France's Nuclear Solution
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America gets one-fifth of its power from nuclear power plants. Nuclear is far and away the cheapest and most reliable alternative to carbon-emitting coal. Yet we all know that nuclear energy carries one great big negative: the problem of nuclear waste, the radioactive residue from enriched uranium. Now, suppose there were a solution to this problem? A solution that reduced the amount and the toxicity of nuclear waste by 80 percent or more? That would be useful, right?
Well guess what—it’s doable. Better yet—it’s done.
Sarah Palin, Vanity Fair, and 2012
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Todd Purdum’s new “hard-hitting" Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin has reignited a high-profile “Republican family feud,” said Jonathan Martin in Politico. GOP pundit Bill Kristol accused McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt of feeding Purdum anonymous quotes about Palin’s “mental state” and possible post-partum depression; Schmidt accused Kristol of libel. This “blistering” rehash of 2008 could be a preview of an insider feud over Palin in 2012.
Read more...A Texas Gay Raid and Stonewall
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The Fort Worth police have “some explaining to do,” said Jacquielynn Floyd in The Dallas Morning News. On June 28, officers raided a gay bar called the Rainbow Lounge, sending a patron to intensive care with a head injury. “In what I can only hope is a spectacularly infelicitous coincidence,” it took place on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Raid, the gay-rights movement’s catalyst. The cops’ story—drunk gay men groped them—doesn’t add up.
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China's Ancient Silk Road City Of Kashgar Facing Threat Of Bulldozers
Read about the cultural and historic costs of "progress" in this article by Antoine Blua from Radio Free Europe .
The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China's northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by an ambitious government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda.
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Iraqis jubilantly celebrate U.S. troop withdrawal
Read about the beginning of the US pulling all the way out on Think Progress . And more at MSNBC.
U.S. forces handed over formal control of Iraq’s major cities today (it is already Tuesday in Iraq), “a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country.” In celebration, Iraqis launched fireworks and “thousands attended a party in a park [in Baghdad] where singers performed patriotic songs .
Read more...Debunking Media Myths -- Iraq and the World
Fairbanks Open Radio jointly hosted a special event with the Alaska Peace Center Friday evening, May 1st. Called Free Speech: Media Censorship and the Destruction of Iraq it brought together the director of Project Censored, Peter Phillips, and Raed Jarrar, Iraqi activist and blogger. They debunked myths about Iraq and decried the incapacity of corporate media to cover and present important news. Jarrar pointed out the fallacy in the news of rampant sectarian violence in Iraq.
Read more...The Prime Time of Sarah Palin
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Palin seems genuinely animated by her contests with late-night comedians and she is always well-versed in the subject matter, which is, in order:
1. Sarah Palin;
2. What the cultural elite thinks of Sarah Palin;
3. What her supporters properly understand about what the cultural elite thinks of Sarah Palin;
4. Why Sarah Palin, and people who identify with Sarah Palin, are correct to resent the cultural elite for what it thinks of Sarah Palin.
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IKEA Backing Off in Russia
Having faced multiple instances of ‘unpredictable administrative practices’, household retail giant IKEA has halted further investment in Russia. In an interview on Swedish radio, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad said that the company had been cheated out of over $60 million in electricity and gas fees. He also said that they had never gone the route of paying bribes to officials Read more...
Fairbanks proposal would ban alcohol sale to "chronic inebriates"
A proposal to ban the sale of alcohol to known chronic inebriates has been set on the Fairbanks City Council’s agenda for Aug. 6.The proposed law also will prohibit what city officials call “proxy buying,” in which a person knowingly provides alcohol to a chronic inebriate.
As part of the ban, liquor stores will be prohibited from selling to individuals who appear intoxicated and the Fairbanks Police Department will maintain a list of names of chronic inebriates in a confidential binder.
Read more...Antarctic Doctor Succumbs to Cancer
Dr. Jerri Nielson Fitzgerald, the doctor who became famous in 1999 because she diagnosed and treated her cancer while cut off from assistance at the Amundsen-Scott Station in Antarctica, died yesterday of cancer. Her harrowing experience of discovering her cancer and having to train her colleagues to help treat her made international news. The U.S. Air Force dropped needed cancer drugs Read more...
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