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Organisers of this year’s Australian Open have warned spectators not to needle anti-vac competitor Novak Djokovic when he is on court. ”Look, people need to respect Novak and his beliefs,” said a Spokesperson for the event. ”He is a champion... Read More ›
I’m not talking about Prince Harry That’s the person the media was touting as the moderate, sober choice to replace Kevin McCarthy if he didn’t get over the line on the speaker vote. He is much more popular in the caucus than McCarthy and you can see why. He’s nuts and so are they. Here’s an example of Scalise’s rhetoric from December: “Today’s final report is further proof that Democrats’ sham panel never was about impartial oversight—it was purely about politics. Instead of conducting impartial oversight of the federal government’s pandemic response, Democrats worked overtime to cover up President Biden’s failure to protect Americans. Democrats refused to investigate after we exposed the Biden White House manipulating the science to allow a radical teachers union to rewrite CDC guidance so they could make it easier to shut down schools. They refused to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and efforts by Dr. Fauci to downplay the Wuhan lab leak theory.
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Michael Hudson foresaw this years ago, but the details were not yet clear at that time. Now it is unfolding. This is also the objective with the rest of the world, which is what "US hegemony" means economically.
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Maybe "preserve and extend" rather than "revive" now that the West is facing competition there from China and Russia? China recently warned the West about extending "great power competition" to Africa.
Heading to Africa Once Again, the West is Trying to Revive Neo-Colonialism
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This system is "capitalist" in name only, in that competition is fundamental to the concept of "free market capitalism" that underlies its efficiency in production and also producing the kinds of goods that people prefer. Asymmetries, like "concentration," a euphemism for monopoly and monopsony, vitiate that and lead to asymmetries political power in addition to market power that vitiate the concept of democracy as rule of, by and for the people, as President Lincoln put it.
Is this happening? (Matt Stoller has been writing a lot on this lately.) Here is a study that suggests it may be.
Consolidation of markets at the hands of U.S. companies that are actively engaged in mergers and acquisitions raises an important question about the political ramifications of market concentration. Do mergers and acquisitions impact the lobbying clout of these acquisitive firms? A new working paper delves into this connection and finds some intriguing, if also preliminary, affirmative evidence.
Double explores yet another new era of Torchwood, as Roberta Craven battles to save the decade that taste forgot In many ways Double represents Big Finish’s most ambitious idea for Torchwood yet. Oh, they’ve told the continuing adventures of the Torchwood Three team post-Miracle Day, introducing a set of new team mates. They’ve fleshed out […]
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I enjoyed reading your article âMan, Superman, Super Mario,â a Nietzschean study of the early Mario Brothers games. I found myself especially compelled by your argument that the raccoon suit represents the Ăbermensch form of the Mario character.
However, your paper is not even remotely publishable unless you add another three thousand words discussing Bendermanâs brilliant argument from his book Super Marxio Brothers (2007) about how the plumber protagonists symbolize the exploitation of the proletariat.
Also, after listening to the first four episodes of a seventeen-hour WNYC podcast on the history of fonts, I insist that all authors format papers in Helvetica Neue.
What is the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), what are its sources of funding, and why does it so consistently advocate for positions favourable to the United States and the weapons industry? Follow the money trail. Throwing something at the T.V. could become an expensive habit. Yet how often I feel like it, especially so Continue reading »
The Australian government must reduce indigenous incarceration and stop subsidising fossil fuels. The Australian governmentâs failure to uphold the rights of First Nations people and asylum seekers harms the governmentâs credibility to promote human rights in the region, Human Rights Watch said yesterday in its World Report 2023. Similarly, the governmentâs continued support for fossil Continue reading »
Pell was an ideological warrior that resisted the changes of liberal society and its tolerance for diversity and individualism. Cardinal George Pell died as he lived, a fierce defender of the Catholic church and of conservative Catholicism. He had an agenda and knew how to achieve it. Striding from the back blocks of Ballarat to Continue reading »
At the heart of Prince Harryâs latest salvo in the trans-Atlantic royal family breakdown, now clearly beyond repair, is his ultimate target â the media-Palace relationship which has torn his family apart and which in its public disintegration now threatens the monarchy itself. The unseemly family dysfunction, institutional racism or âunconscious biasâ in the descriptor Continue reading »
We see a tendency to blame individuals for the crisis in our politics across the AUKUS nations. This is facile. Donald Trump did not create the farce of a Republican party seen in the vote for the Speaker in early January. Boris Johnson did not create the catastrophe that is the British Conservative party displayed Continue reading »
To suggest that China and only China needs to provide negative COVID-19 tests, tests on arrival or even a complete ban of arrivals from China is a political and racist approach to a global health problem. The subject of Covid tests for travellers from China is arousing a lot of commentary in recent media reports. Continue reading »
Jeff Beck has died! A masterful musician. Very sad. We move on. I read an interesting research paper recently â âThe Great Retirement Boomâ: The Pandemic-Era Surge in Retirements and Implications for Future Labor Force Participation â published in the US Federal Reserve Bankâs Finance and Economics Discussion Series (released November 2022), which illustrates how the pandemic is altering the behaviour of the US labour market. The lessons from the US are relevant everywhere as governments progressively ignore the reality that a dangerous virus is still in our midst and still causing havoc (deaths, long-term disability and more). For those who are continuing to claim the pandemic is some sort of conspiracy to control us or that Covid is less dangerous than influenza or that mask wearing is redundant and all the rest of the nonsense that seems to perpetrated by some on the Left who think they are for âfreedomâ and those on the Right who just care about profits, this sort of research should presents a serious wake up call....Bill Mitchell â billy blog
Research conducted by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behaviour on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarisation, or voting behaviour.” Which is to say Continue reading »
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Will anyone hear about it? We’re obsessing today on the Joe Biden documents case hour after hour so I doubt many of you have heard about this. Dean Baker reports: The December Consumer Price Index (CPI), following a great December jobs report, shows the economy has turned the corner and seems on a path to stable growth with moderate inflation. The CPI showed prices actually fell by 0.1 percent for the month. This brought the annualized rate of inflation over the last three months in the overall index to just 1.8 percent. With the drop in prices reported in December, the real average hourly wage for all workers is now 0.3 percent above its pre-pandemic level. For production and non-supervisory workers it is 0.8 percent higher. And, for production and non-supervisory workers in the low-paying hotel and restaurant sector it is up 5.7 percent. The overall index for December was held down by a 4.5 percent plunge in energy prices, but the 0.3 percent rise in the core index should not be terribly troubling.
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The “Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update” will be adding a new feature: book reviews that appear in academic journals. The Weekly Update already includes sections for book reviews at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and in non-academic venues. To this, we’ll be adding “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Journals.” To make this work, the journals have to send in the reviews. In order to be included in this section, book reviews must be: open-access published no earlier than January 2023, published in an academic philosophy journal or, if published in a non-philosophy journal, be a review of a book authored by a philosopher, and submitted by email to dailynouseditor@gmail.com in the following format: “[Book Title] by [Book Author] is reviewed by [Review Author] in [Journal Title]”, where Journal Title must embed a link to the web page on which the book review appears (not to the journal’s homepage or table of contents). The Weekly Updates appear on Mondays. Normally, if you send in the links by Friday afternoon they can be included in the coming week’s edition.
After Stagflation during the 1970s, many markets were liberalized and, over time, central banks made a lot more independent in lots of places. In addition, some countries in Europe embraced the EURO (and founded the ECB), and barriers between regulated banking and shadow-banking (including by investment banks) were removed. The intended aim, and in certain […]