- Is this back again? What energy source are we going to tie our wagon to>“This happened just after Japan problem, even Obama knows our new nuclear plants will be delayed. The plan was more nuclear less coal.
“Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to auction off vast coal reserves in Wyoming over the next five months, unleashing a significant but controversial power source amid uncertainty about clean and safe energy development.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/ken-salazar-to-make-...
TRUTH: More Nukes = Less Radiation
“the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. The fly ash emitted by a power plant, a by-product from burning coal for electricity, carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-...
Releases in 1982 from worldwide combustion of 2800 million tons of coal totaled 3640 tons of uranium (containing 51,700 pounds of uranium-235) and 8960 tons of thorium. The population gets 100 times more radiation from a coal plant than from a nuclear plant. So in 2004 by burning 4.6 billions tons of coal, we released 5980 tons of uranium into the air and 14720 tons of Thorium.
This is like 80 truck size dirty nuclear bombs releasing 1 ton of radioactive material every day.
A Chernobyl twice a week.
http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2006/10/coal-chernobyl-twice...”
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- This will give all some pause about the green grab - Teddy started the slide to Government central control? Yes, Teddy was a Progressive -
The Solyndra solar panel plant in Northern California has served as a poster child of the supposedly burgeoning solar energy industry. In the spring of 2010, President Obama visited the solar plant to check up on the green "investment" he made in the form of a $535 million stimulus loan the plant received under the 2009 Recovery Act.
"The promise of clean energy isn't just an article of faith," said President Obama. "It's not just some abstract possibility for science fiction movies or a distant future or 10 years down the road or 20 years, it's happening right now."
"Article of faith" and "abstract" are, in fact, great terms to describe the solar panel industry. The bailout only buoyed an industry that is not economically viable on its own. The day after the November 2010 elections (how convenient!), the solar plant announced that it needed to lay off 17.5 percent of its workers. ...
The Solyndra solar debacle demonstrates the imprudence of a government that believes itself able to create green jobs from nothing but its imagination. Instead of leaving citizens free to make their own economic decisions, the feds pick the winners and losers of the marketplace, based on nothing but political ambitions and ideologies.
Wind power presents a similarly frustrating story. The American Wind Energy Association, a D.C.-based lobby, asserts that "[f]ederal and state policies will unleash potential," according to a report titled "Wind Energy is Good for America." The lobby does not seem to have an interest in nurturing an independent, profitable and efficient industry; instead, they would rather chase subsidies. According to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, wind barely accounted for 0.7 percent of U.S. energy consumption in 2009 (see "U.S. Energy Consumption by Energy Source, 2009"), and the number was only that high because electricity companies are required by law to purchase some energy from alternative sources.
No doubt President Theodore Roosevelt had (in his own mind) good intentions when he accelerated the federal land grab that gradually led to federal ownership of more than 25 percent of the United States' lands.
Conservation, both for posterity and for the sake of conservation itself, is an admirable goal. As in all other enterprises, however, basic economic principles apply. As soon as land belongs to everybody in common, it belongs to nobody in particular.
Instead of land-maintenance and conservation decisions made by localities, the out-of-touch bureaucrats in Washington dictate the ways in which money is spent, resulting in inefficiencies, oversights and environmental degradation (for instance, untended forests become overly dense and prone to ravaging wildfires).
According to a report by the Cato Institute, the National Park Service alone estimates a backlog of more than $10 billion in deferred maintenance projects, and the U.S. Forest Service loses an average of 77 cents for every dollar it spends on land (mis)management.
In a moment of economic crisis, the other President Roosevelt also attempted to assert new responsibilities for the federal government at the expense of the American taxpayer. FDR first instituted farm bills during the Great Depression, when millions of small farmers were suddenly bankrupted.
Ever since, the federal government has cosseted the agriculture sector to no end -- in theory ensuring the survival of the small family farm, low food prices and environmental stewardship, but in practice achieving the opposite effect. Government farm subsidies encourage overproduction, often at the cost of the environment, and two-thirds of direct agricultural payouts go to the wealthiest 10 percent of growers. ...
The success of the agribusiness lobbyists in keeping bureaucrats under their collective thumb, while swindling the free market economy, is a testament to the power of small interest groups in influencing an over-regulatory, bloated government. If the agricultural sector can be so damagingly defective, why would environmentalism be any different?
With the proper incentives, individuals and businesses can accomplish any number of honestly green initiatives. Instead of the convoluted, unintended-consequence-laden, environmental jeopardy that results when politics and environmentalism mix, private ownership and entrepreneurship are the best methods to conserve the American landscape and protect our natural resources.
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- Mr. Obama is in way over his head on the business of running an industrialized economy – he is just clueless about what and how jobs are created – it is a shame he was not better educated for he gives a great speech. He just has no idea how to implement what he read off the TelePrompter.The Nation deserves better.Energy policy – none
Industrial development plan – none
Debt crisis problem – no policy
Environmental overreach damage to economy – no idea
Deficit problem solution – none
Housing crash solutions – none
Jobs creation plans – noneThe man of Hope has become the man of none and nope.
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- The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
Maurice Barres
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- We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August Bebel
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- The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya
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Chanakya
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- Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Boyle Roche
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Karl Marx Quotes 
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Karl Marx
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx
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"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walk." Encyclopedia of Thomas Jefferson, 318 (Foley, Ed., reissued 1967) "That the Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent "the people" of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..." "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never in nothing, great or small, large or petty never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Spencer Churchill, address at Harrow School, October 29, 1941. "Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" Winston Churchill
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