Open Thread and Cartoon of the Week
A cyber-penny for your thoughts. Something about this New Yorker cartoon seems strangely apt….
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Colorful New Year's Resolution Bracelets Help Clear Bomb-Littered Land in Laos
From the makers of the Peace Bomb bracelet, comes a colorful New Year's Resolution Bracelet that helps clear 1 meter of bomb-littered land in Laos.
The WindFlip Barge Concept Installs Offshore Wind Turbines Inexpensively and With Ease
The WindFlip barge concept was designed to simplify the installation of offshore wind turbines and in the process has managed to be a solution that also cuts cost. Installing offshore wind turbines can be an expensive task — the process requires skilled...
Scientists Turn Cotton Thread into Electronic Transistors, Wearable Computers on the Way
Wearable computers just moved a stitch closer to reality with the development of cotton fiber electric circuits and transistors. An international team of scientists from the United States, Italy and France have rendered cotton into field-effect transist...
Fisker Officially Recalls All Karmas to Fix Battery Defect
Fisker Automotive, the maker of the Fisker Karma luxury plug-in electric hybrid vehicle has officially announced a recall of all 239 Karmas in the world in order to fix a defect recently revealed by their battery manufacturer, A123 Systems. The flaw, a ...
2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid Highly Rated By Consumer Reports
Toyota's Camry has long dominated the family car sector, and that doesn't look set to change any time soon. The February issue of product testing organization Consumer Reports carries tests of three different 2012 Camry models, including the important ...
Industrial Chic Dining Pods Pop up at Fabbrica Restaurant in The Netherlands
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Sea Salt Refinery Renovated Into A Historic Landmark & Event Building in Vancouver
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Six Scrumptious Eco Cocktails For a Sustainable New Year’s Eve
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6 Natural Hangover Remedies to Cure What Ails Ya on New Year’s Day
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Ron Paul Claimed An AIDS Patient Is ‘A Victim Of His Own Lifestyle’ In 1987 Book
In recent days, Ron Paul has tried to distance himself from damaging newsletters from the late 1980s and 1990s by attributing racist and anti-gay statements to ghost writers and disavowing the most incendiary sentiments. “It wasn’t a reflection of my vi...
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The Debunking Handbook Part 5: Filling the Gap With an Alternative Explanation
The Debunking Handbook is a guide to debunking myths, by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. This is part five of a five-part series originally published at Skeptical Science. Assuming you successfully negotiate the various backfire effects, what is the ...
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Surveillance Drone for The 99%: Occupy Wall Street Protesters To Monitor Police
Handheld technology and live-streaming has allowed the public to witness the growth of the movement. Next up: a surveillance drone -- for the "99 percent"?
Artist Covers 10-Storey Building With 1,000 Recycled Doors
One salvaged door wasn't enough for this installation artist, who transformed this multi-storey structure into an eccentric landmark with 1,000 doors.
Report: Israel Intel Chief Says Nuke-Armed Iran Not An Existential Threat
The head of the venerable Israeli spy agency Mossad reportedly told a group of Israeli ambassadors that even if Iran should get a nuclear weapon, it would not pose an existential threat to the Jewish State. The comments come amid increasing war chatter ...
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Brand New Smoking Island Rises Out of the Red Sea
As island nations around the world look for solutions to stem rising sea levels due to climate change, a new land mass has spontaneously popped out of the Red Sea. The smoking hot island is acting as a real-time geographical lesson in how volcanic ocean...
Benjamin Bullins Crafts a Chic Sink & Vanity from an Old Bike
An old, vintage bike becomes something to primp over in this design that turned a forgotten two-wheeler into a beautifully hand-crafted vanity and sink. Created by New Orleans-based crafter and decorator Benjamin Bullins, this bike sink is super clever ...
Top 7 Wearable Technology Concepts of 2011 – Vote for Your Favorite!
Talk about being fashion-forward – this year we saw sustainable style leap into the future as designers unveiled an incredible array of wearable technology concepts. From air-purifying jeans to solar-powered army uniforms to amazing contact lenses that ...
Truck Stop Natural Gas May Spur On Alt-Fuel Car Adoption
Natural gas has forever been a "nearly" fuel. While offering several advantages over gasoline or diesel, such as low cost of refueling, HOV-lane stickers in California and cleaner running, the disadvantages are even greater. One of those has been the a...
Fragile Future III: Delicate Dandelion Lights Sit at the Intersection of Nature & Technology
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Inhabitat Editors’ Top Stories of 2011 – Vote for your Favorite!
New Year’s Eve is coming up quick – and as the hours tick down to the ball drop, the Inhabitat editors have reflected upon the past year and picked out our favorite green design stories from 2011! It’s been an epic year filled with amazing developments ...
Düsseldorf Airport Installs One of The Largest Solar Arrays in Germany
The Düsseldorf International Airport is about to flip the switch on one of the largest solar arrays in Germany. The 8,400 panel, 2 megawatt solar array covers the space of six soccer fields was just finished and is expected to start feeding power to the...
Two Senate Climate Hawks Team Up for a Must-See Colloquy
by Nick Sundt, cross-posted from the World Wildlife Fund blog Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Al Franken (Democrat, Minnesota) recently spent an hour on the floor of the U.S. Senate repudiating climate change denialists and argu...
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Inhabitat’s Top 6 Green Science and Technology Stories of 2011 – Vote for Your Favorite!
2011 was an exciting year for green technology as researchers and innovators around the world broke ground on high-tech gadgets and systems that will help combat global warming, preserve the environment, and improve quality of life. From svelte urban be...
LG to Unveil the World’s Largest OLED TV Screen at CES 2012
We love OLED technology here at Inhabitat – for years it has been heralded as the next stage in energy-efficient displays, as OLED screens generate their own light, eliminating the need for backlighting. So far we’ve seen small-scale applications of the...
China and Russia Team Up to Launch the World’s Largest Lithium Ion Battery Plant
Lithium ion batteries currently power everything from laptops to electric cars, and Russia and China are gearing up to dominate the industry by launching the world’s largest Li-ion battery plant. Planned for Novobirsk, Russia, the facility will be a joi...
Airless, Springy ‘Energy Return Wheel’ Tire Promises To Improve Gas Mileage
The wheel may be one of humankind’s first inventions, but that doesn’t keep us from continuing to tinker with it. The Energy Return Wheel or ERW is a radical redesign of the common tire that promises to improve any vehicle’s handling and mileage – the s...
Top 6 Ecouterre Eco Fashion Stories of 2011 – Vote for Your Favorite!
If you remember a time (just a few short years ago) when eco fashion consisted of oatmeal-colored t-shirts and hempy linen shorts, you’ll surely appreciate just how sophisticated (and even high-tech) sustainable style has become in 2011. It’s interestin...
Baumraum Breaks Ground on Its Awesome Schrems Treehouse Resort in Lower Austria
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Student Designed Eco-Lodge in Morocco Features a Zero Water Adventure Golf Course
The town of Merzouga, located on the southern edge of Morocco, is home to some of the tallest and most impressive sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. Not long after the establishment of the first hotel in Merzouga, European and Arab tourists began flocking...
How The Housing Crisis Could Kill Any Progress On Jobs
Last month, there was finally some good news on the jobs front, as the unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent and the economy created 140,000 private sector jobs. However, the continued slow-burning crisis in housing could easily short-circuit any burgeo...
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The Putney School: A High School that Combines Labor, Art, Education -- and Sustainability
The school's progressive approach ensures that sustainability isn't just a concern in the classroom but a central part of daily life.
Is the City the Future for Honeybees? America's Only Urban Beekeeping Store Owner Thinks So
An urban beekeeping store may seem like a San Francisco oddity. But as city bees thrive, these stores may become a normal sight.
Endangered Sea Turtle Released After Getting Epically Lost
There's no telling just how or why a normally adeptly navigating sea turtle could find its way so far from home, but one thing is for certain -- there was no shortage of dedicated people to help him get back on his flippers.
Matej Kren’s ‘Idiom’ Is a Spellbinding Tower Made From Hundreds of Books
The Prague Municipal Library is now home to a spiraling tower of hundreds of carefully stacked books assembled by Slovakian born artist Matej Kren. Dubbed Idiom, the staggering installation reaches up to the ceiling, and Kren installed a mirror inside t...
Studio Re-Creation Recycles Broken Glasses and Cutlery into Beautiful Glass Lamps
Studio Re-Creation has designed a beautiful set of ‘Glass Lamps’ made from found recycled objects like glass, cutlery, stainless steel trays, and wire. The sparkling hand-made luminaires raise the issue of food and beverage over-consumption. Based in Th...
JDS Architects Propose a Spiraling Bicycle Museum for China’s Future Bike City
JDS Architects designed this extraordinary spiraling Chongming Bicycle Park for a competition to create the future Bike City in China. The museum, multi-purpose hall, and visitor center comes complete with an exterior helix for cyclists to ride down. If...
Same-Sex Couples Pay Thousands Extra In Taxes
A new CNNMoney study found that married same-sex couples pay as much as $6,000 extra every year in taxes because the Defense of Marriage Act prevents the federal government from legally recognizing their unions. Because they cannot file jointly, they ca...
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Neat Recycled Paper and Cardboard Interior at South African Design Shop in Buenos Aires
Opened by design firm The President, the place features magazines, gifts and clothes from South Africa in a hip gallery of the Argentine capital.
Congress Actually Ends Taxpayer Funding Of Ethanol Subsidies
When the U.S. Congress adjourned for the holidays on Friday, December 23, its departure sealed the fate of subsidized ethanol production. During its session, the Congress did not renew a tax break for U.S. production of corn-based ethanol that had beco...
2013 Toyota Prius C Compact Hybrid On Sale In Japan, Detroit Launch Coming
Less than three weeks hence, the 2013 Toyota Prius C--the first compact hybrid hatchback from Toyota's expanding Prius line--will be officially introduced for the U.S. market at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show. It was first unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show ...
JDS Wins Hangzhou Waves Design Competition With 2 Gorgeous Green-Roofed Towers
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Allarme marea nera in Nigeria il petrolio ormai è a riva
La Shell minimizza la portata dell'incidente, ma secondo gli ambientalisti si aggrava il bilancio del guasto che lo scorso 20 dicembre ha provocato lo...
The Morning Pride: December 27, 2011
Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s 8:45 AM round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but let us know what you’re checking out as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @...
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Andrew Geller, "Architect of Happiness", 1924- 2011
Designer of small, iconic and idiosyncratic cabins on Long Island outlived much of his work
Van Hollen: Republican Drug Tests For Unemployment Insurance Are ‘Insulting’
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) rebuked House Republicans yesterday for suggesting the government require drug tests of individuals seeking unemployment insurance, calling such proposals “insulting” and a “red herring” in the unemployment crisis: VAN HOLLE...
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Ruby Sketch’s Compact Shipping Container Home Can be Run Off-Grid for Two Weeks Sans Electricity
At Inhabitat, we love compact, modern designs that use prefabricated building techniques, and Ruby Sketch‘s shipping container home certainly caught our eye with its sleek form and super-sustainable energy saving systems. The efficient and affordable li...
Spread Holiday Joy With a Handmade Felt-Flower Brooch (DIY Tutorial)
This do-it-yourself ribbon brooch will only take 20 minutes to make! Handmade goodness fills any gift recipient up with joy, and with found materials you can create this gorgeous, unique flower brooch that goes with anything – dressy or casual. Click a...
Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave
The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.
Source of Shell Nigeria Leak Confirmed
The source of this week's oil spill off the coast of Nigeria, likely the country's worst offshore spill in more than a decade, has been confirmed.
BP Drops Its Solar Power Division After 40 Years
After 40 years, BP just announced plans to drop its solar power division. The giant oil company has declared their commitment to spending $8 billion on renewable power by 2015, but it will now fill that quota with only onshore wind and biofuel. With the...
Breaking: House GOP Cave on Tax Cut Extension Paves Way for Obama to Deny Keystone XL Permit
House Speaker John Boehner conceded to the inevitable and agreed to approve the Senate compromise that extends the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance two months. That bill also includes, at the GOP’s insistence, a requirement that Obama make a d...
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Forbidden Fruit: Kia Ray Electric Car Not Due In U.S.
Kia might be a car company growing in quality and reputation in North America, but it seems we aren't in line for every vehicle the company produces. While the U.S. is one of the strongest markets for electric cars, Kia's new Ray EV won't be hitting Am...
Peter Marigold’s Geometric Birdhouses are Crafted from Salvaged Shop Signs
We’re truly digging all the eco designs coming out of Peter Marigold’s UK studio. One sustainable set that really caught our eye is Gold’s series of seven bird houses made from salvaged shop signs and crate material. Each birdhouse is constructed by fus...
Santiago Calatrava’s Bodegas Ysios is a Breathtaking Winery at the Foot of the Spanish Mountains
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Report: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Advocates Were Wrong About The Consequences Of Repeal
Nathaniel Frank spent the better part of 2010 disputing hysterical conservative claims about the supposed dangers of allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces. But in the year since Congress passed legislation eliminating Don’t Ask,...
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Top Five Green-Car Stories Of 2011: MPGs, Electric Cars, And More
Yep, it's almost the end of the year, which means reams of roundup stories from all your favorite auto websites. Nope, we're not that different: We've got one too. Here's our take on the five most important stories--or perhaps themes--of 2011 in the gr...
Surfers Against Sewage Upcycle Water Bottles Into a Christmas Tree
Surfers Against Sewage have staged a sculptural protest against beach littering by up-cycling Mountain Dew bottles into this awesome christmas tree. The team took 55 bottles found strewn along the beach to create the structure, and then photographed and...
Matteo Cainer Architects’ Busan Camellian Opera House is Enveloped by a Living Green Roof
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Stuart Chase Creates Modern Organic Furniture from Reclaimed Wood
Stuart Chase has launched a beautiful line of Modern Organic Furniture that is handcrafted in his private wood shop in Vermont. This unique furniture is created with materials that come from a collection of woods retrieved from all over the world and th...
Climate Story of the Year: Warming-Driven Drought and Extreme Weather Emerge as Key Threat to Global Food Security
This year has seen a great many important climate stories. Obviously, the continued self-destructive failure of the nation and the world to reverse greenhouse gas emission trends always deserve to be the top story in some sense: Biggest Jump Ever in Gl...
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Jargon Watch: "Workampers" Follow Seasonal Jobs By RV
The mobile lifestyle isn't always so attractive; welcome to the new migrant workers of the electronic age
Quote CO2 anche per gli aerei no al ricorso compagnie Usa
Il tribunale di Lussemburgo ha confermato la validità del meccanismo che sottopone anche i voli intercontinentali alle quote previste dal mercato delle...
Report Shows 18.5-Mile-Wide Cloud of Air Pollution Rose From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
According to a study released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the massive plume from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had an a...
Woman Makes Harry Potter House Out of Gingerbread!
We’ve seen some pretty rad DIY gingerbread houses this holiday season — from brownstones to geodesic domes to alpine cabins — but if you’re a Harry Potter fan, we’ve just found the edible house for you. DIYer Mezcraft just posted photos of her gingerbre...
Beirut Wonder Forest Would Cover the Lebanese Capitol With Hanging Gardens
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BREAKING: House Republicans Again Delay Payroll Tax Cut Vote, May Resort To Procedural Gimmicks
In a stunning move, the House Republican leadership postponed a vote planned for late tonight on a two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits that passed the Senate with a huge bipartisan majority. Republicans planned to re...
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Airy Foster Loop Cabin in Washington State is a High-Flying Low-Impact Home
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Guerrilla Grafters Create Illegal, Fruit-Bearing Street Trees
Guerrilla Grafters believe that street trees are too valuable not to use for food production. So they are illegally converting ornamental street trees into edible fruit production.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Dies
The BBC reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died on Saturday of “physical and mental overwork.” In an emotional statement, a North Korean official read the announcement on national television. The BBC’s Lucy Williamson in Seoul says his death w...
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Researcher Seeks Lonely Socks For Rare Weasel Study
Thanks to an ongoing UC Berkeley study on a rare species of weasel, the most exciting chapter in your unpaired sock's life may be yet to come -- if you'll just give it the chance.
Romney Admits It: My Plan Is ‘Not A Huge Tax Cut’ For The Middle Class
GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been touting his tax plan as focused on “the people in the middle, the hard-working Americans,” but on Fox News Sunday today, he acknowledged that “it’s not a huge tax cut” for the middle class: HOST: But the a...
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Czech Dissident And President Václav Havel Dies At 75
Václav Havel, a dissident of Communist rule over Eastern Europe who rose to serve as the first president of Czechoslovakia and, later, the Czech Republic, died at his country home at 75 years of age. Repeatedly jailed by the Communist government, his re...
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How To Make a DIY Snow Globe From Recycled Materials
Looking for a fun holiday-themed DIY project to work on with your little ones? Try making a unique snow globe using a recycled mason jar and some other household supplies. All you need is a jar from your recycling bin, some plastic (preferably holiday-t...
Egypt: Government Denies Using Force As Nine Die At Protests
Nine people died and hundreds were injured at clashes outside the military-controlled parliament building in Cairo, Egypt, according to media accounts. The newly appointed civilian government, which advises the country’s Supreme Council of the Armed For...
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Senate Approves Fast-Tracking Keystone XL Decision - Will It Actually Doom The Project?
In forcing the White House's and State Department's hand, GOP backers of Keystone XL may actually push Obama into having to reject the controversial tar sands pipeline for good.
Congress’s Sanctions Push Could Threaten Obama’s International Coalition On Iran
Our guest blogger is Peter Juul, national security policy analyst at the Center for American Progress. The National Defense Authorization Act recently passed by the Senate contains several major provisions relating to U.S. policy on Iran, including cont...
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The Terrible, Boring Ways That Money in Politics Ruins Democracy (Daily Show Video)
Jon Stewart's interview with Lawrence Lessig, author of 'Republic, Lost' reveals how current campaign finance laws allow the richest 1% to distort democracy--often in some very banal ways.
Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid, Electric Concept At Detroit Auto Show
Volkswagen is on a roll in the States these days, with sales of its redesigned Jetta sedan and its all-new mid-size 2012 Passat surging. The only mass-market German automaker intends to keep the momentum going at next month's Detroit Auto Show. It will...
MVRDV Unveils Plans for Zero Energy ‘Bastide Niel’ City District in Bordeaux
MVRDV Architects and the Urban Community of Bordeaux (CUB) have joined forces to design a brand new eco-community called Bastide Niel on the banks of the Garonne River. Spanning nearly 86 acres of industrial land and overrun parks (that’s about 144 city...
Meet The Florida Family Association: A Faux Outrage Generation Factory
The Florida Family Association (FFA) has attracted national attention this week for convincing Lowe’s and other companies to drop its advertising on the acclaimed new TLC reality show, All-American Muslim. Claiming a membership of 35,000 individuals, FF...
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Party That Won’t Tax Millionaires Proposes Slashing Unemployment Benefits In Deal For Middle Class Tax Cut
Republicans, while claiming to support a payroll tax cut extension that will primarily benefit the middle class, have cycled through a list of reasons to oppose proposals from Senate Democrats. The GOP refuses to pay for the cut with a surtax on million...
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Perry Says He ‘Absolutely’ Opposes Extending The Payroll Tax Cut And Unemployment Benefits
Earlier this week, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney threw his support to extending a the payroll tax cut that will expire at the end of the year, joining Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Jon Huntsman amongst the GOP contenders backing it...
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Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Barrel Christmas Tree is the Booziest One This Side of the Mississippi
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DARPA’S Nano Robot Spy Hummingbird Moves Just Like a Real Bird!
AeroVironment has created a tiny, mechanical, flying bird that borrows from the natural movements of the hummingbird. The Nano Hummingbird is a flying robot created through a program sponsored by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) that is...
Kyl Could Support A Middle Class Tax Cut, But Only If The Rich Get A Massive Tax Break Too
As Democrats continue to push a renewal of the payroll tax cut included in last year’s deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, members of the Republican Party have reportedly grown concerned that if they do not go along with the proposal, they will lose their...
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George Hollander’s “Goodyear, NewYear” Sculpture is Made With Used Car Tires!
It’s a “Goodyear, NewYear” for artisan and designer George Hollander. The U.S. Virgin Islands-based artist made this incredible light sculpture for the holiday season by stacking nine tires and topping them off with a plexiglass spiked dome fashioned fr...
Massachusetts AG Files Suit Against Banks For Deceptive Practices During Foreclosure Crisis
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) has filed the nation’s first lawsuit against national banks involved in the foreclosure crisis, she announced at a press conference today. Coakley filed suit against five major banks — Bank of America, W...
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Five Arrested As Indiana University Bloomington Students Protest JP Morgan Recruitment
Megabank JP Morgan got more than it bargained for yesterday when it came for a recruitment presentation at Indiana University Bloomington’s Kelley School of Business. The bank was greeted by raucous protests, and five students were arrested. Watch video...
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