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Note the prices. http://www.lowenergydevelopments.com.au/Solar-Panel-20W-Monocrystalline   http://www.supercheapauto.com.au/online-store/products/SCA-20W-Regulated-Solar-Panel.aspx?pid=306346#Recommendations Includes 1 x 20W solar panel with kick stand, and about $10 worth of extras - like a 2A charge controller, a couple of meters of cheap cable and 2 cheap shit alligator clips..  Did that jump the price of the Low Energy Developments panel up $10, from $44 to $55? Nope - try $159.

How America’s Shale Gas Boom Threatens Families, Pets, and Food The Real Costs of Fracking by ALLISON WILSON   The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald. Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University, used a case study approach–looking at individual households–to search for possible effects (Bamberger and Oswald 2012). Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins (Colborn et al. 2011). Bamberger and Oswald’s studies, carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”. Ultimately, their research led them to consider fracking’s broader implications for farming and the food sy

I have got so much to do,that the days up getting up at 7am and reading "just a few emails" which usually includes reading enormous amounts of material, vids and some porn - and then at 4pm going, "What happened to the day?" - are long gone. I am also starting to really resent having subscribed to many news sites.... And the daily box fill of bullshit. So I have unsubscribed from heaps of things... The internet instead of being the great distraction, is now the great educator. The thing is that the ratio of of "web content" to real world learning, is rather huge... kind of like how many free books can you download and or websites like the Khan Academy - can you use... and still not get any work done? Time for the study and the work, not the distraction and the wank... mentally or otherwise. So the goofing off / skim level research / time wasting - is over. There is tremendous amounts of people doing really great things, and I figure that as an individual w

http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/north-america-wind-turbines-kill-around-300000-birds-annually-house-cats-around-3000000000.html Wind turbines kill around 300,000 birds annually, house cats around 3,000,000,000 Michael Graham Richard ( @Michael_GR) Energy / Renewable Energy September 16, 2014 CC BY-ND 2.0 Flickr   We love birds! We really do! That's why we think it's important to keep things in perspective and do the things that will really help them and make a difference. Many people have this obsession with wind turbines killing birds, probably because it's a really great story. As a meme, it really strikes the imagination because wind turbines are this green thing, right, so killing birds is antithetical to what they're supposed to be doing... But if the goal is to save birds, we have to look at the actual f

Sales man - rung the firm to price some parts..... The conversation went something like this.... SM: And where abouts are you? Moi: About halfway between City A and City B. SM was in City A. He said, "Can you come in for a look?" I said, "It's about 350Km there and it's 350Km back - that is a 700Km round trip - and I am not making a trip like this, for these parts, when you can tell me the cost of the matching part over the phone." SM then said, "Well can you go to your closest branche..... in City B?" Basically what this all came down too, is that this lazy cunt wanted me to drive all around the fucking country - because he was just too fucking lazy to flick through the catalogue of parts, that is the daily bread of their sales lines... And the conversation from his side, had been waffling along on the same brain dead bullshit through out... "This component fits X mm sized parts" - Too hard? You bet. So just do a 700Km round trip to this

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/26/climate-change-and-the-end-of-californias-big-agriculture/ Follow the Cheap Water Climate Change and the End of California’s Big Agriculture by JOSHUA FRANK   It’s bone dry in California, and as I wrote in a recent print issue of CounterPunch magazine , it’s likely to remain that way for a long, long time thanks to our warming climate. The melting ice in the Arctic is manipulating the jet stream off the coast, pushing winter storms out of California. By many accounts the California water crisis is in its infancy and we are only beginning to witness the many changes the state will face as a result. Aside from the lack of water’s many impacts – a changing environment, dead lawns, empty swimming pools – California’s agricultural industry may well experience the largest and most immediate blow. Last February, the federal government announced they were cutting off all irrigation to California’s Central Valley farmers for the rest of 2014.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/26/oh-no-the-american-jihadis-are-coming/ Stoking Fear as the US Prepares for the Next War in the Middle East Oh No! The American Jihadis are Coming! by DAVE LINDORFF   You read it in USA Today : The latest “threat to America” is “thousands of jihadis” with Western passports,” returning from battle in Syria and Iraq to wreak havoc and destruction in the “US homeland.” It’s a nightmare profoundly hoped for by the US Department of Homeland Security, that massive security-state bureaucracy looking for a raison d’être . According to the USA Today article , there “may be” thousands of so-called Islamic State fighters who have western passports, including “perhaps” some 150-300 Americans. The fear expressed in this heavy-breathing piece is that since these fighters, once in Syria or Iraq, will be coming under fire by US planes, which are bombing IS forces and, reportedly, killing hundreds of them, and that they will turn their anger fro

All I can say is... "There is a big hill like that near my place... Wood, Varnish, Cloth and a few stray motors...".

http://peninsulapress.com/2014/11/21/drive-green-for-life-program/ New program bundles solar panels, electric cars and hope for a greener grid   On Wednesday, three seemingly unassociated organizations announced a partnership they say will help consumers save money and cut back on carbon emissions, while also supporting an environmental advocacy group. Under the “ Drive Green for Life ” program, shoppers who purchase or lease a Ford Motors electric vehicle will receive a $750 discount on the lease or purchase of a home solar electric system from SunPower Corp., with SunPower donating an additional $500 to the Sierra Club for each purchase. Experts say that linking electric vehicles and the solar panels that could potentially power them could help pave the way to truly low-emission motoring. Jesse Simons, Sierra Club chief of staff. (Photo courtesy of Sierra Club) Electric vehicles are a small but

The KKK - or the Dumb Fuck White Christian Cunts, are copping a serve from Anonymous.... I hate christians, and their biggotted simpleton bullshit...... I live in an area filled with the nasty arseholes.... This is a classic video.... Prank Calling The KKK    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/21/anonymous-hackers-to-ferguson-police-we-are-the-la/ Anonymous hackers to Ferguson police: ‘We are the law now’   Two Twitter accounts belonging to the Ku Klux Klan have been taken over by the hacker collective known as Anonymous (logo pictured), after the white supremacist group threatened to use “lethal force” against looters and vandals in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. (Twitter/Anonymous) By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Friday, November 21, 2014 Hackers with the group, Anonymous , sent a stark message to police in Ferguson , as well as to Ku Klux Klan members assembled at the sc

I hate the people running Aldi.... And the Aldi marketing dept, for dishonesty, lying, the "brainless" corporate arse kissing mentality - well they tick all my boxes..... Here is one of their latest fabulous fuck ups... A BMX bike....  with description. Product Description Hi-Tensile steel frame 3-piece CRO 25/9 micro drive Rear alloy U-brake And that is it.... No stipulated frame sizes like adult, child. No minimum / maximum seat height. No handle bar width and height. No maximum rider weight. No suitability for casual riding or stunt / free style use. No listing the amount of spokes in the wheels. No listing rim and tyre brands. No axle diameter - with or without extra length for peg mounting. No listing of bearing types and sizes, free wheel or fixed hub, crank type etc., etc., etc., A high tensile steel frame? -  If a fairly soft low carbon steel is work hardened, and it's tensile strength increases, it is a HIGHER tensile strength steel, while still remaining a fairl

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/20/the-leak-that-almost-stopped-the-iraq-war/ November 20, 2014 Katherine Gun: the Spy Who Blew the Whistle The Leak That Almost Stopped the Iraq War by SAM HUSSEINI “I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. … I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people’s voice. … It could derail the entire process for war.” So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about information she leaked shortly before the invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t self-serving hyperbole. Daniel Ellsberg, who himself leaked the Pentagon Papers, has called Katharine Gun’s leak “the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen. … No one else — including myself — has ever done what Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.”And indeed, Ellsberg had asked for such a leak during this period. He had been saying during the run up to the Iraq invasion: “Don’t wait until the bo

 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/20/russia-invades-ukraine-again-and-again-and-yet-again/ The Missing Burden of Proof Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again by WILLIAM BLUM “Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops and weapons from Russia across the southeast part of the border this week.” None of the photos accompanying this New York Times story online showed any of these Russian troops or armored vehicles. “The Obama administration,” the story continued, “has asserted over the past week that the Russians had moved artillery, air-defense systems and armor to help the separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. ‘These incursions indicate a Russia

Yes while Abbott and the rest of team stupid - both at the federal government level (National) and at the state level (i.e. Victoria etc)  have been banning the installation of new wind farms and cutting the renewable energy target to the bone... or a single bone - about the size of a sardine bone... The folks in China are hammering the renewable installations.... Bang - up goes another one... Bang - up goes another one... Bang - up goes another one... http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/19/china-aiming-install-1300-mw-new-renewable-energy-capacity-week/ China Aiming To Install 1,300 MW Of New Renewable Energy Capacity A Week November 19th, 2014 by James Ayre China’s renewable energy ambitions are starting to become more clear thanks to a number of recent announcements — perhaps the most important takeaway of this new clarity is the revelation that the government there is aiming to install roughly 1300 MW of new renewable energy capacity a week, in order to meet the country’s goal of