Sunday, August 10, 2008

MIT Solar Energy Process

MIT Solar Energy Process

If you view the rooftops of Tel-Aviv, you will see a forest of white water tanks. Each with a solar panel, it heats the water for a family.
More ambitious solar projects we have executed in the USA the hardware too expensive for Israel.
We all know the electric and hydrogen patents for cars were bought by the auto industry. Hopefully, these firms will go bankrupt and be forced to sell the patents to the Chinese.
It will be interesting how the energy companies suppress the new MIT process.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

What Would George Do?

What Would George Do?

If George Bush wanted to promote an impeachment, he would declare his Congressional opponents as enemy combatants. Thrown into Gitmo without trial or communication, they would have little chance of contesting for their seats.

Any newly elected Congressman reluctant to follow orders could sit in Gitmo as well.

Progressives lack intestinal fortitude. Mike Dukakis provided sufficient example. If his wife were raped and murdered, he would not support the death penalty for the culprit.

Every woman asked. "If he won't protect [avenge] his wife, how can he protect me?"

If Progressives [Congressmen] can't impeach Bush, they can sit in jail for fortitude training.

by Jason Paz

The Oil Industry Criminal Cartel

The Oil Industry Criminal Cartel

The falling price of oil — and gasoline prices, too — should lower inflation and lending rates, boost consumer confidence and could even influence whom voters chose in November's presidential election.

For motorists, it could mean oil prices under $100 a barrel later this year and deeper price declines at the gasoline pump. Already, the national average for a gallon of gasoline, which stood at $4.10 a month ago, was down to $3.83 on Friday, according to the AAA Motor Club.

Thirty-two years ago I asked a service station attendant for a gallon can of gas. My Volkswagen had sputtered dry a mile down the road. When he asked me if I had tripped the emergency gasoline supply, I nodded yes.

He explained in the last Venezuelan revolt the rioters had requested gas in small amounts to make Molotov cocktails.

Finally, I thought, a good reason for fossil fuels.

I was in the Andes Mountains to determine the potential market for tethered communication balloons. In Caracas, I was also working on windmill generated electricity delivered by underground residential cables.

My firm was doing marketing research on earthquake detection devices, anti-submarine surveillance, grain silo monitors and many other avenues. My favorite team examined the Bay of Fundy tides as electricity generators.

Two years after the OPEC Oil Embargo everybody with a brain in his head knew there was no future for fossil fuels.

Most politicians are well-paid shills for the special interests who have sat on technological progress for generations.

They are enemy combatants.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Communistic Capitalism

Communistic Capitalism

Naomi Klein, HuffPo

So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government has seemed amazingly unperturbed. That's because it is betting on this: when the opening ceremonies begin friday, you will instantly forget all that unpleasantness as your brain is zapped by the cultural/athletic/political extravaganza that is the Beijing Olympics.

Like it or not, you are about to be awed by China's sheer awesomeness.

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

Note: The reader might note the similarities between ‘authoritarian capitalism’ and Corporate America. Why are the Americans wallowing in disaster? They have world class expertise in merciless repression and in constant surveillance. Where do they fall down? They have little or no central planning. The corporations do not plan on a comprehensive scale. They are industry specific.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Kuwait Violates Human Rights of Foreign Workers

Kuwait Violates Human Rights of Its Slave Laborers

Kuwaiti Officials Beat and Torture Foreign Workers

By Mezba, Global Voices

Most of the Muslim Student Associations in universities in North America have a very vocal content about supporting Palestine issues. Many of them also have a strong pro-Arab camp, where they harp on supporting the Arab countries against Israel on many issues, and whenever Arabs are mistreated or discriminated against, it is painted as an "Islamic" issue. Many converts to Islam here also have an idolized view of the Arab lands.

Having lived in the Middle East before, I have a different view on these issues. Here's something I caught on the news recently.

Some time ago Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait went on strike because they had not been paid by the Kuwaiti authorities for more than 3 months. These are already dirt poor people doing menial jobs saving whatever scraps they can to help their families back in Bangladesh. So what did the Kuwaitis do?

They beat up the striking workers, locked many of them up and deported them all to Bangladesh. There were also tales of torture when those deported people reached Bangladesh.

Today, I found a letter in Kuwait Times where one resident writes "Bangladeshi cleaners, Thank you."

I would to thank all the Bangladeshi cleaners who used to collect the garbage from sunset until sunrise, to clean up the dirt and the leftovers of mine and of all residents of Kuwait. They were, in fact, doing a great job and excellent work.
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While we enjoyed the luxury of new, clean clothes every day, the dirty, yellow dirty uniform was the costume that they lived, ate and maybe even slept in.
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Salaries: Why do you work? This is not a new topic, it's an old one and a natural request. Why do any of us go to work and how many of us would work for free?

Meanwhile, now Kuwait, probably hit by the garbage on the streets, have admitted responsibility (where have we heard this before?).

I have said it before and I have said it again, the problem lies in governments of countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka making no attempt to ban their citizens from working in slavery-conditions in these countries. Blind by the lure of foreign currency and cash these workers bring, they have trampled on their welfare and rights.

Next time an Arab supporting MSA comes around to ask me for support against Israeli oppression against Palestinians, I am going to ask, "how are you any better".

mezba

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Economic Liberty

“Economic liberty is embodied in the practice of
free-enterprise capitalism, which functions best if largely unconstrained by
government taxation and regulation.”


This is a lofty statement. If all the components described
the American reality, our nation would be in fine shape. Unfortunately, none of
this describes the conditions on the ground so to speak.


Corporate America
controls 99% of the government and of the media. The idea is to strip the
ordinary citizens of their Constitutional and human rights so they have no way
to redress grievances. Through Federal control of the school curriculum, they
have dummied down the population to be unaware of the rights they once had and
of the duties involved in maintaining liberty.


Law enforcement and judicial officials do not serve and
protect the people. Rather, they work to suppress free expression by
dissidents, whistle blowers and other rowdies who seek liberty and justice for
all.


Deregulation has set loose a collection of robber barons,
organized thieves and seditionists to degrade the populace and to loot the
public treasury.


Very few enterprises are competitive and none of them allow
the free movement of labor, capital and the factors of production.


Dressing up negative campaign ads with quotes from the
founding fathers won’t benefit anyone.

Friday, August 1, 2008

McCain Ends Campaign Faces Prison for Counterfeit














Will Mud Slow the Juggernaut Obama Campaign?
Barf Report IBD Editorials by Eugene Robinson
It's awfully early for John McCain to be running such a desperate, ugly campaign against Barack Obama. But I guess it's useful for Democrats to get a reminder that the Republican Party plays presidential politics by the same moral code that guided the bad-boy Oakland Raiders in their heyday: "Just win, baby."
The latest bit of snarling, mean-spirited nonsense to come out of the McCain camp was the accusation, leveled by campaign manager Rick Davis, that Obama had "played the race card." He did so, apparently, by being black.
On Wednesday, at a campaign stop in Missouri, Obama had predicted that Republicans would try to "make you scared of me. You know, 'he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.' "
So what does Davis do? He promptly tries to make voters scared of Obama by feigning outrage over the presumptive Democratic nominee's "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong" remarks.
Of course, the McCain campaign isn't really offended that the first black major-party candidate for president in American history might mention this distinction from time to time. The idea is to slow Obama down before he runs away with this thing, and the weapon of choice is handfuls of mud.
Remember St. John the Reformer, who promised a high-minded campaign and said he wouldn't question his opponent's patriotism? Clearly, he's been replaced by an evil twin. The switch seems to have taken place during his opponent's world tour, when Obama's prescriptions for Iraq and Afghanistan began to look prescient — and McCain's began to look irrelevant.
The Counterfeit Dollar Does In McCain
... But what's really classic is that McCain put Obama's face on a dollar bill over a month ago!

Is the media buying McCain's story that Obama played the race card, using his description of McCain doing things analogous to putting his face on a dollar bill? Of course, most everyone has taken it as an analogy and McCain, as well as some of the media, have been looking to crucify Obama for it. The thing is, McCain actually DID put obama's face on a dollar bill -- over a month ago in a little-seen web video. The point is, Obama's analogy -- whether he realized it or not, and maybe he heard about the video and only recalled it subconsciously -- isn't even an analogy, it's true!

Plus, Team McCain turned him pansy yellow, made him all starry-eyed, then blew him up.
Michael Shaw, HuffPo