Just a quick update: the pile of wood-chips, before being wetted and packed down to condense the digestion-properties and create more heat, is already 112 degrees.

I believe that based on this, we could get temps north of 125 degrees through effective wetting and packing of the chips around the water-coil. So I am going to attempt to construct the mound without shredding the chips, and see what happens.

No one will argue that Bernie Madoff didn’t deserve to go to prison. However, let’s take a moment to consider why Bernie is going to jail while the Banks That Broke The World, the architects of the derivatives fraud and the real estate bubble fraud, and Hank Paulson, the architect of the nation’s biggest ever government sanctioned money laundering operation are still free. I have a couple ideas.

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009: Iran's "Revolution": How Much Does Obama Know?

Thanks to the Institute for Social Ecology's Brian Tokar for passing on this analysis from Reese Ehrlich at Z magazine.

The bottom line - what's happening in Iran right now is complicated. 

Black and white is impossible to discern.

But let's be honest about the motives and strategies of ALL the players.

Time will tell re: who knows what.

Editor's note: We received this thoughtful missive from Dick Mills, who hailed us as "a full time cruising
sailor." 

He and his wife live full time aboard their sailing vessel
Tarwathie. 

Home port - South Burlington. 

Read Dick’s blog at
dickandlibby.blogspot.com. 

Centre for Global Research's Jonathan Mowat's analysis (with hyperlinks!) is the most helpful article I have found to date on the ways in which the U.S. Empire uses social media and other media-driven tactics to "destabilize" other governments.

Our new GOOD CAUSES column is published by Sherwood Ross. At least the Romans gave Jesus a trial.

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by Dana Dwinell-Yardley

I'm blogging from Salt Lake City, Utah — here for the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. What does a religious gathering have to do with the movement for Vermont independence? Well, Friday night I heard a sermon that every activist, every hardworking do-gooder, everyone who's ever bemoaned the craziness of their schedule or the weight of their responsibilities — and that just about covers all of us — should hear.

My Dad taught me that. He was a doctor.

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MY FIRST IN A SERIES OF PERSONAL STORIES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE.
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My grandfather was a Christian Scientist. His only son (my father) became a doctor. Figure that one out. But that's half of my lineage—as far as I know it.