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Yearly Archives: 2008
Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House : No More Power Bills–Ever
Power Plant: Computers, inverters and other controls help Strizki harvest as much as 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity on a sunny June day. Photo by David Biello / Scientific American.A New Jersey resident generates and stores allthe power he needs with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Architecture, Energy, Engineering, Sustainability
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The Return of the Neocons
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, an architect of the neocon philosophy. Illustration by Paul Giambarba / Courtesy truthout. Bush Hawks Aggressively Working to Rewrite Accepted Iraq War History By James Risen / June 19, 2008 Ever since … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, CIA, Department of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, George W. Bush, History, Iraq, Iraq Occupation, Neocons, Paul Wolfowitz, Right Wing
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Peak Copper in New Mexico
Not Worth a Pretty PennyBy Gerry Storm / The Rag Blog / June 22, 2008 Prices of all metal are skyrocketing these days as investors realize that peak copper, peak nickel, peak silver, peak gold, have likely already occurred. China … Continue reading
Doug Zachary in the 70s : Girls Say Yes to Men Who Say NO
Confessions of an ex-Marine on AcidBy Doug Zachary / The Rag Blog / June 22, 2008 It is 1970, I am 20 years old, and I have been out of the Marine Corps for about a year. Finally, women are … Continue reading
Washington Beheading
Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog
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Tagged Cartoon, Civil Liberties, Congress, Democratic Party, Privacy
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Mesmo’s Reflections on the Sixties
Janis Joplin, folksinger. Austin, Texas, 1965, at The 11th Door on Red River Street. Photo by Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog. Gerry Storm wrote the following reminiscence on Austin music in the sixties for the Texas Ghetto website in … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, History, Music, Psychedelia, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, Texas, Texas Ghetto
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Iraq: The Never-Ending (Dismal) Story
Witnesses Link Chemical to Ill US Soldiers: Highly toxic substance used at Iraq plantBy Farah Stockman / June 21, 2008 WASHINGTON – US soldiers assigned to guard a crucial part of Iraq’s oil infrastructure became ill after exposure to a … Continue reading
Jazz : The Colossus
Sonny Rollins, Take OneBy Ishmael Reed Bebop was my generation’s hip-hop. It was more than a pastime; it was an obsession. I used to play trombone with bebop groups. When I turned sixty, I enrolled in Berkeley’s Jazz School, where … Continue reading
Journalism : OUT OF PRINT!
Arianna Huffington questions newspapers’“veneer of unassailable trustworthiness.” Drawing courtesy of New Yorker.The death and life of the American newspaperBy Eric Alterman The following article on the state of the newspaper in America today first appeared in the March 31, 2008 … Continue reading
Home of the Brave: We Should All Be Ashamed
Omar KhadrProsecuting Children as Terrorists: Keeping America SafeBy Dave Lindorff President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is … Continue reading
Louisiana – Stepping Back into the Middle Ages
Louisiana’s Latest Assault on DarwinJune 21, 2008 It comes as no surprise that the Louisiana State Legislature has overwhelmingly approved a bill that seeks to undercut the teaching of evolution in the public schools. The state, after all, has a … Continue reading
