Monday, September 8, 2025

Meatpacking. Healthcare. Housing Rentals. Industries Across the Board Using Tech to Fix Wages and Prices

DOJ says it’s going to crack down as lawsuits pile up against real estate Goliaths and US officially becomes a “rent-burdened nation.” 

Growing Body of Research Suggests Offshore Oil’s Methane Pollution Is Underestimated 

Previous efforts to regulate offshore methane emissions stalled, despite role in helicopter crashes.

The Obama Presidential ‘Library’

Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?

Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer

Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick Spooks and divers in the Baltic with the C4.

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/8/2023

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Links 2/8/2023

Carbon Capture Project Is ‘Band-Aid’ to Greenwash $10 Billion LNG Plant, Locals Say

Texas community fights to save its coastline as the developers of Rio Grande LNG reassure investors over climate impact.

Evidence-Based Medicine for the Modern Age of Artificial Intelligence

Evidence-Based Medicine remains a subfield of Big Pharma marketing and conventional neoliberal economics.

Russia’s Budget Deficit Jumps Amid Plunging Oil Revenues

Russia had a budget shortfall due to a fall in energy-related tax receipts. How serious a problem is this development?

He’s B-a-a-c-k! Fauci, the Gangster Who Couldn’t Jab Straight Bids for Control of the Next Generation of (Nasal) Vaccines

No.

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2023

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Links 2/7/2023

Brazilian President Lula da Silva Locks Horns with Brazil’s Richest Man, Jorge Paulo Lemann

In a rare turn up for the books, the head of state of Latin America’s largest economy just accused three of the country’s four richest men of engaging in blatant accounting fraud.

Scarring, Hysteresis, and Investment in Europe

Fiscal policy can play an important role in limiting hysteresis – a term coined in the 1980s – particularly by promoting government and private investment. However, the political economy of fiscal policymaking typically trades off long-term benefits for short-term gains

The US and the Philippines’ Military Agreement Sends a Warning to China – 5 Key Things to Know

So much for the Biden commitment to XI after a 2 1/2 hour phone call to improve relations…..