An unsolicited offer from Alexa this week prompted my discovery to the extent of Amazon’s and Google’s violation of my privacy and the marketing power Amazon will achieve if allowed to acquire One Medical and iRobot.
Business
Soros, Cohen, Win Bigly Ignoring Media Wisdom
The smartest money on Wall Street bet big against the mistaken Tesla wisdom the U.S. business media and some investment “experts” peddled in last year’s fourth quarter.
The legacy media’s reporting on America’s legacy automakers is pretty shameful. They deserve each other.
Mary Barra Mocks Mayor Pete’s Road Safety Plans
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claims he wants to improve road safety in America, and recently announced $800 million in taxpayer giveaways to various cities and towns to finance infrastructure improvements. If Buttigieg was genuinely serious about improving road safety, he would heed mounting warnings from transportation safety officials and automotive reviewers and call for an immediate ban of GM’s Hummer EV.
That GM CEO Mary Barra aims to profit from such a monster vehicle whose brakes are widely regarded as inadequate, suggests a certain moral and ethical depravity.
China’s Ballooning Michigan EV Battery Plants
Michigan taxpayers appear on the verge of subsidizing a joint venture between Ford and a China-owned battery company that Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin wanted no part of.
“I would have loved to have had Ford come to Virginia and build a battery plant if they were not using it as a front for a company that is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party,” Youngkin said on Bloomberg TV.
America’s Business Leadership Crisis
Some thoughts on the sorry crop of CEOs leading America’s major corporations.
FDA Hero Marion Gruber Joins Vaccine Nonprofit
When the history of the pandemic is written, few, if any, heroes will likely emerge from the Biden Administration, the FDA and CDC. Former FDA vaccine chief Marion Gruber and her deputy Phil Krause were the notable exceptions.
Learning this morning where Gruber has landed made my day.
New York Times: The Newspaper of (False) Record
The New York Times has long enjoyed the reputation of being the “newspaper of record.” It’s time the public realized that reputation is no longer deserved.
The publication’s silence on Project Veritas’ Pfizer videos viewed by millions of people serves as a case study of its ever-increasing dishonesty and bias.
Google’s Fired Workers Reaped What They Sowed
Some thoughts on Google firing employees via email, the MLK cluelessness PageDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada and Corewell Health CEO Tina Freese Decker share, and my relief learning that legendary hockey player Paul Henderson just celebrated his 80th birthday.
Pfizer’s Orwellian Power & Misguided Crisis Plan
Pfizer is betting that mainstream and social media will continue to successfully suppress news about damning allegations purportedly made by one of its top vaccine executives in a secretly recorded video filmed by the controversial organization Project Veritas. Here’s why the video can’t easily be dismissed and why Pfizer’s crisis management strategy might backfire.
GM CEO Mary Barra’s Killer EV Hummer
Some hard truths about GM CEO Mary Barra and why I regard Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Board, a hero.