Algae Against Climate Change

Algae growth in agricultural run off is problematic however the way that algae is seen is changing. From environmental scourge to financially profitable and environmentally beneficial.


The carbon cycle for traditional fossil fuels:
Release carbon by burning fossil fuels to dig up more fossil feuls, which will be burnt and add more carbon to the atmosphere.

The carbon cycle for algae fuels:
Soak up nitrites and other run off commercial farms. Soak up carbon from the atmostphere or better yet from some commercial source of carbon dioxide. Produce Algae.
Energy required to separate algae from water which may release carbon.
Energy required to separate oil from algae which may release carbon.
Ferment and burn remaining biomass to produce ethanol.
Combine ethanol and oil to produce biodiesel.
Release carbon as biodiesel and excess ethanol are burned.

The essential difference is that we are not digging up ancient carbon and adding it the the atmosphere.

"Henken-Mellier calculates that "the capture of just 10 percent of the gases emitted by the Farge plant means a reduction of 600 tonnes daily of carbon dioxide."

According to Thomsen, the area of a greenhouse capable of absorbing the carbon dioxide from a 350-megawatt electrical plant and transforming it into biofuel would have to be 25 square kilometres and would cost some 480 million dollars.

Isaac Berzin, of GreenFuel, says that to capture the carbon dioxide released by a 1,000 gigawatt generate would require an algae greenhouse between eight and 16 square km, which could produce more than 150 million litres of biodiesel and 190 million litres of ethanol.
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The full article is available here.

Iraq Update September 2007

"The occupation is not benign. It is profoundly painful, humiliating, and lethal."

A fire has been started and its going to go on for quite some time. All indications are that the war in Iraq is going from bad to worse. There are no signs of a reduction in the level of violence and every indication that the sectarian flames are being deliberately stoked.

It is estimated that 1.2 Iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the invasion.

Eye Witness Account - Explosions and a Count Down to the Demolition of WTC7

Ron Paul Update

* Ron Paul's supporters are starting to come out and show themselves in larger numbers.

* The dirty tricks continue; there are new stories of Ron Paul being excluded from various events.

* Ron Paul is also winning more Straw Polls.

What's happening in Afghanistan?

The Canadian military will give 24 hours warning to a village – they’ll tell the people we are coming to your village – evacuate – and if you don’t evacuate you risk being killed. So of course people evacuate, the forces come in, they are looking for weapons, explosives, but because it is considered unsafe to go into a building because it might be booby-trapped –they just destroy every building, they destroy the homes, they destroy the farm buildings, they destroy the wells because there might be weapons hidden in the well and than they leave and tell the people they can go back. Then for some reason the Canadian military is shocked when these people become refugees instead of going back and starting all over again to rebuild their homes and their farms. This is considered to be the more humanitarian tactic that the Canadians are doing as opposed to what the Americans have often been doing - which is outright bombing of homes and farms without any warning.

Is this true? Can anyone else confirm this? This statement comes from an article posted here.

Protecting the Pro War Movement

American Democracy

Ask an uncomfortable question, get tazzered.



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I believe two of these officers have been placed on paid leave pending a review of the university police policies.



While it's too bad they didn't stand up and intervene while the incident was going on, it is good to see that the students got over their shock and have started to take action.

Anthony Sutton

Subscriber video submission

Good Cop Bad Cop Provo-Cop

The use of Agents Provocateurs by the Surete du Quebec (Quebec Provincial Police force) is still reverberating. This video mentions how similar tactics were used to rip apart U.S. civil rights movements.

Top NATO generals meet in Canada to map Afghanistan strategy

OTTAWA (CP) — NATO's top generals have arrived in Canada for a meeting to map out strategy amid growing strain in the alliance over the increasingly bloody war in Afghanistan.

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Last week Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Canada's current mission in its current "configuration" will be over in 2009.

Pellerin said that could mean simply pulling out the infantry battle group, but leaving behind support elements such as artillery and logistics.

"The other option which I hear also is that the government would pull out completely from Kandahar," said Pellerin.

"I guess we'll hear more in the throne speech, but pulling out of Kandahar with the excuse that we've taken our casualties, done the heavy-lifting, it's now time for somebody else to me is not a very mature option."

Canada will be pulling out of the Afghanistan mission because new evidence has come to light. While distasteful the Taliban are not responsible for the events of September 11th. America is a liar and has proven that she cannot be trusted. She has fabricated stories to justify the invasion of two nations and starting a Global War of Terror. Canada trusted America and sent troops to Afghanistan to support her in a time of need. Now that we know she lied we are morally obligated to end this engagement. In light of the new evidence that is readily available on the internet Canada should also apologize to the people of Afghanistan; engaging in criminal acts of aggression is not something that the people of Canada or their Government will support.

Ron Paul: Momentum Growing

Ron Paul is winning straw polls and he is performing will in the debates. There is an image circulating of the txt message voting that was held following this last debate. Ron Paul won and surprisingly the networks didn't "fix" the results.

There have been reports of dirty tricks used in some of the straw polls as well. Properly registered Ron Paul supporters showing up on time being denied access to the poll is the latest example. Expect more dirty tricks, expect mass media to continue to ridicule and demean Ron Paul, understand that this is the established order attempting to thwart legitimate change.

Watch the video and hear from Ron Paul himself what he feels should be done and you will understand the broad based support Ron Paul has. "Freedom is a powerful message."

In this video clip we can hear some of the other candidates laugh while Ron Paul is stating his position on various issues.

"First they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."

Tell us what you really think about network news.

Don't hold back, just give it to us straight.

Spin: The Art of Selling War

Would you believe that there is a formula, a script? Follow the magical script and voila! support for a new war.

The History of the Secret Government

Great documentary that shows how it started following world war II, it's activities and discusses some of the ramifications of this development.

War Crimes in Iraq

Unfortunately for all of us the soldiers posted to Iraq don't seem to be well trained and seem to have some incorrect notions with regards to the law.

Here is the full article


(AP) -- Newly released documents regarding crimes committed by U.S. troops against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.

The documents, released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a lawsuit, total nearly 10,000 pages of courts-martial summaries, transcripts and military investigative reports about 22 incidents. They show repeated examples of troops believing they were within the law when they killed local citizens.

The killings include the drowning of a man soldiers pushed from a bridge into the Tigris River as punishment for breaking curfew, and the suffocation during interrogation of a former Iraqi general believed to be helping insurgents.

In the suffocation, soldiers covered the man's head with a sleeping bag, then wrapped his neck with an electrical cord for a "stress position" they insisted was an approved technique.

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer was convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush following a January 2006 court-martial.

But even after his conviction, Welshofer insisted his actions were appropriate and standard, documents show.

"The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you will get no information," Welshofer wrote in a letter to the court asking for clemency. "To put it another way, an interrogation without stress is not an interrogation -- it is a conversation."

Welshofer said in the same letter that he was "within the appropriate constraints that both the rules of law, and just as importantly -- duty, imposed on me."