New KKR Stunt in Neverending Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation: Demanding Removal of Judge Philip Shepherd
KR is at it again! And of course, not in a good way.
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#ProfessorsofTikTok: Influencer Culture Is Everywhere — Even in Academia
Accounts furnished by aspiring YouTubers and Instagram influencers resonated deeply with my experiences as a then-junior academic.
Read more...An FTI Consulting Presentation Pulls Back the Veil on Fossil Fuel PR and Shale Greenwashing
FTI Consulting 2015 slides tout “discrediting” science, “debunking” documentaries, and hype its fracking industry project Energy In Depth
Read more...News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion
CalPERS digs its hole even deeper in its effort to keep parts of a board transcript secret. What dirt does it contain?
Read more...Don’t Plant Trees, Grow Forests!
Forests are far superior to tree plantations at carbon removal. Unfortunately, the world is planning for tree plantations.
Read more...CalPERS Laughingstock: Marcie Frost, Who Previously Pursued Non-Existent Dual Bachelors/Masters Degree, Designates Herself Law School Grad and Bar Member; Investment Committee Chair Theresa Taylor Admits Not Knowing What SPACs Are
CalPERS’ leadership has such an advanced case of Dunning Kruger effect that they can’t recognize when they are making fools of themselves.
Read more...Mayberry v. KKR: Kentucky Attorney General Shows True Colors, Looks Over-Eager to Settle Pathbreaking Pension Case Rather Than Inconvenience Private Equity Kingpins Blackstone and KKR
Yet more underhanded-looking dealing, this time by the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, in the landmark pension case Mayberry v. KKR.
Read more...How Charles Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments
Koch influence in the academic sphere is far ranging. Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs. These are significant investments in the “intellectual raw materials” of free-market advocacy.
Read more...“Everything’s Fine”: The Comfortable, the Afflicted, the Beakwetters, the Gaslit
Rant, annotated.
Read more...Can Davos Man Punch the “Great Reset” Button?
The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
Read more...Somebody Needs to Tell Chuck Schumer that the Entire Working Class Is “Heroic,” Not Just “Essential Workers”
Schumer’s “Heroes Fund” would create a new labor aristocracy
Read more...‘Cowardice’: Olympics Committee Slammed for New Guidelines Barring Athletes From Kneeling, Raising Fists
International Olympic Committee adopts guidelines that prevent athletes from kneeling, raising firsts, or otherwise protesting.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
Plus ça change….
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Trade Threats Are Really Cold War 2.0
At stake is whether China will agree to do what Russia did in the 1990s: put a Yeltsin-like puppet of neoliberal planners in place to shift control of its economy from its government to the U.S. financial sector and its planners.
Read more...Assange Arrest and Extradition Round-Up
The indictment (for Manning, not DNC email), the theory of the case (not “hacking,” please), the assault on journalism, horrid takes, and details of the arrest.
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