Chaos and strife create the revolutionary atmosphere in which opportunity abounds Written by Atheo | Aletho News | March 8, 2011 Investment banking is usually thought of as a field that values stability. Yet the greatest rewards are often attained through destabilization. North African regimes and leaders have their obvious faults and flaws. Autocracies have an inherent weakness in their tendency to ossific ...

Aletho News | February 25, 2010 Obama’s provision of $54 billion in loan guarantees to the nuclear industry will cost Americans much more than the probable 50% default rate that the Congressional Budget Office anticipates. While the federal government will guarantee the profits of investors, rate payers will suffer the inevitable rate hikes. Higher electric rates will appear, not when plants begin operating ...

The "Coca Cola conspiracy" and the obesity epidemic Aletho News | February 7, 2010 In the late 1960's the US, through conventional hybridization techniques, succeeded in creating new types of corn dramatically increasing yield per acre by reducing the space required per plant as well as increasing the number of ears per stalk. This development was seen as a phenomenal opportunity for the nation with the wor ...

Department of Energy Hands Over Billions of Dollars to 'Poster Child for Cost Overruns' Nuclear Power Industry is Perfect Illustration of Why Taxpayers Are Saying "No More Bailouts!" - Billions for Plant Vogtle Reactors Impossible to Justify in Terms of Rising Financial Risks, Reduced Demand for Power, Cheaper Renewables and Huge Potential of Energy Efficiency ATLANTA, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fir ...

Project on Government Oversight | January 7, 2010 If your kid accidentally blew apart a building, would you give them less supervision? This hands-off approach is exactly what the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing by giving the contractors who manage the nation’s eight nuclear weapons sites (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...

Aletho News | January 5, 2010 The future of biodiesel fuel looks highly uncertain as federal tax credits that provided refiners $1 for every gallon produced expire with the new year. While many fleet vehicles have been manufactured to use the fuel, few will continue to do so since they are convertible to traditional fuel. The National Biodiesel Board reports that the industry is currently operating at 15% o ...

Aletho News | December 26, 2009 The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy”, sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic. But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of biomass from agricultural or forested lands as sustai ...

By M. Idrees - 12/15/09 In its headlines for December 14, Democracy Now followed the report on Blair’s confession about his committment to regime change in Iraq regardless of the absence of WMDs, with this: Iraq Signs Oil Deals with 10 Foreign Companies Blair’s comments come just as Iraq has signed a series of major oil deals. A two-day auction ended Saturday with ten foreign companies winning access to Ira ...

An excerpt from the recently published book The Mother of All Battles: The Endless U.S.-Iraq War by Malcom Lagauche: In December 2003, we all saw the photos of a disheveled Saddam Hussein after he was pulled out of a “spider hole” in a town near Tikrit. The administration laughed and the U.S. public made jokes about him and his hiding place. The room was dirty. There was an empty can of Spam. The story was ...

Aletho News - December 11, 2009 “Wood is very quickly becoming a very important part of the energy mix and in a few years will be a global commodity much like oil” Heinrich Unland, CEO at Novus Energy GmbH. (photo – Bloomberg) The proposed construction of a new generation of nuclear plants is just one aspect of the environmental threat posed by cap and trade or carbon taxes. In this report I will address ye ...