Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Expanding Renewable Energy and Efficiency in the Air Force

Solar arrays are seen at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. The Air Force can start using more renewable energy and become more energy efficient while saving taxpayers money.  This guest post by Alexandra Kougentakis, Tom Kenworthy, and Daniel J. Weiss was first published here.

Listen to a press call on the report with retired Air Force Officer Paul Clarke, Shangri-La Construction CEO Andy Meyers, and CAP Senior Fellow Daniel J. Weiss (mp3)

Reliance on foreign energySource: Climate Progress RSS Feed

Selected News Items For Nov 28 – Dec 4

This thread is for the busy bees of S&L to post articles that demonstrate the distortions and biases of our establishment media.

To make the articles as readable as possible, please use the format described here.

And:

• Only post ‘hard news’ from establishment media outlets.
• Avoid editorials and ‘thought pieces,’ unless they are truly newsworthy.
• Eschew ‘major news’ items that most people will likely have seen elsewhere.
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the lauderdale paradox

Monthly Review | Today orthodox economics is reputedly being harnessed to an entirely new end: saving the planet from the ecological destruction wrought by capitalist expansion. It promises to accomplish this through the further expansion of capitalism itself, cleared of its excesses and excrescences. A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital — the credo of economic liberalism from AdamSource: subrealism RSS Feed

Which way is MORI going to go next?

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Can you predicts its next set of numbers?

I don’t think that there’s been a poll in recent times that has had such an impact on the media narrative that the November Political Monitor from Ipsos-MORI.

Even though it’s now four days since it was published and nearly a week and a half since the fieldwork close the general election outcome that it suggested is still being mulled over by “serious” commentators.

So what do you thinkSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

Checking in With Our Troops In Afghanistan

Along Afghanistans porous border with Pakistan, the U.S. Army is focused on reaching out to Afghan villagers and building local institutions. Immense Mountains and abject poverty stand out as obstacles to success, but it is the human terrain that presents the greatest challenge.

In this mini-documentary, Lt. Jake Kerr Combat Platoon out of a remote outpost in the Dangam District of eastern Afghanistans Kunar province,

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More news of ourSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed

Bloomberg bad, but lame press even worse

From the Daily News:
Here's what you missed while Mayor Bloomberg was running for a third term - because he kept it under wraps until after the ballots were counted:
• The city budget deficit isn't as bad as he said.
• The NYPD was quietly exempted from the budget cuts at almost every other agency.
• A $60 million tax loss that gave Bloomberg a soap box to rail against the state Senate has magically vanished.
But that's all just numbers. What really drives the Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed

Who's better for the economy?

While Republicans blame Democrats for everything and call President Obama a socialist for his efforts to rescue the economy, it's time someone took a look at who does a better job.

I have.

Using the broadest measure of economic activity, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as detailed on the government's Bureau of Economic Analysis website, I prepared the attached chart showing the change in GDP during each president's four-year term of office since Harry Truman's second term.Source: The Albany Project RSS Feed