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no air there was a show on (maybe it was Green or science channel) about the car that runs on compressed air and how they're trying to find a way to put the compressor system on board so you never have to refuel anywhere the car just automatically does it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4t1P9bdGw]YouTube - Air Car! Runs on compressed air![/ame] WILL CALIFORNIA SAY NO TO ETHANOL By Matthew Cimitile, Daily Climate Corn is no better -- and might be worse -- than petroleum when total greenhouse gas emissions are considered. http://www.alternet.org/environment/137578/will_california_say_no_to_ethanol/

I'm very anti food as fuel ethanol isn't particularly viable as too much goes into the production and we don't have the tech to make it as efficient as it has the potential to be. personally I like the car that runs on air

Infections expected to rise as virus spreads to ‘many more states’ guess fuckin what? Joe is right and common sense is not fear mongering. I dunno how close to home the flu has hit you yet, but it is up here; Fabius-Pompey schools closed this week cuz there was a case of it in the high school. FEMA/Homeland Security have the green light to do whatever the hell they need/want to us. I'll bet they're thrilled at the prospect of locking "sick people" up in their fabulous detention facilities. This "pandemic" is the silver bullet the military needs to activate Rex 84 and all the shitty laws and ex orders Bushy put in place give them the power and authority to lock you up with no legal representation indefinitely. Basically if you have or have been exposed to swine flu you are a threat to national security and quite possibly a homegrown radicalized bio terrorist.

Someone call Donald so he can say "You're Fired!"

REAGAN'S DOJ PROSECUTED TEXAS SHERIFF FOR WATERBOARDING PRISONERS By Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org Ignoring the 1983 case is just one of the flagrant violations committed by Bush lawyers who crafted the newly released "torture memos."

front page of Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

no food as fuel use hemp!

Save the bats

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fucking asshole needs to be FIRED

ppl are gonna share there is nothing any govt can do about it

If you have no job who pays tuition? Do you have other bills? What do you do for spending money?

Photo shoot startled financial workers and upset local officials One of the president's official planes and a supersonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Manhattan skyline in a flash just as the work day was beginning Monday. Within minutes, startled financial workers streamed out of their offices, fearing a nightmarish replay of Sept. 11. For a half-hour, the Boeing 747 and F-16 jet circled the Statue of Liberty and the lower Manhattan skyline near the World Trade Center site. Offices evacuated. Dispatchers were inundated with calls. Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low. But the flyover was nothing but a photo op, apparently one of a series of flights to get pictures of the plane in front of national landmarks. It was carried out by the Defense Department with little warning, infuriating New York officials and putting the White House on the defense. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't know about it, and he later called it "insensitive" to fly so near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. not even close to funny yo somebody needs their ass fired made it into worst persons [ame=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#30443239]Countdown with Keith OlbermannCountdown with Keith Olbermann[/ame]

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke have little more than one week to set right one of the Bush/Cheney administration's most disastrous decisions on wildlife -- and we need your help to ensure that they do the right thing and restore key protections for polar bears, wolves and other imperiled wildlife. Please send Interior Secretary Salazar and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke a message right now urging them to reverse the Bush/Cheney administration's last-minute assault on Endangered Species Act protections for polar bears, wolves and other imperiled wildlife. Take action now: http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=cLFeBZ6TAA2ydWiW-RdY8g.. Before leaving office, the Bush administration rammed through regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act that threaten efforts to save polar bears, wolves, manatees and more than 1,300 other species from extinction. If left in place, these changes will... * Prevent the Endangered Species Act from protecting our vanishing polar bears from global warming, which would effectively allow America's threatened polar bears to drown in a sea of inaction; and * Let federal agencies in charge of building highways, dams and other projects decide whether those projects might drive rare plants and animals toward extinction, without ever checking with the expert biologists in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. Defenders of Wildlife -- and caring wildlife supporters like you -- fought hard in Congress for legislation that gives Secretaries Salazar and Locke the authority to overturn these rules. Now it's up to Secretaries Salazar and Locke to use this hard-fought authority before it expires on May 9th. Only 12 days remain to reverse the Bush/Cheney assault on Endangered Species Act protections for our wildlife. Please send your message right now! Please take action... http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=4daG3KSRXog4Q_VUPAZplw.. More than 200,000 comments opposing the changes were submitted to the Interior Department in the 60 days that the Bush/Cheney administration allowed for the public to respond to its changes. And newspapers across the country have editorialized overwhelmingly against the Bush/Cheney administration's gutting of Endangered Species Act protections. Nonetheless, these regulations are now in place, and each day they remain in effect our polar bears and other vulnerable species are being placed at greater risk of extinction. The good news is that a stroke of the pen by Secretary Salazar and Secretary Locke can restore Endangered Species Act protections for the polar bear and other endangered wildlife. The bad news is that neither secretary has taken action yet. Use your voice to restore protections for our vulnerable wildlife. Encourage Secretaries Salazar and Locke to use the power that Congress gave them to protect the lives of our imperiled wildlife. http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=noHdcDXmkgmkGHmvOmuAOg.. For the Wild Ones, Rodger Schlickeisen President Defenders of Wildlife P.S. Congress gave Interior Secretary Salazar and Commerce Secretary Locke until May 9th to undo the damage the Bush/Cheney administration inflicted on polar bears and other endangered wildlife. Please send your message today.

It couldn't be worse if it were a horror movie about a covert U.S. government takeover: A high ranking Justice Department official colludes with CIA higher-ups, gives green light to brutally torture prisoners in clear violation of national and international law. The torture continues for years. Justice Department official rewarded with lifetime judicial appointment - becoming one of the most powerful judges in the country. But the scary thing is, it's not a movie. It's all true. On Tuesday, Common Cause called for the impeachment of federal Judge Jay Bybee for his role in signing a 2002 memo released last week that authorized torture. And now we need your help to make sure there's enough pressure on Congress to launch impeachment proceedings. Write a letter today to urge your Representative to launch impeachment proceedings against Judge Jay Bybee. Bybee, then an assistant attorney general, signed the memo that authorized various forms of torture, including waterboarding, slamming detainees into a wall, putting them in "stress positions," and depriving them of sleep for up to 11 days. These techniques are illegal under U.S. code. They are also a violation of international law, and the United States' obligations under the Geneva Convention. Additionally, the conduct authorized by Bybee in these memos is morally reprehensible. We need to restore our nation's integrity. And we need to start today by asking Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Judge Bybee. If impeachment were successful, Bybee would be removed from the federal bench, and we, as a nation, would begin to bring accountability to these abuses of power. Tell your Representative to launch impeachment proceedings on Judge Jay Bybee of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Thanks for all that you do. Sincerely, Arn Pearson, Vice President for Programs and the rest of the team at Common Cause

I didn't think it could get worse than learning that the United States had tortured its prisoners, even as President Bush denied it. The recent release of the "torture memos" showed just that: Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their legal team had explicitly authorized heinous acts of torture. Yesterday, it did get worse. Rumsfeld and Cheney had used torture to try to find any information that would link 9/11 and Saddam Hussein, pressuring military officials "to do whatever it took."1 They authorized such atrocities to justify their own false claims about the need to go to war in Iraq - for political cover. Unbelievable. As a country, we cannot let such abusers of power go quietly into the night. We will act. All across the country, there is a growing chorus of groups and individuals committed to the Constitution and the rule of law that are calling for an investigation into the Bush Administration's abuses of power. Join us in telling Congress to support the creation of a "truth commission" to investigate these abuses. Even at the time of these illegal acts, opposing voices within the administration knew that legal justifications for torture were wrong. And what did the administration do? They tried to destroy any evidence of dissent.2 We are a nation of compassion and morals, but we are also a nation of laws. Members of Congress take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and they are obligated to investigate these criminal acts. Congress must take action now to investigate the immoral, and illegal, acts of the Bush Administration to hold accountable the leadership who made such decisions. Write a letter to Congress and urge lawmakers to create a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the incredible abuses of power by the Bush Administration. Thanks for all that you do. Sincerely, Bob Edgar President of Common Cause

Thousands of Pages of Evidence and a Quarter Million Signatures: What Will It Take For Attorney General to Prosecute Torture Crimes? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted April 24, 2009. By the time Attorney General Eric Holder took his seat before a Congressional subcommittee on Thursday, the Bush torture program had broken wide open. In the past week alone, hundreds of pages in declassified legal memos and Congressional reports had blown the lid off the previous administration's harsh interrogation policies to reveal -- in addition to grisly new details about what the U.S. government did to prisoners in its custody -- a chronology of the program's history that implicated the most senior government officials, including Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and of course the former president. What's more, it appeared that the torture of high-value detainees in 2002 and 2003 was, at least in part, the direct consequence of Bush officials' need to extract a link -- fictitious or otherwise -- between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Damning stuff, to be sure. Yet watching Holder's testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, where his office was met with a coalition of activists delivering petitions carrying 250,000 signatures from Americans who support appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate Bush's crimes, it would be hard to guess that it came in a week that saw such a flood of evidence of human rights violations and war crimes come to light. Reiterating his contention (following the initial release of legal memos last week outlining the rationale for Bush era torture) that "those in the intelligence community who acted reasonably and in good faith are not going to be prosecuted," Holder also reassured the committee members that he "will not permit the criminalization of policy differences" -- an almost superfluous response to one of the bogus conservative talking points that has sprung up -- the notion that holding accountable lawyers who authorized flagrantly illegal techniques against U.S. held prisoners will have a "chilling effect" on advisers' opinions. But, he said, "it is my responsibility as attorney general to enforce the law. ... If I see evidence of wrongdoing I will pursue it to the full extent of the law." Very well, but with virtually no references to the avalanche of evidence that emerged this week, Holder's words, like President Obama's pep-rally style speech before the CIA last week and the hearing itself (which, in fairness, was held to discuss the 2010 budget of the DOJ), largely belied the severity of what has been revealed in the past week. To recap: Holder's appearance came one week to the day after the release of the infamous OLC memos, which describe in chilling detail the methodology of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program. The documents sparked fresh revulsion in the media and blogosphere over the Bush administration's torture program, while also prompting renewed calls for the Obama administration to investigate and hold accountable those who authorized it. Despite President Obama's immediate announcement that CIA rank and file would not face charges -- "it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution" -- online and in the pages of the New York Times, the call for accountability was deafening. From the push to impeach former OLC lawyer turned judge Jay Bybee, who currently enjoys a seat on the federal bench, to the heckling of former OLC attorney John Yoo (the veritable godfather of the OLC's pro-torture rationale) at a California college where audience members shouted "war criminal" as he took the stage, people were outraged. Then, on Tuesday night, the Senate Armed Services Committee released its 263-page "Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees In U.S. Custody," an exhaustive look at the Bush administration's torture program following September 11th. Based on over 200,000 pages of classified and unclassified documents and interviews with more than 70 people (mostly Pentagon officials), the document is more than a catalog and condemnation of the torture program. It officially upends the dishonest narrative that has been used to excuse the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody ever since the first photographs of hooded prisoners left Abu Ghraib. "The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of 'a few bad apples' acting on their own," read the report, using the very language Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld employed to dismiss the abuse in 2005. "The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority." The Senate Armed Services report revealed a number of other significant details, including a more complete chronology of the development and authorization of the torture program. Writing on the New Yorker website, investigative journalist Jane Mayer wrote that the Senate report makes clear that "the C.I.A. and the military were preparing a blueprint for brutality months before they even had captured a single high-level Al Qaeda operative." While the OLC memos have long been understood to have been designed to grant legal cover to practices already in place, this fact would seem to carry significant legal implications even if they are taken at face value. 1 2 3 Next page »

Just as the volume of calls for investigations into the U.S. torture program reached deafening levels this week, another classified report came out Tuesday that revealed new details about the military's role in torturing detainees. This latest report by the Senate Armed Services Committee exposes the "few bad apples" argument as a complete farce.[1] While the Bush Administration was publicly saying the horrors of Abu Ghraib were just aberrations, this report clearly shows that in fact, torture was sanctioned and even encouraged in military detention centers. Thanks to your countless actions over the past few weeks, the momentum for investigations is snowballing. Last Friday President Obama said this was a time for "reflection, not retribution"; less than a week later, national newspapers are reporting the President is now open to an investigation.[2] But what kind of investigation? There's a growing risk that we may get an investigation that lacks independence, legal authority, and the adequate funding necessary to tell the full truth about the illegal, U.S. torture What we need is a non-partisan independent commission, free from political influences, that has subpoena power and enough money to track down every lead.[3] Tell President Obama and Congress that any investigation must be independent, backed by the full force of law, and have enough funding to uncover the full truth behind the U.S. torture program. http://www.alternet.org/amnesty_action_042409 Even with the release of this classified report, we still only know a portion of the truth. And it's only by exposing the full truth of what was done in our names, that we can once and for all move forward and restore our nation's credibility. Let's make sure whatever investigation moves forward, it's backed by the authority and support it needs to be effective. Please send your letter now to President Obama and Congress urging for an independent investigation backed by the full force of law and adequate funding. Go to: http://www.alternet.org/amnesty_action_042409 In just one week, we've gone from seeing an investigation as a long shot, to talking about what kind of investigation we need. Your actions, phone calls, and visits before Congress are making an impact. We're getting closer to seeing our government actually do the right thing. Thanks for standing with us. Njambi Good Director, Counter Terror with Justice Campaign

BILL MAHER: THE GOP IS ACTING LIKE A GUY WHO GOT DUMPED By Bill Maher, Los Angeles Times Listen up Republicans: It's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. http://www.alternet.org/story/138354/bill_maher%3A_the_gop_is_acting_like_a_guy_who_got_dumped/ If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments. It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority. The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop. Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law. And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes. Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party? It's sad what's happened to the Republicans. They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid. The GOP base is convinced that Obama is going to raise their taxes, which he just lowered. But, you say, "Bill, that's just the fringe of the Republican Party." No, it's not. The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is not afraid to say publicly that thinking out loud about Texas seceding from the Union is appropriate considering that ... Obama wants to raise taxes 3% on 5% of the people? I'm not sure exactly what Perry's independent nation would look like, but I'm pretty sure it would be free of taxes and Planned Parenthood. And I would have to totally rethink my position on a border fence. I know. It's not about what Obama's done. It's what he's planning. But you can't be sick and tired of something someone might do. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota recently said she fears that Obama will build "reeducation" camps to indoctrinate young people. But Obama hasn't made any moves toward taking anyone's guns, and with money as tight as it is, the last thing the president wants to do is run a camp where he has to shelter and feed a bunch of fat, angry white people. Look, I get it, "real America." After an eight-year run of controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, this latest election has you feeling like a rejected husband. You've come home to find your things out on the front lawn -- or at least more things than you usually keep out on the front lawn. You're not ready to let go, but the country you love is moving on. And now you want to call it a whore and key its car. That's what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him -- obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will. But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy. The healthy thing to do is to just get past it and learn to cherish the memories. You'll always have New Orleans and Abu Ghraib. And if today's conservatives are insulted by this, because they feel they're better than the people who have the microphone in their party, then I say to them what I would say to moderate Muslims: Denounce your radicals. To paraphrase George W. Bush, either you're with them or you're embarrassed by them. The thing that you people out of power have to remember is that the people in power are not secretly plotting against you. They don't need to. They already beat you in public.

AMERICA'S SCHIZOID POT CULTURE -- 4 IN 10 HAVE SMOKED IT, AND MILLIONS ARE STILL GETTING BUSTED By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on its pot policies despite a tidal shift in social views on legalizing marijuana. http://www.alternet.org/rights/138460/america%27s_schizoid_pot_culture_--_4_in_10_have_smoked_it%2C_and_millions_are_still_getting_busted/

'60 MINUTES' BLOWS IT ON COAL SEGMENT By Tara Lohan, AlterNet They missed the boat entirely. Coal isn't the answer to our climate woes, it is the problem. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/138605/%2760_minutes%27_blows_it_on_coal_segment/ Last night the CBS news program "60 Minutes" did a segment about so-called clean coal. Unfortunately, they missed the boat ... big time. Here's there intro: The future of our climate might be summed up in one question: what do we do about coal? Coal generates nearly half the electricity in the United States and the world. But it's the dirtiest fuel of all when it comes to carbon dioxide, or CO2, the leading greenhouse gas. The entire segment focused on whether it was possible to get carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS) to trap CO2 gases from coal-burning power plants onto all of our coal plants in time to stave off our climate crisis. To begin with, the technology has serious problems and there is no way that it can be implemented in the time frame top scientists tell us we need to drastically reduce our CO2 emissions -- less than 10 years. Despite all that, the basis of their segment was also flawed from the get go. Cleaning up coal is not the answer to the climate crisis. In fact, what we should be doing is getting rid of it altogether. In the segment Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy says, "We can't abandon coal. We have to find a way to keep it and use it in the future. And that means the ability to clean it up." This is a flat out lie. Transitioning away from coal is the best thing we can do. And one of the main reasons why was never addressed by "60 Minutes." Coal can never be clean. Period. We can spend decades and decades as the Earth warms to try to figure out how to capture carbon emissions and find a way to safely dispose of them, but we can never make the process of extracting it from the ground a clean deal. Just ask anyone in Appalachia who lives near a mountaintop removal mining site where homes are being destroying, mountains blow to bits, streamed buried, people sickened, and the whole ecosystem decimated. (You can read my recent piece about the top 5 myths about coal here for more information). Too bad the folks at CBS didn't spend any time in the program talking about the energy alternatives that actually are clean. Joe Romm was interviewed in the segment and he wrote today on Climate Progress, too bad they "cut out all my quotes about the other strategies that can provide all the clean power we need if CCS doesn't prove practical and affordable [it is CCS or bust for the coal industry, but not for humanity]." You can watch the CBS segment here.

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