Month February 2011

Anti-immigration activist Shawna Forde guilty of murder

Forde and cohorts were looking for drugs and money when they did the home invasion. In other words, they’re just criminals. Their viciously racist anti-immigration stance was probably mostly a pose to provide camouflage and justification for criminal behavior. (“Mexicans…

US arms sales are booming! And Obama is leading it!

As defense giants like Boeing, Raytheon increasingly seek to peddle their wares to well-financed (sometimes by the U.S.) international customers, they have a surprising ally: the President. “Obama is much more favorably disposed to arms exports than any of the…

Ireland defaults on bond payments. Good

In the wake of the collapse of the Irish government, finance minister Brian Lenihan suspended capital injections for Allied Irish Bank, the Bank of Ireland, and EBS Building society until elections are held on February 25. Fine Gael leader Enda…

Cellulosic ethanol. A new approach

Ineos Bio plans to open a factory in Florida that will convert plant waste and garbage into electricity and ethanol. First they will gasify the waste then use a recently discovered bacterium that lives in chicken waste to convert the…