The retail establishment has long enjoyed spreading the myth that until the day after Thanksgiving each year, they are “in the red”, or that they haven’t made any total profit for the year until that very day. According to this, it is called “Black Friday” as that is when they are finally “in the black” financially, but that is far from the actual origin of the term. We go over how a certain football game’s annual happening gave rise to it, and much more on this relaxed edition of TMI for “Black Friday”, November 26, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
Month: November 2021
Maybe you’ve heard of Palantir or other software that promises to let law enforcement investigate social media more easily, but the unprecedented lengths Voyager can go allows the tools to be not just entrapping, but also ones that reinforce policing prejudices.
Then, finishing our reporting on the COP26 climate conference, we discuss how the big boys (USA, UK, EU, etc) are consistently stopping any discussion of “climate reparations”, despite the undeniable fact that MOST of the emissions behind the climate crisis have come from the “Global North” and the destruction thusfar has primarily been suffered by the “Global South”.
Finally we give a little insight into why you might wonder at how we don’t comment on certain BIG news items, while giving you insights on things you haven’t heard. All that and much more on TMI for Friday, November 19, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!
At the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) climate conference, there’s been a renewed call to have “climate finance” defined in such a way that keeps things like loans out of the picture. After all, “climate finance” is the funding put forward to help nations that need assistance to help them become greener, and if it includes (via ambiguity) such things as predatory loans or comes with strings attached, it discourages those we want to ENCOURAGE to adapt. Worse, it gives the loaning countries the expectation that what they “spend” on climate finance will actually come back to them, leaving less actual revenue put towards the effort than the manipulated numbers tell.
Then, we explore how financial desperation is fueling fear and ignorance globally, and how we are doomed to a dark age… unless we can succeed in bringing about a new enlightenment! All this and much more on TMI for Friday, November 12, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media.
In a scenario that is also playing out elsewhere, Colorado is finding out that the cost of allowing so much ignorance about vaccination among its citizens is its hospitals becoming completely overwhelmed by mostly those who refuse the vaccine. Not only does that harm the benighted patients in the ICU, it also keeps hospitals from being able to admit others who need their services, forcing non-COVID patients to be turned away even from emergency care.
Then, we look at the much-exaggerated “rough night” the Democratic Party had on 11/2/2021 – the losses were easily predictable, despite what the corporate media wants you to think, and they are being used as leverage to push Dems even FURTHER from action that would inspire people to come out in support of them. Finally, we talk about a pair of exciting new discoveries in the world of science: successful parthenogenesis in birds (specifically condors) being observed for the first time, and the ability to use a brain implant prosthesis to allow a blind person to ‘see”.
All this and much more on TMI for Friday, November 5th, 2021 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!