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2012 and the age of stupid

November 12, 2009
2012 and the age of stupid 2012, the Movie, is aimed at really stupid teenagers, and was made by a really stupid foreign guy. The Europeans, as we all know, hate America, but Roland Emmerich born 1955, in Stuttgart,  has such a bias, one has to wonder if he's French. Emmerich blew up the White House and New York and most other American cities in "Independence Day" (1996). In 1998, he picked on the Big Apple again, having "Godzilla" stomp most of it with incompetent resistance from a number of pinheaded Yankees. (The only characters who seemed to know what they were doing were a team of French commandos -- French, mind you! led by Jean Reno.)

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Palin speaks her brains

November 11, 2009
Palin speaks her brains Sarah Palin has put some of her stupidest ever thoughts on the record in an interview with foul-mouthed  has-been Rush Limbaugh. See the transcript below. Idiot Limbaugh was moved to say of Palin; “The intellectuals don't understand her, don't like her. She doesn't analyze herself. She doesn't analyze her thoughts; she just has them and expresses them.” He described her new book  ‘Going Rogue’ as “One of the most substantive policy books I've read.”  He cannot be serious!

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Top govt advisor attacks Big Power

October 30, 2009
Top govt advisor attacks Big Power The UK is in the grips of a power cartel, says an insider from the governing UK Labour Party. That cartel actively hinders the fight against global warming by lobbying for its own narrow commercial interests at the cost of local democracy and the future health of the planet.   It’s an argument that off-gridders and anti-capitalist campaigners will be familiar with. It’s not really what you expect to hear from an advisor to Her Majesty’s Government. Yet it is precisely the belief of Alan Simpson, who occupies a place close to the heart of political power in Britain as  energy advisor to the Secretary of Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband and Member of Parliament for Nottingham South.

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Nick Rosen in Denver

October 11, 2009
Nick Rosen in Denver Nick: the age of the micro-grid Off-Grid expert Nick Rosen is giving a talk in Denver October 21st. Is nuclear power a "Green" energy solution? What is the UK view? Is it a viable option for mitigating climate change? Can small nuclear energy modules provide the energy for off-grid communities – and in particular the baseload power required to make solar and wind power plants continuously productive?

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Green nonsense from pooped-out Brown

September 29, 2009
Green nonsense from pooped-out Brown

British prime minister Gordon Brown made an eco-promise when he first got the job - he would create 5 eco-towns.  Then it was ten eco-towns. Now it looks like we will be lucky to get two eco-towns - whatever they are.

So his claim in today's speech to Labour Party conference that he would create a quarter million green jobs is likely to be just as much of a pathetic fallacy.

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Big Power loses freedom to pollute

September 25, 2009
Big Power loses freedom to pollute The freedom of big power companies to pollute was curtailed this week when a New York court ruled that they can be sued to make them cut their carbon emissions. The trail-blazing judgement by the New York Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that five giant utility firms can be sued in federal courts because their carbon dioxide emissions are a public nuisance that contribute to global warming and other environmental problems including heat waves, smog, drought and forest fires.

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Fresh bubble threatens financial system

September 9, 2009
Fresh bubble threatens financial system

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has warned of a new financial bubble fueled by banking greed and called for urgent, far-reaching reform of the world's financial system and foreign exchange markets so they serve the people and productive economic investment, rather than the other way around.

The Unctad report questions the extent to which there is a genuine self-sustaining economic recovery going on, arguing that falling wages present a huge danger to the world that is being too often ignored by many economists and policymakers.

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How to power a Climate Camp

September 4, 2009
How to power a Climate Camp

Cycle-powered hovercraft UK campaigners are just dismantling a week-long “Climate Camp” in London which succeeded in highlighting the link between finance and the climate crisis in the world's media.

Nearly 2,000 campaigners set up temporary home on Blackheath, an area of open common ground in South London, overlooking the financial towers of Canary Wharf and The City of London.

“We are targeting the City of London because it is the centre of an economic system whose obsession with economic expansion and the chase for profits is making it impossible to deal with the climate crisis,”

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Wendell Berry in person

August 1, 2009
Wendell Berry in person

Berry: a calming effect What a coup!  Organisers of this year's Wisconsin Book Festival have secured a personal appearance by Kentucky farmer and nationally acclaimed poet and writer Wendell Berry.

Festival director Alison Jones Chaim said, there was a feeling of doom and gloom about the economy, but poet, novelist and essayist Wendell Berry is just the tonic the festival goers need.

He is clear that we all have to embrace a cut in living standards. As he told Progressive magazine earlier this year: "I don't think we can take (environmental reform)  seriously until people begin to talk seriously about lowering the standard of living. When people begin to ...

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