Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as
rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But
such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it
wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to
distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American
governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock
and man began to contemplate redress.
Despotic government supports itself by abject civilization, in which debasement of the human mind, and wretchedness in the mass of the people, are the chief criterions. Such governments consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and they politically depend more upon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear enraging it by desperation.......Thomas Paine, (29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809) was an English-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason.
The REAL Climate Changer: http://youtu.be/_yy3YJBOw_o
Ice Age Soon? http://youtu.be/UuYTcnN7TQk
An Unlikely but Relevant Risk - The Solar Killshot: http://youtu.be/X0KJ_dxp170
We joined with Oil Change International and 150 climate warriors in freezing weather to send Exxon a simple message:
We and 35,000 other people want our climate change PSA to air without Big Oil interference.
Click here to tweet this page.
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Nanoparticles exist in an undiscovered country somewhere between the
molecular and the macroscopic. At the nano scale, long-established rules
and groupings don’t necessarily hold up.
“We have made impressive gains, approving dozens of utility-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects in the West and transitioning from planning to commercial leasing for offshore wind,” Salazar told about 300 industry leaders in a keynote address at the Offshore Wind Power USA Conference. “The potentially devastating impact of budget reductions under sequestration could slow our economy and hurt energy sector workers and businesses.”
Salazar said he elevated renewable energy development to a departmental priority and Interior worked with industry, state, tribal and local partners to approve 34 projects on public lands in western states and to build an offshore regulatory framework in the Atlantic. The 18 utility-scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green-lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes. The developers estimate that these projects would support 13,000 construction and operations jobs.
Mandatory budget cuts under sequestration, however, could delay Interior’s ability to issue permits for new development, plan for new projects, conduct environmental reviews and lease new federal lands for future development – both for renewable and conventional energy. Delays in offshore oil and gas permitting in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, could affect more than 500 exploration plans and development documents that are anticipated for review this year.
Onshore, nearly 300 oil and gas leases issued for public land in western states could be threatened under sequestration, delaying prospective production and deferring payments to the states and the U.S. Treasury. Delays in coal leasing could defer $50-60 millions of dollars in revenue sharing among states and the Treasury. Sequestration could have serious consequences for the emerging domestic renewable energy industry. The cuts would mean fewer studies, fewer opportunities to obtain meaningful stakeholder input, and delays in identification of potential use conflicts. The result could be a slower pace in identifying and leasing wind energy areas in federal waters, adversely impacting Interior’s ability to address offshore renewable energy management in a timely manner.
Under a ‘Smart-from-the-Start’ strategy, Interior has identified six Wind Energy Areas along the Atlantic coast that contain the greatest wind potential and fewest conflicts with competing uses. Interior has already issued two non-competitive commercial wind leases, one off Massachusetts and another off Delaware, and is moving forward with the first-ever competitive lease sales for Wind Energy Areas off Virginia and Rhode Island/Massachusetts, which will offer nearly 278,000 acres for development. The areas proposed could support more than 4,000 megawatts of wind generation – enough electricity to power 1.4 million homes. Salazar also signed a lease and approved a Construction and Operations Plan for the 130-turbine Cape Wind project, the first commercial wind development slated for federal offshore waters.
Calling 2013 a pivotal year for the industry, Salazar said Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will propose additional commercial lease sales this year for Wind Energy Areas offshore New Jersey, Maryland and Massachusetts and is working to determine industry interest in three areas off North Carolina. BOEM also is processing a lease request from a company with Department of Energy funding to develop cutting-edge floating wind turbines in federal waters off Maine. Other demonstration projects are proposed off Virginia and Oregon.
In addition, BOEM is considering a mid-Atlantic wind energy transmission line that would 7,000 megawatts of wind turbine capacity to the grid. This Atlantic Wind Connection would run from southern Virginia to northern New Jersey, collecting power produced by wind facilities off New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and bringing it ashore.
Despotic government supports itself by abject civilization, in which debasement of the human mind, and wretchedness in the mass of the people, are the chief criterions. Such governments consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and they politically depend more upon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear enraging it by desperation.......Thomas Paine, (29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809) was an English-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason.
The REAL Climate Changer: http://youtu.be/_yy3YJBOw_o
Ice Age Soon? http://youtu.be/UuYTcnN7TQk
An Unlikely but Relevant Risk - The Solar Killshot: http://youtu.be/X0KJ_dxp170
We joined with Oil Change International and 150 climate warriors in freezing weather to send Exxon a simple message:
We and 35,000 other people want our climate change PSA to air without Big Oil interference.
Click here to tweet this page.
Click here to share this page on Facebook.
Published on Feb 26, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org
- With $85 billion across-the-board spending cuts, known as "the
sequestration," set to take effect this Friday, a new investigation
reveals how billionaire investors, such as Peter Peterson, have helped
reshaped the national debate on the economy, the debt and social
spending. Between 2007 and 2011, Peterson personally contributed nearly
$500 million to his Peter G. Peterson Foundation to push Congress to cut
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — while providing tax breaks for
corporations and the wealthy. Peterson's main platform has been the
Campaign to Fix the Debt. While the campaign is portrayed as a
citizen-led effort, critics say the campaign is a front for business
groups. The campaign has direct ties to GE, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan
Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Peterson is the former chair and CEO of
Lehman Brothers and co-founder of the private equity firm, the
Blackstone Group. For more, we speak to John Nichols of The Nation and
Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy.
Published on Feb 26, 2013
If confirmed as the next US
Secretary of Defense, Hagel will have to cope with a company,
long-accused of using its cozy government ties to dodge the hands of
justice. Last week, private contractor firm AcAdemi, formerly known as
Blackwater, escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist over a new
arms smuggling scandal. Michael O'Brien, author of a book called
'America's Failure in Iraq', thinks it's essentially immune to
prosecution.Handcuffing and Interrogating a 7-Year-Old? The Police State Crashes Into America's Schools
February 26, 2013 |
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Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not
spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas
that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled
away to local police precincts.
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By Nicole Flatow, Think Progress
The DEA and NIDA act as a "tag team" to censor science on pot. READ MORE»
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Posted: 25 Feb 2013 11:36 PM PST
26 February 2013
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Nanoparticles exist in an undiscovered country somewhere between the
molecular and the macroscopic. At the nano scale, long-established rules
and groupings don’t necessarily hold up.
These peculiarities are the
reason that nanoparticles have seeped into so many commercial products.
Researchers can take advantage of these different rules, adding
nanoparticles to manufactured goods to give them desired qualities.
With these engineered
nanoparticles, we can deliver drugs to specific cells, “cloak” objects
to make them less visible, make solar cells more efficient, and
manufacture flexible electronics like e-paper.
In the household realm,
nanosilica makes house paints and clothing stain resistant; nanozinc and
nano–titanium dioxide make sunscreen, acne lotions, and cleansers
transparent and more readily absorbed; and nanosilicon makes computer
components and cell phones ever smaller and more powerful. Various
proprietary nanoparticles have been mixed into volumizing shampoos,
whitening toothpastes, scratch-resistant car paint, fabric softeners,
and bricks that resist moss and fungus.
A recent report from an American
Chemical Society journal claims that nano–titanium dioxide (a thickener
and whitener in larger amounts) is now found in eighty-nine popular food
products.
Posted: 26 Feb 2013 12:47 AM PST
Harapan
Rainforest Project’s website states that, “The partnership between
management of Harapan Rainforest and Bathin Sembilan Tribe who lives in
the forest is going well from beginning.” But a recent letter from some
of the Bathin Sembilan communities suggests that things may not be going
as well as Harapan would like us to believe. On [...] [...]Security News
RSA 2013 Claims first truly integrated security package
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RSA 2013 DHS gets ready to open up to private sector
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Google hardly ever spaffs out spam anymore - researchers
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Redmond experiences 'similar intrusion' to Facebook and Apple
February 26, 2013
Contact: Jessica Kershaw (DOI) 202-208-6416
Contact: Jessica Kershaw (DOI) 202-208-6416
Secretary Salazar: Renewable Energy on Public Lands and Waters Making Rapid Advances
Looming sequester threatens to slow progress on permitting
BOSTON
– The Obama Administration’s renewable energy program has authorized
dozens of renewable energy projects on public lands and will hold the
first-ever auctions for commercial wind development in the Atlantic this
year, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told offshore wind
stakeholders at a conference in Boston today. Salazar noted that the
rapid progress – as well as conventional oil and gas development on
federal lands and waters – could be stymied by potential cuts under
sequestration. Looming sequester threatens to slow progress on permitting
“We have made impressive gains, approving dozens of utility-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects in the West and transitioning from planning to commercial leasing for offshore wind,” Salazar told about 300 industry leaders in a keynote address at the Offshore Wind Power USA Conference. “The potentially devastating impact of budget reductions under sequestration could slow our economy and hurt energy sector workers and businesses.”
Salazar said he elevated renewable energy development to a departmental priority and Interior worked with industry, state, tribal and local partners to approve 34 projects on public lands in western states and to build an offshore regulatory framework in the Atlantic. The 18 utility-scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green-lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes. The developers estimate that these projects would support 13,000 construction and operations jobs.
Mandatory budget cuts under sequestration, however, could delay Interior’s ability to issue permits for new development, plan for new projects, conduct environmental reviews and lease new federal lands for future development – both for renewable and conventional energy. Delays in offshore oil and gas permitting in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, could affect more than 500 exploration plans and development documents that are anticipated for review this year.
Onshore, nearly 300 oil and gas leases issued for public land in western states could be threatened under sequestration, delaying prospective production and deferring payments to the states and the U.S. Treasury. Delays in coal leasing could defer $50-60 millions of dollars in revenue sharing among states and the Treasury. Sequestration could have serious consequences for the emerging domestic renewable energy industry. The cuts would mean fewer studies, fewer opportunities to obtain meaningful stakeholder input, and delays in identification of potential use conflicts. The result could be a slower pace in identifying and leasing wind energy areas in federal waters, adversely impacting Interior’s ability to address offshore renewable energy management in a timely manner.
Under a ‘Smart-from-the-Start’ strategy, Interior has identified six Wind Energy Areas along the Atlantic coast that contain the greatest wind potential and fewest conflicts with competing uses. Interior has already issued two non-competitive commercial wind leases, one off Massachusetts and another off Delaware, and is moving forward with the first-ever competitive lease sales for Wind Energy Areas off Virginia and Rhode Island/Massachusetts, which will offer nearly 278,000 acres for development. The areas proposed could support more than 4,000 megawatts of wind generation – enough electricity to power 1.4 million homes. Salazar also signed a lease and approved a Construction and Operations Plan for the 130-turbine Cape Wind project, the first commercial wind development slated for federal offshore waters.
Calling 2013 a pivotal year for the industry, Salazar said Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will propose additional commercial lease sales this year for Wind Energy Areas offshore New Jersey, Maryland and Massachusetts and is working to determine industry interest in three areas off North Carolina. BOEM also is processing a lease request from a company with Department of Energy funding to develop cutting-edge floating wind turbines in federal waters off Maine. Other demonstration projects are proposed off Virginia and Oregon.
In addition, BOEM is considering a mid-Atlantic wind energy transmission line that would 7,000 megawatts of wind turbine capacity to the grid. This Atlantic Wind Connection would run from southern Virginia to northern New Jersey, collecting power produced by wind facilities off New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and bringing it ashore.
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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