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truedelphi's JournalCan anyone here describe how to utilize a Honda generator to
Provide power to my household?
When it is hot here in No California, often there are power blackouts. We are now considering buying a Honda generator, so that we can at least keep the lights on and the fridge, computers and phone lines up. (We lose the phone when the power goes out.)
The business we run depends heavily on the phone. A single day without power means we can lose as much as $ 175.
It also seems that you can purchase two generators and run them in series.
Here is one link to the type of generator we are considering.
http://www.electricgeneratordepot.com/honda-super-quiet-light-weight-inverter-2000w-120v-fuel-efficient-generator-with-parallel-capability-and-oil-alert
Of course, thoughts on how to also have AC would be wonderful, but that might have to be sacrificed, as the AC/heating unit has a huge motor.
Big Private Prison Industry hates the idea. But $15 Billion a year would
Be saved, if a sane society would consider the information at this source, and stop jailing cannabis smokers, sellers and distributors:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/54803/this-is-how-much-marijuana-prohibition-costs-you-the-taxpayer
Another SCOTUS give away to Big Corporations -
So once again, the Supreme Court does the bidding of Its Real Masters, just as it is supposed to do.
I mean, why in the world do mere citizens, er, non-Big non-Corporate Persons, feel they have the right to sue for damages when some unreasonably dangerous generic drugs disfigure, injure and even kill them? Do American citizens still think they are people, or something?
Good thing our Supreme Court can set them straight!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10093
From the article: Amidst the understandable sound and fury of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions on marriage equality and their activist zeal to gut the Voting Rights Act in their determination to legislate from the bench that which is specifically mandated by the Constitution to be legislated by Congress, a number of their other end-of-term decisions managed to fly largely beneath the radar.
One of those decisions came late last month when the five right-wing members of the Court ruled that citizens who are severely injured, maimed or even killed by FDA-approved --- but unreasonably dangerous --- generic prescription drugs, have no right to seek compensation from the giant pharmaceutical companies which manufacture and market them to unsuspecting consumers
(SNIP)
The rationale (or what cynics might describe as the "sophistry"
the Court applied to shield Big Pharma from having to pay damages for catastrophic injuries wrought by unreasonably dangerous generic drugs is derived from the legal concept of preemption --- a doctrine that is based upon the Constitutional limits placed upon the power of the individual states by the Supremacy Clause: That portion of our founding document that declares the "Constitution and the laws of the United States...shall be the supreme law of the land." Just as an Act of Congress becomes null and void if the Court determines that it is unconstitutional, when the Court determines that a state law has been preempted by a federal statute, the state law is deemed null and void.
Critical issues in preemption cases center upon the intent of Congress and whether state laws conflict with the federal statutory scheme. Historically, our courts have presumed that Congress did not intend to preempt state laws that were enacted pursuant to a state's "police power" --- the phrase used to describe laws that promote the health, safety, or welfare of a state's citizens or its communities. Indeed, when it comes to state police powers, Congress often enacts laws that are intended to supplement a state's exercise of those powers.
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Thank you so much, Pres Fracking Obama, and Thank You also
Former Secretary of State Hillary "Fracker" Clinton, and thank you also former Pennsylvania governor, Ed "Frack Up" Rendell
Shame on you, you Friggin' frackers. Shame on you for reining in the EPA, depriving the mid-level EPA workers from an ability to do their jobs and help local families and stop the fracking. SHAME AND MORE SHAME AND
[h2][font color=red]HOW THE HELL DO YOU FRIGGING FRACKERS SLEEP![/h2][/font color=red]
You see, for a while I was seriously worried that I would not, in my lifetime, ever know what it was like to be an American Plains Indian, circa 1865 to 1899. That there would never be a time in my life when I saw the future and that future included the hideous and total end of America's eco-system, including our ability to enjoy, for posterity, our drinking water.
Josh Fox has brought forth the second part of his fine documentary series, "Gaslands." The future that Part II of "Gaslands" shows us is not a pleasant one, and it raises a nightmarish scenario of public officials, on the very local, state and Federal level, who have all been bought and paid for, and who are so deeply tied into the profit margins of their buddies in BI g Energy firms that they have rigged the EPA's upper management to the point that the agency will no longer protect Us Americans..
And now I know that the eco system will be bartered away. People across the USA are losing their drinking water, their eco-system, and the normal life they have had for decades.
Even here in California the state of California officials (at the state level) tell us that they don't know how to legally set up boundaries between the greed of those in the natural gas industry and the protections needed by our eco system if it is going to remain a viable, water providing resource.
Like who will protect the Wyoming family that shows Josh Fox how there are now chemicals in their irrigation system that are only present in the contaminated areas where fracking has occurred? With fracking processes, over 500 chemicals are applied to the fracking mixture, many of them dangerous to human health, and then there is the fact that fracking also includes utilizing and polluting millions of gallons of water per well, and the result is appalling.
Are any DU'ers reading this thinking, "Where do I sign up - I'd really love some strontium and benzene in my family's water?" How does any one family restore their water, and their crops and their trees and remove the damage to their health from the air pollution etc, after fracking processes and the gas wells have been pockmarking the landscape around the home and the crops? Who helps such a family?
Anyway the move Gasland II has a plot. I won't be a spoiler, so please watch for yourselves. HBO has it "ON Demand" for anyone who subscribes to HBO.
But as sad a story as this tragedy is, I am reminded by "Gaslands" of a cartoon character who at this point I would gladly see replace Michell Obama in the WH. When the local nuke plant is polluting the water of Springfield, CartoonLand USA, Marge Simpson invites Mr Burns, the owner of the nuke plant over to their home. And although Burns has sworn up and down that the townspeople are worry warts and that there is simply no need to worry about the quality of the drinking water near the cooling towers, the final scene in that cartoon is noteworthy.
Unlike me, Marge Simpson does not get on a soap box. But she does take action. All she does while Mr Burns visits is serve him up, for dinner, the three-eyed fish someone had caught near the Cooling Towers Pond. And Burns at first is eager to dig into it, and then he realizes what this really means if he eats it, and...
An American "D" President Rants and Raves about Social Security and HC
And he lets the audience understand that every country in Europe offers free health care for its seniors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=-ILqHSH4X_w&NR=1
Monsanto's Huge Role in The Trans Pacific Plan
Apparently one of the top "advisers" for this "free trade agreement" happens to hold connections to Monsanto.
This informative article is brand new on the "nation of change" website. It underlines the connections between the GM Big Ag Corporation, Monsanto, and the TPP.
One question: how is it that Obama spent the entire summer of 2009, ducking away from the issue of whether or not the public option would be included in the Health reform Efforts? He continually recited how separation of powers precluded him from developing any sort of bully pulpit on such an important matter. Yet over the past year, Obama has been heavily instrumental in dealing with the shape of this monstrosity of a trade agreement, and heavily involved in shaping up the legal language of the TTP. Some consistency, there, Mr President, would be greatly admired. As well as some transparency (Many of the meetings and discussions related to the TPP are being done in secret.)
This article is a much read if you want to be able to provide healthy and organic food to your family:
http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-partnership-and-monsanto-1372074730
From, the article linked above:
The chief agricultural negotiator for the US is the former Monsanto lobbyist, Islam Siddique. If ratified the TPP would impose punishing regulations that give multinational corporations unprecedented right to demand taxpayer compensation for policies that corporations deem a barrier to their profits.
There appears not to be a specific agricultural chapter in the TPP. Instead, rules affecting food systems and food safety are woven throughout the text. This agreement is attempting to establish corporations’ rights to skirt domestic courts and laws and sue governments directly with taxpayers paying compensation and fines directly from the treasury.
(Snip)
Legacies of other trade agreements that serve as a warning about the TPP have a history of displacing small farmers and destroying local food economies. Ten years following the passage of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) 1.5 million Mexican farmers became bankrupt because they could not compete with the highly subsidized US corn entering the Mexican market.
The Two Major Reasons Why NSA Needs to Spy on US:
One is that we the common everyday people are a thorn in the side of the PTB. Regardless of all the efforts of the CIA and NSA to remake this nation into a nation of full time supporters of Big Energy, Wars, Financial Gain only for Big Financial Firms, and to re-shape the Two Party System into One Big Money Party, we little people still create groups like Occupy, and we still protest everything from Wall Street policies to Fracking, to the XL Pipeline to Monsanto.
Just as Gollum grumbled about how Frodo kept tight hold of "The Precious," our major members of the military and the Political Class grumble over how we middle class and lower middle class folks refuse to give up on our right to free assembly and our right to free speech. What better way to intimidate all of us than to keep records of everything we say or email or type into our computer. Since that information can be reconstituted into the conversations that we have had, even years down the road, the fact remains that those of us who do protest what the One Percent is trying to do are not sleeping quite so well. Of course, there aren't any historical records that exist to instruct us about about what misfortune or calamities might occur when a government spies on us, so we will just have to wait and see what happens ( <---- Sarcasm alert for last sentence.)
The second reason is the money. The vast monetary resources of the MIC are being diverted from crude and barbaric items like weapons to Surveillance. Over the next five years, my bet is that the budget for All Things Surveillance will easily exceed the amounts of money spent on the Iraq War (three to six trillions of dollars is what experts say that war cost us.) Of course, this information is usually kept "classified" so good luck on finding out what it really takes monetarily to do all this.
For instance,it would not be possible for me to doubt for one moment that Senator Di Feinstein is making it possible for her husband Richard Blum to handle another set of contracts similar to those he handled after George Dubya's Shock and Awe campaign of 2003. Richard Blum made some 27 millions of dollars then - I bet the Golden State couple are hoping to make five or six times that amount on surveillance. Lucky for them that she holds the top position inside the US Senate Committee of Intelligence Oversight.
Your disputing the Caens researchers may or may not be valid.
i know there are literally hundreds of ways that any one research study can be set up, so whether the Caens team did or didn't do their work properly I don't know.
But please explain ths one point to me, and a valid point it is: as long as I have been looking into the world of Big Pesticides, and GM foods and seeds, any time any researcher points out that there is a problem, with an independent study, you don't see monsanto, with all its billions of dollars of profit saying, "We are not totally satisfied with the way the test and research was done, but the concerns are legit that we so far have not looked into any long term testing to see how animals fare years down the line. Since we have the money to do this, we will undertake a more proper test ourselves."
[h2][font color=red]Why is it the case that the Major Companies do slipshod tests and studies of their products? Vaccines are tested six months, if that. Pesticides tested even less.[/h2][/font color=red]
Not once in my 40 years of investigating these matters did I ever ever discover any large corporation doing this. A test sample is too small, a Big Firm will announce, and so the research is given the gong. Thousands of times this "gonging" of studies has been done, and none of these companies ever ever take it upon themselves to do a proper test. How does that make sense? Why would you even trust these companies? We are the only developed nation on earth that does not have gas spectrography analysis of the components of a product asking for EPA approval. We let the companies tell us what is in the product.
For instance, Do you know that when you use "Simple Green" with it s environmentally charming assertions about how it doesn't affect streams or waterways, you are inhaling ether, and absorbing i through your skin if you don't use gloves? ! Bet you didn't know that. Ether was banned on account of how it builds up in our bodies, so that the lives of anesthesiologists would be spared, bu there are no laws prohibiting ether being in cleaning products! (By the way the initial, Roundup Test that supposed showed it was safe involved Monsanto researchers feeding it to dogs, which is a crap research test, because when glyphosate is ingested, it performs differently and involves different immune pathways than when it is inhaled. Since RoundUp is inhaled, then the whole test was pointless, but it was this initial test that allowed Monsanto to get the EPA to sign off on licensing the product for sale to the general public. (Monsanto also lied about the fact their product contained formaldehyde, as without an aldehyde the stuff would be in cake-like form and not sprayable.)
July 3rd, '13, Prosecution against Brad Manning Rests -
Next week the defense arguments will begin.
Among the various charges for which he faces the military court in this trial, are allegations that he stole, purloined, or knowingly converted “to his use or the use of another, a record or thing of value of the United States or of a department or agency thereof” and “of a value of more than $1000? in violation of a statute prohibiting the embezzlement of government property.
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Embarrassing’ Holes as US Govt Rests Case Against Bradley Manning
By Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org
July 3rd, 2013
Defense team now expected to motion for dismissal of charges for ‘lack of evidence’
Take action for Brad see below article
After 14 days and 80 witnesses, the United States government prosecuting Pfc. Bradley Manning in the long-awaited trial against the military whistleblower has rested their case.
As Manning’s defense team prepares to present their case next week, they are hoping Manning’s prospects have risen after the government was forced to close their portion of the trial with an “embarrassing admission” that the Army had misplaced Manning’s military contract, the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) , which laid out the terms of his access to classified information.
Over three years after being arrested for leaking details of military atrocities and intelligence to WikiLeaks, Manning is on trial for 21 charges including aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence.
Ahead of the trial, Judge Colonel Denise Lind stated that in order to prove their charge of ‘aiding the enemy’ the prosecution must demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that Manning had “a general evil intent,” in that he “had to know he was dealing, directly or indirectly, with an enemy of the US.”
Lind added that the soldier cannot be found guilty if he acted “inadvertently, accidentally, or negligently.”
Full article at URL http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-3
If you' re strongly Pro Choice, then you should support Ed Snowden.
Stop and think about it - should the Republicans ever take over the nation and install their total agenda of Government and Church control over a woman's body, just what do you think the NSA spying would be used for then?
Do you think the surveillance might enable someone to know if you went somewhere and had an abortion?
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