Goldman Sachs. Their kingdom is under serious attack

Tony Crnkovich artwork

Did a clever SEC bait Goldman Sachs into compounding its legal problems with the “Kiss of Death” message? Sam Antar at White Collar Fraud thinks so. By releasing the news on Friday the SEC may have suckered Goldman into a hasty press release which may now be used against them.

He [...]

The new Think Before You Speak

Crazed extremists warn of peak oil shortages by 2015

Those tree-hugging alarmists of the US Joint Forces Command warn of 10 million barrel a day shortfalls by 2015. This could have serious economic and political impact, especially in China and India.

100% renewables ‘feasible by 2050′ in EU

A report by the European Renewable Energy Council says the EU going completely renewable energy by 2050 is both economically doable and environmentally desirable. Energy will come from solar, wind, as well as geothermal and biomass. Biofuel and EVs will be used increasingly for transportation.

EREC stressed that the technologies required to achieve a [...]

Our foster mom cat is a poster girl now

She was found on the streets of L.A., young, homeless, and pregnant. Though only six pounds (after giving birth to five kittens in our closet), she has serious attitude and backs off our cats, who are twice her size. So, I nicknamed her Gang Girl.

Cat Connection, the no-kill rescue agency we are fostering [...]

Ash Alerts

All the volcano, ash clouds and airline news together.

No special Army unit on US soil before election

Army Times retracts and clarifies.

Looting Main Street

How the nation’s biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece

Taibbi details the thuggery, outright bribery, and sleazy dealings whereby investment banks looted Jefferson County, Alabama. Lots of locals who joined the plundering have gone to prison. But so far, no investment bankers have. [...]

Can capitalism fix the climate?

Green Left makes clear the obvious point that capitalism, with its maniacal focus on short-term profit over everything else, is incompatible with the long-term vision and planning needed to stop global warming.

But then they quote Bolivian president Evo Morales saying “The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to [...]

New food safety bill could crush local food movement

Farmers' Market. Jackson, Mississippi. Flickr photo by nataliemaynor

Next week, the Senate will vote on a measure that could potentially extinguish California’s local food movement. Lobbied for by multinational agribusiness giants such as Cargill and Monsanto, as well as supported by the pharmaceutical industry, The Food Safety Modernization Act would impose financially crippling and [...]