Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Position available : id : (F576XLEBU4Q968627)...

Hey - I don't need the work, but if any of you do, please contact this company, I'm sure it's legit, the penultimate line says "This letter is an official job invitation and it has nothing to do with any suspicious activities."


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Greetings,

Please, look at following offer.
Our company is called Transit Delivery Escrow incorporated. We are currently recruiting employees to fill in the position in the shipping processing and courier service department. Our recruiting department searches for candidates on the web, so if you have received this letter, that means that your CV has been seen on the web by the online recruiting department managers.

TDE inc is a European company based in Poland(city of Krakov) that provides retail sales and forwarding of many products(mostly modern electronics devices) and selling it to European customers. We are growing and continue to develop since 2005.

To fulfill your duties you will need to be able to receive the items and to send them off via United States Postal Service and many other structures.

There are totally no investments from your side. Salary is $1500 monthly minimal amount and it is built from each task rate with unlimited peak.

 You are required to have/be:
- 18 years old minimum
- be located at designated address on a regular basis
- be available to work on PC with internet access
- have day time contact phone number


There is no need in any storage.

This letter is an official job invitation and it has nothing to do with any suspicious activities.

If you are interested, please contact us via email.


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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The truth about renewable energy: Inexpensive, reliable, and inexhaustible | Grist

I know we'll get to a point where even the entrenched opponents recognize we're better off collectively in so many ways - maybe it's that term "collectively" that bothers them - or at least they can spin that fear. But I think it's their bottom line.


I heard it put in perspective the other day, something I've said - the old adage of "what's good for GM is good for America" isn't true, and hasn't been when "GM" is replaced by "Multinational Corporation".  Why do we allow large multinational corporations ANY say in our politics?  Exxon-Mobil (and many other companies) has a larger "GNP" than many nations.   But they're not American companies - and have no patriotic allegiance to the U.S. - and will make decisions on what's best for their bottom line.  Not what's good for America...and since they're energy companies, they see competition for their bottom line in renewables, and have spread FUD about it for years. 

The truth about renewable energy: Inexpensive, reliable, and inexhaustible | Grist:

"[A]s technological advances and plummeting costs drive explosive growth — U.S. installed wind capacity has grown sevenfold to nearly 47 gigawatts in the last seven years — real-world experience is shattering long-held assumptions every day. Even ardent supporters of renewables may be surprised by what we’re learning."

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American

Well, this will make your day a bit cheerier...not.
       Like Wile. E. Coyote, we're heading for a fall.

"In Limits to Growth, a bitterly disputed 1972 book that explicated these findings, researchers argued that the global industrial system has so much inertia that it cannot readily correct course in response to signals of planetary stress. But unless economic growth skidded to a halt before reaching the edge, they warned, society was headed for overshoot—and a splat that could kill billions."

Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American:

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An Obama Spending Spree? Hardly (CHART) | TPMDC

If you're living in the Fox world...this seems unreal...but my Republic party friends, the truth hurts...

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An Obama Spending Spree? Hardly (CHART) | TPMDC:

"Obama’s policies, including the much-criticized stimulus package, have caused the slowest increase in federal spending of any president in almost 60 nears, according to data compiled by the financial news service MarketWatch."


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Friday, May 18, 2012

What’s the real difference between cage-free and pastured eggs? [VIDEO] | Grist

Cage free eggs...Free Range eggs...either one still has chickens sitting on top of one another indoors...the free range is a small outdoor area attached to the gargantuan coop.

I worked framing a couple of 60 ft x 400 ft coops for "fryers" back in East Texas years ago for summer work in college.  Chicken industry there has always been pretty big.  And pretty nasty.  Shove 30,000 chicks in one half of the building - auto-feed and auto-water for about 3 weeks, open the doors in the middle when they can't move around anymore and they take over the other half as well...at about six weeks they're herded into trailers at the other end and hauled to the chicken factory in town.  Factory, not the neighborhood 'butcher shop'.

I'll let you consider the working and killing conditions there.

So, how'd we get to industrial food from where we were pre-WWII? We had most of our population living rural, gardening if not farming, providing at least some of their own food, and bartering with the neighbors...w/o getting taxed on the trade either.

Well, there was depression, a dust bowl, a lot of us moved off farms to the city to get factory / industrial jobs and the small farms agglomerated into big businesses with chemical fertilizers and an automated factory mentality.  Now we're short on factory / industrial jobs, and our tech jobs are outsourced too.

We may all end up with a few chickens in the backyard, and some garden veggies just to get along.
Jefferson would have liked more of that kind of thing. We could, and maybe have, done worse.

I wish I lived one place more so I could tend garden and maybe have a chicken or two...my peripatetic life of chasing work to wherever it is will have to change though. (Not that that's a BAD thing.)

Nice little video...

What’s the real difference between cage-free and pastured eggs? [VIDEO] | Grist: "What’s the real difference between cage-free and pastured eggs? [VIDEO] By Douglas Gayeton"

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Econographia

Looking at the charts on this site, I can't understand why any U.S. American would vote for the GOP.
I include my favorite two charts on the blog's first page.

Econographia: "This is not a political site. It has no affiliations. The data is sourced from the various government agencies responsible for compiling data on the performance of our Nation’s economy. These include the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Census Bureau, and others."





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Monday, May 7, 2012

U.S. could make $15.1 billion on AIG bailout: GAO | Reuters

U.S. could make $15.1 billion on AIG bailout: GAO | Reuters: "U.S. could make $15.1 billion on AIG bailout: GAO"

and...oil imports down from over 60% to just over 40%, bin Laden gone, economy better - but not fixed - still the world countries buy T-Bills over anything else, more domestic oil production than ever...I could go on, but, what the hell are republican voters whining about...oh, yea, he's the democrat president they've sworn to block no matter what.  Country be damned - party first...

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