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Welcome to Dharavi where residents are reaching for the sky. They want Dharavi to surpass London as a great city. Unlike the poverty tourism and accolades awarded to communitarian slum living by the likes of Prince Charles and Kevin McCloud, Dharavi residents think big. Sadhvi Sharma takes us through the streets and introduces us to aspirant families for whom Dharavi is a place of transition. The least we can do, she argues, is support their aspirations.Welcome to Dharavi where residents are reaching for the sky. They want Dharavi to... more
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Please let us all call out the main stream media for giving these horrible creatures a free pass. How can it take just a few months for the teabags to claim a new party when the GreenParty has been struggling for decades? How, just maybe our media is far more racists than we are willing to believe and they are willing to admit!
This piece in MotherJones should be used to bridge the gap back to reality. We need to call out these media maggots. Have we not witnessed a hugely out of proportion press presence of GOP/teabags over Democratic policy proffers? Why has the teabag nation been awarded autheticity? Is all of "lame stream" media (as sister Sarah would say) against progress? Do they all grab money from the bags on Wall Street?
Refuse the anger. Why the hell are we progressives so damn passive and forgiving?
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http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2010/09/tea-partys-racist-signs/arrogant-kenyanPlease let us all call out the main stream media for giving these horrible creatures a... more
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Cargo ship crashes on way to ISS
Posted by Paul Sutherland on August 24th, 2011
An unmanned spacecraft carrying supplies for astronauts on the international space station crashed today after a disastrous launch.
PHOTO: A Progress spacecraft in orbit (NASA)
The Progress M-12M freighter plunged to Earth in eastern Russia after a rocket engine shut down too soon and its third stage failed to separate. It hit the ground and exploded, reportedly shaking windows 100 km away.
The craft was carrying three tons of food, water and other essentials for astronauts aboard the orbiting outpost. Russian officials called up the space station’s six crew to tell them of the failure.
NASA say the astronauts have enough food, water and oxygen to last them for several months. But the Progress – the 44th launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan – would also have been used to lift the station in its orbit if necessary.
The failure, five minutes 20 seconds after lift-off, is the first in Russia’s many years of launching Progress since 1978. It highlights the risks that NASA faces now that it has retired the space shuttle and relies on Russia to launch missions into orbit.
The next US spacecraft, whether built by NASA or a private enterprise, will not be ready to launch on missions for many months at least, if not years. Astronauts going to the space station now have to be launched by Russian rocket but in a separate craft called a Soyuz.
One senior NASA space scientist told Skymania News: “Thank goodness this failed Russian rocket was launching an unmanned ship and not a Soyuz full of astronauts.”
NASA’s International Space Station manager Mike Suffredini told a news conference tonight that the Progress craft shut down an engine before the third stage was ignited due to an anomaly.
He warned that the accident might have implications for the next crewed Soyuz launch, scheduled for September 22 from Kazakhstan, as they share similar rocket booster designs.
Suffredini said the space station could go several months without a resupply vehicle if necessary. Another Progress that was due to launch in late October could be brought forward and a Soyuz “lifeboat” currently attached to the space station could bring three of the six astronauts home.
A European robotic supply ship, its third Automated Transfer Venicle (ATV) called Edoardo Amaldi, is not due to launch to the space station from Kourou, French Guiana, until March. But Suffredini said the station had supplies that could see astronauts through to then.
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Alien worlds beckon to us Earthlings today, promising visions of a sister planet to our own orbiting a nearby star.
http://bit.ly/dPdRJdAlien worlds beckon to us Earthlings today, promising visions of a sister planet to... more
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Some 1.5 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity, and 2.6 billion rely on wood, straw, charcoal, or dung for cooking [1]. For lighting, households without electricity generally rely on kerosene lamps that are very inefficient. Communications is limited to radios powered by expensive dry cell batteries. Lack of access to energy is a major obstacle for rural development and the elimination of poverty.
Many rural areas in developing countries are not connected to the national grid, and connections may prove prohibitively costly; and this is where renewable energies are offering unprecedented opportunities for even the poorest rural communities.
more at the link.Some 1.5 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity, and 2.6 billion rely... more
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Leading this refreshing on the sofa discussion Daniel Ben Ami author of ‘Ferraris for All’, explains ‘growth scepticism’. Young volunteers grappling with growth raise a wide range of questions from consuming less in the West to bankers, child labour, corruption and war. Daniel is clear: our having less will not make the poor rich; child labour is product of poverty not prosperity; corruption does not cause poverty it’s a symptom of it; bombing a country is unlikely to increase its prospects and political autonomy is key. A positive approach to economic growth he argues, not holding back and accepting ‘limits’ is key to increasing abundance for all globally.Leading this refreshing on the sofa discussion Daniel Ben Ami author of... more
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In common usage the word “anarchy” is a synonym for chaos and anomie, just as in common usage “anarchist” is a synonym for terrorist or nihilist. It places an immediate communications burden on anyone who believes, as I do, that a stateless society can be not only as well-ordered and agreeable as any society which attempts by a constitution to limit the powers of government for the purpose of ensuring common individual rights, but in theory could do a better job of preventing a reemergence of tyranny. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/427-mere-anarchyIn common usage the word “anarchy” is a synonym for chaos and anomie, just... more
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Microsoft is working with a new technology that lets us use our hands as touchscreens to send commands to a computer....
http://bit.ly/duIXjqMicrosoft is working with a new technology that lets us use our hands as touchscreens... more
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These are your Current Virals for 10/28. Check out the latest virals at Current.com/virals.
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Take a trip back in time and meet the "mother of all mankind", the common ancestor from whom we all descended!
(We are all African brothers and sisters!)Take a trip back in time and meet the "mother of all mankind", the common... more
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slam and the west between strength and weakness
Looking at the calamities faced by the Muslims in all places, I want to know what is the difference between the Islamic way of life and the life of wealth, progress and strength in the west, and between the rulings on women in both societies. I am asking because I am sad about the situation of the Muslims in those countries.slam and the west between strength and weakness
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"What you are about to read is the final product of research that was compiled through observation, first-hand interviews and experiences, random conversations, and secondary resources. The subject of this research was the tiny city of Winooski, Vermont. And sure, some of you are thinking, “What the hell is Winooski and why should I care?” However, if I’ve learned anything from this experience it is that Winooski’s history and current situation mirrors many of the struggles Americans overcame and the struggles towns and cities across the country are currently trying to cope with. Even if you never heard of Winooski, let alone been there, this is a story that should resonate on some level...""What you are about to read is the final product of research that was compiled... more
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The stimulus bill enacted earlier this year has resulted in as many as 1.6 million jobs saved or created this fall, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Monday evening.
The nonpartisan CBO said in a legally mandated report that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) had resulted in between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs for the U.S. economy that wouldn't have existed in the absence of the stimulus.
Additionally, the CBO said, gross domestic product (GDP) was as much as 3.2 percent higher than it would have been in the absence of the stimulus.
CBO Director Douglas Elmondorf wrote on his official blog:
Looking at the actual amounts spent so far (where identifiable) and estimates of the other effects of ARRA on spending and revenues, CBO has estimated the law’s impact on employment and economic output using evidence about how previous similar policies have affected the economy and various mathematical models that represent the workings of the economy. On that basis, CBO estimates that in the third quarter of calendar year 2009, an additional 600,000 to 1.6 million people were employed in the United States, and real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) was 1.2 percent to 3.2 percent higher, than would have been the case in the absence of ARRA.
The White House had claimed in its own estimate of the recovery act's impact that the stimulus bill had saved or created roughly 640,000 jobs since going into effect earlier this year.
Republicans had attacked the White House jobs figures as "trying to cover up economic reality by manufacturing job numbers out of thin air" when the Obama administration released those data.
The CBO said that the White House's model for analyzing the stimulus were not comprehensive, and that its own analysis provided the best look at the impact of the stimulus so far.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/69923-cbo-stimulus-saved-or-created-as-many-as-16m-jobsThe stimulus bill enacted earlier this year has resulted in as many as 1.6 million... more
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts.
The new policy -- issued with little fanfare this fall by the White House ethics counsel -- may turn out to be the most far-reaching lobbying rule change so far from President Obama, who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to get jobs in his administration and to negotiate over stimulus contracts.
The initiative is aimed at a system of advisory committees so vast that federal officials don't have exact numbers for its size; the most recent estimates tally nearly 1,000 panels with total membership exceeding 60,000 people.
Under the policy, which is being phased in over the coming months, none of the more than 13,000 lobbyists in Washington would be able to hold seats on the committees, which advise agencies on trade rules, troop levels, environmental regulations, consumer protections and thousands of other government policies.
"Some folks have developed a comfortable Beltway perch sitting on these boards while at the same time working as lobbyists to influence the government," said White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, who disclosed the policy in a September blog posting on the White House Web site. "That is just the kind of special interest access that the president objects to."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602362.htmlHundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal... more
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WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Copenhagen at the start of the United Nations conference on climate change on Dec. 9 just before flying to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, White House officials said Wednesday.
Mr. Obama, who had not previously committed to making an appearance at the climate conference, had been under considerable pressure from other world leaders and environmental advocates to make the trip as a statement of American seriousness about the climate change negotiations.
Mr. Obama will tell the delegates to the climate conference that the United States intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, officials said. The administration has resisted until now delivering a firm pledge on emissions reductions because Congress has not yet acted on global warming legislation and because several large developing nations, including China and India, have not detailed their own plans.
White House officials said earlier this week that Mr. Obama was now prepared to offer a tentative figure based on the work completed in Congress so far. The United States had never before declared any promise of specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Carol Browner, the president’s senior adviser for energy and climate change, said the president hoped that the announcement of the American target would spur other countries to show their cards.
“Obviously we hope other major economies will put forth ambitious action plans of their own,” she said at a White House briefing Wednesday morning.
In June, the House passed a bill calling for greenhouse gas reductions of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Last month, a Senate committee passed a measure calling for a 20 percent cut, but that is expected to be weakened as the legislation moves through other Senate committees and onto the floor, perhaps next spring.
The United Nations-sponsored climate talks, involving more than 190 nations, are expected to produce a wide-ranging interim political declaration but stop short of proposing a binding international treaty. Delegates are expected to pledge to complete the treaty next year.
Mr. Obama has said recently that he would attend the session if his presence could help lead to a successful outcome. It is significant that he will appear at the beginning rather than at the end of the 12-day meeting. Most major decisions at such environmental forums come at the very end of the process.
In making the announcement, the White House also announced that several cabinet secretaries will speak at the Copenhagen conference to explain actions the United States is taking to address global warming and to urge other nations to step up their efforts.
Among those who will be dispatched to speak in the early days of the meeting are Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Steven Chu, the secretary of energy; Ken Salazar, secretary of interior; Gary Locke, commerce secretary; and Tom Vilsack, secetary of agriculture. Ms. Browner and Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will also represent the United States at the talks, the White House said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/us/politics/26climate.html?hpWASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Copenhagen at the start of the... more
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