Advertise on a Competitor’s Social Media Platform? Um, that Would Be a Hoot… GM “Paused” Ads on Musk’s Twitter
GM wants to have a look-see about how Twitter might use GM ad data to benefit Tesla. Will Chinese walls be enough?
Read more...Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams
Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…
Researcher Devlin Kuyek identifies greenwashing terms that confuse people and block real solutions to climate change.
Read more...U.S. Companies Now Charge Ex-Employees for Their Training
Training clawbacks as yet another wage theft scam.
Read more...The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model
Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort
Read more...‘Checkout Charity’ Can Increase a Shopper’s Anxiety, Especially When Asks Are Automated
Quelle surprise! A small survey suggests that a significant majority of shoppers do not like being asked to give to a charity at checkout.
Read more...U.S. Senators Propose Secondary Sanctions On Russian Oil
Some US senators are pushing what looks like another sanctions own goal…..assuming it gets done.
Read more...In Response to Court Order, Kentucky Retirement Systems Releases 2,256 Page, Yet Incomplete, Investigation into Hedge Fund Shenanigans
Kentucky Retirement Systems is still in the whitewash business.
Read more...Please, Vote for Somebody in the CalPERS Board Election. Your Money Is at Stake.
If you are a CalPERS retiree, please be sure to vote in the board election now underway. You deserve to be properly represented.
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Ordered to Disclose Controversial $1.2 Million Report Used to Justify Inaction in Apparent Pension Looting by Hedge Funds
Kentucky Retirement Systems had a bad day in court, which is a good outcome for Kentucky citizens.
Read more...The Economic Case for ‘Blue Hydrogen’ Is Getting Worse. Cue the Lobbyists.
DeSmog has mapped the fossil fuel interests lobbying for gas-derived hydrogen and threatening to derail the momentum of green hydrogen.
Read more...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Steele
An alternative thesis on RussiaGate 2.0.
Read more...Yet More Medically Bogus Covid Vaccine Profiteering: Requiring “Primary” Covid Shots to Get Omicron “Booster”
More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...Companies Are Paying Inflation Busting Dividends at Cost to the Rest of the Economy, Including Their Employees
How companies are paying dividends rather than investing in their business or paying employees better……and often borrow to do so.
Read more...10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
Read more...CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission
A careful examination of CDC’s data collection on monkeypox transmission.
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