Friday, July 11, 2025
Nature Pimps for Fundamentally Flawed Gates-Funded “Swab Yourself” Covid-19 Test
An ambitious Bill Gates funded Covid-19 testing program called SCAN suffers from the health care version of “assume a can opener”.
New York Rent Strikes During the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza
The hard-fought rent battles during and after the Spanish flu make modern protests look tame.
Michael Hudson: Debt, Liberty and “Acts of God”
How ancient societies forgave debt that became unpayable due to circumstances outside the borrower’s control.
#COVID19: New Practical Results on Airborne Transmission Indoors
To avoid airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, don’t be like a bat!
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2020
Why did COVID-19 hit New York so disproportionately hard? ~ Biden faces Teen Vogue, veepstakes challenges ~ Response to Nagle/Tracey Sanders post mortem ~ Kusher to improve Republican platform ~ Kendall Jenner ~ Facebook debacle ~ Yacht woes ~ Knife sharpeners ~ HyperCard
Is There a Role For NGOs in the Transformation of Society?
In the last five years we’ve published 30 articles on NGOs and social change. What do they reveal?
If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs, There Is Another Solution
Some ways aroung the Federal government’s present refusal to do much for state and localities.
Call Any Vegetable
Memorial Day musings on plants and vegetables (and fruits).
The War Nerd: How Many Dead Yemeni Nobodies Does It Take to Equal 1 Wapo Contributor?
It’s not easy to get a real-life scientific-type test of the relative weight of a WaPo writer’s death and the deaths of “enemy” civilians. Well, we’ve got such a test now. I just found it at the BBC News site.
Michael Hudson and Dr. Jeffrey Miron of Cato Debate Capitalism
Michael Hudson sharpens some of his arguments in a discussion with a Harvard/Cato Institute stalwart.
Craig Murray Documents Abuse of Process, aka Kangaroo Court, via Butchered Indictment
The UK court is play so dirty with Craig Murray that it might make our FISA court look good.
