Cartels Run Roughshod Over Customs

Amado Carrillo Fuentes is winning the drug war. Running rings around the U.S. Customs Service, the 40-year-old Carrillo and his Juarez Cartel smuggled up to 150 tons of cocaine through El Paso in just 13 months. Carrillo can change his plan of attack faster than Customs can modify its defenses.

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Reach for the Robo-Raid: Bionic Hornet brings nanotech to war

This is an old story, but I only found it today...using nanotech to build electronic locusts. Sounds like another way to create an arms race to kill ourselves off the planet...has this technology been used in ancient times?

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The Future of Biofuels Is Not in Corn

As we have said to people in Idaho that used to grow/harvest sugar beets...why has there been no mention of sugar beets as a source of ethanol? At least there are people who recognize that what government tries to subsidize cannot sustain natural growth.

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Ron Paul on the Bailout, Subprime Loans

Ron Paul, the only Candidate dealing with the real issues. 2 and one half billion petrodollars every day until november 2008...equals one Trilllion Petrodollars!

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Ron Paul's Speech at Iowa Straw Poll

Ron Paul speaks to an enthusiastic audience in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 11, 2007 He stated that the government is borrowing two and a half Billion petrodollars/day. That means one Trillion dollars from foreign banks before the next election!

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Three more join Victor Valley College race

I was able to meet several of the board of trustees, who are currently trying to bail water on the Exxon Valdez, as they voted unanimously to support the windpower development at VVC, which will be the first community college in the State of California to invest in windpower production.

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Ontario Gets Monster Solar Farm

The image presented here about the potential solar farm is quite fascinating and creates a good representation of what this farm might look like. However, I am wondering what the life expectancy of these solar panels are and what kind of repairs that might have to be done after acouple Canadian winters?

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