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– Lane Olinghouse
– Lane Olinghouse
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- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
to focus it’s attention on midterm campaigning in an effort to improve poll numbers: WashPo
Yeah, more campaigning is the answer for BushCo…the hell with doing anything to clean up the mess they’ve created.
That’s because he’s so dreamy!
All Energy and Environment issues today, not by design:
Physicists believe they have cracked an important problem facing man-made nuclear fusion, touted as the cheap, safe, clean and almost limitless energy source of the future. Sudden eddies in the outer edge of the plasma can erode the reactor’s inner wall — a highly expensive metal skin that absorbs neutrons emitted from the plasma. Erosion means that the wall has to be replaced more often, which thus adds hugely to costs. Eroded particles also have a big impact on the plasma performance, diminishing the amount of energy it can deliver. Physicists now can control reactor conditions to prevent formation of the eddies, avoiding erosion.
Over the last half-century, water diversions for irrigation shrank the Aral Sea to less than half its original size and turned it salty. After construction of a dam, now a part of it is filling again with fresh water.
A new approach to screening chemicals could help regulators break through the monumental logjam of existing chemicals that have never been assessed for their potential to harm humans or the environment. The current chemical screening program in the United States, where there is no effort to evaluate all chemicals in commerce, is based on timing: Is a chemical grandfathered in or not? However, chemical screening based on risk is well underway in Canada and, to a lesser degree, the E.U.
A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped the blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House at Warm Springs. The find has stirred excitement among those working to restore the American chestnut, and raised hopes that scientists might be able to use the pollen to breed hardier chestnut trees.
Global Warming Roundup:
Former vice-president Al Gore told the Cannes Film Festival global warming is a “planetary emergency”. His documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” based on the politician’s environmental campaigning, is being screened at the festival. A special showing was also held Wednesday in Washington for congressmen. Gore said he was not considering running again for the presidency in 2008. He might want to take his film to Ottawa: Canada will try to block efforts to set stricter emissions targets in the Kyoto Protocol’s second phase starting in 2012 and wants the climate-change accord scrapped in favor of a separate, voluntary deal, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Saturday. In a more hopeful note, however, journalists and writers from Britain, Germany and the United States are meeting to discuss where they are going wrong and how they can do better in covering climate change: Writers taking part in the “Ankelohe Conversations” on the twin problems of climate change and the oil endgame will be asking themselves why – despite all the coverage they are now giving these issues – the public is doing so little to take action. And former President Bill Clinton said on Saturday global warming is a greater threat to the future than terrorism and that the United States and other countries must “get off our butts” and do something about it, speaking at a graduation at the University of Texas. Bill, a little more leadership and progress on the issue during your term would have been nice. Talk is cheap.
After making my daily deposit above, I wandered over to Catnip’s blog, wondering if there would be more coverage of Harper’s undermining Kyoto.
Instead, I find her top story (via Talk Left)is that Truthout is sticking by its Rove story, with a lot more details given as to why they’re doing so, and the possibility that Rove may have flipped and is testifying against Cheney!! The parties involved deny everything, and Tony Snow refuses to discuss Rove at all.
Wouldn’t that be rich?!?!?
Fitz’s next press conference on indictments may have people doing more than just nail biting.
In the interim
Huffpost provides this Bloomberg link
Hundreds of Abramoff’s emails to the WH will become public as former White House Official David Safavian goes to trial. In the Safavian case jury selection begins today.
I think HuffPost has the wrong headline. The Bloomberg article talks only of emails being used in trial (as opposed to calling Abramoff or Volz). The Safavian emails (the Golf! Golf! Golf! stuff) have been available for some time at CREW (here). If there’s something new in the Bloomberg report, I didn’t see it.
They’re a rich read but really only indict the usual suspects, Safavian, Volz, Ambramoff, Ney. They don’t any higher in the WH.
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BAGHDAD – GREEN ZONE (BBC News) May 21 — Mr Blair’s arrival in Baghdad from Kuwait was shrouded in secrecy, and comes amid continuing violence. Two blasts this morning claimed at least five lives.
The new government was sworn in on Saturday and Mr Maliki vowed to use all means necessary, including “maximum force”, to restore security. The new government has vowed to crack down on terrorism – but key ministries still remain unfilled.
Blair: “It has been longer and harder than any of us would have wanted it to be …
Is that statement a recognition he made a grave error? – Oui.
≈ See my diary — Tony Blair Secure In Green Zone Visit ≈
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
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WASHINGTON (AP/ABC) May 21 — Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.
Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997, researcher Allen J. Beck said. That was a 4.7 percent growth rate, compared with a 1.6 percent increase in people held in state and federal prisons.
Prisons accounted for about two-thirds of all inmates, or 1.4 million, while the other third, nearly 750,000, were in local jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
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Over 1700 miles on a liter, not even a gallon…Where do I get mine? 🙂
Available soon, but sorry, fuzzy dice are not on the option list.
This is a heavy news day.
At the New Yorker, in a new post, Sy Hersh updates us on National Security Department “Listening In.” A high recommend.
and in a related article, go take a read,
Replete with images, in the AT&T – NSA warrantless access saga, WIRED NEWS post on
“Whistle Blowers Evidence, Uncut”
It confronts AT&T’s claim that information in the file is proprietary, prints the “complete” file online, though noting that the full documents in the file are under court seal in SF.
(Need to scroll down to article pages 1-3).
You’ll be glad to know that when caught with the hand in the cookie jar stealing our protected civil liberties, it’s no, “we’re only doing research” using “artificial synthetic data “….[.]