huTatjana Söding interviews environmental historian Troy Vettese about Half-Earth Socialism—a game based on a Verso book of the same name, co-written with Drew Pendergrass. In the game, the player plans the world economy with the aim of achieving climate justice, global democracy, and ‘the good life’ for all. Here, Söding and Vettese discuss the game, […]
Reading
There are no classes in our society, conservatives argue Eric Levitz writes at Intelligencer: “Progressives have long held that the right’s economic theories are just elaborate rationalizations for funneling money to the elite.” John Kenneth Galbraith put it more elegantly: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” Ed Kilgore remarks on House Republicans renaming the House Committee on Education and Labor the House Committee on Education & the Workforce. The change, Kilgore writes: reflects a tradition of Republican labor hostility that has grown more remarkable as the GOP has come to think of itself as the party of working people with white non-college-educated folk at the core of its electoral coalition. The GOP’s self-identification with the horny-handed sons and daughters of toil is central to its claim that the Democratic Party is now a vassal of woke coastal elitists with Ph.D.’s, whose ground troops are Big Government leeches and the immigrants who want to join them at the welfare trough.
The twelfth-century figure William Longbeard was once widely known as a ‘spirited champion’ of the ‘poor people’ of London, executed because ‘death was long a favourite remedy for silencing the people’s advocates,’ in the words of Charles Dickens. The story of Longbeard and the revolt he led in 1196 formed part of the nineteenth-century radical […]
The Biden plan for replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unrealitic. And it does not appear to have a Plan B.
BAE Systems doesn’t want us to only think of them as serial murderers. According to their PR department, they are also interested in reading fairy tales to children.
The post Weapons Contractors Kill 11,000 Children While Reading Fairy Tales appeared first on MintPress News.
New links… “If we can’t say exactly how we think, then how well do we know ourselves?” — Have you thought about how you think? Is it in pictures, in patterns, in words, or in some unsymbolized way?
The ICJ's opinion is an essential first step, but without meaningful action, it will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine.
The post What Will Happen After the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine? appeared first on MintPress News.
By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the $858-billion defense spending authorization that President Biden signed into law last month. Not only did that bill pass in an otherwise riven Senate by a bipartisan majority of 83-11, but this year’s budget increase of 4.3% is the second highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II. Indeed, the Pentagon has been granted more money than the next 10 largest cabinet agencies combined. And that doesn’t even take into account funding for homeland security or the growing costs of caring for the veterans of this country’s post-9/11 wars. That legislation also includes the largest pay raise in 20 years for active-duty and... Read more
In the latest version of the Online Safety Bill, a provision governing so-called “legal but harmful” content for adults has been removed. It would have likely meant the over-removal of lawful content, but its replacement is equally worrying. New provisions inserted by the government herald a regime of state-mandated enforcement of tech companies’ terms and […]
“It’s not even clear that the documents had been in Biden’s possession” The GOP is beside itself over news that some classified documents were found in November among papers stored at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. by Biden’s own attorneys. Isn’t this just what prompted the FBI to investigate Donald Trump, they demand? Where’s the outrage? Where are the jackbooted thugs? Where’s Attorney General Merrick Garland’s investigation? Twitter quipster Jeff Tiedrich put the affair in context, tweeting, “weird how Joe Biden found classified documents and voluntarily returned them without claiming he magically declassified them, or saying the FBI planted them, or lying about having already returned them, or needing to have his shitty golf motel searched. what game is Biden playing”? Indeed, reports indicate the White House notified authorities immediately and the National Archives retrieved the Penn documents the next day. Clearly, the papers surfacing is unwelcome news for the Biden administration. As is news that a search turned up a second batch this week.
Reação das empresas foi 'perigosamente lenta', diz relatório de ONG que monitora big techs.
The post Golpistas transmitiram lives por mais de quatro horas sem serem derrubados pelo YouTube ou Meta appeared first on The Intercept.
Good morning! We’re minutes away from the December CPI report. I’ll be on Bloomberg TV to talk about inflation, the Fed, and the macro outlook at 12:10 p.m. ET today. As I wrote last week, the December jobs report was full of good news. Let’s hope the CPI report delivers more positive news about the pace at which inflation is receding.
Hi all, I’ve written an article explaining why it’s high time we overcame our irrational fear of nuclear energy — a perfectly safe, zero-emission clean energy source — and embraced its revolutionary potential to offer cheap abundant energy for decades to come. The article is filled with lots of of myth-busting trivia about this tragically misunderstood technology.
Hi all, I’m proud to announce that the book I co-authored with Toby Green of King’s College London — The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left — is finally out! Here’s the description: During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that “following the science” with …
Continue reading
Continue reading
Climate campaigners are taking to ‘adbusting’ to get their message across and target oil and gas funders, Josiah Mortimer reports
Following the easing of Covid-19 polices in China, which was quickly followed by a spike in cases, several countries — including the US, Japan, Italy, Spain, France and, most recently, the UK — have reacted by reintroducing restrictions for passengers from China, requiring them to show a negative PCR or antigen test before boarding. The …
Continue reading
Continue reading
Excuse me, car salesman? I have an insecurity about my body that I hope to solve by purchasing a flashy vehicle. I know I should love and accept myself the way I am, and I honestly do try to embrace body positivity. In my heart, I know that it’s what’s on the inside of a person that counts. But unfortunately for me, what’s on the inside is a super huge vagina.
That’s why I’ve come to this car dealership to purchase a vehicle so sleek, so compact, and so ridiculously out of my price range that people will look at me and say, “Damn, with a flashy car like that, I bet her cooter is as tight as Scrooge McDuck.”
I’m tired of driving around in my current car, a 1992 Ford Tempo that screams, “Her slot is looser than the ones at Circus Circus.”
I need a car that makes people assume my inside corset is cinched up like the waist of the main character in a Jane Austen novel.
I know, some people claim that size doesn’t matter. They say it’s not the size of the boat, but the motion in the ocean. Unfortunately for me, I’m not the boat in that metaphor.
It’s Monday night, and in typical Monday fashion, there is nothing exciting to do. I check my wallet: my driver’s license is expired, so bars are out of the question, bus pass, my dental insurance card—I suppose a teeth whitening wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.
Then I see my Kroger card. I have a normal-sized one for my wallet and a miniature version that hangs off my keychain because I’m that serious about the great discounts it offers on exciting products like generic-brand pasta (cut with sawdust!), generic-brand coffee pods (now with half the coffee grounds!), and any products that the location is eager to get rid of (still food!). Tonight’s club is Kroger, no cover fee required.
There’s a display by the entrance: baskets stuffed with limited-edition packages of a new product by the think tank at General Mills: Spicy CinnaFUEGO Toast Crunch. They’re on sale for Kroger cardholders: three dollars are marked off of their five-dollar price tag. I would be an idiot to pass up such an amazing deal.
Sian Norris reports on the response to the brutal killing of the young LGBTQ+ activist and what it tells us about homophobia around the world
Penny Pepper pens an open letter to her Conservative MP, explaining why the NHS crisis is personal and political for those 'living in the real world'
David TC Davies refused to be interviewed by a journalist who'd dug into allegations of climate change denialism and his equal rights stance
THE Coffs Coast, named in November 2022 as having one of the world’s Top 100 Green Destination stories, is in the running for the tourist organisation’s People’s Choice Award in the Culture and Tradition category. Voting is open now and ends on January 24 at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time. Advertise with News of The...
The post Vote Coffs for People Choice in Green Destination Awards appeared first on News Of The Area.
Maybe they are just going to use their capital to accept the Fed’s 5% subsidies and lay everyone else off?
Banks are telling you to buy stocks, saying the bottom is in & cancelling their recession calls for Europe.
— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) January 11, 2023
Meanwhile, all of them are closing investments, departments & laying off staff.
Seems unusual, no? 🤔 https://t.co/99AUWXOkMP
Dimon now hoping for 6%:
PLEASED, impassioned and perhaps most of all proud of the Coffs Harbour community’s willingness to give in support of others, Doris (Cowan) and David Wake who organised the Community Christmas Luncheon are saying a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who made it all happen. Numerous people across Coffs Harbour donated food, money, their time,...
The post Doris and David thank Coffs Coast community for Christmas Luncheon support appeared first on News Of The Area.