Closing Polling Places Is the 21st Century’s Version of a Poll Tax
Voter disenfranchisement via shuttering polling sites.
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‘Grotesque Level of Greed’: Owned by World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos, Whole Foods Wants Workers to Pay for Colleagues’ Sick Leave During Coronavirus Pandemic
Jeff Bezos continues to abuse his workers, this time (or more accurately, again) at Whole Foods.
Read more...CalPERS Legacy Assets: How Much in Overvaluation Has CalPERS Been Hiding?
CalPERS apparently needs to take a bath on its legacy assets.
Read more...Why You Should Stop Using or Cancel Your Citi Mastercard: Systematic Violation of Cardmember Chargeback Rights, Insistence on Using Fraud-Friendly Voiceprints
Citi is doing a number on its own and the Mastercard brand name with cringe-makingly inept and dishonest credit card operations.
Read more...Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat
Yves here. When we made grim prognostications about Boeing’s future, we were treated as nuts. By Wolf Richter, editor at Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street Boeing’s shares [BA] came unglued, plunging 18.1% today, after having already plunged over the past four weeks. Since February 12, shares have crashed 46%, and since the peak […]
Read more...‘Internet of Things’ Could Be an Unseen Threat to Elections
How more IoT = more messed up elections
Read more...Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
Is the seamy side of fracking the only side?
Read more...Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...Secret US Chemical Warfare Contracts at the UK Porton Down Lab – Dead Monkeys Tell Their Tales, But Live Skripals Can’t
The UK told a very big fib about its Porton Down lab….and it looks like it matters.
Read more...New Mexico Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
New Mexico AG Hector Balderas sues Google for violating children’s privacy under federal and state statutes. Don’t be evil indeed!
Read more...Legacy Admissions: Johns Hopkins Drops Preferences, Other Institutions Consider Changes
Johns Hopkins announces it’s eliminated legacy admissions, sparking a wider debate. Will other institutions follow?
Read more...Taxcast: Financial Secrecy Index: Who Are the World’s Worst Offenders?
Taxcast – the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast: 30 minutes of unmissable corruption, scandal and analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.
Read more...Private Equity’s War to Preserve Surprise Billing
Sadly, private equity has beaten back legislation to curb surprise biling.
Read more...Why No Retired Generals Oppose America’s Forever Wars
How generals promote top-level groupthink.
Read more...CalPERS’ Election Rigging: Pushing for Most Costly, Insecure Online and Phone Voting Despite Abject Failure, Why? To Help SEIU Influence Election
CalPERS remains unwilling to run clean and secure elections. One has to wonder why.
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