Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

How Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills

Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.

‘It’s Like Hell’: 60 Lawsuits Detail Alleged Medical Neglect at ICE Detention Center

Medical and court records show ICE denied medical care to cancer patients, pregnant women and those with life-threatening chronic conditions.

What Americans Can Learn from London’s War on Cars

To what degree can the US clap down on cars by implementing measures used successfully in London?

Silicon Valley’s AI Dreams Face a Blue-Collar Reality

AI energy needs are set to accelerate planetary damage, but in the meantime, they will generate a lot of blue-collar jobs.

New Consumer Report Finds “Concerning Levels of Additives” in Popular Snacks

Quelle surprise! Junk food often contains a lot of less-than-healthy additives.

MAHA’s Meat-Loving Industrial Farming Hypocrisy

MAHA touts are in denial that their support for meat-eating is tantamount to support for factory farming.

Who Needs Bitcoin & Cryptos (-50%) Amid the Semiconductor & Miracle IPO Mania?

Are bitcoin and crypto, followed by semiconductors and AI, proving Mark Twain right, that manias don’t repeat but they rhyme?

RFK Jr. Seeks Access to Americans’ Individually Identifiable Medical Records for Clues, Using a Bogus Autism and Vaccines Pretext

RFK Jr. wants to go fishing in medical records to substantiate debunked theories about autism and vaccines. What could go wrong?

A Peptide, a Secretive Scientist, and a Debate Over Evidence

RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?

Blair Invokes AI to Revive TINA, Denying TIARA

Swamp creature Tony Blair emerges to tell the suffering public that they should accept even more hardship because AI.

Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers

Moneyed interests are linking support of two bête noires, coal and data centers, to better shove them down voters’ throats

Michael Hudson Warns: Imminent Economic Catastrophe – War, Oil Crisis & Bond Market Panic

Michael Hudson explains how the financier-friendly medicine of higher interest rates will only make the impending economic crisis worse.

AI is Hungry for Power and You Are Footing the Bill

AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.

HHS’ Healthy Food Agenda Puts Hospitals on Notice About Patients’ Meals

HHS arouses ire via messaging and a gimmick to try to get hospitals to serve less gawd-awful meals.

US-Led Sanctions: The End of a Regime

Why the US sanctions regime has become a dead letter.