By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, April 5th, 2008, 1:36 pm
Filed under: The Daily Connect
- The Cassini spacecraft has detected a high density of water vapor, warmth, and organic chemicals on Saturn’s small moon, Enceladus. Scientists are excited by this discovery, which brings them one step closer to eventually finding sexy alien girlfriends. Correction: scientists and bloggers are excited.
- A Texas scientist is getting an annual yield of 100,000 gallons of bio-fuel per acre from algae cultivated in long rows of vertically hanging plastic bags which look like otter pops. Bio-fuel is hardly a clean energy and is worse than gasoline in many respects, but it is increasingly profitable and trendy so who the fuck cares? My distaste for scams aside, I wonder if the corn farmers of America will break this guy’s legs for cutting in on their bio-diesel territory, or if they’ll just get their genetically-modified sentient crops to do it for them.
- Brasscheck TV posted a video featuring old man Gravel and investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who both cut through the bullshit. I can only imagine that this kind of information will kill the Clinton and Obama campaigns since Americans undoubtedly care more about disastrous imperialist policy and corporate backers than how much you cry or what your preacher said, right?
- When General Petraeus faces Congress next week, he’ll be questioned by presidential candidates McCain, Clinton, and Obama. Who thinks there’s a chance that the two Democrats who haven’t been able to say that all troops will be out of Iraq by the end of their first term, or that nuclear war against Iran is off the table will actually risk their political aspirations by challenging Petraeus on an unpopular war which has killed over 1 million people? I say a confrontation is unlikely, but I’ve been accused of being low on hope.
- Ecuador’s popular assembly has approved a law banning foreign military bases, which means that the US will likely lose one of its most important strategic bases in the region in 2009. Earlier this year, President Correa said he would consider renewing the US lease on the Manta military base in exchange for an Ecuadorian military base in Florida. I think I’ve got a man crush on the big brass balls of leftist South American leaders. I’ll take defiance over hope any day.
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