Looting of Boeing Set to Continue, Epitomizing Decline of Late-Stage AngloSphere Capitalism
Boeing is in far worse shape than is apparent, even with its quality debacles. And the big reason is the company can lumber on despite that.
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Fossil Fuel Speculators—Not Consumers—Would Win Big From LNG Exports: Report
Expansion of U.S’ LNG export capacity simply enables Big Oil giants and commodity traders’ ability to earn eye-popping profits.
Read more...World Bank Enables Foreign Aid Theft
The World Bank encourages governments to reduce capital controls, draining precious foreign exchange and government resources.
Read more...Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans
More on why you should not get a Medicare Advantage plan if at all possible.
Read more...We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads
Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.
Read more...CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards
In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers
Read more...Google Loses on Every Count in Play Store Antitrust Suit by Epic Games
Google has suffered a major blow to its Play apps store model if this new ruling survives appeal. A Federal jury returned what the Washington Post deemed to be a verdict against Google on all counts, after mere hours of deliberation. A link to the verdict form 1. Readers may recall, at a 50,000 foot […]
Read more...Matt Taibbi – CTI Files #4: The Hamilton 68 Connection (or Russiagate Never Dies)
A new Taibbil deep dive on “The Cyber Threat Intelligence League” or CTI, another concerted effort to promote “Russian influence”fabrications.
Read more...Big Cons: How Consulting Firms Undermine Governments and Corporations
A new book by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington shows the damage big consulting firms do, particularly weakening client capabilities
Read more...The Pentagon Fails Its Audit Again—and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again
he Pentagon is still at it! Keeps using bad books helps cover for getting more than it is entitled to.
Read more...Feds Need to Enlist Consumers to Police Eyepoppingly High Level of Medicare Advantage Ad/Marketing Fraud
Yet another reason to be leery of Medicare Advantage…..widespread deceptive marketing.
Read more...Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...What Does Mustard Gas Have in Common with Crypto and Blockchain?
In Let Them Eat Crypto, Peter Howson warns that these schemes are fraudulent and causing indefensible harm to both humanity and the planet.
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