doug korthof
Technically trained in mathematics, history and philosophy, formerly in the recycling business, IT teacher, contract programmer and freelance environmental campaigner.
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Loss of Meaningful Jobs: The Real Reason for Our Debt and Deficit"FEE-TRADE": Spending is not the cause of high debt, it's our inability to pay for oil and other imports.
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Tax the Rich, Nurture the Middle ClassThe solutions to our problems are right in front of us, but "scales" cloud our vision -- vested interests that lie, cheat and steal.
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Imports and Oil Are Impoverishing AmericaWe need protective tariffs to build up good USA jobs, and an end to oil imports and oil wars. End oil now, let American ingenuity take over to build plug-in cars, a solar panel industry, and good manufacturing jobs. -
Medical Establishment Suppresses Valuable DrugsSuppression of drugs like cannabis (marijuana) and ma huang (Ephedra Sinica) is a baffling result of the medical establishment even though these drugs were used for millenia and grow freely as weeds.
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Chevron and GM Worked Together to Kill Nickel Batteries, the Only Proven EV BatteriesExposes the hidden connection between GM and Chevron which resulted in stopping production of plug-in cars in Nov., 2002, and to this day stops use of Nickel batteries for plug-in cars. -
Democrats Had Their Chance but Failed Us -- and AmericaWe know how to eliminate oil addiction, get us off coal, and bring jobs back to America: rooftop solar power and plug-in electric cars, made here and fueled here. But Dems avoid doing anything to discomfort Big Oil, Big Coal or Dem Unions.
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GMAC "bailout" Grants Rebates to Gas-guzzlersBailing out GMAC, unlike banks, isn't secured by real estate. Rather, we should require auto makers to sell plug-in cars; if you could buy one, it would more than pay for a rooftop solar system with the money you didn't spend on gas. -
Ashes of the Bush Oil-empire and Obama's Anti-Bush Speech of 2002Reviewing the false idea that we need oil to run our society. -
Ethanol Frenzy: The Truth About EthanolGood and bad results follow from the current increase in ethanol use, corn price, and acreage devoted to corn growing. Ethanol won't replace much of the gasoline we use, but the hype may help formerly ignored farmers.
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After the FallIf tyranny comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and holding a cross
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Do-nothing Energy Bill Proves Big Oil Runs CongressFailed Democratic attempt to de-fang Big Oil failed because oil controls top Democrats, too
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Plug-in Cars Pay for Rooftop Solar Power: Why Chevron Hates This IdeaNot only are plug-in Electric cars clean and avoid funding oil wars, but they can help fund clean solar power to charge them up. -
Freeways Correlated with Permanent Lung Damage in Nearby ResidentsWithout effective planning and resolute action, nothing will be done to address the pollution crisis that has been found to permanently stunt kids lung growth, as well as other significant health issues. -
Democrats Can End Bush War by Revoking War Authorization ResolutionInstead of being drawn into debates about how to reduce funding while not abandoning our troops in the field, Congress can simply exercise its Constitutional duty of waging war by revoking the resolution that arguably gives Bush the power to attack Iraq.
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Prius is the Villain, Not a BenefitHybrids that can't plug in get all of their energy, ultimately, from the gasoline pump. Unless the Electric car can plug in, it's no threat to the oil companies and no help in reducing our oil dependence. -
Homeless Problem: No Problem for Those Not HomelessSuggests reasons for failure of existing attempts to deal with the homeless, analysis of some problems and of the classes of homeless, and proposes outlines of several programs that might be efficacious.
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America Needs to Rise to Global Warming Challenges, Not Fear ThemCalls for a series of policies and actions that can be fostered by individual Citizens and petitions. We can reverse climate change, but only if we act. -
America Must Collar the Oil Companies, Free Electric Car Batteries, and Tax OilDemocrats must do more than just pay back their contributors. Real energy independence can only be achieved when our fate is taken out of the hands of the oil companies. Why rely on the oil companies to solve the problem of our oil dependence?
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Tragedy of Iraq is a Conceptual Failure to Define Goals and TermsIraq and Viet Nam compared as involving a failure of the terms of discourse, and contrasted with inevitable, historic events such as WW-I.
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Energy Independence: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Are Not the AnswerEvery fuel cell car depends on a battery and electric motor for traction power, but also depends on carrying a supply of Hydrogen gas. This is not a viable solution, considering what it takes to make the hydrogen.
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General Motors Flails...and Fails the USAGM history of supporting gasoline dependence, and its general decline, is mirrored today by its abandonment of its one-time lead in Electric and plug-in hybrid cars.