Student loans, the new impoverish-for-life bonanza for banksters

Newshoggers bring the startling news that total student loan debt is now over $1 trillion, more than total credit card debt, with a staggering $100 billion added on last year.

For the banksters, this is even better than mortgages. A fine educational establishment like Fleece U trolls for the desperate unemployed, signing up new [...]

Searching for lost friends at night at the Parowan Gap

The Parowan Gap. They were lost in the steep, hilly country to the left of the gap.

All’s well that ends well but last night we  searched for friends lost in rugged terrain after a dirt bike crash disabled one bike, causing a knee injury.

DJ (who blogs here some) texted his wife at [...]

The challenge of 33% renewables on the California grid

California plans to have 33% renewable energy by 2020. Jim Detmers helped create the California Independent System Operator, which operates most of the state’s wholesale transmission grid. He was right back then when he predicted a calamity was coming. He’s worried now too.

Here’s why. Traditional forms of electricity generation like coal, natural gas, [...]

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys. New San Antonio. 1944

With Tommy Duncan and the McKinney Sisters

Talking Occupy Wall Street Movement

Money is the language of greed. Greed is governing Wall Street. Wall Street speculator gangs are killing entire nations by downgrading them for gaining high interest rates till default, followed by swallowing of bail out funds which are fed by our tax money.

Step by step we lose our money through rising taxes and [...]

Mobile renewable energy

Skybuilt has containerized, easily-assembled renewable energy systems in several configurations. The military is interested.

Hey, let’s park money offshore and wait for a tax holiday

More sleazy tax giveaways from Congress and the White House to large corporations.

June Carter and Hank Williams

June Carter like you’ve never seen her before, like a goofy Wanda Jackson on amphetamines. And then Hank sings “Hey Good Looking.” Amazing clip.

Desertec Foundation. Andasol Concentrated Solar Plant

Desertec is a European consortium with deep pocket partners that thinks huge. They want solar everywhere in Europe and North Africa. This video is about the opening of a CSP plant in Spain.

Iceland president: Renewables helped us survive financial crisis

Icleand has shown us what democracy looks like. They nationalized banks, fired and arrested the banksters, defaulted on bonds, and are now recovering.

Renewable eneregy has aided in that recovery. Emphasis added.

“I chose the democratic will of the people over the force of the market,” Grimmson said. In other words, the irresponsible bankers, who [...]