SBF’s Substack Shows He Will Always Be in Our Face
Sadly, even prison is not likely to rid us of this turbulent financier, SBF.
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What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Food insecurity, aka hunger, afflicts from one in eight to one in four military families per recent studies.
Read more...180 Million Barrels Of Crude May Never Be Returned to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Biden plan for replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unrealitic. And it does not appear to have a Plan B.
Read more...The Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone – “Negotiations” Start at a Dead End
The bizarre Ukrainian claim that Russia is seeking negotiations and even offering up a DMZ provides a window into the state of disarray.
Read more...How a War on Porn Is Endangering US Sex Workers
Self-styled anti-sex-trafficking groups, who are actually opposed to sex work, are imposing their extreme religious views on all Americans
Read more...‘Industry’ and the State (Twitter Files 11 & 12)
A wealth of new detail about the Twitter-government partnership.
Read more...Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Got De Facto Backdoor FDIC Bailout via $4.3 Billion Federal Home Loan Bank Advance
More crypto chicanery! How crypto-focused bank Silvergate got a very big ticket rescue from a quasii-government mortgage banker’s bank.
Read more...Links 1/11/2023
Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War
The US is pressing an (over) eager Japan to develop offensive capabilities, with an eye to a conflict with China.
Read more...Atmospheric Rivers Over California’s Wildfire Burn Scars Raise Fears of Deadly Mudslides – This Is What Cascading Climate Disasters Look Like
An illustration of how different climate-change-induced or intensified problems can interact to do even more damage.
Read more...Textbooks Are Falling Behind on Climate Change
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
Read more...Links 1/10/2023
Chasing Big European Corporate Miscreants Through New York Courts: An Update Via a Barclays Filing
A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.
Read more...Washington Has Trouble Refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve After 220 Million Barrel Draw
Oopsie! Mr. Market is not cooperating with the Biden plan to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at prices better than $70 a barrel
Read more...50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.
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