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Links 12/11/2021
Book Review: Demystifying the Idea of Consciousness
In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness.
Read more...How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning
Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. Don’t look for those plans to stop anytime soon.
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Read more...How To Compare Incomes Across Countries
Economists’ comparisons of incomes make social democracies look bad by not attributing value to government healthcare and cheap college.
Read more...Bloomberg, Other Publications Criticize CalPERS’ Leverage on Leverage Plan to Boost Returns While Missing Additional Types of Borrowing
CalPERS, which has lagged nearly all other public pension funds’ performance, is doubling down on failure by resorting to leverage.
Read more...Health Experts Worry CDC’s Covid Vaccination Rates Appear Inflated
Quelle suprise! The CDC’s vaccination figures are pumped up!
Read more...Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High
Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.
Read more...Omicron Happy Talk in the US v. Toughening Restrictions in UK, Israel
An attempt to pull some signal out of a lot of Omicron noise.
Read more...Endowments’ Money Management Destroying Value Demonstrates Economic Drain of Asset Management Business
How endowments, the supposedly best and brightest fiduciaries, are destroying value.
Read more...How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers’ Lives
Build Back Better promises to strengthen OHSA. Why is it is in such sorry shape and why has Team Dem said little about workers’ protection?
Read more...Why Amazon Is Terrified of Its U.S. Workers Unionizing
Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the US. By Sonali Kolhatkar, the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations and […]
Read more...Why Has the Press Ignored Retailers’ Crappy Black Fridays, as Experts Warn of Coming Bankruptcies?
The retail sector is staring to flash “Watch out below” warnings. How many store chains will be forced to retrench?
Read more...Pentagon Blasted for ‘Unacceptable Failure’ to Reckon With Civilian Casualties
The United States has not lived up to its legal and moral commitments or its own stated policies to protect civilian lives.
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