistance against an invasion; an invasion as brutal as that against Poland in [...] An ambitious mapping project shows that many NYC rooftops could have solar installed on them and that doing so would generate needed power during peak load times. However the grid would need to be upgraded to handle new distributed and variable power sources coming from all directions at once. It would also be expensive. [...] New York Times The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than George W. Bush did. [...] Sixty-six percent of publicly-insured children were unable to get a doctor’s appointment for medical conditions requiring outpatient specialty care including diabetes and seizures, while children with identical symptoms and private insurance were turned away only 11 percent of the time, according to an audit study of specialty physician practices in Cook County, IL. “We found [...] Use the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin. It’s easy! WP Candy has the details and a video. #bbpBox_82264525356810241 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_82264525356810241 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }The Daily Plugin: Twitter Blackbird Pie http://bit.ly/mKeur5 #wpreaderJune 18, 2011 6:52 pm via FacebookReplyRetweetFavorite@wpreaderWP Reader Sylvia Longmire in the New York Times. Marijuana makes up 60 percent of the cartels’ profits, that still leaves another 40 percent, which includes the sale of methamphetamine, cocaine, and brown-powder and black-tar heroin. If marijuana were legalized, the cartels would still make huge profits from the sale of these other drugs. Plus, there’s [...] Bill Gates says] it doesn’t matter how efficient wind and solar technology become. Neither tech possesses the necessary oomph to “deal with our climate problem … because the climate problem requires more than 90% reduction of CO2 emitted, and no amount of efficiency improvement is enough.” For every one step forward developed nations make in [...] Common Dreams Doug Henwood: AARP has essentially become an insurance company. It opposed single-payer because it sells health insurance (though they’ll give you a lot of nonsensical policy justifications for their self-interested stance). I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s now looking to expand into the retirement annuity business. But if Social [...] DoJ and Pentagon lawyers opposed the bombing. But Barack “More War All The Time” Obama overuled them. Why? Obama has ignored atrocities commited by the governments of Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain but went barrelling into Libya almost immediately promising it would be “days not weeks.” One issue was reported to be whether firing missiles from [...] |  | ||||
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