Forex Scam. What to consider to prevent forex and commodity fraud

ForexFraud explains what to watch for, giving a wealth of examples and detail.

Perhaps most important.

The need to exercise good financial sense doesn’t stop once you’ve decided to invest. It’s important to continuously monitor your investments and to be alert for any telltale signs that things aren’t quite the way they should [...]

Milk factory completely powered from cow manure

A Ukraine milk factory gets all its power from a biogas cogeneration plant fueled by cow poo. Not only does this cut their expenses, reduce GHG, and keep manure from polluting land and water, they’ve also become energy self-sufficient and it’s all done onsite. Amazing. Imagine what we could accomplish if factories everywhere also [...]

Wesley Snipes. You should have read Frivolous Tax Arguments first

I am a "fiduciary of God" and not subject to your IRS foolishness

From the court ruling (PDF) upholding Wesley Snipes’ 36 month sentence for refusal to file income tax. (via Talk Left)

Snipes also claimed that as a “fiduciary of God, who is a ‘nontaxpayer,’” he was a “‘foreign diplomat’” who was not [...]

Why misogynists make great informants

How gender violence on the left enables state violence in radical movements

This thoughtful piece by Courtney Desiree Morris (no relation) makes the case that male supremacists on the left, given their loud-mouthed, obnoxious, manipulative personality type, are precisely the types who are or could become informants. She backs this up with concrete examples for [...]

American Meth

American Meth is a cross-country journey that focuses on several facets of the methamphetamine epidemic. From the oil fields of Wyoming and New Mexico to the homeless in Portland and the teens of Montana, filmmaker Justin Hunt spins a blue-collar tale of tragedy and triumph.

Actor Val Kilmer lends his voicing talents as [...]

Gaping Void Thought for the Day

From Gaping Void Gallery

Robert Reich on the FinReg bill

Congress has labored mightily to produce a mountain of legislation that can be called financial reform, but it has produced a molehill relative to the wreckage Wall Street wreaked upon the nation

Yikes. lab-grown lungs transplanted into rats

I’m not sure whether to be appalled or elated by Harvard Medical School growing rat lungs from living cells and successfully transplanted them into rats. They did it inside rats too, apparently.

The researchers removed rats’ lungs, leaving just the structural “scaffolding” of collagen, blood vessels and airways in place. Immature animal cells were [...]

Catholic Church. Women priests as heinous as pedophiles

No really, they actually said that.

“Misogynistic” doesn’t even come close to it. This is women-hating at a level that even Calvin didn’t reach.

Goldman Sachs settlement not a victory for them

I defer to Ritholtz on this.

Now that Goldman Sachs has lost their will to fight and settled the case for a record breaking amount, the same media fools who told you a) this was a weak case and b) GS was going to win are now spinning this massive Goldman Sachs defeat as some [...]