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West Coast Port Slowdown Impacts Nevada County Businesses
By Don Pelton When we arranged with the local tree experts and altogether good people at Trees Unlimited to fell about a half dozen large ponderosas on our property and have them trucked to a mill, we scheduled the work to be done on Friday the 13th, disregarding all the silly supersitions about that date. It turned...
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“Thank You Mr Gray. You Were a Great Teacher”
By Don Pelton I had a slightly melancholy experience this morning. I ran across a webpage describing all my old high school teachers and what became of them. I graduated in 1959. I was especially interested to know about the one teacher — an English teacher — whom I have spoken of ever since as among the...
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Another Economic Crash is Coming
Economist Ross Ashcroft (in this 4-minute video) correctly points out that the most important warning sign of an impending crash is the level of private (household and business) debt as a percentage of GDP. In this view, he is in complete accord with Professor Steve Keen, one of the few economists to correctly predict...
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Is the “Sharing Economy” (Uber, Airbnb, etc) a Rip-Off?
By Robert Reich Reprinted with permission of the author, from his blog at http://robertreich.org How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners? Meanwhile, human beings do the work that’s unpredictable...
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From Nevada County Sherriff’s Office: “Good Morning Nevada County!”
OK, we had some “fun” this morning. We got an automated call from 866-419-5000 on our Magic Jack home phone (an Internet phone). I did a quick Google search for that number (since I was sitting at my computer when the phone rang) and — to add some extra confusion to the morning — the search...
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Does the “Sharing Economy” Create Community, or Profit From the Lack of It?
When our kids were little, we lived in an Eichler suburb in south Palo Alto. Every house on the block had a 6-to-7-foot fence around it. In the year that we lived there we rarely saw a neighbor. It was eery. One day, while mowing our lawn, I had a revelation: Our market system has a vested interest in our individual...
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A Beautiful Moment From a Beautiful Movie: “Pride”
For years I’ve kept a mental collection of movies that contain forgiveness. I dunno why. Maybe because we are all so often in need of it ourselves. Places in the Heart. Enchanted April. Love Actually. Happy Thank You More Please. And now — after watching it today on Amazon streaming — Pride, based...
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The End of Old Artic Sea Ice in Three Minutes (video)
“Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic’s winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is extremely rare. This animation tracks the relative amount of ice of different ages from 1987 through early November 2014. Video produced by the Climate.gov team, based on data provided...
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Timelapse Video of Planet Earth from Space
Explanation of video from YouTube posting: Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12,500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station this Ultra...
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Je Suis Charlie
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By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News The next time your right-wing family member or former high school classmate posts a status update or tweet about how taxing the rich or increasing workers’ wages kills jobs and makes businesses leave the state,...
A Man You’ve Never Heard of Saved Your Life
Reprinted from WashingtonsBlog (Posted on February 6, 2015 On October 27, 1962, a man you’ve never heard of saved your life … It was at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were on hair trigger alert for World...
Right-to-carry gun laws linked to increase in violent crime, study shows
Stanford research reaffirms that right-to-carry gun laws are connected with an increase in violent crime. This debunks – with the latest empirical evidence – earlier claims that more guns actually lead to less crime. BY CLIFTON B. PARKER Vartanov...
Fish still contaminated with phased-out Scotchgard chemical
Reprinted from Environmental Health News under a Creative Commons License Smallmouth bass are one of many freshwater fish species contaminated with PFOS in U.S. rivers and the Great Lakes. By Brian Bienkowski A persistent chemical formerly used in Scotchgard...
Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn’t Behind Bars
Reprinted from The Center for Economic and Policy Research under a Creative Commons License By Dean Baker The big news item in Washington last week was Attorney General Eric Holder decision to resign. Undoubtedly there are positives to Holder’s tenure...
Evidence Mounts of Hidden Fracking Hazards
Reprinted from Common Dreams under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License “We need strong state action to protect the public health from yet another troubling side effect of the unprecedented wave of shale gas development,”...
How the New York Times Enables Economic Illiteracy (Austerity)
Reprinted from the New Economic Perspectives blog at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Editor’s Note: William K. Black, author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One,” is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University...
When Hope Becomes Revolutionary: Change in a Time of Climate Change
Reprinted from TomDispatch.com Editor’s Note: Rebecca Solnit, is one of the best writers in America because she’s one of the most original thinkers. Here she reminds us of the revolutionary power of hope, and how hope overturns old regimes...
Feds Set to Open Fracking Floodgates in California Based on One Flawed Study
Reprinted from Common Dreams under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License Report raises grave concerns about fracking pollution’s threat to state’s air and water, say opponents, and also highlights fact that government officials...
The Twin Plagues of ISIS and Ebola
Reprinted from Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) under a Creative Commons License The Plague The twin plagues of ISIS and Ebola thrive on the breakdown of the existing order. By John Feffer In his novel The Plague, Albert Camus describes how death...
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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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