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POPS Dumb as We Wanna Be
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN he goes on: Are you sitting down? Few Americans know it, but for almost a year now, Congress has been bickering over whether and how to renew the investment tax credit to stimulate investment in solar energy and the production tax credit to encourage investment in wind energy. The bickering has been so poisonous that when Congress passed the 2007 energy bill last December, it failed to extend any stimulus for wind and solar energy production. Oil and gas kept all their credits, but those for wind and solar have been left to expire this December. I am not making this up. At a time when we should be throwing everything into clean power innovation, we are squabbling over pennies. These credits are critical because they ensure that if oil prices slip back down again — which often happens — investments in wind and solar would still be profitable. That’s how you launch a new energy technology and help it achieve scale, so it can compete without subsidies. The
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POPSWinter Soldier to be re-Broadcast If you missed this compelling program, listen in sometime. Very moving testimony from the soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Bush/Cheney criminals.
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POPSPalestine: A Letter to the Peace Movement Thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli detention centers where there is reported use of torture. People die at Israeli checkpoints because they cannot get to medical facilities. Palestinians are being denied water, food and medical supplies. Palestinians have to endure continual attacks by jets, helicopters and drones used for assassinations (which are illegal by international law) that also kill many civilians. According to Chris Hedges (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19127.htm), since 2000, 1033 Israelis have died and 4,437 Palestinian have died from this conflict. 119 of these deaths were Israeli children and 971 have been Palestinian children. All these deaths are a waste of life, but these numbers also show that the fault is not equal between the Israelis and Palestinians. The fault lies with the aggressor and the occupier. When people live under a brutal occupation, have their lands stolen, their houses destroyed, orchards wiped out by bulldozers
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POPSEPA Administor Needs firing See site to help fire this jazzbo--I've watched some of his act before congress on C-SPAN and was really disgusted by his stonewalling and lying.
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POPSNew Rule for Toxic Trains: a Disaster Waiting to Happen Within the last year, a coal train derailed in the nation's capital and dumped tons of its load into the Anacostia River that runs through the heart of Washington, DC; had that train been shipping toxic gas, the resulting horrors would probably still be leading our newscasts. Mainline routes through major U.S. cities annually carry more than 110,000 shipments of poison gas railcars. In many cases these shipments could be easily re-routed and are not, so railroads and chemical shippers are in effect recklessly pre-positioning these cargoes for potential derailment or terrorist attack. The new rule utilizes railroad-friendly regulatory techniques to ensure that virtually no protective re-routing will occur
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