Report: Private equity firms like BlackRock SNAPPING UP Public Utilities & Electric Bills To SKYROCKET
The Jimmy Dore Show – Aug 26, 2025 #TheJimmyDoreShow Private equity firms like BlackRock and Blackstone are acquiring U.S. electric utilities, raising concerns about monopolistic control and skyrocketing electricity rates. Historical examples, such as California’s 2000–2001 energy crisis, demonstrate how privatization can lead to price gouging, rolling blackouts, and market manipulation for profit. Critics warn […]
In the Future, You Could Be Controlled and Not Even Know It – ‘It’s already happening’: ‘Central bank-backed digital currencies…15-minute cities…smart meters…fitness trackers’
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/08/26/in-the-future-you-could-be-controlled-and-not-even-know-it-n2193226 By Donald Kendal – The Heartland Institute “In the future, you’ll own nothing and be happy.” That infamous line from the World Economic Forum (WEF) went viral a few years ago, and for good reasons. It encapsulated a worldview in which everyday people are stripped of their liberty and reduced to “renters” of products and […]
Francis Menton: ‘A Mini Scorecard’ Trump 2.0’s first 7 months: #1: ‘The remarkable total reversal of the Obama/Biden policies of suppression of energy production’
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-8-20-a-mini-scorecard-for-president-trumps-first-seven-months-of-term-two By Francis Menton Excerpt: Our current President Trump carries the concept of “energy in the executive” to an extreme level, undertaking a dizzying array of initiatives, with new ones emerging so rapidly that it is difficult to keep up. Many of Trump’s initiatives have corrected disastrous and destructive policies of the Biden and Obama […]
In France, Sweltering Is a Climate Virtue: Paris seeks ‘energy sobriety’ & wants you to use a fan & limit the AC to a single room & set to 78°F or warmer
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/in-france-sweltering-is-a-climate-virtue-77145796 By The Editorial Board Most of France has been sweltering under a heat wave this week, so naturally air conditioning has become the latest flash point in climate politics. The climate scolds want to prod the public into adopting what they call “energy sobriety,” and the French are discovering that in practice this means […]
A Perfect Match! BlackRock’s Larry ‘You have to force behaviors’ Fink appointed co-chairman of World Economic Forum – Meanwhile, WEF clears founder Klaus Schwab of wrongdoing
Larry Fink seeks to continue The World Economic Forum’s ‘enduring mission’
‘Beyond Chemicals’: ‘Beyond Meat is beyond screwed’ – The Decline of Beyond Meat…Plant-based ‘meat’ company facing potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Beyond Meat is beyond screwed… Beyond Meat is beyond screwed… Excerpt from Revolver News: Economic Times: Plant-based meat pioneer Beyond Meat is facing a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reporting falling sales, dwindling cash reserves, and mounting debt, according to bills.com, which confirmed it on August 12. Once credited with creating the market for […]
CEO of California utility brags that AI will remotely control your appliances & drain your EV battery to ‘smooth demand’ – Beware: The ‘Smart Grid’ Will Automatically Turn Off Your Air Conditioner & Set Your Thermostat
Patricia Poppe, the CEO of California utility PG&E, enthusiastically explains her cheerful vision of a future in which they will use AI to automatically disable your devices and drain your electric vehicle battery to “smooth demand.” https://t.co/uHS5bSxtQG — Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) August 8, 2025 Beware: The “Smart Grid” Will Automatically Turn Off Your Air Conditioner […]
HEARTLESS: New Study examines the ‘carbon emission analysis of aortic valve replacement’ – ‘Post-operative intensive care…accounted for largest portion of carbon footprint’ – ‘Findings should potentially be considered when making population level decisions & guidelines’ – Published in European Heart Journal
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf379/8181057#google_vignette European Heart JournalESC PublicationsCardiovascular MedicineBooksJournalsOxford Academic Journal Article Carbon emission analysis of aortic valve replacement: the environmental footprint of transcatheter vs. surgical procedures David Blitzer, Christoph J Meinrenken, Nora Bystadhaugen Apelgren, Ximena Sosa Chavez, Olympe Durrenberger, Ajay S Jagdish, Michael Simpson, Nicholas Bowers, Elizabeth I James, Luigi Pirelli … Show more European Heart Journal, ehaf379, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf379 Published: 02 July 2025 Abstract Background and Aims The […]
Academics Say It’s Morally Obligatory To Bioengineer Ticks To Stop You Eating Meat
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/academics-say-its-morally-obligatory By WILLIAM M BRIGGS Excerpt: Our paper is “Beneficial Bloodsucking” from Messers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, in the august pages of Bioethics. Their Abstract (with my emphasis): The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments […]
NOT PARODY: ‘Beneficial Bloodsucking’: Bioethicists Want Ticks to Infect People to Stop Them from Eating Meat – ‘We argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne [allergy] are also morally impermissible’ – Published in the Journal Bioethics
This is not a parody. Two bioethicists have argued in the prestigious professional journal Bioethics that we should breed ticks to cause more infections of a condition that causes an allergy to red meat. Seriously. | @thewesleyjsmith https://t.co/LewpLzTcXR — National Review (@NRO) July 30, 2025 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bioethicists-want-ticks-to-infect-people-to-stop-them-from-eating-meat/ By Wesley J. Smith Excerpt: This is not a parody. Two […]