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Protests in Myanmar over persistent power shortages have provided a test of how the country's elected but military-backed government will respond to rising expectations sparked by the past year's democratic reforms.
A branch of Chinese city governments set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.
It was just a year ago that Penske Racing, or at least its NASCAR branch, appeared to be in total turmoil.
Federal energy regulators on Tuesday blamed inadequate planning and lack of grid coordination for a massive blackout last year that started with the loss of a single transmission line at an Arizona substation and quickly affected millions of people in Southern California and Mexico's Baja California.
Albert Pujols ripped a long drive down the left-field line, and the Los Angeles Angels rose in the dugout along with the crowd. The ball sliced through the heavy night air, soaring into the stands — and hooking just a few feet foul outside the yellow pole.
Maine regulators on Tuesday put three utilities on the path to distribute electricity harnessed from tides at the nation's eastern tip, a key milestone in a bid to turn the natural rise and fall of ocean levels into power.
American Electric Power Co. said Friday that its first-quarter earnings rose more than 10 percent on growing industrial demand and higher rates that offset lower power use during an extremely mild winter.
The jet-setting daughter of Uzbekistan's aging authoritarian president says she's releasing a new music album.
A Gaza official says Israeli fuel is being trucked to the Gaza Strip to power the Palestinian territory's only electricity station and ease a severe power shortage.
At the real United Nations, veto-wielding heavyweights like China, Russia and the United States dominate. In the college version, the unlikely superpower hails from rural central Michigan: tiny Alma College.
Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have detained dozens of taxi drivers for allegedly spreading "rumors" about the territory's worst power crisis in years, officials said Monday,
The Obama administration offered new guidance Friday on where wind farms should be located to reduce the number of bird deaths while promoting increased use of wind power.
Small amounts of Israeli fuel were trucked into the Gaza Strip on Friday, slightly easing an energy crisis provoked by a cut-off of Egyptian fuel, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
Idaho Power Co. wants regulators to let it hike residential customers' rates by an average of $3.56 monthly, to pay for a new natural gas power plant that's nearly completed.
NASCAR had its big fire moment at Daytona 500, when a jet fuel fire raged across the track.
Sometimes it seems as though the people here have only the sun and moon: the blinding sun that bakes their mud homes and moonlight that with flickering gas lamps fights against the dark of night.
The Florida Public Service Commission has cut by nearly 40 percent of an annual revenue increase sought by Gulf Power Co.
The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia.
Heavy Metal is the music of rage and triumph. War is the customary theater for both these emotions, so it is no surprise that combat and destruction often is the subject of metal lyricists. The epitome of this marriage of mayhem and guitars is the Swedish power metal band Sabaton …
Colonized by Corporations ~~~ Karl Marx and the 'Lumpenproletariat'The squabbles among the oppressed, the political campaigns between candidates who each are servants of colonial power, Gamer writes, absolve the actual centers of power from addressing the conditions that cause the frustrations of the people. Inequities, political disenfranchisem …
Chicago office workers told to dress down during NATO summit: "Look like protesters" - Consumer News - Crain's Chicago BusinessCBRE Inc., which manages the office building at 1 E. Wacker Drive, has told tenants their employees should stay away from wearing suits, urging workers to "look like a protester," according to an email sent by one tenant to its employees, which was obtained by Crain's.
Dark thoughts with ideas of recoil To bind a hurt is need. Doubt of self, cause or principle, Burrows its way to become a seed. Good fight on battlefield, Of mind and spirit. Often too late before Realities in it. Time from trenches, Of blood and flesh. Leaves open a path, Of pa …
Where's Your Shame, Woman? Women Responsible For for All Social Ills Ever wonder what goes on inside the small minds of fundamentalist men? Want to know how they justify their blatant anti-woman policies and practices? Are they for real? Do they even know how hateful and intolerably ignorant they sound? "It is not in them to handle power …
(The death penalty was abolished in Britain years ago, so this article really refers to America's continued use of it.) For me the death penalty is not a deterrent because, quite simply, people do not think about the consequences of their crime when they are committing it. They …
undersea-cables-and-power-plays/Geothermal energy, a thought-provoking resource that struck the fancy of Hawaiian royalty decades before statehood, is gathering steam as a viable replacement for petroleum-based energy.
Solar panels cause clashes with homeowner groups - From the Wires - Salon.comThe government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not. It’s a lesson Angel and David Dobs discovered when their homeowners association north of Atlanta denied their request to install so …
Sugarland Wind Farm, Florida's First, Approved With Bird And Wildlife ProtectionWhile Sugarland Wind sounds more like a stop along Candy Land’s winding road than an actual wind energy project, it’s a little bittersweet for some tastes. However, Wind Capital Group’s Sugarland project just got unanimous approval from the Palm Beach County …
About a week ago I did a little piece on the song "We're Not Gonna Take It." This week the new song is "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi. Being a Libertarian I tend to notice songs that have more of a independent tone to it. Songs that inspire individuality and risk I …
Obama the TragedyA second term for Barack Obama will be a tragedy. His farcical first term barely hinted at the disaster awaiting America in Barack II. Hobbled by a staggering lack of judgment and competence, and his ever-present reticence to make decisions that might impede his re-election, hi …
Greenpeace may have wildly exaggerated its claims about Apple's "dirty" data centersBut according to Apple, it’s not the one behind the curve here. And, more to the point, it says Greenpeace has gotten its numbers wrong. According to Apple, its Maiden, North Carolina, data center requires just 20 megawatts when it’s running full bore, and well ove …
In the final analysis, it really isn't about avoiding racism or any other ism. It is about simple, unambiguous RESPECT to another. This is usually demonstrated by positivity, not negative labels or odious descriptions. 'Gingerbread man' might come into one of those neutral categ …
NRC: Fire At Nuke Plant Was Serious Threat - KLINAfter carefully monitoring the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant during last years historic Missouri River flooding, which resulted from very heavy snowfall during the winter of 2010-11, and monitoring dam releases of huge amounts of melting snow from the northern regions, there i …
'US domestic policies harm minorities, mainly African-Americans'What you’re seeing with this Trayvon Martin case is a clear example of a justice system that is tilted in favor of the white Americans. I’ll give you a good example. Had Trayvon Martin been the shooter, he would have been locked up. There would have been no ques …
Obama commits to MORE Bull@!$%# Jobs....REALLY!!President Obama's Department of Agriculture (USDA) committed $5 million today to the construction of a "biogas anaerobic digester" that will use cow manure to heat an ethanol plant and create 15 permanent jobs.Western Plains Energy, LLC, a Kansas company, will use the money to …
NRC to Visit Troubled California Nuke Plant at San OnofreThe twin reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant have been sidelined, more than 300 tubes that carry radioactive water will be scrapped because of excessive wear, and investigators are trying to figure out why tubing is rattling inside the lungs of the plant — its massiv …
Energy level at big bang machine turned up - Technology & science - Science - msnbc.com— Scientists say a Big Bang machine, where high-energy beams of protons are sent crashing into each other at incredible speeds, is now able to operate at a record new energy level, improving the prospect of scientific breakthroughs
San Onofre nuclear power plant prohibited from restartingThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, citing serious concerns about equipment failures at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, has prohibited Southern California Edison from restarting the plant until the problems are thoroughly understood and fixed.
I witnessed this. I really, really, truly saw this with my own eyes. Just ask Bob. /s/ "Okay people," she clapped her hands, "Let's all sit down now. There's plenty of chairs so just pick one and pull it into a circle around me." She nodded her head, "That's fine Mr. Romney, you …
Wanted: A bully to end bullying (+Video)Schools worldwide book him to put a stop to bullying. One Minnesota community promised him $20,000 to get him to come to town for two weeks last fall. He calls himself The Scary Guy, and his price tag can run as much as $6,500 a day. The Scary Guy is his legal name -- we check …
Orifice Politics; What the War on Women is Really AboutAfter weeks of pondering what the "war on women" is really about, I've finally had an epiphany. It never seemed sufficient to me that laws mandating women's bodies be medically invaded, having their access to contraception curtailed, or abrogating the constitutional right to a …
Thanks to Newsvine, since 2008, I have been able to watch the American elections from close quarters; to see the progress or fall of the leading candidates and to even have my two cents worth from the hustings. For years, there appeared to be no other choices but white male …
The worst things about being a manager If you ask 10 senior executives if they like their jobs, I bet most would say yes. That's what I would have said back when that was my job. Pay, power, perks -- what's not to like, right? Not exactly. You see, a funny thing happens when you've been out of "the life" for a whil …
Solar power station in Spain works at nightFUENTES DE ANDALUCIA, Spain — A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night. Energy is stored in a vat filled with molten salts at a temperature of more …
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