Maserati SUVs the Planet - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The bigger news this week was that Marchionne is leveraging Chrysler’s iconic Jeep truck brand to add an SUV to the Maserati line in his ambitious plan to increase sales ten-fold to 50,000 units year. The move is a confirmation of plans floated last fall that the Italian fox wants to apply the Jeep platform across Fiat’s other brands, including Alfa Romeo.

Brought to the United States by Obama as a missionary to educate savage natives on the European small-car religion (a key to Chrysler’s giveaway was that Fiat would sell its tiny, 40 mpg Fiat 500 here), Marchionne has instead converted to the American green god — the Almighty Dollar.

Marchionne has learned what every other American executive knows — that trucks are the most profitable vehicles in the U.S. market — making $3,000 to $5,000 per vehicle, versus maybe a grand for a small car.

California’s High-Speed Train Wreck - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

“The authority’s projection of 117 million annual intercity passengers plus commuters is so far from reality that I have to call it what it is—science fiction,” Vranich wrote in his testimony.

Let Slip the Hippies of War! - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

AlterNet: “Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)?”

Most of the examples deal with the destruction of property, for example: attack the energy infrastructure to bring the U.S. economy to a halt
TL: Derrick, you wrote that all the people associated with the Gulf Spill should be executed. That’s going a little beyond property destruction.
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DJ: If I were to write that now, I would take out the word “all” and put in the word “many.”

Top Companies Claim To Fight Global Warming, But Sponsor ALEC’s Climate Denial | ThinkProgress

a number of these same companies are sponsoring toxic, far-right denial of climate science. The American Legislative Exchange Council pushes an extremist denier agenda throughout the United States, funded in secret by corporations. ThinkProgress has acquired a list of the sponsors of ALEC’s 2011 annual meeting, held last week in New Orleans, LA.

ALEC denies that global warming is causing glaciers to retreat or sea level to rise. Not only does ALEC deny the threat of climate change, they even argue that “substantial global warming is likely to be of benefit to the United States”
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At the annual meeting, ALEC hosted a session touting the “benefits of carbon dioxide.”