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Like so many in the USA, I've become increasingly fed up with my country. The last 8 years have been a nightmare of perpetual motion. The presidential election is almost a month away, but let's face it. If Bush's cronies were able to set him up for two te

Powerful labor unions, AFL-CIO and SEIU are ratcheting up their campaign efforts to support Obama

Sandia National Laboratory led by Sandia researcher Peter Van Blarigan that has been testing physical components of free-piston engines which could be 50% efficient. This is about twice as good as current combustion engines

A collection of Anonymous videos with commentary

The red line represents a graph of family income across the population. The height of the curve at any point is the height of a stack of $100 bills equalling that income.

Bill Moyers on the violent damage directly caused by the vitriolic rhetoric of conservative radio talkers like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage [politics] (alternet.org)

I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning.  Hooo.  It was an experience. About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena’ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage.