Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Oh Bummer: AIPAC’s Next Holocaust

Left unaddressed by the Obama team is the harsh reality of globalised commodity markets which will see basic food prices sustain price rises that result in starvation for hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest often landless populations. It takes 232 kilos of maize to fill a standard gas tank with fuel. In this case [...]

May 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: agribusiness (Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, DuPont), alternative energy, colonialism, energy, food and agriculture, imperialism | Leave a comment |

Microbes: Fuel of the Future? : Discovery News

Microbes: Fuel of the Future?
Richard Ingham, AFP
Biofuel Bonanza? | Video: Discovery Tech
Nov. 4, 2008 — A reddish microbe found on the inside of a tree at a secret location in the rain forests of northern Patagonia could unlock the biofuel of the future, say scientists.
Its potential is so startling that the discoverers have coined the [...]

May 5th, 2009 | Category: alternative energy, energy | Leave a comment |

Future Of Solar-powered Houses Is Clear: New Windows Could Halve Carbon Emissions

Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing transparent solar cells that act as both windows and energy generators in houses or commercial buildings.
He said the solar cell glass would make a significant difference to home and building owners’ energy costs and could, in fact, generate excess energy [...]

May 2nd, 2009 | Category: alternative energy, energy, science, solar energy, technology | Leave a comment |

SET Energy » Blog Archive » First Solar profit jumps as costs fall

First Solar profit jumps as costs fall
solarEarlier this week, I shared the news of profits and growth in the wind industry. And yesterday, a key solar company reported outstanding profits as well. First Solar reduced its manufacturing cost per watt more than 5% to 93 cents per watt last quarter.
Grid Parity by 2011?
Such cost reduction [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: alternative energy, economics, energy, solar energy, technology | Leave a comment |

Spain plugs in largest solar-tower power plant | Green Tech - CNET News

Abengoa Solar of Spain on Monday reported successful tests of its second solar tower in operation, in which the sun’s heat is used to make electricity.
The 531-foot solar tower, located near Seville, Spain, features a number of improvements on the first design and has exceeded the anticipated output. Called PS20, the installation is the largest [...]

April 30th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: alternative energy, technology | Leave a comment |