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Thursday, November 6, 2025
How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:48 am | 74 Comments »
Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Pandemic, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:29 am | 22 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/17/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 84 Comments »
Links 5/17/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 100 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 18 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 122 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:56 am | 68 Comments »
Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly
Costco is not nice.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:45 pm | 66 Comments »
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.
Topics: Environment, Guest Post, Pandemic, Politics, Social values
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 11:55 am | 36 Comments »
Links 5/16/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:58 am | 154 Comments »
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.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 53 Comments »
Links 5/15/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 178 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Moral hazard, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:36 am | 12 Comments »
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.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:33 am | 36 Comments »
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.
Topics: Curiousities
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:28 am | 29 Comments »


