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The Odyssey Dawn top 10

By cmaukonen on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 12:28pm |

Oh this is just too good to keep for myself. Pepe Escobar writing in The Asia Times gives us the top ten list for this paticular action.

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Deja Vu all over again

By cmaukonen on Fri, 03/18/2011 - 10:45pm |

Here is a little history of this countries finances and financiers. You might find it rather familiar.

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What's new ?

By cmaukonen on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 9:59pm |

I'm more than a bit of old fogy I guess and more than a bit of a curmudgeon as well, But I do remember when things were quite different than now. Some very disturbing changes have taken place and Sam Smith lists them here.

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Frontier House

By cmaukonen on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 8:24pm |

When I read this about Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett saying that people should leave the cities and move out to the country because -

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Best video of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

By cmaukonen on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 4:25pm |

"The Warp Drive is nothing but a useless pile of junk" - Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott

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Electricity - nuclear and otherwise

By cmaukonen on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 8:34pm |

Electricity. We currently have three main methods of generating it. Through a chemical reaction with two dissimilar metals. Through mechanical means by spinning a coil of wire in a fixed magnetic field. And by photovoltaic action on some silicon substrate.  All three are as old as the hills.  Yes even the solar cell has a long history.

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Japan earthquake: Impact on US nuclear energy future?

By cmaukonen on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 11:28pm |

This piece on the BBC website kind of says it all.

John Rowe, the CEO of America's largest nuclear producer Exelon, has said his firm is reluctant to invest in new nuclear plants because they are increasingly cost prohibitive when compared to natural gas, which is relatively cheap.

"The nuclear industry was in trouble in the US long before last week's earthquake and tsunami," said Ellen Vancko of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Japan Earthquake - Must follow Twitter users.

By cmaukonen on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 5:40pm |

Here is a list of must follow twitter users provided by the UN.

In response Google has created an information page on the earthquake and an tool to help find missed persons. Below are a list of Twitterers who have been reporting on the disaster.

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Welcome to the new feudalism

By cmaukonen on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 6:14pm |

As we set here bandying about how the Republicans are decimating union and people's rights, how we should or should not support the current administration, hurl righteous brick-bats at the left and evangelical right and other amusing activities - we seem to forget one of the biggest reasons we are at each others throats these days.  That the policies of the last 50 years or so have set this situation up to a tee.

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