"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" January 2008 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

January 2008 - Posts

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April Fools?! WSJ starts an enviro blog! by TokyoTom

"No, your computer isn't misfiring. Welcome to a new Wall Street Journal blog, Environmental Capital." So says the WSJ's announcement of its new blog, which replaces its Energy Roundup blog and, in addition to continue to track daily...
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Climate change, is democracy enough? by TokyoTom

So runs the title of a recent op-ed by David Shearman (professor of medicine in Australia) who recently co-authored the book The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy , with Joseph Wayne Smith (a US lawyer), in a series from the Pell Center...
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Interview about Vampires - Wealthy Elites Misuse Government by TokyoTom

In an interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston refers to "Corporate socialism for the politically connected rich" and discusses how the politically connected rich have gamed the system to line their pockets from the public...
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Not Climate Change Welfare, But Capitalism and Free Markets by TokyoTom

... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate...
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Harold Bloom: "The Fall of America" by TokyoTom

There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture...
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Did global warming stop in 1998? Jim Hansen says NO. by TokyoTom

Inquiring minds might want to take a quick look at what Dr. James E. Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has to say: The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the...
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