Archive | May, 2008

New Electric Vehicle Podcast Launch this Week

There is a new podcast on Electric Vehicles that will begin airing on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The podcast can be accessed direct from EVcast.com or via iTunes. The pair of guys producing the podcast released the information below as background on the project.

If You Cannot Say Something Nice…

I find it very disturbing that the Republican National Committee did not learn from the trouncing they took in the 2006 midterm elections and recognize that people want to vote for a candidate and not against one. I understand that John McCain is no where near as exciting of a candidate as Barak Obama, but there must be more information about him that the GOP wants people to know about.

US Department of State Background Notes

I always keep an eye out for interesting resources that can help me – and others – make sense of the world. I found one a couple weeks ago and I’d like to share it. The U.S. Department of State issues publications called “Background Notes” for 200 nations around the world.

Green Diplomacy Unspun

The State Department released a new issue of their Green Diplomacy newsletter. I was reading it and felt like I was reading something from some alternate universe in which climate and the environment held a higher priority than say, subsidies and the highest profits in human history for the Bush administration ‘s cronies in the  Read more »

U.S. Cluster [Bleep]

Yesterday afternoon the US State department held an “On the Record” briefing on US policy in regards to Cluster weapons. If you have ever wondered why news reports from the Reuters or AFP or newspaper articles use such small quotes from press conferences, the material included below should explain why that is a normal occurrence.  Read more »