Interesting article below by Juan Cole about CLEAN ENERGY.
The rest of the world is moving forward while the US would be/should be leading....except for the Party of Dinosaurs and the likes of the Dirty Energy Koch Brothers' obstruction.
Let's remember that Massachusetts Tea Bagger Guv Charlie Baker opposed Cape Wind.
Importing Hydro Power is not a solution!
"A Uniquely American Tragedy": The Staggering Myths About Gun Control
Dennis A. Henigan, Salon
Henigan writes: "Across all those high-income nations, the United States accounts for more than 90 percent of the gun deaths of children under fifteen years of age. President George W. Bush, of all people, once noted that an American teenager is more likely to die from a gunshot than from all natural causes of death combined. God bless America. Particularly her children."
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Dennis A. Henigan, Salon
Henigan writes: "Across all those high-income nations, the United States accounts for more than 90 percent of the gun deaths of children under fifteen years of age. President George W. Bush, of all people, once noted that an American teenager is more likely to die from a gunshot than from all natural causes of death combined. God bless America. Particularly her children."
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Two Bombings in Baghdad Shopping Districts Kill at Least 130
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "The death toll from the two bombings that hit Baghdad overnight Saturday has increased to at least 130 people as 125 were killed in central Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. At least 25 children were killed in the blasts."
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Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "The death toll from the two bombings that hit Baghdad overnight Saturday has increased to at least 130 people as 125 were killed in central Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. At least 25 children were killed in the blasts."
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Kansas Rebellion: Bipartisan Revolt Against Governor Brownback
Rod Kackley, PJ Media
Kackley writes: "Jeff Blackwood has had enough of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's economic policies that included across-the-board tax cuts. Blackwood, the founder of the Kansas City healthcare technology firm Pathfinder Health Innovations, announced on the company's blog June 13 that he's moving to Missouri."
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Rod Kackley, PJ Media
Kackley writes: "Jeff Blackwood has had enough of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's economic policies that included across-the-board tax cuts. Blackwood, the founder of the Kansas City healthcare technology firm Pathfinder Health Innovations, announced on the company's blog June 13 that he's moving to Missouri."
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Few News Providers Will Now Be Liking Facebook
John Naughton, Guardian UK
Naughton writes: "Winston Churchill famously defined 'appeasement' as 'being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last'. By that definition, many of the world's biggest news publishing organizations have been in the appeasement business for at least the past two years and the crocodile to which they have been sucking up is Facebook, the social networking giant."
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John Naughton, Guardian UK
Naughton writes: "Winston Churchill famously defined 'appeasement' as 'being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last'. By that definition, many of the world's biggest news publishing organizations have been in the appeasement business for at least the past two years and the crocodile to which they have been sucking up is Facebook, the social networking giant."
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Border Patrol Rules Four Shootings Justified
Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Republic
O'Dell writes: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection released decisions in the first four use-of-force cases examined by a new review board formed to look into agent shootings and force incidents that lead to serious injury or death. In each of the four cases, the new review board said the agents' use of potentially deadly force was in compliance with CBP's use-of-force policy."
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Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Republic
O'Dell writes: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection released decisions in the first four use-of-force cases examined by a new review board formed to look into agent shootings and force incidents that lead to serious injury or death. In each of the four cases, the new review board said the agents' use of potentially deadly force was in compliance with CBP's use-of-force policy."
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Pregnant Women's Medical Care Too Often Affected by Race
Rebecca Grant, Newsweek
Grant writes: "Perhaps most distressing, racial and socio-economic factors also have a disproportionate effect on the quality of care mothers receive during childbirth. A report titled 'Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health' from the Harvard School of Public Health found that bias, prejudice and stereotyping by health care providers contribute to delivering lower-quality care-affecting how mothers are treated during childbirth and the outcomes."
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Rebecca Grant, Newsweek
Grant writes: "Perhaps most distressing, racial and socio-economic factors also have a disproportionate effect on the quality of care mothers receive during childbirth. A report titled 'Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health' from the Harvard School of Public Health found that bias, prejudice and stereotyping by health care providers contribute to delivering lower-quality care-affecting how mothers are treated during childbirth and the outcomes."
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Juan Cole | Top 5 Green Energy Good News Stories Today
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "China now plans to get between 1/4 and 1/3 of it electricity from wind turbines by 2030. Although 2030 sounds far away, it is as near to us as 2002 - the year that Nelly complained 'It's getting hot in her' [that's not a typo] and Pink wanted to 'Get this Party Started,' and Condi Rice warned on Iraq that we didn't want the smoking gun on its alleged WMD to be a mushroom cloud."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "China now plans to get between 1/4 and 1/3 of it electricity from wind turbines by 2030. Although 2030 sounds far away, it is as near to us as 2002 - the year that Nelly complained 'It's getting hot in her' [that's not a typo] and Pink wanted to 'Get this Party Started,' and Condi Rice warned on Iraq that we didn't want the smoking gun on its alleged WMD to be a mushroom cloud."
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Turbines of the new Burbo Bank offshore wind farm appear in Liverpool, England.
(photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
olar power is poised to grow 6-fold by 2030 and could constitute between 9% and 13% of world electricity production by then. Price per kilowatt hour for solar is plummeting, so that it is on the verge of being the cheapest form of energy, outstripping coal in that regard.
In fact, the United Arab Emirates has just accepted a bid from Masdar to build a solar electricity generating farm for 2.99¢/kWh. Coal is typically 5 cents a kilowatt hour, and this is less. Coal, game over.
China now plans to get between 1/4 and 1/3 of it electricity from wind turbines by 2030. Although 2030 sounds far away, it is as near to us as 2002– the year that Nelly complained ‘It’s getting hot in her’ [that’s not a typo) and Pink wanted to ‘Get this Party Started,’ and Condi Rice warned on Iraq that we didn’t want the smoking gun on its alleged WMD to be a mushroom cloud. China currently gets 70% of its electricity from coal, which is very, very bad for the earth and for our children and grandchildren. But this goal shows the PolitBuro is extremely serious about abandoning coal. Last year China reached 145 gigawatts of wind energy capacity. Coal is dead man walking.
The world’s largest wind turbine is being built for an offshore facility in Europe. This single tower can provide electricity to 10,000 homes.
Solar is now the fastest-growing new energy business in India. India now has 7.5 gigawatts of solar power and put in 2.2 gigawatts so far just this year. The World Bank is lending India $1 bn. for solar projects.
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