Tag: color

January 11, 2013 0

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects

By News Desk

Crowded crowd-funding for solar projects On Monday, Mosaic announced it would do the first-ever crowd-funding of solar projects , with a $25 minimum investment.  Yesterday I tried to buy in myself but their four new projects are fully funded .  They look like they might be having the same problem that Kiva used to have – more money than projects (it also seems like a different model than Kiva, the money goes directly to the projects rather than paying for a general fund)

January 9, 2013 0

The Color Purple

By News Desk

9/1/13 3:20 PM Anonymous said… Apologies for being a bit off-topic, but since the New Year is often a time for catching up with the goings-on among friends like ol’ Bish, perhaps it’s worth an update on a certain Peter Wood, with whom John Mashey and other readers are familiar, whose ignorant and defamatory anti-science essays appeared at the blog Innovations , formerly hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

November 10, 2012 0

The Israeli Nightmare

By News Desk

Peace in Israel is the establishment’s worst nightmare.  an editorial by Tony Cartalucci November 10, 2012 – Israel is an excuse, a mandate, a perpetual casus belli, and both an ideological as well as literal beachhead in the Middle East. Created and propped up by the West, in particular the US and United Kingdom, it has served as the medium through which Western foreign policy flows in and out of the Arab, and to a greater extent, the Muslim World.

November 10, 2012 0

Hypocrisy: US Destroys Syria While Propping Up Cambodian Dictator

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This was first exposed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker report titled, " The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism? " In the report it specifically stated: "To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East.