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How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme — Again
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com The Empire Strikes Back How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme — Again By Laura Gottesdiener You can hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about the nation’s impressive, much celebrated housing...
[Continue reading: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme — Again]Obama’s Washington is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East
Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com By Bob Dreyfuss Put in context, the simultaneous raids in Libya and Somalia last month, targeting an alleged al-Qaeda fugitive and an alleged kingpin of the al-Shabab Islamist movement, were less a sign of America’s awesome might than two minor exceptions that proved...
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Gulf of Mexico: “There is no life out there”
Reprinted from Transition Voice under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. By Tom Lewis Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jereme Phillips reports oil on a refuge beach in Alabama in June of 2010. Three years later, the hits just keep on coming. (Photo: Jennifer Strickland USFWS) The...
[Continue reading: Gulf of Mexico: “There is no life out there”]On this Labor Day, Let’s Remember What Unions Have Done for America
Reprinted from Fabius Maximus (under Creative Commons License) by Fabius Maximus Summary: On this Labor Day let’s revisit the lost history of the union movement, and its vital contribution to building the middle class. To remember the loneliness, the fear and the insecurity of men who once had to walk alone...
[Continue reading: On this Labor Day, Let’s Remember What Unions Have Done for America]Fracking Boom Slouching Toward Bust
Reprinted from Common Dreams (under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License) By Richard Heinberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one. What’s an obscenity that starts with “f” and ends with “ck”? Oh wait, sorry, this is supposed to be a serious article about fracking. That’s right, we’re...
[Continue reading: Fracking Boom Slouching Toward Bust]Protected: Spanking the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement
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[Continue reading: Protected: Spanking the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement]19 ways climate change is now feeding itself
Reprinted under a Creative Commons license from Transition Voice By Guy McPherson This essay updates my earlier effort to tally and describe self-reinforcing feedback loops with respect to climate change. At that time, seven months ago, we had strong evidence of nine such catastrophic phenomena. The nineteen I currently...
[Continue reading: 19 ways climate change is now feeding itself]Forget the Age of Renewables, We’re Entering the Age of Extreme Carbon, and Radical Global Warming
Editor’s Note: Tom Engelhardt — on his TomDispatch Facebook page – introduces this essay by energy expert Michael Klare as “one of the most shocking and important TomDispatch has ever published.” No wonder. Klare dispels the illusion that we are about to enter a Happy Age of Renewable...
[Continue reading: Forget the Age of Renewables, We’re Entering the Age of Extreme Carbon, and Radical Global Warming]Why Aikido’Ka Won’t Be at this Year’s Fair or Why Elephant Rides and Respect Don’t Mix
By Frank Bloksberg “An Open Letter to the Community, “My name is Frank Bloksberg. I have lived in Nevada City for about 18 years. I am a lawyer and run a martial arts school, in Grass Valley, called Aikido’Ka. At Aikido’Ka, we train in aikido – known as the “Art of Peace.” Aikido’Ka is different...
[Continue reading: Why Aikido’Ka Won’t Be at this Year’s Fair or Why Elephant Rides and Respect Don’t Mix]Could fracking finally kill off rural America?
Reprinted from Transition Voice (Creative Commons License ) By Erik Curren U.S. map showing waterways (in blue) over shale gas plays (in red). Photo: Gasland 2. Gasland 2, the sequel to Josh Fox’s documentary about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, introduces a frightening image. It’s...
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This Little Light of Mine … I’m Gonna Let It Shine
I was in the Booksellers bookstore in Grass Valley recently and one of the clerks pointed at my pants and asked “What’s that?” I looked down and saw that the little flashlight attached to my keychain inside my pocket had accidentally...
Without Progressive Uproar, Social Security and Medicare Face Axe
Reprinted from Common Dreams (October 21, 2013) under Creative Commons License By Jon Queally, staff writer The lines are being drawn for a ‘Grand Bargain’ and the Democrats’ continued willingness to give away role as defenders of...
Wolf Creek Community Alliance Presents: State of the Creek
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How GOP Changed House Rules to Preclude Discharge Petition
Proponents of democracy and of basic sanity have lately pinned some hope on the possibility that a discharge petition could be used to circumvent the intractable GOP leadership and force a vote in the full House on reopening the government. Some of...
Are We Dangerously Close to Runaway Global Warming?
One big problem with discussions of climate change is that the facts have become so alarming that it’s tempting to dismiss the mere recitation of them as “alarmist” and “needlessly hyperbolic.” But what if alarm is entirely...
Incredible Video of Rim Fire Taken from Air National Guard Tanker
Comment from YouTube page: “WWFS- Williams Wildland Fire Services 2 days ago It is saying Landing Gear because the “Herc” is slowing down to about 150 knots/mph to make an efficient drop and he is coming coming right over the tree...
Mind-Blowing Infographic Showing Wealth Inequality in America
Are U.S. Spying Practices “Killing Our Most Productive Industry?”
From Techcrunch: “We knew USG would come after us”. That’s why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn’t been told to provide data to the government, but after Lavabit...
By Don Pelton Our friend, Deni Draper-Silberstein, went to the one public meeting set up to discuss the Retail Focus Group Report commissioned by the Grass Valley City Council and conducted by Chabin Concepts, Inc. The City approved this $7500 study...
Social Security is for the Little People
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Free Book: “The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive”
By Dean Baker Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates. They...
Richard Tuttle A day or so ago I received this email from our friend, Dave Comstock, publisher of Comstock Bonanza Press, concerning a “book launch” on October 15th in the Nevada City Council Chamber … of judge Richard E. Tuttle’s...
Devastating New Ron Susskind Book on Obama and his Dysfunctional Economic Team
Larry Summers Napping In excerpts below from their discussion, Frank Rich and Adam Moss talk about Ron Susskind’s new book Confidence Men — published tomorrow — about president-elect Obama’s choice of his economic team in 2008,...
GOP Rule is More Dangerous to Our Health, Study Proves (100 Years of Data)
Professor James Gillligan has spent his professional life studying violence. In his latest book, “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others,” he summarizes his study of a whole century of data, proving that all forms of violence...
Yes, the Latest Right-Wing Paean to Sociopath Ayn Rand Is Really, Really Awful
by Brad Reed Take Lisa Simpson and combine her with Gordon Gekko and the obnoxious child-android from “Small Wonder,” and you get the perfect Rand hero. The year is 2016. Eight years of Obammunism have transformed the former capitalist paradise known...
Simplicity Bistro: Excellent New Restaurant in Grass Valley
I learned something from our three meals at Simplicity Bistro over the last week: I learned that I have a burgundy beef need that can apparently only be satisfied by recurring dinners at Simplicity Bistro. I’m a bit worried, though, because...
Rich People Things: Ayn Rand, La Dolce Vita Redubbed and the Plutocrapocalypse!
Who’s suffered most in the Great Recession? Why, it’s the rich, the affluent, the meritocracy, of course! So says — satirically — Chris Lehmann in his new book, Rich People Things. From the publisher’s description: It’s...
Farming Was His Life, Until the CAFOs Came
I heard Thom Hartmann interview David Kirby, author of Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. This could be one of those watershed environmental books, like Rachel Carson’s...
Corporations Have Become More Dangerous to Democracy Since Reagan
Barry Lynn, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, talks about his book, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. According to Lynn (speaking in the video below), “in 1981 the Reagan administration changed...
Amazing Buzz on New Book: Eating Animals
I’ve never seen this kind of buzz on a new book before, and since I’m a sucker for book buzz and hype, and I haven’t actually read the book yet, I’ll just pass on some of the buzz and hype about Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran...
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