National Security – California Globe

Subscribers Check Paramount’s Hubris with a Lawsuit

May 4, 2026 11:00 amMay 4, 2026 11:01 am

A few weeks ago, Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders rubber-stamped Paramount’s $111 billion takeover. However, the Hollywood giant’s carefully scripted narrative of inevitable victory has hit a very public wall. A group of Paramount+ and cable subscribers has filed a federal...

Paramount Begs FCC for Green Light on Middle Eastern Sovereign Funds

April 30, 2026 8:14 amApril 30, 2026 8:14 am

Just days after Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders gave the nod to Paramount Global’s $111 billion takeover, the Hollywood giant has already raced to the Federal Communications Commission with a petition seeking formal approval for nearly half a billion dollars in...

Sacramento’s Idea of a Transition

March 19, 2026 1:12 pmMarch 19, 2026 1:16 pm

In 1991, California had more than forty refineries. By the end of 2026, it will have fewer than eleven. Of those, only five are large enough to matter. Phillips 66 shuttered its 147,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles refinery in December. Valero’s Benicia...

Marathon, Chevron, PBF Warn Governor Newsom of Widespread Refinery Shutdowns, Fuel shortages, Economic Collapse

March 10, 2026 4:34 amMarch 10, 2026 8:56 am

With Marathon Petroleum sending a blistering warning to Governor Gavin Newsom and top state officials in a letter declaring that proposed amendments to the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Cap-and-Invest program would destroy whats left of California oil refineries, that...

Marathon Petroleum Warns Newsom: CARB’s Cap-and-Invest Amendments Threaten Widespread Shutdowns, Massive Economic Damage

March 9, 2026 4:26 pmMarch 9, 2026 4:27 pm

On Monday, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) delivered a blistering warning to Governor Gavin Newsom and top state officials in a letter declaring that proposed amendments to the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Cap-and-Invest program would make California refineries “among the...

Comments on California’s Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration on an Essential Interstate Pipeline

January 23, 2026 3:48 pmJanuary 23, 2026 4:43 pm

As reported today, 1/23/26, in Reuters, at a time when refineries are closing, California’s dependency on foreign oil, gasoline, and jet fuel from Iraq, India and China are increasing, California’s State Attorney General Bonta’s and Governor Newsom’s lawsuit against the...

Negligence by Design: How Microsoft Keeps Leaving the Back Door Open

September 28, 2025 3:00 amSeptember 28, 2025 3:01 am

Microsoft’s latest public shaming comes courtesy of an unlikely source, in Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, one of the few Dems who actually is paying attention to the current cyber mess. Wyden is demanding that the FTC launch an investigation into...