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May 22.  There’s been a lot of reporting about Apple not paying taxes on a huge amount of money that it keeps overseas, “offshore”.  The New York Times today points out that Apple’s “offshore” money is actually sitting in New … Continue reading →

May 20.  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said this on the floor of the Senate today: “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we … Continue reading →

May 18.  Check out the picture in the New York Times, Mt. Koch, a new Detroit landmark.  No, there was no volcano in Motown.  It’s the billionaire Koch brothers dump.  They decided to park a growing pile of petroleum coke … Continue reading →

May 15.  The world desperately needs plans to keep fossil fuels in the ground.  Instead CT Gov. Dan’l Malloy’s mult-billion plan is heavy on fossil fuels.  Hear an interview with Dan Fischer, an activist in a group that’s planning a … Continue reading →

Be sure the watch the Joel Kovel video.  I believe he invented the term ecosocialism.  Seven Talks at the April conference Another Seven Including Kovel and Williams “We Want People to Stop Despoiling Our Land” – Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong What are You … Continue reading →

May 8.  The New York Times John Broder reports that the Obama Administration is seeing if it can have its cake and eat it too.  It wants to approve the Keystone XL (Climate Killing) pipeline, but keep climate caring people … Continue reading →

May 3.  The percent employed as a share of the population (e-pop) went up 0.1 percent last month, a very small change. It’s really been stuck at the same level for 3 years.   The number “not in the labor” force … Continue reading →

The law was signed in 2010 and now three years later the number without any health insurance or with lousy insurance is up by 3 million to a total of 84 million.  That’s the facts in an article on Bloomberg … Continue reading →

New York Times energy journalist John M. Broder predicts that the president will approve Keystone XL.  He wrote on April 24, “Mr. Obama has not tipped his hand, but signals from the administration indicate that he is inclined to approve … Continue reading →

15 dead in a plant that was last inspected by OSHA in 1985.  Bloomberg Businessweek comments, “OSHA conducted 4,448 inspections in the last fiscal year, a pace that would mean it would visit every workplace in 126 years, according to … Continue reading →

April 24.  NYT columnist Paul Krugman has written about a new prejudice and  discrimination,  a bias against people who have been out of work for six months or more.  Employers think there’s something wrong with them, something personal or that … Continue reading →

April 23.  It didn’t get much play in the New York Times or interest by other media, but an April 21 article showed that a huge portion of New Yorkers were having a hard time.  The percent of people in … Continue reading →

April 21.  I drove Bill McKibben a few days ago to the hall where he received the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace.  It was just a few minutes drive and I didn’t want to get into anything that … Continue reading →

Zeke27 from New York wrote this in a comment to a NYT article “I support the NRA’s position on focusing on the mental health aspect of gun ownership. We should start by questioning whether it is sane to want a … Continue reading →

Obama has threatened to use the Environmental Protection Agency to lower carbon dioxide pollution.  He has threatened and he has threatened…for three years. So next year if he has his way the EPA’s budget will be reduced by a  3.5%.  … Continue reading →

Job numbers for March are out and they’re not good.  The best measure, “e-pop” (employed adults as a percent of the population), is down a tenth of a percent.  Despite all the ballyhoo about “recovery” from the Great Recession e-pop … Continue reading →

Many people mention the Federal Reserve Bank’s bank numbers about “idle cash” held by U.S. companies.  The figure is staggering $1.7 trillion (and this does not include money owned by banks.)  The companies don’t use the money to make more … Continue reading →

March 27.   A few days ago I cautioned about New York Times columnist Anthony Nocera’s unqualified enthusiasm for coal gas.  He described a method where the CO2 greenhouse gas captured in the process of making coal gas would be sent … Continue reading →

March 26.  To borrow a word from the nuclear arms race the fossil fuel industry has achieved “overkill”.  Companies have found several times more fuel than can safely be burned.  By safe I mean without putting so much CO2 in the air … Continue reading →