Jun
30
Is your blog 100% Green
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[From WorldisGreen.com]
A very interesting article on Wired on “Green Data Centers”. Apart from being energy efficient in terms of price they are also good for the environment.
Over the past several years, these boutique firms have carved out a “green” niche in the crowded web-hosting market by running data centers powered entirely by solar panels.
The panels [...]
Jun
30
Soldiers vs. Intellectual Property Rights
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[From Critical Montages]
Despite Dick Cheney’s insistence that the insurgency in Iraq is in its “last throes,” American casualties are at their all-time high:
Last month there were about 700 attacks against American forces using so-called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.’s, the highest number since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the American military command [...]
Jun
29
Climate Change website
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[From Dufferin Caledon Greens]
A Green Party member yesterday posted an excellent site on one of our mail lists. The site is http://www.realclimate.org/. He describes it as:
For anyone interested in the science behind global warming this is a must read site. It is written by climate scientists for non-scientists. It does an [...]
Jun
28
From Yahoo! News
By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top U.S. Army procurement official said on Monday Halliburton’s deals in
Iraq were the worst example of contract abuse she had seen as
Pentagon auditors flagged over $1 billion of potential overcharges by the Texas-based firm.
Bunny Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers’ top contracting official-turned whistle-blower, said in [...]
Jun
28
First Amendment gains support as fears ease
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[From USA Today]
By Mark Memmott
Shocked by the 9/11 attacks, many Americans worried afterward that the nation was too free to be safe from terrorists.
Those fears are easing, poll results due to be released today indicate. They show renewed support for the First Amendment of the Constitution and the protections it gives to speech, the media [...]
Jun
28
Bush Approval Rating By State
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[From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
SurveyUSA released approval ratings for President Bush in all 50 states, ranging from a high of 63% in Utah to a low of 32% in Vermont. Summary results:
Bush has a positive rating in 17 states.
Bush has a negative rating in 30 states.
Bush has a neutral rating in 3 states.
When [...]





