The opposite of single-payer health care ...

... is this craptastrophe - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/31/amaz-j31.html

These are corporations that have overseen massive attacks on working class living standards. Dimon was fully implicated in the criminal machinations on Wall Street that led to the financial crash of 2008 and has been named in a series of financial swindles since then. Bezos has made his fortune by running the world’s biggest sweatshop operation, subjecting workers in his distribution centers to backbreaking labor at poverty wages.

6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak from FAIR.

1. The Classic ‘Officer-Involved Shooting’

2. Smearing the Victim

3. A Vague ‘Altercation’

4. The Organization That Did the Killing as Sole Source

5. Obscuring—or Omitting—Who Killed Whom

6. Rogue Weapons

 More details at https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-lesson-in-copspeak/

New word learned today - Biostitute

Biostitute - A biological sciences worker who misrepresents research or commits fraud for the benefit of commercial interests or to make a personal profit. 

More context here -

Death & Biostitutes – The US Opioid Epidemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6GWlQHYXw

RIP Robert Parry, 1949-2018

Your legacy will live on.

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/

RIP Eastern Cougar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cougar#Extinction_recognized

"On January 22, 2018 the de-listing became final and they were officially declared extinct.^[45] "

What a fucking hypocrite Hillary Clinton is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afCZKpVoVXI&t=404s

Hillary Clinton Protected An Alleged Sexual Harasser Within Her Own Campaign

Why is it I look forward to weekends?

Is it because I'm really lazy?

Or perhaps I yearn for something else to do (sleep for one)?