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Mining the soil: Biomass, the unsustainable energy source
Aletho News
The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy”, sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic.
But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of biomass from agricultural or forested lands as sustainable?
The Courage of Michael Vick
by Walter and Rosemary Brasch
The Philadelphia Eagles honored reserve quarterback and admitted dog-killer Michael Vick with an award for courage. Yes, you read that right. "Michael Vick" and "courage" are in the same sentence.
Each of the 32 NFL teams annually honors one of its own with an Ed Block award, named for the Baltimore Colts head trainer who was an advocate for improving the lives of neglected and abused children; the Foundation says it celebrates "players of inspiration in the NFL." Unfortunately, there is no stipulation that football players who abuse animals are ineligible receivers.
Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb told the Philadelphia Inquirer the award was "well deserved." Vick, his team, and what appears to be a loyal foundation of fans who believe Vick will help lead the Eagles into a SuperBowl, all believe the man who ran Bad Newz Kennels has "seen the light," has reformed, and is now a model citizen.
Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: The Consequences of Unconditional Obedience to Authority
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
This past week the infamous gate to the infamous World War II-era extermination camp at Auschwitz was stolen by vandals as yet unknown. That gate had above it a short bit of propaganda that proclaimed to the millions of doomed incoming victims (as well as people who were just passing by:: “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes One Free).
The Nazi regime, following Hitler’s fascist takeover and the violent destruction of Germany’s liberal democratic government in 1933, had successfully indoctrinated most Germans to regard as patriotic the obligation to build and defend the Thousand Year Reich by laboring diligently for the cause.
Fighting for the Family of Man
By: Peter Chamberlin
The American people are slowly waking-up to what we are. We are a Nation that has surrendered our right to determine our own destiny for the promise of a job, a nice home, or healthcare that we can afford. We think that we are still the same people who volunteered to fight a war against an obvious evil because it was the right thing to do, but that is no longer who we are.
The long series of wars that we have made possible, because we continued to think that it was right, have changed us. Our support for endless war has opened the door for a few individuals to reap astronomical profits from our Army’s actions. Our government is the hands of men who profit enormously by manufacturing and exporting war, not the tools of war, but actual war itself. Serving a government that creates wars, then uses our children for cannon fodder in them is a travesty beyond measure.
TURKEY FOR ALL OR TURKEY TO ANYONE, TO REMEMBER TO TUPAMAROS NOW OFFICIALLY FAT AND SOMETHING IN CONNECTION WITH THE TIMES MEAGER
Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario of American sociologist, Prof. James Petras.
"The money is there and we should stop talking about the crisis because when government revenues are so high why people do not get the benefits of this situation? That's the fundamental question for the PIT-CNT. Do not go into the trap of saying that we are in crisis, we need to protect and accept pay cuts and other rubbish "www.radio36.com.uy
Who Owns America and Why?!
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
Always severely divided in one way or another, the U.S. has become two nations --one of the very,very rich elite on the one end and the rest of us on the other. The rich have literally waged war upon the poor since the nation's founding. The so-called 'Robber Baron Era' was notable for preceding and causing the Great Depression.
Income and wealth disparities are even worse now! As a direct result of Reagan/Bush tax cuts benefiting only the upper classes just ONE PERCENT of the U.S. population owns more than 95 percent of everyone else combined. Poverty is higher among every minority group. A 'ruling elite' of just one percent is primarily White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
...two Americas...one privileged, the other burdened...one America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, another America that gets the tax breaks.
THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS / 2009
Allen L Roland
The true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of the birth of a love that unites and binds the universe but also exists deepest within each one of us:
To me, now more than ever, the true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of a never ending love. Not the love we think of in desiring or possessing someone else but rather ~ the whole sublime aspect of conscious unconditional love which seeks only the perfection of its object and is, at the deepest level, the underlying and uniting force of the Universe ~ the Unified Field.
The birth of Jesus is, in reality, the awareness of that love in human form ~ but all of us are capable of loving that deeply if we will but surrender to what is deepest within ourselves.
Jesus thus becomes an evolutionary forerunner for a love and state of soul consciousness that is deepest within us all ~ and a love which we all unconsciously seek in our individual quests to find and celebrate our authentic selves.
With health care, don't let the perfect be the enemy
Mary Shaw
Early in the morning on December 24, the U.S. Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill. The next step is conference committee, where the Senate and House versions -- quite different each another -- will be reconciled and merged.
The Senate version contains a lot of compromises -- so many that some progressives feel the Senate should have let the bill die and then started again from scratch next year. But a new Senate bill would require the same 60 votes to break a filibuster, and those 60 votes would surely require similar compromises, since the cast of characters would be the same. To wait until after the 2010 elections would be to continue losing people every day who die from lack of health insurance. That would not be acceptable.
Is Congress planning to destroy every Middle East TV Channel that criticizes Israel?
Part I: Targeting Lebanon’s Al Manar
Franklin Lamb Beirut
“Regarding Al Manar it’s personal for Israel. The reason is that Al Manar did to the Israeli government propaganda machine during and following the July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did to Israeli troops. Al Manar kicked butt. That station must be made to disappear. The plan is to stop the 15-20 million daily viewers of Al Manar from receiving its transmission and well as to intimidate all the other Middle East TV channels that are suspected of moving toward the growing “Culture of Resistance’ spreading in the Middle East from Lebanon.” A Washington DC observer of how Israel controls the US Congress 12/9/09
Waging false-peace by sporting symbolic arrests vs. waging political science to bring real peace!
Zahir Ebrahim
Apropos of the article “Waging Peace: Mass Arrests at White House Antiwar Rally” floating on the web, as an 'untermensch' whose people are suffering the brunt of “imperial mobilization”, I humbly say thank you to the courageous handful of conscionable American people, all 61 of them who offered their arrests to make a profound statement of conscience. Of the 200-plus million American people, that even 61 would feel the pain of “freedom” that the world is being subjected to is still a statement of conscience. Having said that, symbolism is no match for political science. None of the people mentioned above, including authors of books, who have so courageously stood up for the minimal decency that none of the rest of us seem to have, have apparently penetrated that fact in their speeches, writings, and in offering their ownselves for arrest.
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