Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Stephan: Germany is fascinating to watch because they, as a nation, really get the importance of breaking the hallucination that enthralls us to non-geographical corporate carbon energy interests.
For the first time on an industrial scale, hydrogen produced using wind power is being injected into the natural gas grid in Germany. It’s a development that could enhance the value of wind power by making it useful no matter when it is produced.
E.On said the P2G unit in Falkenhagan in eastern Germany, operated in a partnership with Swissgas AG, has a capacity of 2 megawatts and can pump out 360 cubic meters of hydrogen every hour. In a sign of the potential of the technology, its inauguration drew a crowd that included the German economics minister, members of the European parliament and high officials of Brandenburg state.
‘One of the biggest challenges of transforming Germany’s energy system is finding ways to integrate the increasing share of intermittent, renewable-source energy,
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
CHRISTOPHER FREEBURN, Writer - Investor Place
Stephan: It is the nature of Nature that species adapt and evolve. How this simple truth got overlooked by the GMO industry should be a matter of much discussion. Of course it is not though. The massive disinformation campaign pushed by both the corporations, corporate media, and the government itself makes it very difficult to actually find out what is going on. It is to address this disinformation that I do so many stories on this trend.
Scientists in Illinois have detected something they call ‘alarming
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
NAFEEZ AHMED, PHD, executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: The endless war has been presented as being about many things. But, in truth, in my opinion, it has always been about carbon energy, and the advancement of the carbon industry corporations, and the people that control them. Everything else is window dressing. Here is an excellent assessment of what I mean.
On 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad’s forces.
The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics. The case for action at first glance is indisputable. The UN now confirms a death toll over 100,000 people, the vast majority of whom have been killed by Assad’s troops. An estimated 4.5 million people have been displaced from their homes. International observers have overwhelmingly confirmed Assad’s complicity in the preponderance of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Syrian people. The illegitimacy of his regime, and the legitimacy of the uprising, is clear.
Experts are unanimous that the shocking footage of civilians, including children, suffering the effects of some sort of chemical attack, is real – but remain divided on whether it involved military-grade chemical weapons associated with Assad’s arsenal, or were a more amateur concoction potentially linked to the rebels.
Whatever the case, few recall that US agitation against Syria began long before recent atrocities, in the context of wider operations […]
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
JAMES BALL, - The Raw Story/The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: The true reach and penetration of the American police state is being revealed step-by-step. Story-after-story comes out making it clear that every aspect of our lives is being monitored, and yet it is occurring almost without a demur. This is something I saw in the old Soviet Union. It is impossible to live one's life having always in the forefront of one's mind, that whatever is being said or done is being digitally recorded. So a kind of collective denial arises.
Hemisphere project, revealed by NYT, has AT&T employees sit alongside drug units to aid access to data in exchange for payment
US law enforcement officers working on anti-drugs operations have had access to a vast database of call records dating back to 1987, supplied by the phone company AT&T, the New York Times has revealed.
The project, known as Hemisphere, gives federal and local officers working on drug cases access to a database of phone metadata populated by more than four billion new call records each day.
Unlike the controversial call record accesses obtained by the NSA, the data is stored by AT&T, not the government, but officials can access individual’s phone records within an hour of an administrative subpoena.
AT&T receives payment from the government in order to sit its employees alongside drug units to aid with access to the data.
The AT&T database includes every phone call which passes through the carrier’s infrastructure, not just those made by AT&T customers.
Details of the program – which was marked as law enforcement sensitive, but not classified – were released in a series of slides to an activist, Drew Hendricks, in response to freedom of information requests, and then passed to reporters at the New York […]
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
JEFF SPROSS, - Think Progress
Stephan: Here is yet another report showing us that if we could emerge from our carbon energy trance there is an entire world of non-polluting energy available to us, as well as a potential freshwater source, which is equally important. Water is destiny. In this, and the next story on Germany, you can see what the transition out of carbon energy looks like when it works.
In contrast consider America's insistence on the continuation of carbon energy, most recently through Fracking, whose results are now well-known.
As citizens we must demand that the government focus on noncarbon technologies in service to our interests, as a people, with national wellness as the first priority. It is not the technology but the political will that is lacking. If enough people vote, and make the most compassionate life-affirming decision possible, we can change this. The power of collective intention expressed through voting is a great force.
Click through to see the useful graphic.
A new project in Australia aims to create freshwater by harnessing the kinetic force of ocean waves, RenewEconomy reports. Run by the Perth-based firm Carnegie Wave Energy in cooperation with the Water Corporation, and supported by a $1.27 million grant from the Australian Federal Government’s AusIndustry Clean Technology Innovation Program, the plant will use Carnegie’s proprietary CETO wave energy technology to power reverse osmosis desalination. The resulting process, free of carbon emissions, ‘will be a world first
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