Fool me once, Shame on you “In times of crisis, we have to transcend the personal and come together for the greater good. Whether it is beverage companies producing hand sanitizer or fashion companies creating hospital gowns, there’s nothing more entrepreneurial than seeing an urgent need and meeting it. That’s why we are using our [...]
GM using credit instead of a bailout This is what I'm talking about, a company that has capital, or the ability to get capital instead of begging to the Government for a bailout. General Motors knows the hit it took in 2008 when it went through a bailout. There are still people that won't buy [...]
We, the people This morning I opened my Facebook page and saw a post that said Democrats were rejecting the Corona Virus stimulus bill that would give each taxpayer some money to help them get through this lockdown. The post then explained why the bill was rejected by Democrats; because it wasn’t about helping the [...]
Ghosn hits Twitter with Human Rights It appears Carlos Ghosn is not going to slip into the night quietly. In a tweet that calls out Japan for its lack of human rights. The @UN is right: Japan has to reform its hostage justice system. NGOs, lawyers, scholars, citizens are mobilized and it is time for [...]
Big energy versus local energy I was coming home from Miami via Washington DC the other day. Next to me was a lawyer working on creating organized electric communities. Most of her work was on the East Coast, but she worked on PG&E as well. I am a resident of Northern California. This summer, for [...]
What do Carlos Ghosn and Alberto Fujimori have in common? Both are/were fugitives from the country they were accused of wrongdoing. Japan will be walking a tightrope in the next couple of weeks. As much as the Japanese prosecutors will want to be indignant about Ghosn fleeing the country to Lebanon, they must know that [...]
Home Sweet Home for Carlos Ghosn Ghosn has left Japan for his homeland Lebanon, a country with no extradition to Japan. Even with every movement recorded, with his wife, Carole Ghosn’s talks monitored, Ghosn was able to pull a Jason Bourne and break out of Japan. With the update below we are now thinking this [...]
The fight between SCRAMP and the County Administrator Offices is heating up. Both Roger Penske and Mario Andretti have sent letters of support to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors. The letter below shows that SCRAMP was taken by surprise. This is looking like an inside job, the question is from which group? SCRAMP was [...]
Shortly after the female Republican Governor of Alabama endorsed HB 314, a law that would ban all abortions statewide, even in case of rape or incest, the calls for boycotting Alabama in all forms started. Kay I'vey signed into law the “Human Life Protection Act” a bill that is intended to be a “vehicle” to [...]
Carlos Ghosn went down a rabbit hole the minute the Ni55an jet landed in Japan. He was jailed November 19, 2018, and the nightmare for him has not let up. Ghosn has been in detention for three months. He has been indicted three times, has been refused bail a couple of times, and stripped of [...]