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Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
Reader asks government to back Solar
A correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald this week suggested that the government should provide interest free loans to householders to invest in solar panels. The loans could be repaid with the $1100 per annum that most houses spend on electricity. "Imagine the effect of one million less homes being reliant on coal-fired power generation," Continue Reading →
14 US States fund renewables through power bills
At least fourteen states across the US have established funds to promote the development and commercialization of renewable energy technologies.
Surcharge-financed: Most often financed by a small surcharge on retail electricity rates, these funds currently collect more than $500 million per year in aggregate in support of renewables.
Major renewables driver: At this funding level, state clean energy funds are positioned to be a major driver of renewable energy development, says a new report by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, The Impact of State Clean Energy Fund – Support for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Projects. The report includes both project and incentive information, to the extent readily available.
Climate Change Film Wows the Box Office
The global warming movie An Inconvenient Truth by former US Vice-President Al Gore was a major box-office success in the first few days of its release in late July, reported Katharine Mieszkowski in Spiegel Online.
Ninth most popular film in nation: The report said that in this limited release the movie played at only 77 theatres around the US, yet was the ninth most popular film across the country.
Biggest earner per screen: The movie took in more money per screen than any other film showing. Many screenings in liberal cities like San Francisco and Boston were sold out.
Wider release from 22 July: The movie would be shown more widely across the US from the weekend beginning 22 July.
The P-Word is Palestine
And the discussion of Zionism for what it is exactly as we are witnessing right now a secular, racist political movement, characterized by expansionism and militarism , is going to have to happen online, because neither the mainstream press nor mainstream politicians will touch it with a ten-foot pole… even when it is piling up more bodies as it leads the world into a regional disaster.
Let’s just get something out of the way right up front, before I go any further. Zionism is not Judaism; being Jewish does not make anyone Zionist; and anti-Zionism is not equivalent to anti-Semitism.
It is now well past time for the United States to withdraw all rogue state, Israel; though that is unlikely to happen without a movement to make it happen, because the US is now effectively the biggest and most dangerous rogue state on the planet.
Democrats won’t touch this issue for the same reason they avoid that other P-Word, Prison. They are as complict in the incarceration of 2 million people here mostly of color as they are in the continuing support of the terror state of Israel.
So let’s just talk briefly about what Zionism actually is, and get away from the mythology promoted by and AIPAC.
Fox News analyst compares Israelis to Nazis
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww3/fox_news_analyst_compares_israelis_to_nazis.htm
Fox News military analyst Maj. Bob Bevelacqua, a former Green Beret, appearing tonight on "The O’Reilly Factor," compared Israeli actions in Lebanon and Gaza with Nazi actions in Russia during World War II.
Bevelacqua, a long-time Fox News contributor, said the Israelis were unwilling to compromise in their conflict with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. He denied that the Israelis willingly evacuated from Gaza and Lebanon.
"Saying the Israelis pulled out of Lebanon is like saying the Nazis pulled out of Moscow," he said. "They invaded Lebanon. They invaded Gaza. They take homes and then they give them back. And they expect some type of great recognition."
Bevelacqua acknowledged he had business interests in Lebanon – a company that employed 30 people. His Fox News biography says he works with the WVC3 Group in Reston, Va., an elite security group that provides homeland security services, support and technologies to government and commercial clients.
"They (the Israelis) lack the word compromise," Bevelacqua said. "They refuse to sit down and negotiate."
His resume also says he has a 17-year history of worldwide military experience, including combat in the Gulf War, riot control in Los Angeles, a peacekeeping mission in Haiti, security assistance missions in West African countries and numerous anti-drug missions on the U.S. border with Mexico.