Thursday, November 13, 2025
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.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2021
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Book Review: A Ground-Level Look at America’s Health Care System
In “The Hospital,” Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to provide adequate health care in small-town America during Covid.
CalPERS Long-Term Care Program Bleeds Policyholders Dry via 10X Higher Premiums, Gross Mismanagement, Bad Faith Dealing
CalPERS continued to abuse its long-term care policy holders, via contract-defying rate increases vastly higher than other insurers.
Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis
Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed
Iran To Saudi Arabia: Sell Our Oil And We Will Reduce Houthi Attacks
An credible outlet reports that Iran is negotiating with the Saudis to work around US economic sanctions. Oops!
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2021
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A Night Under the Bombs in Gaza
It is a long and tough night in Gaza. We cannot sleep. The house feels like it is shaking. We are all afraid.
Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack
You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
