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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

3 Sept - News and Blogs

Palo Alto plans for electric car boom
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13244410?source=most_emailed&nclick_check=1
What will happen if a significant proportion of the local population begins charging cars in their garage or at work every day?

H1N1 unlikely to mutate into "superbug": U.S. study
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090902/hl_nm/us_flu_superbug_4

Planned U.S. layoffs hit 1 million for 2009

British finance minister's recession warning
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090903/tuk-british-finance-minister-s-recession-a7ad41d.html

Farmworkers union has $1-million war chest to fight water bonds
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/farm-workers-union-has-1-million-war-chest-to-fight-water-bonds.html

Ubuntu - Browsing with Opera 10
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/2009/09/02/ubuntu-browsing-with-opera-10?cid=10091644
Science in disarray: when the Earth farts...!
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog
Movie: Mysteries of modern warfare...

No Blog Comments? It’s All a Matter of Perspective
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/no-blog-comments-its-all-a-matter-of-perspective
( TimeThief spent a lot of time helping in forums when I was at WordPress. Her friends links pointed me to Ann Khoury at Peoples Geography - an Australian from Lebanon who posted on behalf of Palestinians and also featured Ben Heine... even years ago characterized as anti-Semitic in the disinformation ploy used to 'Poison the Well' against those exposing the Israeli holocaust...a loaded word that one!
If I recall correctly, it was TimeThief's enviroblog that started me looking at the subject...which she became so distraught about she scrubbed it! These days I'm almost to that point myself. The next article illustrates the kind of story which tells why. )

India's generation of children crippled by uranium waste

Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations.

(That's added to the Uranium - Mining and Depleted post of related articles. How many recall another article about coal ash deposits menacing U.S. waterways...and their locations kept secret)

Hat Tip Politicky Bitch
On health care
Half of the electricity generation in the country is coal fired
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat1p1.html
Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans
As Obama Golfs with UBS CEO Days After Firm Avoids Criminal Prosecution, UBS Whistleblower Given 40-Month Jail Term
“One Nation, Two Economies”–As Obama Nominates Bernanke to Second Term, a Look at Who Benefits from Economic “Recovery”
‘Just 4%’ of Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel
By Agence France-Presse
Published: August 28, 2009
Updated 5 hours ago

Right, we should give a good Goddamned flying fuck about a country of 6 million why?


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