By Joe Romm 22 August 2011 Two things we know with extremely high confidence: Recent warming is unprecedented in magnitude and speed and cause (so the temperature history looks like a Hockey Stick). Michael Mann, the lead author on the original Hockey Stick paper, is one of the nation’s top climatologists and a source of […]
Karl Marx was right that globalization, financial intermediation, and income redistribution could lead capitalism to self-destruct. By Nouriel Roubini15 August 2011 NEW YORK—The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too […]
By Peter Gorenstein, Daily Ticker 12 August 2011 The United States military budget accounts for over 40% of the world’s annual military expenditures and, at around $700 billion per year, more than 20% of the federal budget. The Federal government wants to curb that spending as part of deficit reduction. Last week’s deficit deal calls […]
CHICAGO, August 11 (AP) – Two former water department officials have been indicted in an investigation of a Chicago suburb that for decades drew drinking water from a tainted well, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Frank Scaccia and Theresa Neubauer face multiple counts of lying to regulators over 20 years about piping in the polluted water […]
The ivory trade has doubled in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, a study has found, adding to fears for Africa’s elephant and rhino populations By Greg Neale and James Burton, The Observer14 August 2011 Elephant poaching in Africa and Asia is being fuelled by China’s economic boom, according to a study of the ivory trade. Authors of […]
[UPDATE: Dole responds to allegations it is illegally growing bananas in national park] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com14 August 2011 Dole Food Company, a US-based corporation famous for its tropical fruit products, is allegedly destroying rainforest in Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka for a banana plantation, reports local press. The 4,700 hectare (11,600 acre) plantation, […]
Uploaded by mrpolity12 Jun 2011 The Koch Brother are super-rich global warming sceptics. Which would all be fine, except for the names and fronts they seem to hide behind. The Koch’s are a case study in faking it on a massive scale. The Koch’s are pro-free market, except when they benefit. Every year they […]
August 11 (The Daily) – The Daily has obtained from prosecutors a range of evidence from the trial of Warren Jeffs, including thousands of pages of documents and photos seized from his compound during a 2008 raid by Texas Rangers. A court reporter provided eight audio recordings in the case: six that were played during […]
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER8 August 2011 FUKUSHIMA, Japan — The day after a giant tsunami set off the continuing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thousands of residents at the nearby town of Namie gathered to evacuate. Given no guidance from Tokyo, town officials led the residents north, believing that winter winds […]
August 9 (AP) – An Associated Press investigation has found that Japanese government officials ignored radiation forecasts from their own monitoring system, failing to keep residents near a crippled nuclear plant from a predicted plume. Japan Ignored Own Fukushima Radiation Forecasts Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure,corruption
