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Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Britain's military has told residents of an upscale apartment development near the Olympic Park in east London it is installing a missile battery on top of a tower within their housing complex to defend the 2012 Games this summer.
The site is one of a number around the capital the army is considering as bases for surface-to-air missiles to protect the London games from an aerial attack, the Ministry of Defence said.
It is the first time such missiles have been deployed in London since the end of World War Two, shocking some residents at the Bow Quarter housing development, sited in a converted red-brick Victorian match factory.
There was no consultation, no one knocked on the door, Brian Whelan, a 28-year-old journalist, told Reuters. You just wake up one morning, there's a leaflet telling you they are going to put missiles on the roof.
The measure was excessive and had upset his girlfriend, he said. I can't imagine the circumstances that would require you to fire missiles over a highly populated area.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond first announced the plans in November, saying Britain would follow the precedent set by previous Olympics such as the Beijing games in 2008 where surface to air missiles were stationed a kilometer south of its showpiece stadiums.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/29/us-olympics-britain-missiles-idUSBRE83S00120120429
Navajo Chapter Plans Largest Utility-Scale Solar Farm on Tribal Land
The To’Hajiilee Navajo Chapter plans to establish a solar array farm on its trust lands, a flat stretch of prairie in central New Mexico where land preparation for the project is minimal, reported the Associated Press.
A 115-kilovolt power line already runs through the trust land site, leading to Albuquerque just 21 miles away, according to a presentation by Rob Burpo, president of First American Financial Advisors, Inc., based in Albuquerque, one of the consulting groups working with the To’Hajiilee. With no upgrades to the line required, energy transmission would be cost efficient.
Once a power purchase agreement is solidified, construction of the solar photovoltaic arrays could take as little as nine months. “I think if we’re able to find a power buyer fairly quickly, we certainly ought to be breaking ground this fall. That’s our goal,” Burpo told the AP.
The project planned for the sun-drenched dusty land has been dubbed Shandiin Solar, the Navajo name for sunlight. The solar photovoltaic plant will share the $6.5 million recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tribal Energy Program to 19 projects to propel renewable energy development on tribal lands.
If realized, Shandiin Solar will be the largest utility-scale solar photovoltaic array in the U.S. on tribal land, Doug MacCourt, a partner at the Portland, Oregon-based Ater Wynne LLP who helps tribal communities such as To’Hajiilee generate and transmit energy, told the AP.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/04/27/navajo-chapter-plans-largest-utility-scale-solar-farm-on-tribal-land-110447#ixzz1tNBJ1MLwictmn.com
Sacred ground? Citing significant views, tribe pushes back against solar plant
By JESSICA TESTA Cronkite News Service | Posted: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:03 pm
http://m.gvnews.com/mobile/state/sacred-ground-citing-significant-views-tribe-pushes-back-against-solar/article_1a119ef2-93d1-11e1-962c-0019bb2963f4.html
Your assertion that Monsanto is not producing neonicotinoid insecticides is ...
really disingenuous to say the least....
Glyphosate https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Glyphosate is the major ingredient in Roundup which is being looked at to cause bee colony collapse also.
To know more about bees and there condition today look at this website. http://pierreterre.com/
Some of you are old enough to remember seeing this false advertising from our friends from Monsanto...
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and here is More than you want to know about Monsanto in this video..
Monsanto Blamed For Bee Population Collapse, So It Buys Bee Research Firm
If you can't beat'em, why not buy'em? Biotechnology giant Monsanto has had the collective finger pointed at it for a lot of things, including the apparent collapse of the bee population. So instead of fighting off skeptics, it just decided to buy out Beeologics, a major international research firm devoted to studying and protecting bees.
Natural News says Beeologics made the announcement that as of September 28, 2011, the company is part of Monsanto. Beeologics was devoted to studying colony collapse disorder (CCD) and Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) to try and find out how to intervene and stop bees from dying off.
Critics of Monsanto are worried that it will avoid CCD and IAPV, since they're big on genetically modified organisms, and will deny any link between the bee deaths and the GMO technologies and chemicals it employs.
"Monsanto will use the base technology from Beeologics as a part of its continuing discovery and development pipeline," says the announcement. "Biological products will continue to play an increasingly important role in supporting the sustainability of many agricultural systems."
Which could mean using more chemicals to fight the bee collapse, when chemicals may have had a part in the deaths in the first place. Poor bees. We like our honey.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035688_Monsanto_honey_bees_colony_collapse.html
http://consumerist.com/2012/04/monsanto-blamed-for-bee-population-collapse-so-it-buys-bee-research-firm.html
Poll: Is Capitalism compromising human health, prosperity, and essentially happiness to justify everything they do because "Its only business" ?
The inequality that ate American democracy
New York, NY - In July of 1936, Langston Hughes, the great black American poet first published in Esquire some lines that have never been forgotten.
Among them was this: "Let America Be America Again", a salute to the American dream that had, until then, left poorer Americans and minorities behind.
So memorable was his phrasing that, in 2004, John Kerry adopted it as a campaign slogan in his failed bid for the presidency, Not to be outdone, none other than Rick Santorum used a variant on his website - "Fighting to make America America again".
Sadly, the reality of the disappearing dream Hughes was challenging at the height of the depression is still relevant in this age of the Great Recession. According to two French economists, Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Pikettyn, who study inequality worldwide, America is back at Depression levels.
Reports the New York Times, "their work shows that the top earners in the United States have taken a bigger and bigger share of overall income over the last three decades with inequality nearly as acute as it was before the Great Depression."
Financial journalist Max Keiser, a former stockbroker, who now does hard-hitting financial shows on TV says deep inequality has been building for many years but has not been acted on:
...the inequalities in the US have been building up for decades, just recently they've reached really outrageous proportions - but you have to understand also that there's the inequality between the 1 per cent and the 99 per cent, but within the 1 per cent there's an inequality between the top 1 per cent of the 1 per cent and the bottom 99 per cent of the top 1 per cent and they're also at each other's throats trying to change laws and pass legislation to make it easier for them to make more money. So it's not really the 1 per cent, it's not there are a millions of people in the 1 per cent - you only need an income of something like $500,000 or $600,000 or $800,000 dollars a year to be in the 1 per cent.
Former Wall Street executive, and, briefly, President Obama's "Car Czar", Steven Rattner, goes even further, writing "New statistics show an ever more startling divergence between the fortunes of the wealthy and everybody else, and the desperate need to address this problem."
"Desperate" is not a term that pops up in most writing about the economy.
"Still more astonishing," he adds, "was the extent to which the super rich got rich faster than the merely rich... The bottom 99 per cent received a microscopic $80 increase in pay per person in 2010 after adjusting for inflation. The top 1 per cent whose average income is $1,018,089 has an 11.6 per cent increase in income."
It is a deplorable situation, agrees Shamus Rahman Khan of Columbia University who says, "We're at levels of inequality that we haven't seen since the end of the gilded age. We're about as unequal as we have ever been."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/201242118210650523.html
Powwow draws tens of thousands to NM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The start of this year's powwow season got under way Friday as hundreds of Native American and indigenous dancers crowded onto the floor of University of New Mexico Arena, each one pounding their feet in rhythm to dozens of beating drums.
Donning traditional costumes of beads, bells, feathers, fringed leather and shells, they came from Canada, both coasts of the United States and everywhere in between.
"It's a wonderful spectacle to see," said Jason Whitehouse, a master of ceremonies for the 29th Annual Gathering of Nations.
Aside from the thousands of dancers and singers who participate in competitions, as many as 150,000 spectators were expected to pass through the doors during the three-day event. It wraps up late Saturday with award ceremonies and the crowning of Miss Indian World.
Organizers bill the Gathering of Nations as one of the world's largest powwows.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/27/4448903/powwow-draws-tens-of-thousands.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gathering-of-nations-native-american-dancers-compete-share-traditions-during-3-day-powwow/2012/04/27/gIQAbjJOmT_story.html
This guy thinks Trump has a heart...
27 April 2012 Last updated at 21:30 ET
Lord McConnell asks Donald Trump for charity sponsorship
Former First Minister, Jack McConnell, has asked US property tycoon, Donald Trump, for a charitable donation.
The request has been made just days after Mr Trump told Holyrood he "felt betrayed" by Lord McConnell over a possible wind farm development near his Aberdeenshire golf resort.
Lord McConnell has suggested they put aside their differences and work together to "Trump poverty".
He has asked the American businessman to sponsor him in a charity challenge.
On Wednesday Mr Trump appeared before the Scottish Parliament's economy, energy and tourism committee, which is conducting an inquiry into whether the Scottish government can meet its green energy targets.
He claimed Lord McConnell "lured" him to invest in Scotland with private assurances there would be no wind power developments near his £1bn golf resort at Menie.
The former first minister has denied this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-17876884#?
Poll: Does combover really have a heart ?
From their own 40 to behind their own goalpost.....
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.
It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.
We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html
Science denial in the 21st century
MADISON, Wis. — The arc of science has faced roadblocks for centuries, but the pattern of denying the weight of evidence has taken on new virulence recently. Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well-established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.
Researchers and science writers tasked with reporting on these issues gathered April 23–24 at the University of Wisconsin at a meeting titled, “Science Writing in the Age of Denial.” Some noted that seemingly spontaneous denial of science in the populace is quite often a carefully choreographed attack.
Sean B. Carroll, an evolutionary biologist at UW–Madison, has traced similarities between an anti-polio vaccine movement by chiropractors in the 1950s and later attempts by others to deny evolution.
“There was a common playbook,” Carroll said. The deniers started by doubting the science, despite the evidence. They questioned the motives of researchers and cited gadfly “authorities” to give the impression of a disagreement among scientists. The doubters exaggerated potential harm, Carroll said, and appealed to personal freedom — such as the right to not get vaccinated.
Finally, he said, science denial embraced a viewpoint that “to accept the science would repudiate some key philosophy” of an individual or group. In the case of the polio vaccine, this would require the acceptance of the fact that a virus causes the disease, which chiropractic rejected. Same with evolution, Carroll said, which was framed as undermining biblical teachings.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/340239/title/Science_denial_in_the_21st_century
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