Hubert Horan Discusses Uber on Harry Shearer’s Le Show
Hubert Horan eviscerates what passes for the Uber business model on Harry Shearer’s Le Show.
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BBVA Compass Branch Manager Retaliates Against Elderly Customer Via Trying to Have State Agency Deem Her Incompetent on Fabricated Grounds
A BBVA Compass vice president retaliates against a long-standing customer for seeking an Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation and documenting his incompetent, high-handed responses.
Read more...Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Support for right to repair from an unlikely quarter: US military. Military hardware is sometimes shipped back to the states for repair.
Read more...PG&E Failed California. Here’s How the State Could Turn Things Around.
How PG&E came to dominate California’s electricity market, plus discussion of options to fix the fiery mess it has created.
Read more...‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing
Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”
Read more...Democrats’ Private Equity Hearing Fail: Abject Incompetence, Corruption, or Mere Unseriousness?
A House Financial Services Committee hearing on private equity revealed more about the party than about private equity, and in a not good way at that.
Read more...Blockbuster WSJ Investigation: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
WSJ publishes results documenting how Google tweaks its search algorithms and adjusts your search results, to privilege large over small, and muddled middle perspectives.
Read more...6 Technology Trends Revolutionizing the Transportation Sector
A list of supposedly transformative technology in the offing for transporation Sanity checks encouraged.
Read more...Former CalPERS Board Member JJ Jelincic Files Protest Against Election Abuses
JJ Jelincic is still fighting the uphill battle of cleaning up CalPERS.
Read more...HHS Investigates Google-Ascension Secret Medical Records Project for Millions of Patients; Concrete Evidence of HIPAA Violations
Google and Ascension look to have shot their medical data project in the head with their flagrant disregard for patient privacy laws.
Read more...Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...The Managers’ Coup d’Etat in Health Care Appears Complete – a Study of Top Health Care “Influencers”
How health care in America has been undermined by the deliberate elevation of know-nothing mangers.
Read more...Paul Jay and Sharmini Peries Ousted from The Real News Network in June; Current Fundraiser Hides that Fact; Falling Viewership and Liberal Turn Result
The disgraceful defenestration of the founders of The Real News Network and the effort to cover that up.
Read more...Uber Loses Another $1.2 Billion, Stock Dives Again
Uber manages to bleed even more cash.
Read more...Public Pension Funds Criticized for Profiting From Private Equity’s “Surprise Billing” Abuse
Surprise billing is such a widespread abuse that it is managing to bring private equity chicanery and public pension funds’ tacit support of it to long-overdue public attention.
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