Bob Morris @ Nov 15th 2007 13:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
That would be the Carbon Monitoring for Action, which shows the amount of carbon emissions pumped out by power plants across the planet.
Power sector emissions make up 25% of the global total, 40% of carbon emissions in the United States, and are a primary cause of global warming.
Bob Morris @ Nov 15th 2007 10:23 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Some money market funds are wobbling or getting emergency financing to prop them up to the $1 par level. Yup, you got it. They were investing in SIVs, trying to goose the return a bit. Now the funds are leaking, well, like a sieve.
And here you probably thought money market funds were supposed to be rock-solid safe, right?
The contamination and rot spreads ever outwards from subprime.
Bob Morris @ Nov 15th 2007 07:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
This includes CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel Ann Wright.
More on this outrage from Lefti on The News.
Bob Morris @ Nov 15th 2007 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
“The Shopocalypse is upon us … Who will be $aved?”
Produced by Morgan Spurlock (”Supersize Me”.) In theaters now.
Bob Morris @ Nov 15th 2007 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
EPR, a Marxist guerrilla group in Mexico, has been bombing pipelines in retaliation for the apparent abduction of two members. Their Sept. 10 bombing caused $1.6 billion in economic damage.
But there is a fundamental problem: Nobody seems to know what happened to the two men. The government denies holding them. The EPR doesn’t know who has them, either, judging by its communiqués that shift blame from one government entity to another.
Increasing political unrest in Mexico, coupled with entire areas effectively under control of drug lords, has given EPR ample room to organize in, as well as get financing. (Underground revolutionary groups need money like everyone else, and since normal avenues are closed to them, crime is the time-honored and perhaps only way they can raise money.)
Their avowed goal is to start an uprising, with authorities expecting a third wave of attacks. An amorphous non-state actor inflicting major damage on a vastly larger opponent - this is 4th generation warfare.
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