Illustration by Victor Juhasz Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out? By MATT TAIBBI March 14, 2012 10:55 AM ET At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail [...]
Denial of climate change is deep and it is wide.Storm clouds move over west of Palmyra, Indiana. (Photograph: David Lee Hartlage/AP) We woke up this weekend to news of record-breaking tornadoes touching down across a wide swath of the American Midwest, flattening entire townships and leaving behind multiple trails of devastation. Reading the mainstream media reports, the [...]
Just in case you think that the only people expressing concern about climate change are from the loony left, or worse still are evil terrorists seeking revenge on the capitalist system this is an interesting article. Apart from the possibility of extinction and the imminent loss of life on the planet there are those [...]
(Source: Munich RE)Live Insurance News, an online insurance industry publication, reports: Climate-Related Severe Weather Made 2011 Costliest Year on Record: Reports 2011 Disasters Make it Costliest Year on Record Though it would be impossible to calculate the full financial cost of a rapidly warming world or asign perfect blame to the cause of [...]
‘I suppose one hoped the Nixon interviews would make history in some way. That was the ambition’ … David Frost. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian This office wouldn’t be much of a challenge for Through the Keyhole. The walls are plastered with photographs of David Frost chatting to stars and statesmen – Bobby Kennedy, [...]
Justice Roderick Howie charged with Mid-range drink driving Posted: 19 Jun 2011 03:48 PM PDT Back in 2004, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal delivered a guideline judgment relating to the sentencing of high range drink-driving offences. Who wrote the judgment with which the other members of the Court agreed? [...]
