Archive for March, 2008
GE Invests in Electric Vehicle Producer Think and Battery Manufacturer A123 Systems to Commercialize Electric Car
March 8th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Business Wire Press Release: GE announced it is ramping up its efforts to enable global electrification of transportation by investing in Norwegian electric car manufacturer Think, which unveiled a five-seat crossover concept car in Geneva today. To power its vehicles, Think has signed a commercial supply agreement with lithium-ion battery manufacturer […]
GM and Toyota Dismiss Fuel Cells for Mass Use, Going with Battery Systems Instead
March 8th, 2008No kidding. Here are just some of the highway capable, pure EVs in the pipeline: Phoenix Motorcars SUT and SUV MilesEV XS500 Aptera Typ1 ThinkEV City Tesla Motors Roadster Mitsubishi i-MiEV Subaru G4e There are more, but you get the idea. Via: Energy Blog: The Wall Street Journal reported this week that executives from General […]
MTV Holocaust Commercials
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Tony Blair to Lecture at Yale on “Faith and Globalization”
March 8th, 2008I wonder how Skull and Bones (aka The Brotherhood of Death) fits in with Tony Blair’s faith? Via: AFP: Former British prime minister Tony Blair is to take up a post teaching at Yale, one of the top educational institutions in the United States, the university said Friday. Blair, who stepped down as prime minister […]
Margin Calls for Carlyle Capital
March 7th, 2008Via: AP: Lenders to Carlyle Capital Corp. Ltd. have begun to liquidate securities held in its $21.7 billion portfolio and the fund said Friday it was considering “all available options.” The margin calls against Carlyle portend an ominous development one day after the fund was served with default notices, convulsing already skittish markets. Shares in […]
Employers Slash Jobs by Most in Five Years
March 7th, 2008Via: AP: Employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February, the most in five years, the starkest sign yet the country is heading dangerously toward recession or is in one already. The Labor Department’s report, released Friday, also showed that the nation’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.8 percent as hundreds of thousands of people — perhaps […]
Soviet Republic of California: Teaching Credential Required to Home School Children
March 7th, 2008UPDATE: Schwarzenegger to Help Protect Homeschoolers from “Outrageous” Ruling? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denounced a state appeals court ruling that severely restricts homeschooling and promised Friday to change the law if necessary to guarantee that parents are able to educate their children at home. “Every California child deserves a quality education, and parents should have the […]
Bush Says Feds Can Open Mail Without Warrant
March 7th, 2008Via: Seattle Times: President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant. Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a “signing statement” that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and […]
Top Iraq Contractor Skirts U.S. Taxes Offshore
March 7th, 2008Via: Boston Globe: Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven. More than 21,000 people working for […]
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