The bacterium’s product, which it secretes like sweat, is a class of hydrocarbon molecules called alkanes that are chemically indistinguishable from the ones made in oil refineries. The organism can grow in bodies of water unfit for drinking or on land that is useless for farming, according to the company, Joule Unlimited of Cambridge, Mass.
“We make very clean, sulfur-free hydrocarbons that drop directly into the existing infrastructure for the production of diesel fuel,” said William J. Sims, the chief executive of Joule. The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but “to become a viable replacement.”
Retiring Later Is Hard Road for Laborers
one in three workers over age 58 does a physically demanding job
15 Shocking Facts Show That the Middle Class is Being Wiped Out
The very foundations of the U.S. economy have rotted away and we now find ourselves on the verge of an economic collapse.
This economic nightmare has taken literally decades to develop, and both Democrats and Republicans have contributed greatly to this disaster.
As millions more Americans continue to climb on to the "safety net", how long is it going to be before it breaks?
The reality is that the system can only support so many people. We are now at a point where our anti-poverty programs are clearly unsustainable in the long-term, but nobody has a solution for how we are going to get all of these people off of these programs or how we are going to provide good jobs for all of them.
The cost of every U.S. government anti-poverty program is absolutely soaring. Meanwhile, the U.S. government is already running a budget deficit that is approaching 1.5 trillion dollars every year. If you cannot understand that we have a very serious problem on our hands then you are probably not awake.
The U.S. economic system is dying. Blaming the other political party is not a solution. Running around the country offering "hope" and "change" and giving people a vague sense that things will get "better" soon is not going to cut it either.
The American people need very real economic solutions to very real economic problems.
Our Acute Case of Fiscal Madness
In a flurry of blind panic and irrational exuberance, organizations from the European Central Bank to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suddenly abandoned everything we had learned, at a bitter cost, about economics during recessions and decided that fiscal austerity was the way to go while the world was in the depths of a slump — indeed, many claimed that spending cuts would actually be expansionary.
Not only was there an illogical push for austerity, but there also emerged a widespread demand for central banks to raise interest rates in the face of falling inflation and high unemployment.
This madness was exemplified by the O.E.C.D.’s economic outlook report in May, which supported these ideas. But the O.E.C.D. has suddenly changed its tune. “In the short term, the weakness can be dealt with [through] the prolongation of some of the monetary accommodation in some countries,” the O.E.C.D.’s secretary general, Angel Gurria, told Reuters on Sept. 17.
This is as close as such organizations ever get to admitting that they were wrong.
And speaking of the rewards of austerity, I think it’s worth checking to see whether there have been any.
Full Report: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America
I: Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
——-II: The Rise of the Economic Elite
——-III: Exposing Our Enemy: Meet the Economic Elite
——-IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat
——-V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy
——-VI: How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won
Full Report: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America
I: Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
——-II: The Rise of the Economic Elite
——-III: Exposing Our Enemy: Meet the Economic Elite
——-IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat
——-V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy
——-VI: How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won
VIRUS ON FB using your pictures.It says you have been tagged in a
picture, wants you to click on a link to see it, then hacks into your
computer & all your accounts, including banking & other secure
accounts.It destroys your computer.Once hacked into your computer, it
...sends e-mails to your friends telling them they have been tagged in
pictures & starts the process again.PLEASE RE-POST URGENT
Teambox is an Open Source, Social Network-Influenced Online Project Management App
Teambox works a lot like most project management software, but with a better flow of communication and overall organization. While that's the main draw, there are a couple of notable features. Projects can have permissions, so you don't have to give everyone access to the project. Teambox also works a a mobile app so you can use your smartphone for updates when you're away from the computer.
Opera Widgets
All four members of Project Gulf Impact were in hospital after "chemical poisoning"
Introduction to Microorganisms: Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi
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Sea-snot blizzard ’caused by Gulf spill’
The addition of oil may cause the sea snot to coalesce into giant blobs called marine mucilage, which can grow more than a hundred miles (160 kilometers) long, according to Roberto Danovaro at Italy’s Polytechnic University of Marche.
Phytoplanktons produce more mucus when there’s more carbon and less nitrogen and phosphorus available-”exactly the case created by the oil spill,” Danovaro said.
He added that if seas are consistently calm, mucilage could become very large and persist for months, allowing disease-causing bacteria to accumulate within the blobs, Danovaro said.
- Global warming causes rise of gigantic mucus-like sea blobs - Oct 09, 2009
- Environmentalists worried over oil spill - Aug 10, 2010
- Giant Oil Plume Seen In Alabama - May 28, 2010
- Tiny Gulf sea creature could shed light on impact of oil spill - Aug 28, 2010
- Brad Pitt raises voice against oil spill - Aug 24, 2010
- Top Kill: BP's Latest Cork On The Gulf Gusher - May 26, 2010
- Oil spills increase arsenic levels in the ocean: Study - Jul 03, 2010
- NGO wants oil spills on Maharashtra coast probed (With Images) - Aug 23, 2010
truthout
KBR Under Pressure From Congress Over Allegations of Poisoning Soldiers
If a Congressman from Oregon has his way, then American taxpayers would not be expected to foot the legal bills for private military contractors like the former Halliburton subsidiary that allegedly allowed dozens of National Guard troops to be poisoned by a dangerous chemical in Iraq.
Legislation introduced to Congress by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) on Wednesday would require the military to notify Congress before accepting substantial legal liability on behalf of its contractors and prevent contractors guilty of gross negligence from winning new contracts.
The legislation could spell trouble for Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), the massive contractor that was secretly granted liability immunity as part of at least one wartime contract since 2001.
KBR has since split from Halliburton, its former parent company, and faces a list of lawsuits based on serious allegations, including poisoning soldiers with fumes from open burn pits in Iraq, allowing soldiers to be electrocuted in showers with faulty wiring, failing to protect female soldiers from sexual assault, participating in human trafficking, and the list goes on.
"KBR's repeated negligence has endangered our troops and cost lives," Blumenauer said. "Such a long record of alleged misconduct indicates to me that KBR did not fear being held responsible by anyone. Our war contracting process does too little to ensure that contractors act with the best interests of our troops and taxpayers in mind, and we're going to change that."
Researchers compiled a composite index of "water threats" that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution.
The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people.
Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature.
They urge developing countries not to follow the same path.
Instead, they say governments should to invest in water management strategies that combine infrastructure with "natural" options such as safeguarding watersheds, wetlands and flood plains.
One concept advocated by development organisations nowadays is integrated water management, where the needs of all users are taken into account and where natural features are integrated with human engineering.
One widely-cited example concerns the watersheds that supply New York, in the Catskill Mountains and elsewhere around the city.
Water from these areas historically needed no filtering.
That threatened to change in the 1990s, due to agricultural pollution and other issues.The city invested in a programme of land protection and conservation; this has maintained quality, and is calculated to have been cheaper than the alternative of building treatment works.
Mark Smith, head of the water programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) who was not involved in the current study, said this sort of approach was beginning to take hold in the developing world, though "the concrete and steel model remains the default".
Muslim developer defends NY Ground Zero plan
Mr Gamal claims there has been a campaign of deception involving inaccuracies and falsehoods about the proposed Islamic Centre.
"The narrative is one of deception, and what's been fuelling the fire is misinformation about the project," he says, which is why this week the young developer is doing media interviews for the first time since the row intensified.
( Toxic Media using distortion and lies to flog Hate and Racism )
CCPA in Nova Scotia - Three exciting upcoming events
Managing the Margins of the Labour Market: Developments in Labour Market Regulation in Australia, the EU and Canada,
Identifying Hate in a Liberal Multicultural State
New study claims ADHD 'has a genetic link'Scientists from Cardiff University, writing in The Lancet, said the disorder was a brain problem like autism.
To this date John Ashcroft’s relentless fight against me, my information, and my case, on various fronts, from the Congress to the courts, and from the 9/11 Commission to the Inspector General’s Office, has been taking place under his attempt at a vague justification titled ‘Protecting Certain Foreign & Diplomatic Relations for National Security.’
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