Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?
On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twelve: Brad Stone and Bloomberg Continue To Get the Uber Story Badly Wrong
How Brad Stone’s piece about “bad boy” Travis Kalanick is yet another effort to tell the most pro-Uber story possible at this point in time.
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre: Intel’s Seismic IT Disaster and A Look at Some Implication for Banks
A first look at the epic IT disaster of the Meltdown and Spectre “flaws”.
Read more...Lee Camp: Let Me Fix That For The New York Times – Police Kill Another Innocent Man
A recent New York Times story on yet another police killing as a case study in biased reporting.
Read more...Net Neutrality, Technical Solutions: A New, Neutral, Corporate Net, Municipal Broadband, Mesh Networks (and Gamers)
If Google doesn’t come to the rescue, perhaps municipal broadband or “mesh networks” can save net neutrality.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Coming Battles in the Congress and the Courts
Net Neutrality and the Congressional Review Act, Blackburn’s bill, suits from state AGs Schneiderman and Ferguson, and the Internet Association
Read more...Mark Ames: Kathy Lally Was Caught Trying To Censor Journalism In Russia and Now Deceitfully Claims She’s a Victim
Mark Ames rebuts Kathy Lally’s scurrilous piece in the Washington Post.
Read more...The Fight for Net Neutrality Isn’t Over
The FCC voted Friday to overturn net neutrality, RNN interviews Craig Aaron about next steps to secure a free and open internet.
Read more...Brexit “Breakthrough”: Headfake or May Trying to Engineer Further Capitulation to EU?
The UK has managed show “sufficient progress” so as to be allowed to go to the\ next phase of Brexit talks. But what does that really mean?
Read more...The Web Began Dying in 2014 – Here’s How
The Internet has changed considerably since 2014, and not in a good way.
Read more...Is the Sacramento Bee in the Business of Protecting CalPERS?
So why did the Sacramento Bee do CalPERS a big favor, particularly when CalPERS is clearly in the wrong?
Read more...John Helmer: Oleg Deripaska, Russian Oligarch Accused of Buying Influence via Paul Manafort, Tries Listing Aluminum Shares In London. Hijinx Ensue (But Not Buyers)
A London stock float reveals the Achilles heel of Russian oligarch, Putin ally, and former Manafort client Deripaska: dependence on US sales.
Read more...CalPERS Corruption Watch: Chief Investment Officer Ted Eliopoulos Takes Illegal Business Solicitations From Recent Employee
On the one hand, the latest public disclosure of misconduct by CalPERS executives and staff isn’t earthshaking. On the other, it was still significant enough to merit a Financial Times story. And it also illustrates a thumb-nosing attitude toward the law that has become a CalPERS trademark. In a Financial Times FundFire article, Ex-CalPERS Exec’s […]
Read more...The Nation Depicts a Mortgage Vulture Who Foreclosed on Homeowners as an FDR-Like Hero To Demonize Chase When It Was Actually Helping Homeowners
The Nation and author David Dayen lionize a mortgage vulture, telling a story as wrong as it is possible to be in its thesis and details.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein epitomized the Democratic party elite. And there is remarkably little willingness to acknowledge that fact.
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