Missoula Accurate reports seem to indicate that the Justice Department is in the final drafting of a record setting, highest corporate penalty ever paid with Bank of America for mortgage related abuses. The price tag is going to be slightly north of $16 billion with $9 billion going to the government by way of a …
Category: Financial Justice
Nature Conservancy, Climate Change, and Heading for the Hills
New Orleans Naomi Klein, the author, reporter and documentarian from Canada, busted the Nature Conservancy and its corporate captivity with an early leak from a coming book revealing that they were more than willing to break their “no drilling” pledge on lands they hold in Texas in order to collect millions in royalties from oil …
Too Much Data in Too Many Hands for Both Good and Evil
New Orleans An observation decades ago always stuck with me. It was a comparison of Americans and people who live elsewhere. The point made by the author, whose name fittingly has long ago left me, is that we have too much information at hand and too little ability to process it. Ironically, that was then, …