Buffalo_Nickle
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Tsunami
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Thank you for posting that CRWS. I just submitted that video link to the Mayor of Albuquerque as a money saving idea. This city is cash-strapped like every other city now and is in the process of cutting the salaries of every city worker from 2% to 5% to make ends meet.
I'll contribute this one for the technology arena:
Toyota/Tesla to Build Electric RAV4 in 2012:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38277064
It's nice to see some momentum building in getting away from wasting prescious oil for powering our motor vehicles.
And regarding Robert Plant, you made me regret not going to his concert here last Sunday. I did manage to drag the wife to the Rush concert a few weeks ago, but missed Yes as well. Some of my favorites as a teenager long ago.
Silverbird
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We have one of those outside behind the main Dept of Commerce buiding. Why they stuck it there, and we only have one, is a mystery.
crws
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just time for a quick note-
back when the GM EV was around there was EV RAV4 & Ford Ranger.
Who Killed the Electric Car-
crws
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A video regarding Afghanistan.
Concern over the fate of the current leadership post drawdown has been compared to this era, so I thought I'd look it up.
There is much to the story about the Saur Revolution, the PDPA, and the ideological battlefield between the USSR and US
that Afghanistan became. Much more than meets the eye. Fascinating.
Lots of real time footage.
http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/09/27/1996-dr-mohammad-najibullah/
1996: Dr. Mohammad Najibullah
On this date in 1996, the man who once ruled ruled Afghanistan under the aegis of a superpower succumbed
to the tender mercies of his country’s fundamentalist insurgency.
Mohammad Najibullah was the last president of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Unfortunately for Najibullah, he was on the job when Moscow decided to throw in the towel on the Soviet-Afghan War.
And from a more liberal perspective:
http://amte.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/afghanistan%E2%80%99s-saur-revolution-of-1978-and-the-u-s-backed-counterrevolution-that-followed/
PDPA members in the military, with the support of tens of thousands of others, began an uprising against the Daoud
government on April 28, 1978.
The uprising started at the Kabul International Airport and spread to the capital of Kabal within twenty-four hours. It
was there, on April 28, that revolutionary forces stormed the presidential palace and overthrew Mohammed Daoud
Khan.
Upon taking power, the revolutionaries took to the radio to declare, “For the first time, power has come to the people.
The last remnants of the imperialist tyranny, despotism and the royal dynasty have been ended.”
Two days later, hundreds of thousands of Afghans marched through the streets waving red flags and celebrating
the victory of the Saur Revolution.
Revolutionary measures
The revolutionaries moved quickly to establish the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, with a Revolutionary Council
at its head, and a provisional democratic program that guaranteed the legalization of trade unions, equal rights for
women and the separation of church and state.
In the years leading up to the Saur Revolution Afghanistan was a reactionary nightmare for the large majority
of its residents – especially women, who were fundamentally the property of their fathers or husbands to be bought and sold.
Prior to the Saur Revolution, there were only 35,000 workers employed in manufacturing in Afghanistan, while
there were some 250,000 mullahs who existed as parasites living off the poor masses.
There were no railroad tracks or highways to speak of and malnutrition and starvation was the norm.
Only 10 percent of men and 2 percent of women could read.
The average person lived just 40 years, and half of all children died before reaching the age of five.
In contrast, in the neighboring Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan nearly 100 percent of the population was
literate and life expectancy was 70.
The revolutionary Afghan government began carrying out revolutionary measures to combat the problems facing the
toilers of Afghanistan almost immediately.
The first step was to construct schools and hospitals across the country, and to train doctors and teachers.
As Saira Noorani, a female Afghan doctor, recalled in the Observer in 2001, “Life was good … Every girl could go to high school and university.
We could go wherever we wanted and wear what we liked.”
Kabul University after the Saur Revolution.
For the first time in its history, a majority of the students at the school were women.
Concern over the fate of the current leadership post drawdown has been compared to this era, so I thought I'd look it up.
There is much to the story about the Saur Revolution, the PDPA, and the ideological battlefield between the USSR and US
that Afghanistan became. Much more than meets the eye. Fascinating.
Lots of real time footage.
http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/09/27/1996-dr-mohammad-najibullah/
1996: Dr. Mohammad Najibullah
On this date in 1996, the man who once ruled ruled Afghanistan under the aegis of a superpower succumbed
to the tender mercies of his country’s fundamentalist insurgency.
Mohammad Najibullah was the last president of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Unfortunately for Najibullah, he was on the job when Moscow decided to throw in the towel on the Soviet-Afghan War.
And from a more liberal perspective:
http://amte.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/afghanistan%E2%80%99s-saur-revolution-of-1978-and-the-u-s-backed-counterrevolution-that-followed/
PDPA members in the military, with the support of tens of thousands of others, began an uprising against the Daoud
government on April 28, 1978.
The uprising started at the Kabul International Airport and spread to the capital of Kabal within twenty-four hours. It
was there, on April 28, that revolutionary forces stormed the presidential palace and overthrew Mohammed Daoud
Khan.
Upon taking power, the revolutionaries took to the radio to declare, “For the first time, power has come to the people.
The last remnants of the imperialist tyranny, despotism and the royal dynasty have been ended.”
Two days later, hundreds of thousands of Afghans marched through the streets waving red flags and celebrating
the victory of the Saur Revolution.
Revolutionary measures
The revolutionaries moved quickly to establish the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, with a Revolutionary Council
at its head, and a provisional democratic program that guaranteed the legalization of trade unions, equal rights for
women and the separation of church and state.
In the years leading up to the Saur Revolution Afghanistan was a reactionary nightmare for the large majority
of its residents – especially women, who were fundamentally the property of their fathers or husbands to be bought and sold.
Prior to the Saur Revolution, there were only 35,000 workers employed in manufacturing in Afghanistan, while
there were some 250,000 mullahs who existed as parasites living off the poor masses.
There were no railroad tracks or highways to speak of and malnutrition and starvation was the norm.
Only 10 percent of men and 2 percent of women could read.
The average person lived just 40 years, and half of all children died before reaching the age of five.
In contrast, in the neighboring Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan nearly 100 percent of the population was
literate and life expectancy was 70.
The revolutionary Afghan government began carrying out revolutionary measures to combat the problems facing the
toilers of Afghanistan almost immediately.
The first step was to construct schools and hospitals across the country, and to train doctors and teachers.
As Saira Noorani, a female Afghan doctor, recalled in the Observer in 2001, “Life was good … Every girl could go to high school and university.
We could go wherever we wanted and wear what we liked.”
Kabul University after the Saur Revolution.
For the first time in its history, a majority of the students at the school were women.
crws
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Tsu- check this out about the Ford Transit Connect EV.
http://green.autoblog.com/tag/ford+transit+connect+ev/
http://green.autoblog.com/tag/ford+transit+connect+ev/
crws
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Thanks crws. That article puts job growth in perspective. We all know that the rhetoric is all about control of power. I just want my family members to have jobs. Go Obama (jobs now please- can't wait another year
).
Sad and true.
I feel much better after finding articles like these that balance out our situation. We are stuck in our own political quagmire while the rest of the world forges ahead, and it is very disturbing to say the least.
crws
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crws
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Thanks! You and CH. The same back at ya.
crws
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another vote for the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7906732/UKs-startling-economic-growth-reignites-austerity-debate.html
UK's 'startling' economic growth reignites austerity debate
The UK economy has confounded experts in the past three months by growing at almost double the rate predicted.
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter to June leapt 1.1pc, the most since the first three months of 2006, lifting sterling 1.2pc against the dollar. Economists had forecast just 0.6pc growth.
The surge was driven by a startling recovery in construction and the resilience of Britain’s powerhouse services sector. It puts UK growth for the first half at 1.4pc – already ahead of the Treasury’s own forecasts of 1.2pc for the full 12 months.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7906732/UKs-startling-economic-growth-reignites-austerity-debate.html
UK's 'startling' economic growth reignites austerity debate
The UK economy has confounded experts in the past three months by growing at almost double the rate predicted.
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter to June leapt 1.1pc, the most since the first three months of 2006, lifting sterling 1.2pc against the dollar. Economists had forecast just 0.6pc growth.
The surge was driven by a startling recovery in construction and the resilience of Britain’s powerhouse services sector. It puts UK growth for the first half at 1.4pc – already ahead of the Treasury’s own forecasts of 1.2pc for the full 12 months.
crws
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As much as I am learning about the charts and the art of their interpretation, it just seems to me, at least in this time frame, that the world of instant information has resulted in an instant reaction as far as the markets are concerned.I don't comment much on news articals, but I do skim through them, thank you for your continious post-whoring contributions.
If the economy were headed in a well defined direction, one way or the other, then I could see charting scenarios as much more relevant over the short term.
Just seems like the news drives this ADHD 3-5 day market. IMHO, of course! BWTFDIK :laugh:
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