Gateway Pundit Highlights Democrats FARCing Problem

The Democrats have another terrorist problem, not only are they having relationship problems with Al Qaeda now they are having to explain their links with Colombia's FARC group.

It appears the laptop that Colombian forces captured in their raid that killed the senior FARC commander in Ecuador is just full of documents linking FARC to our very own Democratic party. Check out Gateway Pundit: Captured FARC Documents Link Democrats to Terror Group:

What Colombian investigators found on the FARC terror leader's computer:

-- FARC connections with Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
-- Records of $300 million offerings from Hugo Chavez
-- Thank you notes from Hugo Chavez dating back to 1992
-- Uranium purchasing records
-- Admit to killing the sister of former President Cesar Gaviria
-- Admit to planting a 2003 car bomb killing 36 at a Bogota upper crust club
-- Directions on how to make a Dirty Bomb
-- Letter to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi asking for cash to buy surface-to-air missiles
-- Meetings with "gringos" about Barack Obama
-- Information on Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout who was later captured
-- FARC funding Correa's campaign
-- Cuban links to FARC
...And, more.

Captured FARC terrorist documents link US democrats to the Colombian terrorist group. 16 documents were posted this weekend in the Spanich Semana magazine. One of the documents mentions that US Democrats were trying to organize meetings with the FARC.
The AP reported:

New docs detail Colombian rebel ties

The 16 documents were published Sunday by the news magazine Semana. They also detail previously unknown relationships held or sought by Latin America's oldest and most potent rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Another discusses an apparent effort by U.S. Democrats to have celebrated novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez mediate talks with the insurgents — possibly with former President Clinton's involvement.

There is no evidence the FARC ever obtained surface-to-air missiles, however. Attempts to reach Clinton and Garcia Marquez were unsuccessful.

Now if we could just get the MSM to actually cover it, maybe we could get some congressional hearings on something with more substance than whether a nearly retired baseball player used HGH ten years ago to help heal a arm injury!

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MIT Gives Six Million Dollar Man His Eyes

Six Million Dollar Man took one step closer to reality today, check out Engadget's Bio-electronic implant seeks to restore partial sight:

We've seen initiatives all over the globe created in an attempt to beat blindness, but researchers based at MIT are feeling fairly confident that their development is within a few years of being able to "restore partial sight to people who have slowly gone blind because of degenerative diseases of the retina." The bio-electronic implant, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, would actually sit behind the retina at the back of the eyeball, and images would be transmitted to the brain "via a connector the width of a human hair." As it stands, an FDA grant application is already in the works, and the scientists are hoping to have it implanted in an animal as early as this summer. Still, the solution only works for folks who "were once able to see and have partially intact optic nerve cells" -- those who were blind from birth or suffer from glaucoma are unfortunately ineligible for the procedure.

Now all they need is bionic ear's and limbs and he'll be all ready to go. I'll bet they are nearly ready and they may be ready for the next Para-Olympics, it will be neat to see them do things the normal athletes can't!!

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While The Stock Market Falls, The Clean Energy Markets are Expanding Rapidly

While the worlds stock markets have taken it in the shorts so far this year, Mainly under the pressure caused by increasing energy demand and costs, there are markets, clean energy markets that are expanding faster than ever before. Alternative energy markets expanded 40 percent last year alone. Check out what GoodCleanTech has to say about the hot new markets in Clean Edge: Clean Energy Markets are Expanding Rapidly:

The leading clean-tech research and publishing firm Clean Edge has just released its annual Clean Energy Trends report, which finds that alternative energy markets are on the rise. It concludes that revenues in four benchmark sectors, including biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaics, and fuel cells, has shown a rapid, 40 percent expansion from $55 billion in 2006 to $77.3 billion in 2007.

The 2008 edition shows that for the first time biofuel, wind and solar technologies have each surpassed $20 billion in revenue. In fact, in 2007 the overall clean-tech market has reached $77 billion and is projected to grow to $254 billion by 2017.

"Clean energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream and the proof is in these numbers," said Clean Edge co-founder and principal Ron Pernick. "Amid last year's plummeting housing prices, rising foreclosure rates, and record high oil prices, clean energy continued to provide a bright spot in an otherwise sluggish economy."

The complete Clean Energy Trends report is offered by Clean Edge at no cost can be downloaded here.

I'll bet the biggest players in these new markets are the global warming leaders/exploiters like Al Gore.

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Konarka says Ink Jet 'Printed' solar cells coming soon!

While GE is showing off how they are going to light our homes with inkjet printed lighting sheets, another company by the name of Konarka is showing off how they are going to use similar inkjet printing technology print solar collectors that will capture the electric power needed to power GE's lighting sheets.

Check our Crave's 'Printed' solar cells coming to windows, clothing:

NEW YORK--Solar company Konarka wants to bring plastics to life with the sun.

Konarka has developed technology to create rolls of plastic that can convert light to electricity--a design that will result in solar power being embedded in everything from flashing Coke bottles to wireless sensors, the company claims.

Earlier this month, Konarka said that it has demonstrated the use of inkjet printing to manufacture its solar cells. And at a recent investor conference here, chairman and founder Howard Berke described Konarka's longer-term plans to embed small solar plastic cells in hundreds of products.

In the second half of this year, Berke said, Konarka will make its first shipments to customers and will announce the location of a factory.

Initially the company intends to make portable solar chargers for gadgets as well as self-powered sensors, lights, and smart cards. Farther down the road, it plans to make solar windows and power-generating cloth.

In four years, Berke said, the company intends to have products for the building-integrated photovoltaics (PV) market with "bifacial cells," for placement on windows, that can convert electricity from both sides.

It is also working on a project, sponsored by the Department of Defense, to make fibers that can be woven into clothing, he said.

"You'll be able to wear, carry, integrate PV," said Berke. "Wherever plastics occur, you'll have PV."

But some solar industry watchers have become skeptical about whether this technology will ever live up to its promise. Konarka, founded in 2001, has raised several rounds of capital and taken government grants but still doesn't have a commercial product.

Plastic solar cells have the advantage of being flexible, unlike traditional silicon, but they're not nearly as efficient as rooftop panels.

Konarka's cells, which are made with a roll-to-roll manufacturing process, convert about 5 percent of the light that hits them into electricity, whereas typically solar panels with silicon cells are 16 percent to 20 percent efficient.

But its organic photovoltaic cells can convert low light, can be tuned for specific wavelengths, and can work even when the light hits at a low angle, Berke said.

"We see this as next-generation thin-film PV technology and not competing with silicon," he said.

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GE create inkjet printable, flexible OLEDs for lighting our future

For everyone wondering what your going to do for decorative lighting once incandescent bulbs become illegal in a few years, General Electric is up to. Think what you could do with wallpaper paper flat lighting that can be molded into just about any shape imaginable. For more read Engadget's GE researchers create printable, flexible OLEDs:

"Researchers at GE have created the world's first roll-to-roll manufactured OLEDs -- a newspaper printing-like process that is the first step to plentiful, cheaply produced, flexible lighting. Production of the thin, organic materials in this manner could lead to a wide array of innovations in the use of lights, sensors, and displays, and could make a noticeable impact on the efficiency and environmental performance of lighting and electronics. The company envisions a new playing-field for businesses, architects, and lighting designers who need access to cheap, energy-conscious materials, and see this research as a first step to an emerging field of commercialized OLED lighting. Yes, a new vista of discovery, wealth, and prosperity awaits those who take this bold step into the wide, wonderous, and uncharted worlds of scientific research and prototyping -- let's just hope it doesn't end up all Bioshock-y and weird."

And from the Register there is more Boffins demo OLED-on-a-roll production process:

"General Electric scientists have worked out how to manufacture OLED displays on a roll, a process that they hope will one day allow panels to be punched out cheaply and cut to size like cloth.

So far, GE's researchers have simply demonstrated such an approach is possible. But they believe that, with further development, the technique could soon result in vast sheets of OLED materials flowing out of production plants and wrapped onto large rolls ready for shipment.

OLED panels sandwich organic compounds between two electrodes. When a charge is placed across the electrodes, the organic compounds emit light. Different compounds produce different colours of light, and by building cells out of these structures, it's possible to build a full-colour display.

It's a technology widely seen as the successor to today's LCD and plasma screens. OLED produces bright colours and uses much less energy to do so. However, big OLED panels are very costly to produce and right now don't last as long as LCD and plasma before their image quality degrades.
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The company's vision is to replace lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes with light-emitting sheets that, because of their size, deliver more light but at much lower power than today's lighting systems eat up.

Four years ago, GE demo'd a 60 x 60cm OLED panel capable of producing as much light as a modern incandescent bulb. It wants to begin commercializing such products in 2010."

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