Your online guide to the latest news in beverly hills.
Dear President Obama, The sentiments expressed in this letter may have more meaning more for you now that the results of the mid-term elections are clear. You have seen what can happen when a number of your supporters lose their enthusiasm and stay home or do not actively participate as volunteers. In your first two years, you have developed a wide [...]
George W. Bush is on a roll—a money roll with a $7 million advance for his book Decision Points and a rehabilitation roll to paint his war crimes as justifiable mass-slaughter and torture. His carefully chosen interviewers—NBC’s Matt Lauer and Oprah Winfrey—agreed to a safe pre-taping to avoid demonstrations and tough questions. Requests for him [...]
Bell, California, a working class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from inside its self-enriching top officialdom. Get this: Bell city manager. Robert Rizzo resigned a month ago after a Los Angeles [...]
The Filibuster Flim Flam The usually mild House Democratic Caucus Chairman, John Larson (CT) showed his irritation recently when he said that people are tired of the House passing legislation that stalls in the Senate. Some of the bills passed by the House include the financial reform bill regarding Wall Street’s abuses, the omnibus energy [...]
After years of opposing or ridiculing renewable energy, the giant oil companies are using a new approach. A recent ExxonMobil advertising campaign put it this way: “Oil, gas, coal, biofuels, nuclear, wind, solar….to fuel the future we need them all.” Not an unexpected maneuver from a fossil fuel company that has owned Washington and [...]
Where were the giant accounting firms, the CPAs, and the rest of the accounting profession while the Wall Street towers of fraud, deception and cover-ups were fracturing our economy, looting and draining trillions of dollars of other peoples’ money? This is the licensed profession that is paid to exercise independent judgment with independent standards [...]
In the Public Interest Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection Dear President Obama: Underneath many of our country’s economic problems is the 30-year collapse of consumer protection—both the regulatory kind and the self-help kind known as proper access to justice. Last month consumer groups sent you a letter proposing action to [...]
Bailout…Economy…Auto Industry…Environment… Nader went for the auto industry’s jugular with a vengeance back in 1965 when he published his first book, ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’ outing car manufacturers for making unsafe vehicles. He made headlines when executives of General Motors who hired investigators to harass him went before a televised Senate committee hearing [...]
