Israel/China Joint Venture...

HelioFocus Demonstrates Solar-Thermal System.

 In the heat of the Negev sun on Tuesday, Ness Ziona-based firm HelioFocus opened the demonstration phase of its HelioBooster system, a solar-thermal process that aims to back up existing power plants.The system is jointly funded by Chinese and Israeli entrepreneurs.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Tuesday at the Rotem Industrial Park, some 160 km south of Jerusalem, in the presence of Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau, Chinese Ambassador Gao Yanping and a delegation from China that included Yun Xishun, the governor of western Inner Mongolian province Alashan. The investors in HelioFocus, which was established in 2007, are the Israel Corporation’s IC Green Energy and the Sanhua Holding Group’s Zhejiang Sanhua Company.

On Monday, HelioFocus signed an agreement with Sanhua to begin construction in 2013 on a 10-megawatt solar facility in Inner Mongolia, for the Chinese energy company TaiQing. The facility, which will eventually expand to 60 megawatts, will back up a 600-megawatt coalfired power plant.
“I believe that with the collaboration with the Chinese market, which has accelerated in the past years, the company will produce facilities for the Chinese electricity market and for many other locations worldwide,” Landau said at Tuesday’s ceremony. (C) Nocamels.com (Photo: Copyright Control)

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Lost Your Appetite, Poor Dear?

ABBAS: DEATH OF HUNGER STRIKING PRISONERS 

WILL LAUNCH 'DISASTER'

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is warning of a "disaster" if any of the Arab prisoners dies while carrying out a hunger strike in an Israeli prison. Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arab prisoners began a hunger strike more than a week ago in solidarity with six inmates who have been starving themselves for more than 45 days. Two prisoners – both active members of the Islamic Jihad terror organization -- have been fasting for 71 days. One received medical care in a hospital and was returned to prison. The Supreme Court this week rejected an appeal by both to be set free. A commander in the Islamic Jihad terror group warned Sunday that the death of any hunger striker in prison will touch off a third intifada. (C) Chana Ya'ar.

Palestinian childrens' TV...it's not Sesame Street.

So...here's how the non-Infidel mind works: First of all, they are terrorists, banged up to stop more of their Islamic carnage. (Personally, I'd have had the fuckers shot, right after a few days of a jolly difficult question and answer quiz...but I digress). Then...they starve themselves and put the blame for their actions elsewhere! But I thought: don't you all want to be martyred? Well now you've got your big opportunity! Just think: Virgins await and the local Fatah/Hamas will be banging their heads on the mosque floor, overcome by your selfless devotion to the fanatical Islamofascist cause. They'll be wailing your name and doing the usual infantile Arab stuff. 
So...not another slice of salami...and you're almost there, Abdul!    

Greeks Up The Creek!

Greek Leftists Vow To Reject Bailout Terms!

Deluded Lefties after voting Greece back to
1 goat = 100 yogurts.

The head of Greece's left-wing Syriza party says his cabinet will reject all austerity measures imposed under an EU and IMF loan deal if he manages to form a new government. The public verdict has clearly nullified the loan agreement and (pledges) sent to Europe and the IMF," Mr Tsipras said in a televised address. The country's youngest political leader at 37, Mr Tsipras and his Syriza bloc won second place in the election. (abc.net)
The Greeks: Having maxed out for a decade or more, now score a ballot box boo-boo. Deluding themselves that there is some easy way out of their self inflicted, financially over-filled diaper, they have gone for the Leftie tooth fairies (oh...and a few revamped  Nazis). Getting the Left involved with anything more complex than poster painting and marching about shouting simpleton slogans is fine. 

Tispars: It just so happens, I own 75 tyre eaters
at the back of my mom's little Spartan hovel.

Fine that is, if you want the country to be run by a smug youngster who wants the barter system of serfdom to be re-applied asap.  If the Left has it's way, Greece will soon be like living in Fidel's Cuba without the cool old American cars. (Photos: Copyright Control)

Tuesday's Toon! #3 (78 rpm)

Buddy Holly, 1957.

A 17-year-old then unknown Bob Dylan attended the January 31, 1959 concert in which Buddy Holly was appearing; just two nights before Holly's death. Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his "Time Out Of Mind" being named Album of the Year:
"And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him...and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time we were making our record, in some kind of way."

Note: Norman Petty owned the studio in which Holly recorded with the Crickets. 

Petty's name always appears as a co-writer with Holly, even though Petty never wrote or 

co-wrote any of the songs! The deal was this: Holly could have use of the studio,
 and in return, he Petty would share a writing credit and therefore receive 
 50% of any writing royalty. Holly also wrote under the name Charles Hardin.

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer in recording techniques: to name but a few, Holly was the first to double track, use strings, knee drumming and first to be his own Producer! Just think: in only18 months, Holly wrote, recorded and produced some of the most seminal and cross-over and creative music before his death in an airplane crash. Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The  Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rollig Stones, Don McClean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.  Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time". ^{(Wikipedia) (Photo: Copyright Control)}

Enough Already! Change It Pronto!!

COALITION DEAL: ELECTION SYSTEM TO BE CHANGED.

The Knesset: Jerusalem, Israel.

The Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz have presented to their factions a three-page agreement that they have signed, regarding Kadima's entry into the government. Both sides agreed that "historic challenges" facing Israel require a wide government. The sides also agree to work together to change the current system of elections and governance in Israel. The current system will be replaced by one that enhances government stability and will make it more possible for the elected prime minister to complete his term in office. No prime minister in Israel has served a full term for decades. (C) Gil Ronen

Well...lets see if this becomes the case. The fact that in the current system the tail wags the dog and every second politician in Israel goes off in the huff and forms their own party, should have been buried long,long ago. But will common sense and a much needed reformed electoral system really happen? 
Boy,it better! Israel of all nations, can't afford the endless distractions of egos and idiots walking out with their pet policy poodles pissing on the chips.
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The Price Of Ignorance...

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Death Of The Dollar?

U.S. Agrees To Back China’s Bid To Make The Yuan A Global Reserve Currency!
Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Beijing meeting succeeds in giving the yuan global currency status. Dire implications for the U.S. dollar.

Larry Edelson

Last week, I warned how U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — the man whose chief responsibility is upholding the integrity of the U.S. dollar and its purchasing power ...was running off to Beijing to convince China’s leaders that the U.S. dollar had to go down in value ... and that China’s currency, the yuan, had to rise. Many thought I was nuts, just like they did when I first started warning that Beijing and Washington were in cahoots in an effort to devalue the U.S. dollar.

But now, it’s clear: Geithner has accomplished his goal. In news just released late Sunday night, the U.S. has effectively agreed to back China’s bid to have the International Monetary Fund give the yuan global reserve currency status.
If you’re an American, you must stand up and take notice. Yes, China’s economy has come a long way. Yes, China’s economy is now the second largest in the world. Yes, China should have an important say in the global economy. And yes, China also engages in unfair trade practices. But if anyone’s guilty of unfair trade practices, it’s Timothy Geithner. He is selling out the purchasing power of your dollars and trading them for a stronger Chinese currency.
The yuan could have simply continued to expand its international clout naturally, taking the next few years to gain official reserve currency status along with the dollar and the euro. But that’s not what Beijing or Washington want. Both parties want it to happen NOW.
Chief reason: There’s a cancer in today’s global economy — debt and deflation — and Washington and Beijing both know that the only way to cure it is to DEVALUE the world’s single largest reserve currency, the U.S. dollar, to stoke up the flames of inflation.
This is PRECISELY what I have been warning everyone about. As the dollar is devalued against the yuan — your cost of living WILL skyrocket.
That’s what happens when the dollar is devalued. We saw it in the late 1970s, when the dollar’s value plunged and inflation soared. We saw it again in the mid-1980s when the dollar was devalued against the Japanese yen, and select commodity prices shot again to the moon. And we’ve seen it happen again and again over the last decade — as the dollar lost more than 30% of its purchasing power ... and the prices of everything from eggs to gasoline have jumped wildly.

Thing is, the dollar is now more vulnerable than ever before. Besides the forward march of the yuan — the dollar is being saddled by our Federal Reserve who stands ready to print up trillions more dollars at the drop of a hat! (C) Larry Edelson.