The Serial Killer who Murdered Ivar Haglund's Mom
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"Sadistic and greedy quack" Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard starved people to death at her makeshift sanatorium, called "Starvation Heights" by the locals. Hazzard's nonsensical, dangerously misguided book Fasting for the Cure of Disease (1908) was a best seller. Among her victims was Daisey Maud Haglund, the mother of Seattle restaurateur and king of publicity stunts Ivar Haglund.
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Electric Car Boogaloo: Lucid's Saudi Sponsored Scheme
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#122: Saudi-financed Lucid Motors is losing the race when it comes to providing electric cars for rich people. Lucid's former CEO received a 379 million dollar pay package and then resigned, and the stock tanked. Amazon-backed Rival car producer Rivian's stock is also doing poorly, and the share price of crazy guy Elon Musk's Tesla has plummeted as well. The most offensive aspect of these American electric car companies is their marketing. Is buying a $100,000 sports car or SUV really going to save the earth?
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My Bodyguard: Security Goon Gavin de Becker
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#121: Security consultant to the stars Gavin de Becker provides protection for cartoonish billionaire supervillains Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and contributed millions to Robert F. Kennedy. He claims that his secretive MOSAIC threat assessment surveillance system can predict violence before it happens. The title of his best selling pseudo scientific pop sociology advice book The Gift of Fear says it all - the more paranoid people become the more money he makes.
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Sleazy Wealth Worship: Reagan Era Magazine Editor Tina Brown
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#120: British social climber Tina Brown spent the 1980s in New York City thriving in a decadent world of crass rich people so repulsive that they would make today's gilded age plutocrats blush. Her book The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) is a horror show of celebrity worship, Kissinger worship and Reagan worship. It's a slavish hagiography that deifies her former corporate masters and their Wall Street cronies. Also: Introducing Wild World News - a new segment about the insane neoliberal technofeudalist agendas being pimped by politicians and the corporate media on behalf of their...
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2024 in Review: Doomed Planet's Frightening Fifth Season
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#119: A celebration of the great and not so great people that left us last year. The lovely thing about obituaries is that they are a joyous remembrance for those that made the world a better place. Obituaries fill us with even more joy by reminding us that people who were evil can no longer inflict pain and suffering upon humanity. PLUS: A look back at Doomed Planet season 5, where we tackled unpleasant subjects such as the America's Most Wanted reboot, PornHub, the new Road House movie, Kamala's crusade of cringe, fentanyl voyeurism and Zapped - a story about aliens who assassinate bad...
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Here Comes the Memestock Presidency
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#118: Those who expected genocide supporting cop Kamala Harris to win the presidency are now unburdened by the November that has been. The memestock presidency of genocide cheerleader Donald Trump and his crypto-fascist crypto enthusiast sidekick Elon Musk begins on January 20. Kamala Harris voters chose to put their blinders on and ignore the horrors of the Biden/Harris presidency and now they are sad. The billionaires that run things will now ramp up their avaricious pillaging. The dying American empire has become a chaotic torrent of speculation, fraud and genocide. Caitlin Johnstone said...
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Halloween Interview with RFK Jr.
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#117: Doomed Planet host Alex chats with his old prep school buddy Robert F. Kennedy Junior. A ghoulish journey through RFK's life as a druggie, environmentalist, anti-vaxxer and animal carcass fetishist. When Trump wins next week RFK Jr. (according to RFK Jr.) will take control of both the Agriculture Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. What could go wrong?
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Fentanyl Voyeurism
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#116: Alex takes a walk through fentanyl hell and talks with some people holding crack pipes and torches. Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood is experiencing unprecedented drug activity - great fodder for right wing media pundits and politicians who are quick to blame but have no solutions. Meanwhile, local residents go on with their day.
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Killer Kamala: the Kris Kringle of Cringe
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#115: Holocaust Harris exists in the context of all the genocides she has lived and all the genocides that came before her.
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Goodspaceguy Shoots for the Moon
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#114: Tough on crime! Ruff on fentanyl! A freaky look at the right wing liars, kooks and weirdos running for office in Washington State. PLUS: Our exclusive interview with Senate candidate Goodspaceguy! Cut from one hour to ten minutes because he is ridiculous. See also:(Doomed Planet #109) (Doomed Planet #39)
info_outline#122: Saudi-financed Lucid Motors is losing the race when it comes to providing electric cars for rich people. Lucid's former CEO received a 379 million dollar pay package and then resigned, and the stock tanked. Amazon-backed Rival car producer Rivian's stock is also doing poorly, and the share price of crazy guy Elon Musk's Tesla has plummeted as well.
The most offensive aspect of these American electric car companies is their marketing. Is buying a $100,000 sports car or SUV really going to save the earth?