Thursday, November 6, 2025

How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians

Facts and figures on how blind US support of Israel puts Palestinians’ blood on our hands.

Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress

More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2021

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Links 5/17/2021

New Study Decodes ExxonMobil’s ‘Modern’ Climate Misinformation

Exxon shifts focus to ‘risk’ and blame to consumers, following Big Tobacco’s playbook, abandoning outright demial of climate change.

Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?

Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.

No Matter How Powerful Israel’s Military Becomes, It Still Can’t Win

Israel’s conflict with Palestine is a constant threat that even the most advanced weaponry can’t tamp down.

Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly

Costco is not nice.

New Adventures in Gardening: Urban Composting

The next step in my adventures in gardening – composting – to feed my plants and reduce the waste I dump into NYC’s collection system.

Links 5/16/2021

Another Dangerous Fire Season is Looming in the Western U.S., and the Drought-Stricken Region is Headed for a Water Crisis

As drought persists throughout the Western United States, federal agencies predict a tough, long fire year lies ahead.

Links 5/15/2021

Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)

Bill Black traces the history of modern American financial fraud starting in this episode with the S&L Banking scandal.

Revealed: Big Pharma’s Plot to Derail US Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver

Confidential documents expose the pharmaceutical lobby’s attempts to recruit lawmakers for anti-TRIPS vaccine waiver effort.

Musical Interlude (“On the Path of Decent Groove”): Belshazzar’s Feast

Another musical offering, this one the over-the-top turbo-charged cantata, Belshazzar’s Feast, by Sir William Walton.