#125: In her new book, billionaire heiress Melinda Gates tries to present herself as a good human being with an interesting life and the same challenges normal people face.

The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward is a banal self-indulgent brag rag crammed with cliches and soured by boring, bad writing. It betrays a profound lack of self awareness. Being a billionaire is not a feminist concept - especially if you are known to fight capital gains taxes that would directly benefit working mothers.

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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.

#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?

#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.

#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 billionaire overlords. Or, you could also just call it a monthly wrap-up of the opinions posted to our Twitter/X feed, which can be found @wildworldnews.

#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 people in a mission to help save the human race. Prescient! Doomed Planet - Obituaries for the Damned.

#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 recently that "What we all want, deep down, is a truth-based relationship with reality. We might not be aware that this is what we are seeking from life, but it is. And everything in our society is stacked against our ever getting it." You think reality sucks now? Just wait until next year.

PLUS! Roll out the guillotines! A quick peek at Town & Country magazine, which has been poisoning the minds of the rich — and the people who wish they were rich — since 1901.

#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?

#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.