IN TODAY’S AUDIO REPORT: Aspens dying in the West; Republicans dying on the energy vine; Solar power not dying in DC and California … PLUS: Rush Limbaugh calls for the death of a NY Times columnist … All that and more in today’s Green News Report!
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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’: Old Energy Interests Try Hand at ‘New Media’ to Defeat Climate Bill; Shell wins federal approval to drill for oil off Alaska coast; Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None; Obama Plants Monsanto And CropLife Officials In Key Agriculture Posts; Why the Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Be a Bust; Hunters and Anglers Rally for Climate Bill … PLUS: Super Freaking Wrong: “Superfreakonomics” gets its badly wrong on climate science ….
Info/links on those stories and all the ones we talked about on today’s episode follow below…
- HOW’S YOUR ASPEN? ASPENS DYING IN THE WEST:
- Global warming blamed for aspen die-off across the West: The trees, which were already under duress, are being killed by insects that thrive as the climate changes. Scientists call it Sudden Aspen Decline. (LA Times)
- Experts pin hopes on cutting, burning to save West’s dying aspen (E&E News)
- Aspen Trees Die Across the West (Wall St. Journal)
- GOP’s ENERGY PLAN — MORE OF THE SAME:
- WE HAVE A WINNER! SOLAR DECATHLON 2009:
- U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2009 Home Page (US DOE)
- German Students Win 2nd Straight Solar Decathlon (Reuters)
- Solar Decathlon 2009 stretches imagination to a solar powered future (The Daily Tell)
- German team shines in Solar Decathlon (USA Today)
- Team California shine in Solar Decathlon (CNN)
- DOE Used Solar Contest as ‘Smart Grid’ Proving Ground (Greenwire)
- HEY RUSH, WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO BUY A FOOTBALL TEAM?:
- Limbaugh advanced IBD editorial’s false claim about NY Times’ Revkin, suggested he should “go kill” himself; IBD cropped Revkin’s comments to falsely suggest he “proposed” carbon credits for having fewer children (Media Matters):
- Andrew Revkin responds: Thought Experiments on Birth and Death (Dot Earth)
- JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION THIS SATURDAY:
- How will you stand up for climate on Oct 24? (Grist)
- FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU: 350.org International Day of Climate Action (350.org)
- WATCH IT: Where will you be on October 24th?; (Greenpeace):
‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’: More green news not covered in today’s audio report…
- Old Energy Interests Try Hand at ‘New Media’ to Defeat Climate Bill (Mother Jones)
- Shell wins federal approval to drill for oil off Alaska coast (Washington Post)
- A New Recycling Strategy Catches On: Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None (NY Times)
- Obama Plants Monsanto And CropLife Officials In Key Agriculture Posts (Wonk Room)
- Why the Copenhagen Climate Talks Will Be a Bust (Wall St. Journal)
- Hunters and Anglers Rally for Climate Bill (Green Inc.)
- Super Freaking Wrong: How “SuperFreakonomics” Gets it Wrong on Climate Science:
You seen this,..
A Censored Headline and why it Matters: German High Court Outlaws Electronic Voting
By Michael Collins
Last updated:
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000
(The Intelligence Daily) — The justices above are clearly the most rational group of high level functionaries in the industrialized world. They did what no other court would do in Europe or the United States. They effectively outlawed electronic voting. On March 3, 2009, the German Federal Constitutional Court declared that the electronic voting machines used in the 2005 Bundestag elections for the German national parliament were outside of the bounds of the German Constitution.
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http://www.inteldaily.com/news/...009-10-21.html
Germans figure this crap out. God damn I am jealous. So when the fuck are we going to figure out the “chain of custody is broken” with the use
of “electronic vote tabulation devices?”