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MarketWatch of April 23, 2004, says the
the novel has "some very funny moments," and that the
non-fiction mixes "global statistics and first-person
accounts." The Washington
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
malfeasance novel" including "low-level loan sharks,
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politicians, Iraq War veterans, Wall Street analysts, reporters
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November
29, 2021
Private
offices and
schools will
stay closed on
Mondays in
Pakistan’s
second-largest
city in a bid
to tackle
toxic levels
of
smog.
The measure
will be in
place until 15
January, after
Lahore was
this week
declared the
most polluted
city in the
world by an
air quality
monitor – with
residents
suffering from
shortness of
breath,
stinging eyes
and nausea
from thick
pollution
November
22, 2021
How
about this
strategy to
crack down on
China’s carbon
pollution:
charge imports
for their
emissions.
This is “one
way to get
China to have
its mind
concentrated”
on cutting
emissions ...
November
15, 2021
Kentucky
comparisons:
PM 2.5
emissions —
Louisville
ranks No. 9
with a tonnage
of 7,672,
compared to
Bowling Green
with a score
of 1,524.
Poxides of
nitrogen —
Louisville
ranks No. 2
with a tonnage
of 37,796,
compared to
5,735 for
Bowling Green.
Oxides of
sulfur —
Louisville
ranks No. 3
with a measure
of 39,231,
compared to
Bowling Green
at 61
November
8, 2021
From COP26 More Emissions of UN Hypocricy Now Fore of UNICEF Which Banned Press Q on Afghanistan
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
UN GATE, Nov 1
– The UN system hypocrisy emanating from COP26
in Glasgow is itself like global warming. From
UNICEF, which banned the Press on October 27,
and its outgoing chieftain Henrietta H. Fore
who headed a steel company and then something
called Pozacorp, this: "“COP26 must be the COP
for children,” said UNICEF Executive Director
Henrietta Fore. “Climate change is one of the
greatest threats facing this generation, with
1 billion children at extremely high risk.
Yet, while the outlook is dire, world leaders
at COP26 have a significant, time-sensitive
opportunity to redirect the terrible path we
are on." Yeah.
On October 27 Inner City Press received an
invite from UNICEF to sign into
WebEx online briefing to ask questions to
Yasmine Sherif, Education Cannot Wait
director.
But when it
did, with questions about Afghanistan and
UNICEF including its use of the public's
funds, and about UN staff abandoned by
Guterres , it was "removed by the host." Video
here.
By contrast,
only on October 26 Inner City Press was
interviewed by NBC TV in Buffalo here.
Inner City
Press more than eight hours ago asked three at
UNICEF / ECW including Kent Page and Anouk
Desgroseilliers for an explanation:
"Subject:
Press question about ECW/Sherif presser from
which Inner City Press was "removed by the
host" - Inner City Press is waiting for an
explanation. On deadline, thanks in advance.
To: kpage [at] unicef.org, adesgroseilliers
[at] un-ecw.org, info [at] un-ecw.org
Hello. This is
in the first instance a formal Press inquiry
as to why, when yesterday I clicked the WebEx
link to virtually attend and ask questions at
Yasmine Sherif's press conference, I was first
muted, and then "removed by the host" -
presumably you / UNICEF.
This occurred
October 27 at midday and Inner City Press is
waiting for an explanation. On deadline,
thanks in advance. Matthew Russell Lee,
Inner City Press
November
1, 2021
“Chase
bank alone has
provided $317
billion in
financing to
the fossil
fuel industry
since the
Paris Accords.
Big money
doesn’t care
about our
wellbeing.
They will
continue to
fund climate
disaster until
we hit their
bottom line.
It’s time to
fight for a
fossil free
future,” said
Adam Neville,
19, with the
Future
Coalition, a
national
network of
youth climate
organizations
calling for a
fossil free
future and
national
protests at
Chase Bank
October
25, 2021
Illinois
Attorney
General Kwame
Raoul
announced
Friday a
lawsuit
against a
metal scrapper
in Pilsen that
allegedly
violated air
pollution
codes.
Sims Metal
Management, at
2500 S.
Paulina St.,
is accused of
failing an
emissions
capture test
in May 2021,
Raoul said in
a statement.
The report
alleges the
shredder was
capturing less
than 50%,
which was
below mandated
emissions
control
requirements
of at least
81%.
October
18, 2021
Studies show the California San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad area with the most number of days with ozone and PM 2.5 (particulate matter 2.5) AQI (Air Quality Index) over 50. The Los Angeles-Long-Beach-Anaheim area came in second, with 209 days and Riverside-San-Bernardino-Ontario ranked third. Arizona's Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler area was fourth with 149 days and Colorado's Denver-Aurora-Lakewood was fifth. Areas in Texas, Ohio and Indiana were also in the top 10
October
11, 2021
.
this year in
New Jersey
when the
Passaic Valley
Sewerage
Commission
(PVSC)
proposed
building a new
fracked gas
power plant in
the Ironbound
section of
Newark. For
city residents
already living
next door to a
massive trash
incinerator,
multiple
fossil fuel
plants, heavy
truck traffic
from the East
Coast’s
busiest port,
and a dizzying
array of
industrial
facilities,
adding another
source of air
pollution is
unacceptable.
October
4, 2021
A
plastics
company
accused of
contaminating
residents’
water in a New
York town, has
agreed to
settle a
class-action
lawsuit for
over $23
million. The
settlement,
which was
filed on
Friday and is
pending court
approval,
would resolve
a lawsuit
brought by
eight
plaintiffs
that allege
that
Petersburgh-based
Taconic
Plastics
polluted
residents’
water with
perfluorooctanoic
acid (PFOA)
from a nearby
plant
September
27, 2021
In
the UN General
Assembly last
week, Greece
bragged about
making a
"green island"
with...
Volkswagen...
September
20, 2021
A
federal
circuit court
has rejected a
U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency
statewide
Idaho permit
involving
pollution into
waterways from
large dairy
farms.
But the ruling
appears to
have limited
immediate
ramifications
for the
state’s $3
billion dairy
industry
because no
Idaho dairies
are required
to get such a
permit.
The U.S. 9th
Circuit Court
of Appeals on
Thursday said
the permit
issued in May
2020 by the
U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency lacked
sufficient
monitoring
provisions for
underground
discharges
that can reach
waterways.
September
13, 2021
Serbia:
Several
thousand
people
protested in
Serbia on
Saturday
demanding a
ban on planned
lithium mining
in the Balkan
country as
well as a
resolution to
scores of
other
environmental
issues that
made the
region one of
the most
polluted in
Europe.
September
6, 2021
Louisiana
Shell refinery
left spewing
chemicals
after
Hurricane Ida
Power outages
from the storm
have left air
quality
tracking
systems out of
commission,
making public
health concern
hard to gauge
August
30, 2021
Cans,
plastic bags
and bottles
plague the
water and
beaches of
Tripoli’s
Mediterranean
coast. Because
of pollution,
the Libyan
environment
ministry last
month ordered
the closure of
a number of
beaches along
the18-mile
Greater
Tripoli
coastline.Daily
discharges of
untreated
sewage from
the Libyan
capital’s two
million people
make this the
most polluted
section of the
North African
country's
coastline.
August
23, 2021
Fight
back: The
Smiths'
struggle to
live free from
chronic sewage
pollution is
common across
their section
of Cahokia
Heights, a
small,
predominantly
Black suburb
located across
the
Mississippi
River from St.
Louis and
formed earlier
this year from
the merger of
three
communities
strained by
population
loss and aging
infrastructure.
The
environmental
challenges
have spiraled
into what the
group
Centreville
Citizens for
Change says is
a crisis,
prompting the
federal
government to
step in twice
this month and
more than two
dozen
residents,
including the
Smiths, to
file a federal
lawsuit in
July alleging
that "decades
of government
failure to
ensure basic
sewage and
stormwater
services ...
have created
an
environmental
injustice for
this Black
community.
August
16, 2021
Off
the coast of
five Caribbean
countries,
reports have
identified 18
different
polymers of
plastic --
including,
synthetic
fibres, paint
flakes and
acrylics -- in
waters across
the Caribbean,
with the
highest
concentrations
(5.09
particles per
m³) located
off the San
Blas islands
in
Panama.
Detailed ocean
modelling and
an assessment
of regional
policies
indicated the
abundance of
microplastics
in the area
likely arose
from a
combination of
distant
sources
carried by
ocean currents
and run-off
from mainland
Panama, which
has some of
the highest
estimated
levels (around
44%) of
mismanaged
waste in the
region.
By contrast,
the waters off
Antigua,
Bonaire and
Colombia had
lower
quantities of
terrestrial
and marine
plastics
August
9, 2021
Denver
was the most
polluted on
the planet as
of early
Saturday
afternoon.
Rounding out
the top five
list was Salt
Lake City,
Utah.
A large area
of wildfire
smoke from the
Dixie Fire in
California was
to blame for
the poor air
quality across
the west
August
2, 2021
In
Illinois, USA:
It's
been over a
week since the
EPA and
Winnebago
County Health
Department
advised
Rockton
residents in
the Blackhawk
neighborhood
to not drink
their private
well water,
but neither
group would
tell WREX the
severity of
the tests
which caused
them to make
the
recommendation
July
26, 2021
The
Corfo Lagoon
in Patagonia,
southern
Argentina, has
turned pink
after waste
from fishing
companies was
dumped in its
waters,
sparking alarm
among local
residents and
authorities
July
12, 2021
In
the UK,
Southern Water
has been fined
a record £90m
after pleading
guilty to
dumping sewage
thousands of
times in the
space of five
years.
The company
admitted to
causing 6,971
unlawful
sewage
discharges
between 2010
and 2015,
which lasted a
total of
61,704 hours -
the equivalent
to one pipe
leaking
continuously
for more than
seven years.
July
5, 2021
Giz:
A
senior Exxon
lobbyist was
caught on tape
admitting that
the company
has been
running a
behind-the-scenes
campaign to
combat
regulation on
plastics and
PFAS, a video
released
Thursday shows.
The tape is
the second
installment of
an undercover
investigation
June
28, 2021
An
Idaho
environmental
group is suing
Idaho Power,
claiming it’s
illegally
polluting the
Snake River
through
Brownlee Dam
in violation
of the federal
Clean Water
Act.
June
21, 2021
On
Sri Lanka: The
main concern
has been about
300 tons of
bunker oil
used as fuel
for the ship.
But officials
have been
saying it
could have
burned off in
the
fire. On
Thursday,
Lahandapura
said the
salvage
experts have
informed her
that “there
could not be
any oil left
considering
the nature of
the fire,
heat, duration
of the fire
and position
of the fuel
tanks.”
Both
Lahandapura
and X-Press
Feeders said
so far there
was no oil
spill.
The government
has asked the
United Nations
and some other
countries for
help in
assessing the
damage to the
marine
environment
and coastal
areas
but
from the UN,
no answer to
Press
questions...