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Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greed. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The Evil Religious Beliefs of Billionaires (Drew McCoy/Genetically Modified Skeptic on YouTube)
"Billionaires justify their bad behavior with religion. Who would’ve guessed? Here I talk about Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, David Green, Mark Zuckerberg, and Mukesh Ambani"
Friday, September 18, 2026
Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
Talking about “996” culture in China (working 9am to 9pm, six days a week), Cavendish quotes one guy: “Not only do I struggle to find time for reproductive behaviour, but I also can’t find a reason to have a baby who will eventually grow into another human labourer for capitalists to exploit.” And then another: “The entire situation is incredibly depressing. I feel like a cow surrounded by breeders who are discussing whether to play Mozart or Chopin to make my meat more tender.” Whatever you feel instinctively about the drive to have children being outside the rational, homo economicus self, it’s hard to really argue with those…
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Long COVID Profiteers (Conspirituality podcast #325)
Conspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought it was high time for a long COVID update.
Derek looks at a new Boston Children's Hospital research on viral reactivation, as well as the findings of a 2026 meta-analysis pooling 200,000+ participants.
Matthew surveys the Canadian LC landscape, where insurance-industry money is quietly funding McGill's Institute for Transforming Healthcare and McMaster's FALCON trial, testing the pseudoscientific "Lightning Process" on Long COVID patients, led by researcher Dr. Jason Busse, who has deep insurance-disability ties.
Finally, Julian unpacks Phil Parker's Lightning Process — Ericksonian NLP dressed as neuroscience, with roots in hypnotherapy, cult techniques, and pure "neuro-bollocks."
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Derek looks at a new Boston Children's Hospital research on viral reactivation, as well as the findings of a 2026 meta-analysis pooling 200,000+ participants.
Matthew surveys the Canadian LC landscape, where insurance-industry money is quietly funding McGill's Institute for Transforming Healthcare and McMaster's FALCON trial, testing the pseudoscientific "Lightning Process" on Long COVID patients, led by researcher Dr. Jason Busse, who has deep insurance-disability ties.
Finally, Julian unpacks Phil Parker's Lightning Process — Ericksonian NLP dressed as neuroscience, with roots in hypnotherapy, cult techniques, and pure "neuro-bollocks."
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Sunday, August 16, 2026
Inflammation Pseudoscience (Conspirituality podcast #321)
Inflammation is an important and necessary part of the body’s healing process. It’s also long been a wellness buzzword used to sell products that do very little to treat it. This week, we look at inflammation through the lens of a new Mother Jones article, “The Great Inflammation Panic,” including an interview with the author, Julia Métraux, in segment two. We’ll also discuss what inflammation is, how wellness influencers weaponize it, and what it represents in the context of Ayurveda.
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
The Next Plague (Conspirituality podcast #312)
A plague is coming. We don’t know when or which one, but we do know that since humans started gathering in groups numbering in the thousands, plagues became a consistent feature of existence. So a plague is always on the horizon, and public health is the response of a healthy society.
How healthy is America right now? Given that a recent NY Times investigation found that RFK Jr is laser-focused on vaccines and food dyes and not much of anything else, the news is not great. Today we look at candidates for the next plague, how unprepared the government is, and, in classic Conspirituality fashion, the wellness influencers selling products they just know will help your immune system stave off any little virus destined to become a plandemic.
In This Week in Conspirituality, Matthew checks in on someone else’s health: Donald Trump, and the online prediction market that’s emerged to appease a cultural wish fulfillment.
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How healthy is America right now? Given that a recent NY Times investigation found that RFK Jr is laser-focused on vaccines and food dyes and not much of anything else, the news is not great. Today we look at candidates for the next plague, how unprepared the government is, and, in classic Conspirituality fashion, the wellness influencers selling products they just know will help your immune system stave off any little virus destined to become a plandemic.
In This Week in Conspirituality, Matthew checks in on someone else’s health: Donald Trump, and the online prediction market that’s emerged to appease a cultural wish fulfillment.
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Sunday, May 17, 2026
The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille] (Conspirituality podcast #308)
Many of the ads and videos you see for supplements and health and fitness products (which might be scams) are being churned out using AI, and generating huge incomes for the creators of the videos, in addition to sales for the vendors.
Then Mallory DeMille went down a YouTube and TikTok rabbit hole and found the men making millions from these accounts. Today we’re going to look at what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and the cultural and racial dynamics at play in their slop.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us
America's so-called "leadership class" is a sham. Most of them do not care a whit for the rest of the US. They are out for themselves.
…It's likely to get worse in 2026 as Trump and his sycophants, and many of America's "leaders", realize 2026 may be their last unrestrained year to inflict damage and siphon off the spoils.
But the nightmare has awakened much of the US to the truth about what has happened to this country – and what we must do to get it back on the track toward social justice, democracy and widespread prosperity.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/29/american-reckoning
Monday, October 27, 2025
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
40 Acres and a Lie Part 1 (Reveal podcast)
Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land – only to see it returned to their enslavers.
Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15 – better known as 40 acres and a mule – implied a better life in the waning days of the Civil War. Hutchinson is among the formerly enslaved people who received land through the field orders, which are often thought of as a promise that was never kept. But 40 acres and a mule was more than that.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Friday, December 8, 2023
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows
Jung and the Common Wealth economist Chris Hayes said a tax on the estimated $4tn of excess global profits was needed alongside moves to break up monopolistic practices that allowed firms to exploit their market power...
Friday, November 24, 2023
David Fahrenthold on The Trump Organization’s Long History of Corruption (Al Franken podcast)
The New York Times Reporter Puts the Current Trial Into Perspective.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Rightwing activist helps fund ‘predatory payday lenders’ in supreme court case
In her statement ahead of CFPB v CFSAA, Ciccone, of Accountable.US, said: "If Leo has his way, the supreme court will toss American consumers overboard to loan sharks and predatory lenders hungry to line their pockets by any means necessary."…
Friday, September 8, 2023
Slavery is Not a Form of Hustle (Conspirituality podcast)
One piece of connective tissue between the right and wellness influencers we cover is their liberal use of the language of Civl Rights to describe their completely incomparable grievances. Derek covers a few recent examples, centered around one particularly troublesome analogy by a tech-bro entrepreneur using slavery as an analogy for his hustle.
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Monday, May 29, 2023
Heather McGhee – My Favorite Is Back!!!! (Al Franken podcast)
On Racism as Greed, Book Banning & Other Fun Topics.
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Sunday, April 2, 2023
US Minimum Wage Would Be $42 Today If It Rose as Much as Wall St. Bonuses: Analysis
Citing newly released data from the New York State Comptroller, IPS noted that the average Wall Street bonus has increased by 1,165% since 1985, not adjusted for inflation…
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