Monthly Archives: March 2011

Efficiency of the US Electrical Grid

Efficiency of Electrical Grids Area      % Efficiency Japan     90 Europe    80 US        34 How lame. Our grid was designed a century ago, and it loses 2/3 of the power it produces! Ridiculous.

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1% Failure Rate For Nuclear Power

There are 450 nuclear power plants in the world. There have been 4 meltdowns in history, one each at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and two so far at Fukushima, as partial meltdowns count as meltdowns. That is a ~1% … Continue reading

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Filed under Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Japan, NE Asia, Regional, Russia, Science, Ukraine

Vaginal Capacity

How much can one vagina hold? Karin Mackalinaus was arrested on suspicion of burglarizing a hotel in New York City after she crashed her car. Police found 3 bags of heroin on her. Then they noticed her squirming in the … Continue reading

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Things Getting Worse in Japan

Serious problems are developing at the Fukushima reactor in Japan. A leak has appeared in the bottom or sides of Unit 4′s spent fuel pool – one of the pools that stores spent fuel rods. Spent fuel rods are one … Continue reading

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Just How Many Hindus Are Not Hindutvas?

Is it just me, or does it seem like 80-90% of educated Hindus (or at least the high castes)* embrace the Hindutva beliefs in one form or another? I’ve yet to meet a single Hindu who is not a Hindutva … Continue reading

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Jews Jaws

Heg watch out! Stay out of the water, I’m telling you!

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Nationalists Are Wrecking Wikipedia

See here and here for an overview. I discussed this earlier, focusing on Jewish nationalists (Zionists), but really, nationalists are all the same. As the nasty bits one can conjure up about Zionists can be found in abundance among the … Continue reading

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Now We Are Bombing Libya

Humanitarian interventions are typically a feature of US Democratic Presidencies these days, so this is what we are seeing in Libya. The US, UK and France and bombing Libya to enforce a no-fly zone over the country as mandated by … Continue reading

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“Men, Madonnas, and Whores,” by Alpha Unit

You’ve heard of the Madonna-Whore complex. It’s supposed to be an actual psychological problem whereby a man seeks a kind of surrogate mother as a wife. The problem, of course, is that he can’t have sex with her. She’s too … Continue reading

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Last Word on the Aryan Migration Theory: More

I have added 12 more points to my original article. I will print them here since most will not go back and read the original article again. Some of you may find these additions interesting. As you can see, I … Continue reading

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