Mammon category archive
Leeching Off the Learned 0
. . . but the football team has a winning record.
Vigorish 0
It’s not much, but it’s something.
The Money Shop and other brands run by Dollar Financial UK – Payday UK, Payday Express and Ladder Loans – handed out short-term loans charging interest rates as high as 2,962%.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
MarketWatch’s Paul B. Farrell unloads on Big Oil. A snippet:
Listen: “Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuel’s Role in Global Warming Decades Ago,” screams an InsideClimateNews.org headline. Environmental activist Bill McKibben’s op-ed in the Guardian news was brutal, calling Exxon Mobil’s secret decades-long campaign as a turncoat climate-science denier an “unparalleled evil.”
And the Department of Justice attorney who successfully sued Big Tobacco says America should sue Big Oil on racketeering charges, a fraud against investors as well as the public, covering up their own research and hiring goons to undermine other legitimate research, such as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Power behind the Drone 0
Dick Polman points out that, thanks to Citizens Benighted, no one knows who’s paying for Marco Rubio’s campaign.
More here.
Resistance Is Feudal 0
Harold Jackson explains the workings of the Duchy of Ameristan.
The Supplement Scam 0
Josh Bloom explains. Here’s a bit:
The industry is able to bypass the aegis of the FDA simply by using slippery language on their labels.
Plane Truths 0
I just visited a newspaper website (no I won’t say which one; it doesn’t matter) to be greeted by a big ad saying “The F35B Is Ready for Deployment!”
Industrial Revelation 0
The real story is in the aside (emphasis added).
“College” is now an “industry.” It’s biggest product, it appears, is penury.
The Privatization Scam 0
It always works out so well.
But Source4Teachers fell short, again, finding educators for just 19 percent of classrooms missing their teachers Friday. The day before: 22 percent.
The company has never come close to the 75 percent it promised the Philadelphia School District by the first day of classes when it signed its $34 million contract.
If you understand that there is such a thing as the public good, you realize that private gain is inimical to it.
Pusher Men 0
Psychiatrist Julie Holland points out that that fellow lurking on the street corner is a small fry. Here’s a snippet:
Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone? 2
Warning: Language.