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the novel has "some very funny moments," and that the
non-fiction mixes "global statistics and first-person
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Post
of March 15, 2004, calls Predatory Bender: America in
the Aughts "the first novel about predatory lending;" the
London
Times of April 15, 2004, "A Novel Approach," said it "has
a cast of colorful characters." See
also, "City
Lit: Roman a Klepto [Review of ‘Predatory Bender’]," by
Matt Pacenza, City Limits, Sept.-Oct. 2004. The Pittsburgh
City Paper says the 100-page afterword makes the
"indispensable point that predatory lending is now being
aggressively exported to the rest of the globe," and opines that
that the "novel Predatory Bender: A Story of Subprime
Finance may, in fact, be the first great American lending
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January
30, 2023
A
hidden
loophole in
the
Administration’s
regulations to
curb truck
pollution
could end up
greatly
weakening the
new laws.
These were
part of a
crackdown on
heavy truck
pollution
that’s the
first of its
kind in
decades. But
commercial
truck makers
like Daimler
and Navistar
pushed for an
exemption to
the stricter
emissions
under cold
weather
conditions,
which
allegedly
hamper their
engines’
abilities to
curb
pollution.
January
23, 2023
From
London... to
New York?
"Beri’s app
suggests
routes that
provide the
lowest risk of
breathing air
with high
pollution
levels. “It’s
like a TfL
[Transport for
London] or
Google app but
instead of
offering the
speediest
journey
between
destinations
it provides
routes with
the lowest air
pollution,”
she said." How
would this
look in NYC?
January
16, 2023
Last
summer, the
U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency
announced it
was
considering
designating
the Permian
Basin — the
nation’s
top-producing
oil patch and
one of the
largest single
sources of
carbon
emissions on
Earth — in
violation of
ozone
standards,
which would
have required
substantial
reforms in
local oil and
gas
operations.
But the
proposal was
moved to a
back burner in
the agency’s
annual agenda
issued last
week,
reclassified
from “active”
to “pending."
January
9, 2023
In
the Chesapeake
Bay, polluted
runoff is
increasing
amid
inconsistent
enforcement
from
government
agencies...
January
2, 2023
Chicago-land:
A plan to
develop
semi-trailer
parking for a
massive Target
warehouse in
Little Village
has community
members
worried it
will bring
more diesel
truck
pollution into
an area
already
suffering from
poor air
quality. Hilco
Redevelopment
Partners is
proposing to
turn 20 acres
at 3307 S.
Lawndale Ave.
into a parking
and storage
yard for
trucks hauling
loads to and
from the
retailer’s 1.3
million-square-foot
warehouse.December
26, 2022
Shell
said on
December 23
that it will
pay 15 million
euros to
Nigerian
farmers to
compensate
them for
damage from
pipeline
leaks. A
Dutch appeals
court ruled
last year,
following 13
years of legal
battles, that
Shell’s
Nigerian
branch must
pay out for a
series of
leaks and that
the parent
company must
install new
pipeline
equipment to
prevent
further
devastating
spills
December
17, 2022
More
than 80 New
Jersey
companies
allegedly
polluted
sections of
the Lower
Passaic River
to the extent
they should
pay $150
million to
help clean it
up, the U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency and the
Department of
Justice
announced
Friday
December
12, 2022
People
dealing with
the most
socioeconomic
disadvantages
in greater Los
Angeles also
face higher
levels of
toxic air
pollution,
according to a
new UCLA-led
study.
Researchers
collected air
samples from
54 locations
over two-week
periods in
September 2019
and February
2020, and then
analyzed the
samples to
determine how
much PM 2.5
pollution was
present, and
how toxic it
was. PM 2.5
refers to
particles
smaller than
2.5 microns,
which can
penetrate deep
into lungs.
The paper,
published in
the journal
Environmental
Science &
Technology,
found that air
from census
tracts in the
25% of
communities
facing the
most
socioeconomic
disadvantages
not only
contained a
greater amount
of pollution,
but that the
pollution in
these areas
was more
toxic.
December
5, 2022
From
Pittsburgh:
U.S. Steel
must pay over
$458,000 in
penalty fines
after the
company
violated air
pollution
control
regulations,
according to
the Allegheny
County Health
Department.
The violations
occurred at
Clairton Coke
Works early
this year
November
28, 2022
Texas
in PA: A plea
hearing has
been scheduled
for next week
in the
long-running
case of a
natural gas
driller facing
felony charges
over
allegations it
polluted the
aquifer of a
small
Pennsylvania
community 14
years
ago.
Houston-based
Coterra Energy
Inc. will
appear in
Susquehanna
County Court
...
November
21, 2022
UN Puppet Guterres Reads Wrong Speech They Gave Him at COP 27 But Media Laughed It Off
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial book - NY
Mag
UN GATE, Nov
11 – Two
take-aways
from COP 27:
Antonio
Guterres is a
puppet who is
handed
speeches to
read,
sometimes the
wrong speech,
and the
corporate
media makes
excuses for
him,
presenting his
incompetence
and corruption
as funny, even
charming.
Welcome
to Sharm el
Sheik.
Guterres was
giving "his"
speech,
flanked by Al
Gore, when he
belatedly
realized it
was the wrong
speech. He
flipped
through it,
then admitted
"they" gave
him the wrong
speech. Video here
The same
"they" who,
after
convicted UN
briber CEFC
China Energy
bid on the oil
company of
Gulbenkian,
which paid
Guterres money
he omitted to
including on
his UN public
financial
disclosure,
told him to go
to the
Genocide Games
in Beijing,
and cover up
for genocide
and UN rapes.
"They."
But
the media is
complicit,
with Al
Jazeera and
others making
light of the
mistake, very
funny.
As
funny as Qatar
killing
migrant
workers to
host a corrupt
World Cup in
the desert,
air
conditioning
open air
stadia while
bloviating
like Guterres
about green
energy.
Guterres has
Inner City
Press roughed
up and banned
from the UN
for asking
about his
omission of
CEFC China
Energy, and
failures on
Yemen and
Cameroon.
The UN is dying, Guterres is responsible, and corporate and state media are complicit. Watch this site.
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November
14, 2022
Lobbying
at the
UN-affiliated
and corrupt
#COP27, which
Antonio
Guterres flew
in and out of
without
impacting
human rights
in the least:
"Vicki Hollub,
the CEO of
Oxy, a major
US oil and gas
producer,
complained in
October this
year that oil
and gas
companies like
hers were not
allowed into
negotiations
at COP26,
though she did
get access to
the talks last
year.
Hollub claimed
at an energy
industry event
that oil and
gas companies
were already
working to
influence this
year’s COP27
and next
year’s COP28,
scheduled to
take place in
the United
Arab Emirates.
She predicted
that they
would be
allowed into
negotiations
with the
climate talks
taking place
in oil
producing
countries.
Hollub’s
prediction
seems to have
come true with
her and eleven
of her
colleagues
from Oxy
gaining access
to this year’s
talks as part
of the
official
United Arab
Emirates
delegation,
which included
at least 70
fossil fuel
lobbyists
according to
our
analysis.
Oxy is one of
the largest US
oil and gas
producers and
a major
producer in
the prolific
Permian oil
basin. The
company was
also the
second highest
spending oil
and gas
lobbyist in
the United
States in
2021, behind
only Koch
Industries.
Hollub has
criticised
others for
pushing the
energy
transition
“too quickly”
saying instead
that with
carbon capture
technology,
largely used
to pump yet
more oil, she
can see a way
to continue
producing oil
and gas “for
the
foreseeable
future, I’m
talking 2060,
2070, 2080,
I’m not
talking about
ending fossil
fuel
development in
ten or twenty
years”
November
7, 2022
While
bloviating
about climate
change, not
only is UNSG
Antonio
Guterres
jetting off to
Egypt after
jetting back
from Tunisia -
after that,
he's going to
Bali.
Hypocrite.
October
22, 2022
...In
sub-Saharan
Africa, the
death rate
from air
pollution is
155 deaths per
100,000
people, nearly
double the
global average
of 85.6 deaths
per 100,000
people
October
24, 2022
...big
US banks
continue to
finance
companies that
are developing
new coal
projects
worldwide.
Since 2019,
JPMorgan
Chase,
Citigroup,
Bank of
America,
Morgan
Stanley, and
Goldman Sachs
have
collectively
provided US$40
billion to
coal
developers
October
17, 2022
A
Breton water
rights group
is suing the
French state
for not doing
enough to
lower the
amount of
nitrate
pollution in
the Channel,
which
contributes to
the growth of
toxic – and
sometimes
deadly – green
algae
October
10, 2022
NORTH
SMITHFIELDers
concerned
about a
proposal by a
metals
processor to
build a
23,000-square-foot
building on a
property
featuring
acres of
wetlands say
they
discovered
more reasons
to oppose the
project this
week, when the
Rhode Island
Department of
Environmental
Management
shared files
documenting a
history of
environmental
violations by
the
applicant.
Files provided
by RIDEM
following a
public
information
request show
that Material
Samples
Technology’s
property at
800 Central
St. has been
subject to
several
violations,
and in some
cases fines
for
non-compliance.
October
3, 2022
"California
Gov. Gavin
Newsom on
Friday
announced that
oil refineries
could start
selling more
polluting
winter-blend
gasoline ahead
of schedule to
ease soaring
fuel prices,
directly
contradicting
his own goals
for reducing
climate
pollutants."
September
26, 2022
"The Office of
Environmental
Justice and
External Civil
Rights —
comprised of
more than 200
current staff
members in 10
U.S. regions —
will merge
three existing
EPA programs
to oversee a
portion of
Democrats’ $60
billion
investment in
environmental
justice
initiatives
created by the
Inflation
Reduction Act"
- will it help
stop
disparately
pollution
projects?
We'll test -
and see.
September 19,
2022
After Jurors Hear Trevor Milton Doesn't Give a Sh*t About The Environment, Nikola Questions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
BBC - CIA
Trial book - NY
Mag Pearl
St Video
LITERARY
COURTHOUSE, Sept 13 – When the Trevor Milton
trial kicked off for real, AUSA Nick Roos
called Milton a fraudster. His lawyer Marc
Mukasey called the government's case
grotesque.
But the
first witness settled the matter, at least for
now. Paul Lackey who had worked on the Nikola
1 described Milton as involved in the science
or the work, focused on leading other men in
suits around and lying about the state of
preparation of the vehicles.
Mukasey
and then Ken Caruso objected, without impact.
Overruled, Judge Ramos said. As it
grew near the end of trial day break, there
had still been no cross examination.
The
jurors would go home with this image in their
heads: Trevor Milton saying, according to Paul
Lackey, "I don't give a sh*t about the
environment, I just want to make money."
It was consistent with other, later
developments. Milton lying about having solar
panels on the Nikola building's roof, when
there were none.
[Question
posed to Milton on Pearl Street here]
It was
like the United Nations, though Kurt Wheelock,
who before he was throw out of the UN had
exposed their fake recycling program when in
fact all the waste mixed together.
The
limousine idling for hours outside Secretary
General Antonio Guterres' mansion on Sutton
Place, and his undisclosed weekend jetting to
Lisbon.
Greenwashing, bluewashing, but all Team Trevor could allege was Milton- or Nikola-bashing. The next day they would get to cross examine Lackey. Kurt would try to come in early for that. More on Patreon here.
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