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The Hydrogen Revolution: Game-Changing Developments Loom for Global Energy Supply
Post Date: 2015-04-03 07:33:43 by Operation 40
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With zero emissions, hydrogen has long been regarded as a highly promising green fuel. But difficulties in transporting and storing this highly volatile gas, along with slow development of the necessary infrastructure, have kept progress stalled until relatively recently. But 2014 was a big year for hydrogen energy in Japan. An expert on the topic looks to what the future may hold. Long-Awaited Progress on Hydrogen Energy The year 2014 was when real progress finally started to be seen in the use of hydrogen energy. In June, the Ministry for Economy, Trade, and Industry’s Council for Strategy on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells compiled its “Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen and Fuel ...
Iran Accuses US off lying About Nuke Agreement
Post Date: 2015-04-02 19:05:26 by out damned spot
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Says White House misleading Congress, American people with fact sheet LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Just hours after the announcement of what the United States characterized as a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the country’s leading negotiator lashed out at the Obama administration for lying about the details of a tentative framework. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people and Congress in a fact sheet it released following the culmination of negotiations with the Islamic Republic. Zarif bragged in an earlier press conference with reporters that the United States had tentatively agreed to let it ...
Full text of Iran nuke deal parameters, as set out by State Department
Post Date: 2015-04-02 18:15:31 by out damned spot
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US says ‘These elements form the foundation’ upon which the final text of an agreement is to be reached by June 30. Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Nuclear Program. Media Note, Office of the Spokesperson, Washington, DC, April 2, 2015 Below are the key parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program that were decided in Lausanne, Switzerland. These elements form the foundation upon which the final text of the JCPOA will be written between now and June 30, and reflect the significant progress that has been made in discussions between the ...
Iran deal could unlock huge economic potential
Post Date: 2015-04-02 17:19:01 by Willie Green
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No one ever said reaching a lasting agreement with Iran on its nuclear ambitions would be easy. But investors are beginning to size up the potential of an economy that has been isolated for three decades. The checklist of attributes Iran possesses is impressive. It has the second largest population in the Middle East with 80 million, 9% of proven oil reserves, 18% of proven gas reserves and an abundance of strategic minerals. "If you put together the consumer potential of Turkey, the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, the natural gas reserves of Russia, and the mineral reserves of Australia you have it all in one country," said Ramin Rabii, CEO of Iranian investment firm Turquoise ...
Australia’s First Hydrogen Car Launched, with Solar Refueller
Post Date: 2015-04-02 09:03:30 by Operation 40
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Nearly four months after its arrival on Australian soil, the nation’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger vehicle has been officially unveiled in Sydney, alongside another first – a solar powered hydrogen refuelling station... ...In December, the company flagged its plans to build its own solar powered hydrogen refueller, as well as its own electrolyser, in partnership with Australian company Sefca. The hydrogen electrolyser was also to be powered by the solar array, making the whole operation fully self-sustainable, with hydrogen made on-site... ...“The potential to produce hydrogen from renewable solar and wind energy, particularly for fuel cell powered electric ...
Applying Lessons Learned in the Middle East: Letting the Local Powers Fight It Out
Post Date: 2015-04-01 10:34:02 by nativist nationalist
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Interesting piece from George Friedman at Stratfor, "The Middle Eastern Balance of Power Matures:" Last week, a coalition of predominantly Sunni Arab countries, primarily from the Arabian Peninsula and organized by Saudi Arabia, launched airstrikes in Yemen that have continued into this week. The airstrikes target Yemeni al- Houthis, a Shiite sect supported by Iran, and their Sunni partners, which include the majority of military forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. What made the strikes particularly interesting was what was lacking: U.S. aircraft. Although the United States provided intelligence and other support, it was a coalition of Arab states that launched ...
UNASUR Head Calls for Removal of US Bases from Latin America
Post Date: 2015-04-01 08:25:37 by Willie Green
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Ernesto Samper said the upcoming Summit of the Americas would serve as a good opportunity to “reassess relations between the U.S. and South America.”The Secretary-General for the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) suggested that all U.S. military bases in Latin America should be removed.In an interview with news agency EFE, UNASUR head Ernesto Samper said that the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Panama next month could serve as place to “reassess relations between the U.S. and South America.”"A good point on the new agenda of relations (on the continent) would be the elimination of U.S. military bases” from South America, "a leftover from the days ...
Republicans warn world that Obama U.N. plan could be undone
Post Date: 2015-04-01 03:48:05 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's plan for U.N. climate change talks encountered swift opposition after its release Tuesday, with Republican leaders warning other countries to "proceed with caution" in negotiations with Washington because any deal could be later undone. The White House is seeking to enshrine its pledge in a global climate agreement to be negotiated Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 in Paris. It calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by close to 28 percent from 2005 levels within a decade, using a host of existing laws and executive actions targeting power plants, vehicles, oil and gas production and buildings. But Republican critics say the ...
APRIL FOOL’S DAY ACCORD: IRAN DEAL REACHED, DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Post Date: 2015-03-31 22:03:20 by out damned spot
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After a marathon negotiating session that stretched into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, April 1–hours after the official deadline–the parties gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland reached a tentative deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Russian media, according to AFP, quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “”One can say with relative certainty that we at the minister level have reached an agreement in principle on all key aspects of the final settlement of this issue, which will be put on paper in the coming hours or perhaps within one day.” (Lavrov was also seen relaxing at the bar.) Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also retired to rest after ...
UKIP leader Farage pledges 90 percent immigration cut
Post Date: 2015-03-31 17:34:55 by cranko
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London (AFP) - The head of the UK Independence Party on Tuesday promised to slash net migration into Britain by 90 percent as he unveiled an election poster showing escalators riding up the White Cliffs of Dover. In a campaign stop at the ferry port city, Nigel Farage accused Prime Minister David Cameron of being "dishonest", arguing that Britain could not control immigration while staying in the European Union. Farage said he would cut net migration to around 30,000 people a year from the current level of some 300,000 a year. The Conservatives had promised to reduce the numbers to under 100,000 a year. "I'm saying a net level of about 30,000 a year is roughly what we ...
Gunshots heard as hostage deadline passes after left-wing group take Turkish prosecutor prisoner and warn they will kill him if police do not confess to killing boy on live TV
Post Date: 2015-03-31 09:36:13 by cranky
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Revolutionary People's Liberation Front have taken prosecutor hostage Posted images of man with gun pointed at his head on Facebook page Demanded police confess to killing 15-year-old Berkin Elvan in next hourElvan died after being hit on the head by a tear-gas canister during anti-government protests in IstanbulA far-left Turkish group has taken an Istanbul prosecutor hostage and threatened to kill him within the hour unless police confess to killing a teenage boy.The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front published disturbing photographs of terrified prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz with a gun to his head on their official Facebook page.The deadline passed at 3.36pm local time ...
Officials: Iran nuke talks to continue in new phase
Post Date: 2015-03-31 09:04:54 by redleghunter
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue talks in a new phase aimed at reaching a final agreement to control Iran's nuclear ambitions by the end of June, officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Officials had set a deadline of March 31 for a framework agreement, and later softened that wording to a framework understanding, between Iran and the so-called P5+1 nations — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. And after intense negotiations, obstacles remained on uranium enrichment, where stockpiles of ...
'Unrepentant Nazi Murderer' Dies a Free Man at 93
Post Date: 2015-03-31 07:58:56 by GeorgiaConservative
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In what Denmark's chief Nazi hunter calls a "terrible failure of the Bavarian judicial authorities," the country's most-wanted Nazi has died a free man at the age of 93. Soren Kam, one of the highest-profile Danish Nazis during World War II, was wanted in his homeland for the 1943 kidnap and murder of anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen, the Copenhagen Post reports. He fled to Germany after the war and the country refused to extradite him back to Denmark after he was granted citizenship in 1956. Kam—who died on March 23, around two weeks after his wife, according to a death notice—also fought on the Eastern Front with the Waffen SS and was granted ...
Russian Orthodox Church suspends priest for openly backing pro Rusian rebels in Ukrainian conflict
Post Date: 2015-03-30 21:22:54 by Pericles
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Orthodox Church suspends priest for openly backing Ukrainian conflict Miko Morelos|Monday, March 30 2015 The Russian Orthodox Church has placed a priest under suspension for blessing a group of fighters to be deployed to eastern Ukraine by telling them to fight off government troops who he described as "fascist scum." The priest, identified as Vladimir Zaytsev, had been videotaped on March 12 giving a blessing to about 50 fighters during a send-off ceremony as some of the troops waved flags of the two pro-Russian regions who wanted to break away from Ukraine. "Fight against the fascist scum if needed, and I think it will be necessary," Zaytsev was heard as saying in ...
Germanwings Alps disaster: Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz trawled suicide and gay websites before crash
Post Date: 2015-03-30 20:20:54 by cranky
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Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps killing 150 people. The 27-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 plane, killing 149 passengers, trawled gay porn websites and sites relating to suicide, investigators have revealed. He also feared losing his eyesight and was suffering from depression. A police source in Dusseldorf revealed: "We have a team disassembling his computer, and that of his girlfriend, because the information that we received was that he trawled the dark side of the web visiting, among other things, sites containing gay porn, suicide themes and sexual ...
The War Nerd: A Brief History Of The Yemen Clusterf*ck
Post Date: 2015-03-30 11:25:23 by nativist nationalist
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I ought to be familiar with the Houthi, the Shia militia that’s now conquering most of what’s worth taking in Yemen. After all, the Houthis started in Saada Province, just a few miles due south of Najran, Saudi Arabia, where I was living a few years ago. But the truth is Yemen was totally closed off to everyone in Najran, and no one except a few networks of smugglers and spies who, from what I heard, had a very high attrition rate, dared to cross that border. None of us expat goofs even knew the name of the Yemeni Province across from us. Yemen was that country from whose bournes no traveler returns, unless he’s hoping to get rich from an SUV full of weed—and what with ...
American-Israeli Rabbi compares Obama to Haman
Post Date: 2015-03-30 09:47:44 by redleghunter
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, on Saturday night compared US President Barack Obama to Haman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mordechai. Speaking at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, the American-born Riskin said that he could not understand what was going through Obama’s mind. “The president of the United States is lashing out at Israel just like Haman lashed out at the Jews,” he said. “I’m not making a political statement,” he clarified, “I’m making a Jewish statement.” When a woman in the audience shouted out that he was being disrespectful to the US president, she was booed by the crowd. Riskin said he didn’t need ...
'Open the goddamn door!': Desperate final pleas of Germanwings captain emerge as black box transcript reveals Lubitz's repeated attempts to get pilot to go to toilet
Post Date: 2015-03-29 08:54:43 by out damned spot
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*Lubitz tells captain Patrick Sondheimer he can go to the toilet at any time *Tells the captain he will take over controls and later says 'you can go now' *Shortly afterwards there is loud bang, like someone trying to enter cockpit *Sondheimer yells: ‘For God’s sake, open the door!’ and passengers scream Dramatic recordings from the Germanwings flight’s black box have revealed the captain’s desperate attempts to break into the cockpit to regain control of the plane. According to transcripts published today, captain Patrick Sondheimer screamed ‘Open the goddamn door!’ as his killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the aircraft into an ...
Arab Nations Announce 'Historic' Unified Military Force To Counter Iran, ISIS
Post Date: 2015-03-28 23:11:50 by out damned spot
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Foreign ministers from 22 Arab countries agreed to form a unified military force on Thursday, approving a draft resolution designed to counter growing security threats in the region. "The Arab ... ministers agreed on adopting an important principle, which is forming the unified Arab military force. The task of the force will be rapid military intervention to deal with security threats to Arab nations," Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby told reporters after the meeting, Reuters reported. The agreement, which Elaraby described as “historic,” came shortly after airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies, in an effort to check ...
Putin Pushes Into Africa
Post Date: 2015-03-28 09:56:24 by Pericles
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Putin Pushes Into Africa BY J. PETER PHAM 3/26/15 AT 2:54 PM One year after the disputed referendum on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula joining Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly finding in Africa a welcome break from what has otherwise been its continued international diplomatic and economic isolation as a result of its aggression against its Eastern European neighbor. In an Atlantic Council essay last year, drawing on earlier studies, I noted that “Ukraine, Georgia and the Middle East are not the only places Vladimir Putin’s Russia has put a muscular foreign policy on display” and that “quietly, but with equal determination, President Putin has directed a robust ...
Grounded? Russia's answer to US next-gen fighter hits the skids.
Post Date: 2015-03-28 08:54:38 by Tooconservative
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Grounded? Russia's answer to US next-gen fighter hits the skids. The Kremlin is cutting its initial production of the Sukhoi T-50 fighter by 75 percent amid cost overruns and rumored technical concerns – the same kind of issues that have plagued US development of the F-35.Russia's ambitious T-50 fighter plane project was meant to develop a rival to two futuristic US jetfighters, the F-22 Raptor and the planned F-35 Lightning-II.But now, the T-50 appears to be rivaling the F-35 another way: in development troubles. The Kremlin is slamming the brakes on its "fifth generation" fighter program and cutting its initial rollout to a quarter of those originally planned.The ...
Britain's first same-sex wedding behind bars: 'Gay-bashing' murderer and paedophile get married in prison
Post Date: 2015-03-28 08:54:17 by cranky
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Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, married fellow prisoner Marc Goodwin, 31Goodwin found guilty of murdering Malcolm Benfold and jailed for lifeGallatinov jailed for minimum of 20 years for murdering Adrian KaminskyCeremony took place at HMP Full Sutton, Yorkshire, it's been reportedA 'gay-bashing' murderer and a paedophile serving life sentences have tied the knot in Britain's first homosexual wedding in prison.Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, who was jailed in 1997 for what a judge labelled a ‘callous, chilling killing’, married fellow prisoner Marc Goodwin, 31, yesterday, it has been reported.Goodwin was the leader of a gang that roamed the streets of Blackpool looking ...
US launches airstrikes to support Iraqi forces trying to push ISIS militants from city of Tikrit
Post Date: 2015-03-27 13:42:39 by redleghunter
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US launches airstrikes to support Iraqi forces trying to push ISIS militants from city of Tikrit •Iraq requested the airstrikes to support an offensive begun in early March •At the outset of the offensive, the Iraqi forces declined US-led coalition support though it looked to Iran for weapons and artillery •A Pentagon spokesman said the offensive has 'stalled' The US has launched airstrikes against targets in Tikrit to support Iraqi ground forces trying to push ISIS militants out of the city, a senior official said. Iraq requested the strikes, which began Wednesday and are 'ongoing,' according to the unnamed US official. An Associated Press ...
Leave the Houthis Alone!
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:34:08 by nativist nationalist
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Why are we on the same side as the Saudis – and al Qaeda – in Yemen? Saudi Arabia‘s US-backed aggression against the sovereignty of Yemen is a textbook example of how local conflicts are internationalized – and become tripwires for regional wars and even global conflagrations. Like Libya, Yemen is yet another Middle Eastern country that doesn’t really exist: it is actually at least two separate countries, perhaps three – the southern provinces, which are primarily Sunni, the northern tribes, who adhere mostly to the Zaydi form of Shi’ite Islam, and the area around Sa’na, the capital, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, where ...
One Professional Russian Troll Tells All
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:29:31 by Tooconservative
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More and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online. There are thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and vKontakte, all increasingly focused on the war in Ukraine. Many emanate from Russia's most famous "troll factory," the Internet Research center, an unassuming building on St. Petersburg's Savushkina Street, which runs on a 24-hour cycle. In recent weeks, former employees have come forward to talk to RFE/RL about life inside the factory, where hundreds of people work grinding, 12-hour ...
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