Category: Corporate Power

Why My Twitter Timeline is Ad Free — No Promoted Tweets

After I created a block list for advertisers, Twitter turned off promoted tweets in my timeline.

/ October 22, 2019

How Fighting Your Health Insurer is Rigged in Washington State

Six Independent Review Organizations Rule with Insurers in 80 to 89% of Cases

/ July 3, 2019
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Stop Watching the News, Despise All Propaganda and Resist Manufactured Consent

Listen to Morrissey on propaganda and watch this wonderful animation of Manufactured Consent.

/ March 13, 2019
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Fifth Anniversary of Woman’s Marriage to a Corporation

Today marks what would have been the fifth anniversary of Angela Vogel’s marriage to my corporation, Corporate Person. On July 17th, 2012, King County granted their right to marry and then took to Facebook later to tell the couple that...

/ July 17, 2017
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Forget Boeing, Microsoft’s Tax Break Costs $776 Million

On Tuesday, The Seattle Times’ columnist Danny Westneat expressed shock that Boeing’s tax breaks cost the state $304 million last year. He failed to mention that the legislature’s actions in 2010 allowed Microsoft to save $776 million in taxes this...

/ May 5, 2016

Arc de Triomphe Without Cars and Tourists

Here’s a recent view of Paris’ Arc de Triomphe in a rare moment of being free of cars and people. During the 2015 UN Climate Conference, activists had stained the road around the site in green. I happened by when...

/ January 17, 2016

Capital One Credit Card Fraud Detection Stupidly Shuts Down Accounts

Final Update 10/15/15: After emailing with the Capital One support person below and given that they’d provided the credit that I asked for, I reactivated my accounts to give the new text alert system a try. Their exec support team called...

/ October 2, 2015