Dispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #3B: Business Viability and Consumer Value
This is the 4th (and likely next-to-last) diary in a series on the current state of electric vehicles (EVs), focusing on the US, that started last month. Diaries #1 and #2 dealt with environmental...
View ArticleWhat's Behind Israel's Boom-and-Bust Economic Cycles? It's the Occupation, Silly
I have been away from Israel-Palestine blogging, happily moonlighting about EVs instead......well, that's not quite true. I've raised a bit of I-P ruckus lately - but in Hebrew. In August I researched...
View ArticleWhite Man's Burden - the Israeli Occupation Version
(this on-the-ground report and analysis by scholar-activist David Shulman, with some additions and links by yours truly, is crossposted from the Villages Group Blog)Dear Friends, By a miracle of...
View ArticleDispelling Electric-Vehicle Myths, #4 (and last): Technology Aspects
Hooray! I am about to achieve a Daily Kos first for me: to actually complete a diary series as promised.This is the 5th and last diary in a series on the current state of electric vehicles (EVs),...
View ArticleUPDATE History by Ordinary People: Father-Daughter Pair Doing 6-Day Electric...
(h/t to the insideevs.com electric vehicle blog, for alerting me about this story)On Tuesday, John, a 62-year-old man from Kentucky, posted this laconic message on the Tesla owner online forum: Heading...
View ArticleWhat to tell Climate-Confused Friends? That You don't "Believe" in Global...
As global warming comes back to the fore of public discourse, environmentalists wonder how to overcome the polarization (this New Hampshire poll finds global warming to be the most partisan issue,...
View ArticleAbout Gaza.
The 2014 Gaza war looks more and more like a sports competition between the leaderships of Israel and Hamas, to see who will emerge more stupid and evil. So far "my" side (that would be Israel) is...
View ArticleGaza War (w/UPDATE): Will Obama back up his Secretary of State?
A few months ago, when Secretary of State John Kerry amped up his efforts to get an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, senior members of the Israeli resorted to attacking him personally, while throwing...
View ArticleBREAKING: 72-Hour Gaza Ceasefire Announced
Jointly by Ban Ki-Moon and John Kerry.Yesterday we tried to postpone our 15-year-old son's trip to Israel by a few days but there were no spots. It was either go tomorrow (Friday), or cancel. He really...
View ArticleGAZA CEASEFIRE COLLAPSES: Here's What I Wrote President Obama
Gaza has been a bit off the headlines the last week, because there were 9 consecutive days of cease-fire, in installments of 3+5+1, each time the extension being agreed upon in the last moment.There...
View ArticleW/Update: I just sent this to NPR to protest their shameful non-coverage of...
If your experience with NPR coverage today (or tomorrow, Monday) was similar, use this link to contact them. Thank you. Dear Ombudsman, Today over 300,000 people marched in New York for climate action....
View ArticleExpand the Site's F#$#%@g Mission, Kos!
...this being my modest contribution to the post-2014-midterms discussions...I feel we haven't quite come to terms with our site's collective, colossal failure in its main declared mission. It is not...
View ArticleGuess what Topic is *NOT* Mentioned by the Main Contenders in Israel's Election?
Shuja'iyya, Gaza, Winter 2015: a resident walks in what used to be a street. (Anne Paq / Activestills) Yes, the same Gaza that reigning Israeli PM "Bibi" Netanyahu had launched two wars against in...
View ArticleAP: 75%-90% of Deaths from Israel's "Precision" Air Strikes Last Summer were...
In my last diary a couple of weeks ago, I promised to be more "in your face", writing more regularly about Gaza rather than wait for the next round of mayhem or warfare. Since then I've been a bit...
View ArticleIsraeli Elections Tomorrow: A Primer, and What to Watch for (UPDATE beautiful...
Ok, I guess it's time for my traditional pre-Israeli-elections diary. I posted one in 2009 and two in 2012/3 (one and two). The Israeli election system is so different from the US's, that it seems some...
View ArticleLesson #0 From Gaza Soldier Testimonies: WHERE'S THE WAR ???
Last week, the Israeli dissident organization "Shovrim Shtika" (Hebrew), or "Breaking the Silence" (English), has released a booklet with 111 soldier testimonies from last summer's war on Gaza.The...
View ArticleThe EV Future is Here: 107-mile Nissan Leaf, 53-mile Chevy Volt + UPDATE
Electric vehicles (EVs) suffer from extremely hostile media. When they get mainstream headlines, it's because a random bit of data has suddenly "proven" some preconceived anti-EV canard. Either that,...
View ArticleNPR Morning Edition Stenographing House GOP Extremist Faction for 10+ Minutes
I just had a dose of NPR morning edition, not really by choice - I'd rather get my news online from Daily Kos, The Guardian, etc. - but because my wife likes to listen to them 24/7.Of course, the GOP...
View ArticleIsrael's PM: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate Jews - Palestinian Leader Gave...
No. This is not The Onion. And to make it more farcical, Bibi said it last night, in a speech in English at the World Zionist Congress: (there's a video in the link as well) In a speech before the...
View Article+UPDATE+ Simple answer to anti-electric-vehicle talking points: "Never Show a...
This is a slight modification of a post I wrote for insideevs.com a few weeks ago. I was hesitating whether to cross-post it here — and now my curiosity about writing diaries in DK5 has tipped the...
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