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[Comment is free:George Monbiot] George Monbiot: The real answer to climate change is to leave ...: In comparison, the threat of terrorism is a minor side show, and we would not leave the market to this task. The £60 billion being spent on replacing Trident submarines would have solved CO2 emission problems in the UK.

[Green Eco Services] Glossary of Eco Words | Green Eco Services: Biomass can be converted to other usable forms of energy and is an attractive petroleum alternative for a number of reasons. First, it is a renewable resource that is more evenly distributed over the Earth’s surface than are finite energy sources, and may be exploited using more environmentally friendly technologies.

[Change.org's Animal Rights Blog] Researchers: Even "Organically Raised" Cows Are a "Climate Bomb ...: For fear of causing terror to living beings let the bodhisattva, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh…It is not true that meat is proper food and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specifically meant for him…Again, there may be some people in the future who…being under the influence of the taste for meat will string together in various ways many sophisticated arguments to defend meat-eating…But…meat-eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited…Meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit…”

[Mises Economics Blog] Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Atlas Shrugged movie? - Dick Clark ...: The leadership of the 'peoples state of England' are at a loss for legitimate ideas, one of the latest got my attention because it provoked an instant recollection to the plot of Atlas Shrugged, that book is becomming more prophetic as time goes by, I refer to the intention to penalise supermarkets such as Tesco for the sin of so called 'food inflation' a term coined by the press which is the increased cost of food due to a number of factors beyond the control of supermarkets such as increased transportation costs (high oil costs), the transfer of crops from food stuffs to motor vehicle use (bio fuels) which is an incredably inefficient use of agricultural land (inspired by the green polititians), and some positive reasons are a factor as there is increased living standards in parts of the world that formerly could'nt afford to import large quantity's of food not to mention A.Darling running the money press too fast for a stagnating economy to absorb without a readily noticable debasement of the coin of the realm, (or is it 'the wads of increasingly worthless paper money were growing heavy in the pockets of the citizens'), the polititians as in AS believe they can demonise the business man in order to win puplic support, but as any reader of AS will understand the supermarkets are just passing on the additional transaction costs to the end consumer, if they were sincerely concerned about the high cost of food they would ease up on the tax burden, oh but then they could'nt buy those votes could they?

[Essential Oils... more than basic Aromatherapy] Soy, Corn, Wheat, Cotton, Sugar Beets, Candy, Breakfast Cereal ...: Michael Taylor before working for the FDA he was an attorney for Monsanto for seven years “I was a partner in a law firm, King and Spalding [who also had clients from the 'Food, Bar and Technology Council" and he drafted a proposal for how they would like to see GM foods regulated], for which Monsanto was a client and in his words, “worked on some Monsanto matters.” The FDA created a ‘new position’, in July 1991,  for Taylor so he could author the GMO policies and provided the leadership for the project. 

[News] Monbiot: an apology - Telegraph Blogs: In re AGW as a business model for parasitical lefties, Clinton and Sandor have developed the Alinsky Method of community organizations per guidelines described in Clinton’s master’s thesis at Wellesley College .One, the “Alinsky-type protest” is “an explosive mixture of rigid discipline, brilliant showmanship, and a street fighters instinct for ruthlessly exploiting his enemies’ weakness.” The second, modeled after trade union organization methods, involves the hard work of recognizing interests, seeking out indigenous leaders, and building an organization whose power is viewed as legitimate by the larger community.” So the elements then are staged theatrical protests, prying on your enemies weaknesses, and identifying indigenous leaders so as to appear legitimate to the community that you are trying to organize.

[Charlie's Diary] Charlie's Diary: The future, today (maybe): various folding SMGs of about that size have been around since the late 1940s, and the type that folds into a cryptic box like one that date back to Eugene Stoner's Ares in the early 1980s (typically disguised as one of those old bulky radiophones, and intended for executives worried about being kidnapped). There are also the criminally produced multi-shot derringers disguised as cellphones (that's why you have to turn the devices on for airport security), shotguns disguised as flashlights, and all manner of readily built, lethal crypto-weapons.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Libertarians Need to Rethink Support for Drug ...: So your rebuttal leads to the conclusion that pot is okay, should be legal, will not harm kids/youth/young adults, will not cause any needless injuries, will actually increase productivity and earnings (like yours), will lead to less crime, that THC is not addictive or bad for the human body, will cure cancer,that companies right now have pot smokers working for them and their drug tests are ineffective, that legalizing pot would not make public travel less safe, etc, etc. Have I pretty much summed up your post?

[Uncommon Descent] A simple start? | Uncommon Descent: “”¦the bottom line is that the so-called “function” that so excites the ID proponents may be little more than manifestations of quality control in gene expression, and that the supposed functional swaths of non-coding junk DNA may be nothing more than parts of the genome that encode, and lead to the production of, “junk” RNA (if I may so bold as to coin a phrase). In a nutshell, junk piled on top of junk”¦Which means that all of this excitement about RNAs encoded by junk DNA is not warranted - unless one tends to get excited at the prospects of junk, junk squared, and garbage disposals.

[europe] The Oil Drum: Europe | Cassandra's curse: how "The Limits to ...: We can modify our model, rewrite it from scratch using different state variables, perform a formal sensitivity analysis on it, and do many other things to it that help us gain confidence in what we see. Not only do we have a problem -- the problem is in fact imminent, and unless we do something about it (if that is even possible), our own children or grandchildren (depending on our age) will experience the effects of the LTG first hand.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | The Ultimate Fight?: The Singularity v. Resource ...: If just one of them can meets its energy needs entirely without fossil fuels, feed itself in a similarly sustainable fashion, defend itself from the predation of unsustainable competitors, and maintain a culture of inquiry and technological invention, the "unending dark age" thesis stands refuted. And it seems obvious to me, given the number of independent power centers in the world, the vigor with which energy alternatives are being sought, and the fact that those alternatives can be brought to industrial scale, that far more than just one post-oil polity is going to make it.

[AlterNet.org: Health and Wellness] A Nuclear Energy Renaissance Wouldn't Solve Our Problems, But It ...: A 2004 analysis in Science by Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, estimates that achieving just one-seventh of the carbon reductions necessary to stabilize atmospheric CO2 at 500 parts per billion would require "building about 700 new 1,000- megawatt nuclear plants around the world." That represents a huge wave of investment that few seem willing to undertake, and it would require decades to accomplish.

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