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How Bush can REALLY help Israel

In the last five and a half years Bush has shown an uncanny abiliby to weaken his allies and empower his opponents.  Let's look. Allies Republican Party Tony Blair ex premier of Spain ex premier of...

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Conservation of Catastrophe and the Global Economy

A few years ago, the historian William McNeill enunciated the law of Conservation of Catastrophe. The law states that solutions to one crisis lead the way for some equal or greater disaster in the...

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Some life will survive any surface condition

A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from...

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An appeal - send $$ to Ron Paul

I have some dollars burning in my pocket, ready to be contributed -- where should I send them, where will I get the most bang  for the buck?Hillary and Barak are overrun with cash,  contributing to...

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There Go the Fluorescent Bulb Savings

Several years ago, I replaced all my home’s commonly used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents (CFL.) I saw a noticeable decrease in my electric use and bills.A few months ago, I got Verizon’s...

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This Guy Needs a Hazmat Suit

In Townhall.com, David Limbaugh writes a post where he tells his fellow McCain supporters that they should ignore the ranting commentators( including his brother Rush ) and work on bringing the...

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McMansion slums with granite countertops

If anything symbolizes the mortgage disaster, it is whole neighborhoods of McMansions littered with abandoned house, some stripped of copper, sometimes sheltering squatters.What will happen to these...

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Save Birth Control for Low-Income Women

Planned Parenthood has a plea for help.Because of a technical error Congress made in 2005, the cost of birth control in many clinics is rising almost 900 percent from what it was just months ago. Women...

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In Defense of Intelligent Design Adherents

Whenever the subject of Intelligent Design (ID) arises on DailyKos, the snarks come out.  ID adherents and defenders are looked on as uncultured rubes, Neanderthals, and unlettered hicks.  This is a...

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Watch out for Inflation!

Last week made implicit what has long been implicit, we, as individuals, as a country, and as a society are going to have our standard of living cut.  This will hurt.  There will be less inequality,...

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Shock Doctrine bites back

Naomi Klein in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (The link contains links to 13 book reviews), documents how conservatives have used the shocks following crises to push...

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I stopped blocking ads

After three years of browsing with the Firefox advertising blocking extension, Adblock, I turned it off.  This took some doing, as I enjoy the experience of browsing without annoying animated ads...

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Tolerance for Dissent - Kos vs RedState

In The Moderate Voice, a blog I regularly read, Patrick Edaburn compares the tone and tolerance of two blogs, Kos on the left and Redstate on the right.I.. offer some critiques. Both sites have shown a...

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Thank you, George W. Bush

We have discussed at infinitum the disaster that Bush is dumping into Obama's lap.  What we have missed is the favors Bush has done for Obama.In foreign policy, after warning of disaster if Obama's...

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Auto bail-ins in the South

While Southern Senators are fuming against taxpayer subsidies to the big three, let's see what going on on their home turf.Good Jobs First has it down.As the U.S. automakers have downsized their...

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Buyer's remorse on Redstate

From a Redstate comment we have buyer's remorseKnow [now] that O is in the White House, I’m not sure I want the patriot act around anymore, since he’ll probably use it against Christians and other...

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Republican collapse, hold the Schadenfreude

Everyone who hangs around DailyKos has immensely enjoyed the spectacle of the Republican party and the conservative movement imploding on itself.  Who could not enjoy it, after eight years of numerous...

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Intelligent Design may be true

Most of us, when we are talking against placing intelligent design  (ID) into the science curriculum are using the wrong argument.We say that is in not true and not proven.  This no only frames it...

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Planes, Trains, Autos and Buses ..

Among us progressives, supporting the enhancement and extension of passenger rail service, ranks with motherhood and apple pie as a given.  I suggest that before we plunge in. We may have some problems...

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Obama's style: fake-right, drive-left

"Fake-right, drive-left" in the Sports Illustrated article Audacity of Hoops describes not Obama's political style, but his basketball style.Obama's game as old-school schoolyard: reverse layups,...

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The F-22 Raptor fighter -- a stimulus program

Among the other items Bush shoved onto Obama's overcrowded plate is the F22 Raptor fighter program.  The Raptor is a fighter plane, designed in the 80's  to fight the Soviet Union. To no one's...

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Solar storm can bring down the electric grid for months

The New Scientist has posted an article which starts thus:It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have...

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Conservative delusion

In an posting in Redstate we seeObama has spent his professional and political life in a bubble. He has no experience handling criticism and from what we’ve seen he doesn’t handle it very well. In...

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The Coming Clash Between Water and Energy

In spite of all the attention we give to peak oil, peak water may be closer and more serious.  Without enough water, there will not be enough food.  The issues become more complex when we realize that...

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$400M cable to save 5 ms for flash traders

"I just read an article in Popular Science that almost made me sick to the stomach. The headline says it all "Pricey Transatlantic Cable Could Save Milliseconds, Millions by Speeding Data to Stock...

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Beribboned Generals, Dying Empire

I am not the first person to note that the US is displaying more and more symptoms of a dying empire.  To name a few; a broken political system, crony capitalism, a bloated military, use of...

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Occupy unsustainable, has class issues

The present overnight encampments are problematic both for the OWS movement and their host cities.The free-form leadership style is wonderful (even considering the comment by Oscar Wilde  "The problem...

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This is what peak oil looks like

Look around.  It is already here.  John Michael Greer on Energy Bulletin has written a must-read article on peak oil.  We are at peak oil, the end of several centuries of easy (i.e. cheap) resources....

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Beribboned Generals, Dying Empiree

The sight of General Petraeus' overdecorated chest has started a discussion of military decorations being given out like kindergarden gold stars.  See here for an example. I am reposting of an original...

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Where the Republicans came from

Most of us are scratching our head, where did the culture powering the Republican Party come from anyway?  Nowhere else in the world do we find this combination of religious fundamentals,...

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Meltdowns, Social and Nuclear

Lately there has been talks of a whole social/civilizational collapse, for example this NASA funded study.  Gail Tverberg in her blog Our Finite World has been discussing this for years.  Below I take...

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The shale bubble is bursting

Oil and gas majors now cutting back in U.S. shale gas fieldsIn the last 10 days, British Petroleum, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have all announced they will be spending less on oil and...

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Financial Death Cycle of Fracking

Many of us have discussed the environmental costs of fracking, for example The Death-cycle of Fracking .There is a financial death cycle too Shale Drillers Feast on Junk Debt to Stay on...

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Why the laser focus on the Palestinians?

Why this laser-like focus on Israel/Palestine here and by the rest of the world.  Does anyone give a damn about the Chechens, who have and are suffering much more the the Palestinians. See this photo...

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Donald Trump frightens me

I do not think Trump is going anywhere, but if you listen to his rhetoric and substitute "jews" for "mexicans" it sounds like Europe in the 1920s.I realize that I am flirting with Goodwin's Law, but...

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Three entities trapped inside themselves.

What we have in this election are three entities trapped inside themselves.First Donald Trump.Whether he is mentally ill, or just  with personal problems, it is obvious the he is either unwilling or...

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Optimistic Thoughts for 2017

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became a democracy.  I thought to myself that this will not last, Russia will revert to its tradition, Czarist authoritarianism.  This pessimistic thought...

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Military Coup?

I never dreamed I would be worrying about this, but how reliable is our military?  There are several optimistic points.  About 30% of our military is non-white and they stand as a bulwark.  Also this...

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Custer deserved what he got, bad motto.

Custer deserved what he gotI saw this on a sign at a (anti)Dakota pipeline rally.  I told the holder that that was a bad sign.  He recited the history behind it -- and there is a strong argument Custer...

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Milo-ism at a Christian High School

If you want to see something scary, not only to us, but to sane conservatives ( a vanishing breed) check this out. Milo has taken over among the students at a Christian high school.  This  is where...

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Trump-like Presidencies and their Successors

Stephen Skowronek in the Washington Post says that disrupters usually fail both substantially and politically.  They are swept out of office and their successors make the changes.  Jimmy Carter...

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Where have all the insects gone?

Another rivet pops off the wing!Over that time the group, the Krefeld Entomological Society, has seen the yearly insect catches fluctuate, as expected. But in 2013 they spotted something alarming. When...

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Profiles in (non) Courage

Trump supporters, while  minority of the general electorate, dominate those who vote in Republican primaries.  Many Republican elected officials who would love to rid themselves of the Donald, either...

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Is a military coup possible?

I can't believe that I am asking this question.In short, the answer is very unlikely.As the country has become more racially and ethnically diverse, so has the U.S. military  . Racial and ethnic...

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Every day I open Kos and I see large numbers of stories on Trump tweets and policies. These consume uncountable electrons, and more importantly large amounts of our attention.  We should cut this out,...

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Why is this march different than other marches?

Why is this march different than other marches?  On this march the marchers have power.  They can return home and vote. Those who are under 18 can get their older brothers, sisters and get friends to...

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The tragedy of self implicit racism

In 1994, Marc Elrich, then a 6th-grade teacher in Montgomery County MD, showed his class a film based on a Langston Hughes story about a young black boy who attempts to steal the purse of an elderly...

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Counterfactual if Hillary were president.

Due to spending some of my childhood in a rural working-class area, I saw how both parties had abandoned the white working-class culturally.  To the horror of my Kossack friends, in 2016 I put a James...

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Wall Street is shunning Trump

This in From CNN.President Trump is promising four more years of low taxes, light regulation and a laser-focus on the stock market. Yet professionals on Wall Street are shunning Trump and funneling...

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Not every Trump voter is racist or misled.

Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There is an article in The Correspondent that we should pay attention to. Excerpts belowBut from a non-western perspective, one that also happens to be my...

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