More on King Leopold, genocidal capitalist

Continuing on from our previous post, "And the worst genocidial killer in history was…" The image is of a stock certificate for a Belgian Rubber company operating in the Congo in 1901, almost certainly one of King Leopold’s companies. Many…

A water oligopoly in the making?

From Oligopoly Watch: New federal regulations in the US seem likely to trigger the rapid oligopolization of the US water utility market. That’s according to a story in The New York Times ("It Doesn’t Mix With Oil, and the Market…

The ocean and global warming

From the Global Warming Information Center "The oceans of the world have gotten warmer since the 1940s. Furthermore, it has done so from the surface down towards the bottom of the three oceans, introducing the dimension of depth, something that…

Welcome to Argentina, Dubya

Former football star Diego Maradona leads protests in Argentina and shows off his t-shirt! (Photo and story from The Guardian)    

Tales from Wilmaland

Dave Barry posts a reader’s comments Dave, I’m not making this up. I lost my roof in Wilma. Water poured through the entire upstairs and through first floor walls and ceilings on that side of the house. I was told…

Arson attacks plague France as unrest spreads

Youth rioting began in Paris suburbs, now poses a broad challenge to state Unlike previous nights, there were few direct clashes with security forces, no live bullets fired at police, and far fewer large groups of rioters, said Jean-Francois Cordet,…