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Iran: Ballots Exceeded Voters by Millions
Wired
Not the exhaustive treatment we usually see from Zetter. This story has more questions than facts, and some of the facts are not well backed up. The questions are good ones, and I hope ... More »
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06/23/2009 |
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Column: Dressing up the Palestinian state
Jerusalem Post
On one hand this seems to take the Palestinian side. But it asks reasonable questions that the Israelis should consider, and is ultimately more practical than biased.
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06/23/2009 |
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Pregnancy "options" counselors: Give birth!
Salon
Commentary on a video expose revealing the deceptive practices of strictly pro-life pregnancy counseling centers. The first person stories and pro-choice expert opinions are good, but ... More »
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06/19/2009 |
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Why the official Iranian election results are suspect
McClatchy (Mike submitted this story)
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06/18/2009 |
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Voting Machine Company Agrees to Hand Over Source Code
Wired
All factual and accurate, backed up with 9 source links. Apart from the links, however, Andrew Appel is the only source named. The story is well explained.
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06/09/2009 |
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Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
Los Angeles Times
Plenty of facts from good sources, although the source study is not linked or even identified. Woolhandler's background as an advocate of universal healthcare is revealed, and a balancing ... More »
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06/04/2009 |
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Burris says blame impeachment panel for their questions, not him for his answers
Chicago Tribune
The approach of using factual sources instead of opinions is quite good for this story. While it uses direct quotes liberally, I think a few representations should also have been direct ... More »
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06/04/2009 |
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| Carbon capture technology tested
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06/04/2009 |
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U.S. lawmakers reject nuclear in renewable power goal
Reuters |
05/23/2009 |
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Are Wall Street speculators driving up gasoline prices? | McClatchy
McClatchy
This story uses good charts to assert a point, but relegates the balancing viewpoint to one paragraph at the end.
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05/21/2009 |
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Will China Still Bankroll Us?
New York Times |
05/18/2009 |
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Coal Supply May Be Vastly Overestimated
dsc.discovery.com
This needs more evidence to back up the claims made, and more viewpoints. The subject is very interesting, however.
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05/18/2009 |
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David Simon, Creator of Acclaimed HBO Series "The Wire": As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out
Democracy Now (Mike submitted this story)
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05/07/2009 |
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Free the Kazakhstan Internet
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04/27/2009 |
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Can we afford to eat ethically?
Salon
A very revealing first-person investigation story. All of the links and external source references are at the beginning, and they are only a small part of the story. A few more facts at ... More »
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Iran: Ballots Exceeded Voters by Millions
Wired - by Kim Zetter - Jun. 23, 2009 (News Report)
Officials found that a total of 3 million more ballots were cast in these cities than there were eligible voters, according to the New York Times. Nonetheless, the council ...
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Column: Dressing up the Palestinian state
Jerusalem Post - by Gershon Baskin - Jun. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
Let us assume for a moment that the Palestinians accept all of Netanyahu's conditions - their state will be demilitarized, it will have no effective control of its external ...
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Pregnancy "options" counselors: Give birth!
Salon - by Tracy Clark-Flory - Jun. 18, 2009 (News Analysis)
(Video - streaming) It's quite simple: Students visit these sham clinics seeking so-called "pregnancy options counseling" and then share their experience. The result is a slew of first-hand ...
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Why the official Iranian election results are suspect
McClatchy - by Warren P. Strobel - Jun. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)
In American politics, it would be as if President George W. Bush won re-election over Sen. John Kerry in 2004 by taking Kerry's home state of Massachusetts, doing surprisingly ...
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Voting Machine Company Agrees to Hand Over Source Code
Wired - by Kim Zetter - Jun. 8, 2009 (News Report)
During the city’s primary election last September, Sequoia’s optical-scan machines added about 1,500 ‘phantom’ votes to races on ballots cast in one precinct. ...
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Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study
Unknown Source - Jun. 4, 2009 (Pending)
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Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
Los Angeles Times - by Lisa Girion - Jun. 4, 2009 (News Report)
Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were insured, according to the survey, to be published in the August ...
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Are Wall Street speculators driving up gasoline prices? | McClatchy
McClatchy - by Kevin G. Hall - May. 20, 2009 (News Analysis)
Meanwhile, although refiners are operating at less than 85 percent of capacity, which leaves them plenty of room to churn out more gasoline if demand rises during the summer ...
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Coal Supply May Be Vastly Overestimated
dsc.discovery.com - by Michael Reilly - May. 11, 2009 (News Report)
Common knowledge about coal is that major producing nations like China, the United States and Australia, have enough to last hundreds of years, far beyond the reach of oil, ...
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David Simon, Creator of Acclaimed HBO Series "The Wire": As Profit Motive Guts Newspapers, Communities Lose Out
Democracy Now - by Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - May. 7, 2009 (News Report)
(Video - streaming) Testifying before a Senate hearing on the “Future of Journalism,” former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, best known as the creator of the award-winning HBO series The ...
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America refuses airspace to Air France jet citing No-Fly rules
DigitalJournal.com - by Michael Cosgrove - Apr. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)
The reason given was the presence on board of Ospina, a Monde Diplomatique correspondent. He has written many articles criticising the Columbian Government of President Alvaro ...
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Can we afford to eat ethically?
Salon - by Siobhan Phillips - Apr. 25, 2009 (Investigative Report)
Last month, a report from England found sales of some organic food had fallen up to 31 percent. Ethical food advocates have been worrying about a similar trend in this country ...
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Voting machine expert criticizes "clueless" industry report
Ars Technica - by Ryan Paul - Apr. 20, 2009 (News Report)
The Election Technology Council (ETC), a trade group comprised of the most prominent electronic voting machine vendors, has published a paper that argues against mandating ...
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No Country for Close Calls
New York Times - by Nate Silver, Andrew Gelman - Apr. 18, 2009 (Opinion)
Contests as close as these — not to mention Florida’s electoral adventures in 2000 — have led to an impression that the margin between Democrats and Republicans is ...
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GM says Volt isn't dead yet, despite panel's bleak report
McClatchy - by Renee Schoof - Apr. 8, 2009 (News Report)
President Barack Obama's auto task force last week said in an assessment of General Motors' viability that it was a full generation behind Toyota in "green powertrain ...
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Europe-U.S. trade war could spell end to Roquefort dressing
McClatchy - by Frank Greve - Apr. 8, 2009 (News Report)
By the tit-for-tat logic of playgrounds and trade disputes, if the European Union doesn't lift its 20-year beef ban, the United States gets to impose punishing tariffs on ...
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Few voter ID fraud cases found in Texas
Dallas Morning News - by Terrence Stutz - Apr. 8, 2009 (News Report)
"We can't prove there is voter ID fraud. The Democrats can't prove there isn't," said Skipper Wallace, the Republican Party chairman of Lampasas County. "We may have a big ...
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Theory of oil-shock recession
Financial Times - by Ed Crooks - Apr. 6, 2009 (News Analysis)
Other economic models do not come up with such a powerful role for oil. But, given the central importance of events such as the steep fall in vehicle sales, the general ...
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Do you remember the great oil shock of 2008?
Salon - by Andrew Leonard - Apr. 3, 2009 (Opinion)
(Blog Post) But while the question of the possible contribution of speculators and the Fed is a very interesting one, it should not distract us from the broader fact: some degree of ...
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Sustainable energy
foresight.org - Mar. 31, 2009 (Opinion)
Everybody knows that the world is running out of oil. The predicted year of the peak varies from 2000 to 2100, but it is generally conceded that it won’t last forever. Of ...
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Europe's oil refining set to shrink
Reuters - by Chris Baldwin, David Sheppard - Mar. 30, 2009 (News Report)
Europe's oil industry has for long relied on supplying the U.S. market with gasoline, but a source at Total's Gonfreville said profit margins have collapsed as gasoline ...
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Nuclear power inches back into energy spotlight
USA Today - by Paul Davidson - Mar. 30, 2009 (News Report)
Utilities are poised to build a new generation of nuclear plants 30 years after the Three Mile Island accident, whose anniversary was Saturday, halted new reactor ...
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CHEMISTRY: Producing Transportation Fuels with Less Work -- Hildebrandt et al. 323 (5922): 1680 -
Science - Mar. 28, 2009 (Pending)
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Cost Works Against Alternative Energy in Time of Recession
New York Times - by Matthew L. Wald - Mar. 28, 2009 (News Report)
And wind and solar power are generally more expensive than the fossil fuels they are meant to supplant. If carbon dioxide penalties made coal power more expensive, as some ...
About Mike
| Location | Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Electronic Signal Integrity Engineer, Cisco Systems |
| Interests | energy, elections |
| Expertise | software development |
Background
| Journalism | None |
| Education | College graduate |
| News | 60-90 minutes a day |
| Internet | 90 minutes a day or more |
| Languages | English-only |
| Politics | Center |
| Age | 50-64 |
| Gender | Male |
Contact Info
| Web Page | havenergy.civiczone.net |
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| Address | Haverhill, MA, US |
| Last Visit | Jun 25, 2009 - 2:05 PM PDT |
| Last Edit | Nov 21, 2008 - 3:45 PM PST |
Ratings Given to Members
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To Katie Rose | for Winds of Change Evident in U.S. Environmental Policy | 04/14/2009 |
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To Katie Rose | for On Energy, Let A Thousand Filaments Bloom | 04/14/2009 |
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To Katie Rose | for Cheaper Materials Could be Key to Low-Cost Solar Cells | 04/14/2009 |
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To Katie Rose | for arXiv blog: The evolution of scientific ideas | 04/14/2009 |
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To Katie Rose | for Energy and Climate Bill Advances | 04/14/2009 |
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To Jonathan Cole | for Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now | 03/24/2009 |
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From Kaizar Campwala | for Will China Still Bankroll Us? | 05/18/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Nuclear power inches back into energy spotlight | 04/14/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Drought Could Force Nuke-Plant Shutdowns | 04/14/2009 |
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From Patricia Blochowiak | for Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza's Economy | 04/11/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza's Economy | 04/10/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Grim Sleeper | 04/02/2009 |
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From Kevin Barry | for Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Draw Quality Complaints | 03/30/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for France seals African uranium deals | 03/29/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal | 03/29/2009 |
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From Nicholas Bentley | for Bad News: Scientists Make Cheap Gas From Coal | 03/28/2009 |
