Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Alan Grayson to FBI: Bring Criminal Charges Against Banks Over Foreclosure Fraud
October 15th, 2010Via: Market Ticker: October 14, 2010 Robert S. Mueller III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535 Robert O’Neill U.S. Attorney Middle District of Florida 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200 Tampa, FL 33602 Dear U.S. Attorney O’Neill and Director Mueller, When it comes to foreclosures, there is mounting evidence […]
India’s Richest Man Moves Into “Home” with 27 Stories
October 14th, 2010You have to see the picture of this thing. I was thinking, “Where have I seen this. I looks somehow familiar.” Check out the cover of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Note to self: Consider a Future Dystopias Today category. Via: Telegraph: The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into his new […]
50 State Attorneys General Announce Foreclosure Probe
October 13th, 2010Via: Washington Post: The attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states announced Wednesday that they are joining to probe mortgage loan servicers who are accused of submitting false affidavits, but they stopped short of calling for a national moratorium. The multistate investigation will initially focus on whether Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ally Financial […]
Super Soaker Inventor May Hold the Key to Affordable Solar Power
October 13th, 2010Take this graph into consideration as you read the piece below. Via: The Atlantic: From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art […]
Incarceration’s Impact on Society
October 12th, 2010Via: McClatchy DC: You won’t need a calculator, but get ready to decipher a bunch of numbers — data that ought to make Americans feel both sadness and shame. … While the costs of housing prisoners — $50 billion annually for state correctional costs alone — should be enough to cause us to rethink our […]
Michio Kaku: “These Are the Terrorists”
October 12th, 2010Opium Fields Surround Main Australian Base in Afghanistan
October 11th, 2010Via: The Age: MORE than half the fields surrounding the main Australian base in Afghanistan are being used to grow opium poppies, as coalition forces struggle to ween locals off the lucrative crop. Locals question why troops and police have failed to crack down on the semi-open sale of the poppies, according to the report […]
Surprise — The Very Dark Side of U.S. History
October 11th, 2010Via: Alternet: There is a dark — seldom acknowledged — thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests […]
Hal Lewis: My Resignation From the American Physical Society; Global Warming, “Is the Greatest and Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud I Have Seen in My Long Life as a Physicist”
October 11th, 2010Via: The Global Warming Policy Foundation: From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the […]
‘Dying Communities See Salvation in New Prisons’
October 10th, 2010Hope and Change: Replacing collapsed industries with prisons. Via: AP: Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community college, the 20-year-old Berlin native plans to apply for a corrections officer job at the federal prison expected to open in the city next summer. There aren’t […]
