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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manhattan Project, H Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Anniversary, World War II, Nagasaki, Nuclear Bomb, Pentagon, Nazi Bomb, Truman Hiroshima, Harry Truman, Soviets, President Jimmy Carter, President Truman, Russian Nuclear Posture, Pentagon Papers, Politics News
Daniel Ellsberg

I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Living News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Five Things Mr. Obama Must Say About Detroit -- and Fast

Steve Parker | Posted 02.18.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Fuel Costs, Toyota, Chrysler, Detroit Three, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Volvo, Cars, Ford, Barack Obama, Nissan, Saab, Chevrolet Cruze, Hydrogen Economy, Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, Manhattan Project, General Motors, Daewoo Lacetti, Natural Gas, Chrysler Financial, Europe, Johnson Controls, Business News
Steve Parker

While GM and Chrysler both remain on life support (and Ford has also been talking with the government about a credit line or loan), the car and truck business around the world is not doing much better than Detroit.

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Trillions and Quadrillions

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Economy, Peak Oil, Warren Buffett, Bernard Madoff, Global Warming, Apollo Project, Business News
Patrick Takahashi

The world needs to spend $45 trillion to halve planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2050.It's hard to focus on global warming when oil is selling for $40 a barrel and it is freezing outside.

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The Sun will Continue to Shine...

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Peak Oil, Obama Administration, Manhattan Project, Global Warming, Apollo Project, President Obama, Doomsday, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Are we destined to soon be crushed by the dual hammer of Peak Oil and Global Warming, crippling our civilization forever?

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Auto Industry Drops 32%; GM Plummets Over 45%

Steve Parker | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Automotive News, Suzuki, Chrysler, Epa, Thanksgiving, Honda, Cars, Atlanta, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Tennessee Valley Authority, General Motors, Ford Ecoboost Engine, Mini, Detroit Bailout, John McCain, Toyota, Gm, Opec, Detroit Three, Lexus, Chevrolet, GM Red Tag Sale, Porsche, Barack Obama, Mercury, Bush White House, Manhattan Project, Lincoln, Wpa, Sarah Palin, Bmw, Audi, Lincoln MKS, Isuzu, Business News
Steve Parker

Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.

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Billions and Trillions Revisited

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Economy, Global Warming, Apollo Project, Billions and Trillions, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The average annual U.S. Department of Energy renewable energy budget over the past decade has been less than $1 billion a year.

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Whoops, We Might Be On the Verge Of Economic Calamity

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peak Oil, Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Global Warming, Economy, Apollo Project, Crude Oil Prices, Bailout, Crude Oil, Congressional Bailout, Henry Paulson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

Do you get a sense that we are beginning to lose control?

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Billions and Trillions

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Peak Oil, Renewable Energy, Pickens Plan, Green Energy, Global Warming, FREE Green Energy Age, Apollo Project, Gore Plan, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Laid end to end, a billion one dollar bills would circle the globe at the equator four times. How far does a sum of one billion dollars go these days?

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