... In 2005, residents of Fryeburg, Maine, blocked construction in a residential neighborhood of a water-truck loading station that would ship water out of the area. Nestle sued the town five times, eventually landing the case before the Maine Supreme Court, where Nestle argued that the residents did not have the authority to interfere with its business practices. The Maine Supreme Court allowed Nestle to move forward with its construction plans, overturning the lower court decisions that had supported the residents.
In some cases, citizen persistence has paid off and Nestle has been forced to conform to public pressure. In McCloud, Calif., residents were able to block a Nestle deal that would have granted it unlimited access to groundwater. This effort took six years of litigation and public pressure before Nestle backed off. After a 10-year fight in Mecosta County, Mich., Nestle was forced to cut the amount it would pump in half, down to 300,000 gallons a day after a judge threatened it with an injunction that would have prevented any water extraction.
As Annie Leonard's YouTube film "The Story of Bottled Water" reminds us, bottled water is a result of "manufactured demand" — where water bottlers have sought to create fear and doubt about tap water while creating a product that is 2,000 times as expensive as tap water and pollutes the planet at every step of the production chain. Over 80 percent of the plastic bottles end up in landfills or even worse, such as in the Pacific garbage gyre, where millions of tons of plastic float in the middle of the ocean.
The Wacissa River is one of the few remaining pristine rivers in North Florida and a valuable asset for local recreation and ecotourism. Any changes to this river should be based on transparent science without political interference that places the ecological and public interests above private profit. Given the track record, local residents should prepare themselves for a long, expensive fight if they hope to defend this river from Nestle.
Wealth Disparities in U.S. Approaching 1920s Levels [View article]
Just the number of comments on this article shows that people are Fearing & Loathing D.C. and Wall Street. People are finally seeing the game for what it really is- fictitious. Its a joke and we are all buying into it. $500 trillion in derivative assets in 5 banks vs. $50 trillion in world GDP?!?!?! That is a joke. These banks don't hold real wealth. The gov't won't let us audit Ft Knox because nothing is there. The Fed won't let us audit it because it has no real wealth. Just play money that we all need to find an alternative to.
So lets start buying out of it because every fiat currency, every gov't, every nation-state goes through a life cycle and America and its dollars are on the way to the end. Pay off debt so we are not enslaved to the banks. Move your money to local credit unions. Do business with local banks that keep your mortgage. Local and regional banks should start keeping gold in reserves. Just as a doctor used to take a chicken in payment, we need to diversify out of dollars into barter, chickens, etc. Invest in things of real value such as canned goods, emergency water supply, raise a garden.
The deterioration in median household income has resulted in greater variance in income, as shown in the second graph, which has negative longer term economic implications. A person earning $100,000,000 per year is not going to buy that many more automobiles that someone earning $100,000 per year. The stronger the middle class is, generally the stronger will be the economy. Historically, extremes in income variance usually are followed by financial panics and economic depressions. Income variance today is higher than it was coming into 1929 and 1987, and it is nearly double that of any other "advanced" economy.
Peak Oil as a Function of Earth's Volume [View article]
Venezuela May Yield Twice As Much Oil As Was ThoughtFebruary 1, 2010 - 12:57 pm Chris Rhodes Professor Chris Rhodes is Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions and has published more than 400 articles and 4 books.
The Orinoco Oil Belt is now reckoned to contain 513 billion “technically recoverable” barrels of oil, or more than double the previous estimate of 235 barrels.
I am horrified. Look at the "sound" financial advice "we the people" receive about saving more for retirement, paying down debt and controllling one's spending. How am I supposed to feel patriotic about giving my taxes to government(s) that spends wildly in deficit, rewards its cronnies in the financial system with billions in bailouts for leveraging 100 to 1, and continues to wage wars that cost more then any costs needed for education facilities and health care for all? Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
Mirant: Coal-Burning Utility with Significant Value [View article]
Thanks for the research. This stock is coming shining thru on my stock screen of P/S < 1, P/E <10, return on equity > 10%, profit margins >10%, and momentum of recent share price >3% below 50 day MVA and market cap > $1B. Seems like a no brainer after your risk analysis.
Wall Street doesn't give two hoots about Main St because nobody can stop them.
Mayer Rothschild said:
Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws. — G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island, American Opinion Publishing, p. 218.
This is the Jesuits’/Rothschilds’ golden rule. The one who has the gold makes the rules!
Griffin then writes:
The Rothschild dynasty had conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before or all the Hitlers after them. — Ibid, p. 218.
Thomas Jefferson has this to say about the central bank.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Ibid. p. 329.
9 Small Cap and Mid Cap Dividend Raisers [View article]
Finding companies like these and buying below the 200 day moving avg and holding for long periods will pay off! Simple, works. Thanks for great heads up screen.
The Labor Market's Worse than We Think [View article]
Awhile back there was an article on here titled No Long Term Deleveraging. Yeah right!
Every portion of our economy is shrinking as it should upon reversal of a credit bubble. People need to look at local solutions. Canning tomatoes is a worthwhile endeavor. Fixing bicycles is worthwhile. Trading with your neighbor for his eggs is valuable again. Go to your local farmers market. Start inventing our way out of this. Creative destruction is necessary. If its smart for big money to diversify out of dollars its also smart for our local banks to do the same. And our local economies will follow. That is sustainability. Getting government off our backs by just going around them. Stop depending on big finance (CIT and CITI). Maybe a local banker will see the wisdom in accepting barter bucks as depositable. There is where you will find a local economy that will thrive after the government inflates us all out of the price of a loaf of bread.
Singapore's Shipping Glut Bad News for the S&P [View instapost]
From another SA article: The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, rose to a seven-month high of 2,645, in London on strong Chinese demand for iron ore, coal, and grains. Crude oil rose above $60 a barrel after China increased crude imports by 14% in April to 3.9-million barrels a day. Soybeans rose to $11.65 / bushel, as US stockpiles are dwindling to a five-year low of 130 million bushels, the USDA said.
I guess what we are really seeing is boatloads of monetary demand versus production demand. Thus ships can be sitting idle yet prices still moving strongly.
Is the U.S. Dollar Headed for a Mighty Crash? Part I [View article]
The bottom line is this, the government will do whatever it wants to the currency values and we the people are apparently too stupid to stop them. Now its just a matter of diversifying yourself out of dollars. Like I have been saying. "If the US makes the world pay for oil in $ and then devalues the dollar by 10-20-30%, what will happen to the price of oil??" Hint: ^. (disclosure: long oil, another big shock is inevitable)
Find a local barter group and start earning credit with you local business people. If your goods and services are not denominated in dollars then when the big slide happens you will still be able to afford an oil change. Google "local currencies".
Singapore's Shipping Glut Bad News for the S&P [View instapost]
MHFT,
Can you juxtapose the sinking ships with the Baltic Dry Index please? Cause I too only see some crazy bad market fundamentals. Don't those matter anymore?
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In 2005, residents of Fryeburg, Maine, blocked construction in a residential neighborhood of a water-truck loading station that would ship water out of the area. Nestle sued the town five times, eventually landing the case before the Maine Supreme Court, where Nestle argued that the residents did not have the authority to interfere with its business practices. The Maine Supreme Court allowed Nestle to move forward with its construction plans, overturning the lower court decisions that had supported the residents.
In some cases, citizen persistence has paid off and Nestle has been forced to conform to public pressure. In McCloud, Calif., residents were able to block a Nestle deal that would have granted it unlimited access to groundwater. This effort took six years of litigation and public pressure before Nestle backed off. After a 10-year fight in Mecosta County, Mich., Nestle was forced to cut the amount it would pump in half, down to 300,000 gallons a day after a judge threatened it with an injunction that would have prevented any water extraction.
As Annie Leonard's YouTube film "The Story of Bottled Water" reminds us, bottled water is a result of "manufactured demand" — where water bottlers have sought to create fear and doubt about tap water while creating a product that is 2,000 times as expensive as tap water and pollutes the planet at every step of the production chain. Over 80 percent of the plastic bottles end up in landfills or even worse, such as in the Pacific garbage gyre, where millions of tons of plastic float in the middle of the ocean.
The Wacissa River is one of the few remaining pristine rivers in North Florida and a valuable asset for local recreation and ecotourism. Any changes to this river should be based on transparent science without political interference that places the ecological and public interests above private profit. Given the track record, local residents should prepare themselves for a long, expensive fight if they hope to defend this river from Nestle.
Wealth Disparities in U.S. Approaching 1920s Levels [View article]
So lets start buying out of it because every fiat currency, every gov't, every nation-state goes through a life cycle and America and its dollars are on the way to the end. Pay off debt so we are not enslaved to the banks. Move your money to local credit unions. Do business with local banks that keep your mortgage. Local and regional banks should start keeping gold in reserves. Just as a doctor used to take a chicken in payment, we need to diversify out of dollars into barter, chickens, etc. Invest in things of real value such as canned goods, emergency water supply, raise a garden.
The Jobs Report: Confusing, Convoluted [View article]
The deterioration in median household income has resulted in greater variance in income, as shown in the second graph, which has negative longer term economic implications. A person earning $100,000,000 per year is not going to buy that many more automobiles that someone earning $100,000 per year. The stronger the middle class is, generally the stronger will be the economy. Historically, extremes in income variance usually are followed by financial panics and economic depressions. Income variance today is higher than it was coming into 1929 and 1987, and it is nearly double that of any other "advanced" economy.
regarding a momentum stock BBEP [View instapost]
Peak Oil as a Function of Earth's Volume [View article]
Chris Rhodes
Professor Chris Rhodes is Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions and has published more than 400 articles and 4 books.
The Orinoco Oil Belt is now reckoned to contain 513 billion “technically recoverable” barrels of oil, or more than double the previous estimate of 235 barrels.
Secret Deals Involving No One; AIG Cover-Up Conspiracy Unravels [View article]
Mirant: Coal-Burning Utility with Significant Value [View article]
Peak Oil as a Function of Earth's Volume [View article]
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More Goldman Outrage [View article]
Mayer Rothschild said:
Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws. — G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island, American Opinion Publishing, p. 218.
This is the Jesuits’/Rothschilds’ golden rule. The one who has the gold makes the rules!
Griffin then writes:
The Rothschild dynasty had conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before or all the Hitlers after them. — Ibid, p. 218.
Thomas Jefferson has this to say about the central bank.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Ibid. p. 329.
9 Small Cap and Mid Cap Dividend Raisers [View article]
The Labor Market's Worse than We Think [View article]
Every portion of our economy is shrinking as it should upon reversal of a credit bubble. People need to look at local solutions. Canning tomatoes is a worthwhile endeavor. Fixing bicycles is worthwhile. Trading with your neighbor for his eggs is valuable again. Go to your local farmers market. Start inventing our way out of this. Creative destruction is necessary. If its smart for big money to diversify out of dollars its also smart for our local banks to do the same. And our local economies will follow. That is sustainability. Getting government off our backs by just going around them. Stop depending on big finance (CIT and CITI). Maybe a local banker will see the wisdom in accepting barter bucks as depositable. There is where you will find a local economy that will thrive after the government inflates us all out of the price of a loaf of bread.
Singapore's Shipping Glut Bad News for the S&P [View instapost]
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, rose to a seven-month high of 2,645, in London on strong Chinese demand for iron ore, coal, and grains. Crude oil rose above $60 a barrel after China increased crude imports by 14% in April to 3.9-million barrels a day. Soybeans rose to $11.65 / bushel, as US stockpiles are dwindling to a five-year low of 130 million bushels, the USDA said.
I guess what we are really seeing is boatloads of monetary demand versus production demand. Thus ships can be sitting idle yet prices still moving strongly.
Is the U.S. Dollar Headed for a Mighty Crash? Part I [View article]
Find a local barter group and start earning credit with you local business people. If your goods and services are not denominated in dollars then when the big slide happens you will still be able to afford an oil change. Google "local currencies".
Singapore's Shipping Glut Bad News for the S&P [View instapost]
Can you juxtapose the sinking ships with the Baltic Dry Index please? Cause I too only see some crazy bad market fundamentals. Don't those matter anymore?