City of Grass Valley Imposes Final Application Deadline on Emgold
Press Release
By Citizens Looking At Impacts of Mining (CLAIM-GV)
claim@claim-gv.org
March 15, 2012
On Thursday, March 13, Grass Valley City Council set a final 180-day time limit for Emgold to come up with the required deposits for their flagship project, the Idaho-Maryland Mine and Ceramics Factory. If Emgold fails to deposit approximately $440,000 within 180 days, the project application will be [...]
Random Thoughts on Optimism vs Pessimism
By Don Pelton
There’s an interesting philosophical aspect to the issue of optimism vs pessimism that’s worth more study and more comment. Here are a few random thoughts.
Both optimism and pessimism are bets on the future, and therefore subject to all sorts of contingencies including bad judgment, misinformation (noise in the communication), disinformation (getting “snowed”), guile, [...]
In a Surprise Move, Grass Valley City Council Sets Hard Deadline for Emgold
In a surprise move this evening, the Grass Valley City Council went well beyond what was strictly required of them and took action on a formally non-action agenda item, by imposing a “final” and hard deadline of six months for Emgold to secure financing to complete the Draft Environmental Impact Report on its Idaho-Maryland Mine [...]
How to Stop the Corporate Erosion of Our Democracy
Here’s a short video (8+ minutes) explaining why 85% of Americans (regardless of political party) believe corporations have too much power, and what we can do about it.
Democracy May Be Coming to a Town Near You
John Nichols, writing in the (Madison, Wisconsin) Cap Times, calls the recent Move-to-Amend resolutions passed by 64 Vermont towns “a clarion call for renewal of democracy.”
Soon enough, we’ll have a chance to push this issue here in Nevada County.
Nichols explains:
Inspired by the success of the Vermont initiative, the Democracy Is for People Campaign is now [...]
Public Sector Banks: From Black Sheep to Global Leaders
By Ellen Brown (Reprinted from Centre for Research on Globalization with permission of the author)
Once the black sheep of high finance, government owned banks can reassure depositors about the safety of their savings and can help maintain a focus on productive investment in a world in which effective financial regulation remains more of an aspiration [...]
America’s Credit and Housing Crisis: New State Bank Bills
By Ellen Brown (Reprinted from the Centre for Research on Globalization with the permission of the author)
Seventeen states have now introduced bills for state-owned banks, and others are in the works. Hawaii’s innovative state bank bill addresses the foreclosure mess. County-owned banks are being proposed that would tackle the housing crisis by exercising the right of eminent [...]
Matt Taibbi: “Banks Sold Oregano as High Grade Weed”
In this 5-minute video, journalist Matt Taibbi talks to Occupy Wall Street and explains how the mortgage-backed security scam works.
What Does Thomas Ferguson Know That Other Political Scientists Don’t?
Thomas Ferguson, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts (Boston) and father of the “investment theory of party competition” is joining Alternet as a contributing editor. When asked what is unique about his method of analysis, this is what he said:
Tom Ferguson: My favorite short take is Andrew Gelman’s: “It’s interesting reading [...]
Fracking Bans that Can Stand
In New York, judges are standing up for communities’ rights to say no to corporate drilling.
By Maura Stephens (Originally published in Yes! Magazine, February 29, 2012)
In New York State, some 82 towns and counties have passed ordinances outlawing fracking, a natural gas drilling method known for causing severe water pollution. Another 35 have ordinances in the [...]
