Interesting Reads for Wednesday 21 December 2016: Energy Storage, Science Rocks, Obama Blocks & More

It's Energy Storage's Time To Shine (Travis Holum - Motley Fool)

Ford To Close F-150 Kansas Plant For One Week To Decrease Slow Moving Inventory, GM To Lay Off Another 1,300 Workers In March  (Reuters)

Does Elon Musk really want to create The Boring Company to build underground roads? (International Business Times, UK)

7/11 and Flirtey Beat Amazon and Deliver 77 Packages by Drones in Reno, Nevada (Phys Org)

President Obama Invokes 1953 Law To Indefinitely Block Drilling In Arctic And Atlantic Oceans (CNBC)

Alaska's Indigenous People See Their Culture Slipping Away As Sea Ice Vanishes (Guardian)

A Feminine Response To Iceland's Financial Crash (TEDTalk)

Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty (Brain Pickings)

Donald Trump's War On Science (The New Yorker)

Trump Rejects Climate Change, But Mar-A-Lago Could Be Lost to the Sea (Bloomberg Business Week)

Part 1 - MELTDOWN - A Look At The Global Economic Crisis And The Men Who Crashed The World Causing It

Jim Corr of the Irish Band "The Corrs" Talks About "Robin Hood In Reverse"

Jim Corr of the Corrs talks more economic sense than 99.9% of all Politicians and Economists in Europe.

Corr proclaims what Ireland needs to do now: quit bailing out the bondholders and private shareholders of the Too Big To Fail Banks in his country. He states Ireland needs to follow Iceland's lead and feed the failure of the big banks to the people who supported the banks by purchasing bonds and failed derivatives. He advocates not forcing the failures of the banks onto the taxpayers who did not support the banks in the first place.

He says it is massive fraud in banking which privatized gains while socializing losses.

What Corr doesn't use are the words "Moral Hazard", but Jim Corr does introduce one free mention of "The Money Masters", a film which The Watchworld recently brought to light on this very blog.

If you have never watched "The Money Masters", click here now and educate yourself as to who controls the central banks of the most powerful nations on the planet.

Meanwhile . . . why does it take a musician from an Irish band to pose hardball questions which few elected politicians dare whisper?





p.s. And for those of you who have never heard The Corrs, here's one of my favorites by them, "When The Stars Go Blue" with some guy named Bono doing a stand in, LIVE: