"By the spring, the 540-foot tower will have a 100-foot receiver on top of it and there will be a field of 10,000 billboard size mirrors around the tower to produce electricity from the sun 10 to 15 hours a day."
- kennethh
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"The conundrum faced by the organ transplant industry, that the removal of vital organs kills the “donor,” can be “easily obviated by abandoning the norm against killing,"
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"If we merely have a pollution problem, then it’s time to own up to it and put into place—once and for all—measures that will eliminate the pollution. On this point, let me make the following perfectly clear: Buying carbon credits and changing CAFE standards does nothing to eliminate polluting activities. It simply shifts the blame and allows exemptions; meaning that it permits on-going pollution as long as politicians and bureaucrats continue to get paid off."
- kennethh
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"The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that doesn't exist." Rep. #DennisKucinichhttp://t.co/M4r1DXFE#Iraq#Iran
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
- kennethh
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"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
- kennethh
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