2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2021
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Book Review: A Ground-Level Look at America’s Health Care System
In “The Hospital,” Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to provide adequate health care in small-town America during Covid.
Read more...CalPERS Long Term Care Program Bleeds Policyholders Dry via 10X Higher Premiums, Gross Mismanagement, Bad Faith Dealing
CalPERS continued to abuse its long-term care policy holders, via contract-defying rate increases vastly higher than other insurers.
Read more...Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis
Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed
Read more...Iran To Saudi Arabia: Sell Our Oil And We Will Reduce Houthi Attacks
An credible outlet reports that Iran is negotiating with the Saudis to work around US economic sanctions. Oops!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2021
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Read more...A Night Under the Bombs in Gaza
It is a long and tough night in Gaza. We cannot sleep. The house feels like it is shaking. We are all afraid.
Read more...I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
Read more...Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization
Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/12/2021
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Read more...UK Company Law and Tax Enforcement Is So Bad It’s Almost as if the Government Wanted to Encourage Tax Abuse
UK tax scamming goes mass, abusing the contact and trace program to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds.
Read more...Links 5/12/2021
Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19
An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.
Read more...Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Read more...Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters
Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.
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