Blogroll Amnesty Day!
Today is the day when bloggers are asked to promote less-well-trafficked sites they like.
Read more...Category Archives: Media watch
Tom Engelhardt: Ending the World the Human Way – Climate Change as the Anti-News
Here’s the scoop: When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway.
Read more...Are Banks About to Win on Commodities Trading After Their Success in Watering Down Basel III Capital Rules?
You know it’s bad when Bloomberg’s editors attack the banks’ win against regulators, in this case, their success in watering down already-too-generous Basel III capital requirements. And they look primed to score a twofer on pending rulemaking on trading in physical commodities.
Read more...Bob Goodwin: Mainstream Medicine Capture of Wikipedia
Yves here. Wikipedia has become widely accepted as a highly credible source (I use it and even contributed in their recent funding appeal). It’s therefore important to know its limits and how they arise. Unfortunately, it appears, like most information sources, that it is subject to pressure, in this case, as Bob Goodwin contends, the medical-industrial complex.
Read more...Open Thread: Best and Worst of 2013
What do you flag as the standout events of 2013 and why?
Read more...Yes Virginia, Obama and the Democrats Are Mussolini-Style Corporatists, Just Like the Republicans
Reader dSquib flagged a “bizarre” article by Mike Konczal in the New Republic titled, “Corporatism” is the Latest Hysterical Right-Wing Accusation: The secret history of a smear.” dSquib seemed quite perplexed that anyone would deem calling Obama a corporatist, which as we’ll demonstrate is patently true, a smear.
Read more...Is Krugman Running on Brand Fumes? (TransPacific Partnership Edition)
It may seem a bit de trop to take on a Paul Krugman blog post yet again, but the reason for focusing on his post yesterday on the TransPacific Partnership is less for its substance and more as a political zeitgeist indicator.
Read more...New Zealand’s Latest Dodgy Export: Why FX Investors Should be Wary of Software Sold by Irish Company Paymark Autotrader
A dubious FX trading software operation closes down in New Zealand and sets up shop in Ireland.
Read more...Obama Kept His Head in the Sand During Healthcare.gov Fiasco
The New York Times has an instructive account, Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama, of the scrambling in the Administration to deal with the beyond-redeption-by-the-power-of-spin disaster of the Healthcare.gov launch.
Read more...CNI (UK) and its Lawyers Complain to Blogs, But Appear to Shy Away From the Daily Mail
CNI (UK)’s confusing attitude to its connections with Carbon Neutral Investments, service provider to carbon scams
Read more...Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the Price of One’s Journalistic Soul
Yves here. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in hoping for the best from the new journalistic venture funded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar that Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, among others, have joined with much fanfare. But the fact that one wishes them well should not blind observers to the possible large flies in the ointment.
Read more...ObamaCare Rollout: Administration PR Tactics and the First Release of Enrollment Numbers
The “enrollment” numbers for the Healthcare.gov website, even using the Administration’s Orwellian definition of “enrolled” was barely above half of the scary bad number published as a rumor by the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.. Generous application of porcine maquillage followed.
Read more...Gemmax Solutions’ Belated Admission About Carbon Credits Bought by Retail Clients of Gemmax’s Brokers
Carbon credit clearer Gemmax Solutions admits that it can’t clear carbon credits, and hasn’t been able to, for nearly a year.
Read more...Paul Seakens of Gemmax Solutions Limited Takes an Idiotic Pop at “Naked Capitalism” and “redd-monitor”
Paul Seakens of Gemmax Solutions Limited Takes an Idiotic Pop at “Naked Capitalism” and “redd-monitor”
Read more...Surely the Lotus F1 Team Isn’t Just Slinking Quietly Away From Its Embarrassing Team Partner, AGT?
Lotus F1 quietly drop AGT from their Official Team Partner list just after Naked Capitalism tells the world that AGT’s a scam.
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