Headline of the Day
Dow off 145, banks getting slammed, Europe going kablooey A German bond auction failed to sell out. This isn’t supposed to happen and is a bad moon rising indeed.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month November 2011
Message to SPLC from Montana ‘extremist’
The Montana Libery Movement responds to the SPLC slime of them. The only real trick the SPLC seems to have up its sleeve is to constantly associate, directly or indirectly, every group that opposes corrupt state power as being racist…
Greening Phoenix will require more than just upscale enclaves
Phoenix is the least sustainable city in the world, says Andrew Ross. Much of this is due to the city being in the “bull’s eye” of climate change. It is heating up and becoming arid faster than any other area…
Military suicides increase as more troops return
Excess prescription drug use and a “flawed” post-deployment mental health screening process are among the factors fueling an increase in suicides among military service members, a new report by the Center for a New American Security [CNAS] says. Trillions go…
Pumped hydro energy storage
GigaOm provides a useful overview, noting “pumped storage is currently the dominant—and nearly only—grid-scale storage solution out there,” then extrapolates into just how much pumped hydro storage there could be and what it would entail.