Big Oil to Benefit From Biden’s Carbon Capture Tax Credits: Report
How carbon capture tax credits funnel billions to the oil and gas industry while delivering few if any climate benefits.
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Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry
KLG takes a hard look at the wellness industry and finds a lot not to like.
Read more...What Does ‘Recyclable’ Really Mean?
A trade group is lobbying to redefine recyclable, pressuring regulators to make plastic appear more environmentally friendly.
Read more...Why Must Humans Compete for Electric Power with AI Bullshit Generators Programmed by Ritual Incantations?
A takedown of AI so-called “prompt engineering.”
Read more...Kentucky Retirement Systems Plaintiffs Battle With Yet More Efforts by KKR and Blackstone to Delay or Prevent Discovery
An update on the long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems pension case, with KKR and Blackstone and their execs still fighting discovery
Read more...A Failed Attempt at Market Manipulation
Markets that reference prices in other markets are common in the world of finance—all stock options and index futures have this property. But when it comes to electoral prediction markets, I see no rationale for such derivative contracts.
Read more...Gift Card Scams Generate Billions for Fraudsters and Industry as Regulators Fail to Protect Consumers − How One Fell into the ‘Fear Bubble’
Remarkable detail of how a gift card scammer successfully worked a mark, even with a bank and police trying to intervene.
Read more...The Death of the Engineer CEO: Evidence that Short-Termism and Financialization Had Become Ascendant
A look at how some turning points in the history of Corporate America, such as CEO changes of guard, explain how America hollowed itself out.
Read more...Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay
A patient stares down a fabricated surgery charge. But what does it say about the prevalence of billing fraud that this matter went to court?
Read more...Class Traitors Casey and Calley Means Describe How Big Food and Big Pharma Knowingly Make Americans Unhealthy to Tucker
An important Tucker Carlson interview on how Big Food and Big Pharma are profit from worsening American health outcomes.
Read more...US Defense Firms Reluctant to Cooperate with Ukraine Due to Safety, Corruption
Quelle surprise! The grand scheme to build a weapons industry in Ukraine appears to be going pear shaped.
Read more...America Needs Intel Economically and Politically—But Is It Too Late?
On Intel’s storied history and self-destruction via greed, and now US stealthy financial support with no accountability.
Read more...‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme
If you have shopped at Kroger, please consider boycotting them over them over their surge pricing grifting plans.
Read more...“How Does OpenAI Survive?”
Ed Zitron explains in gory detail why OpenAI looks like the mother of all bezzles.
Read more...The Growing Conservative Backlash Against Carbon Capture and Storage
A climate technology favored by oil companies is increasingly being attacked by more prominent figures on the right who are following the lead of their base.
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