Those who dismiss this solution to the greatest threat to Earth systems have a duty to propose a better one. So where is it? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st February 2023 Do you hate the idea of animal-free meat? Many people do. Unsurprisingly, livestock farmers are often furiously opposed. More surprisingly, so […]
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Balloon details from an aerospace engineer.
Victoria Nuland is a loser as even the newspaper of record admits defeat.
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Two mates discuss the replacement of the monarch on the five-dollar note. read now...Dee: Jane, do you ever feel like you are just this far from being completely hysterical twenty-four hours a day? Jane: Half the people I know feel that way. The lucky ones feel that way. The rest of the people ARE hysterical twenty-four hours a day. — from Grand Canyon, screenplay by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan HAL 9000: Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. — from 2001: A Space Odyssey, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke George Fields: [to Dorothy/Michael] I BEGGED you to get therapy! — from Tootsie, screenplay by Murray Schisgal As if the mid-winter blues weren’t enough, there’s been an odd confluence of celestial events recently – a close encounter with a hurtling asteroid, an eerie green comet lighting up the night skies, and the mysterious appearance of a high altitude “spy balloon” the size of three metro buses that has the conspiracy nuts twisting themselves into pretzels. Not that I believe in heavenly portents, but I am feeling the need for some “cinema therapy” right about now.
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It’s not just the kids anymore Trump is trying to get to DeSantis’ right on the issue of transgender rights and it is very, very ugly. This is by Dave Weigel at Semafor: You’d be forgiven if you missed Donald Trump’s new plan to stop “left-wing gender insanity.” Other Republicans had talked like this for years, and far more media attention went to, say, Ron Desantis getting the College Board to take left-wing voices out of an African American Studies course. But to both LGBT advocates and social conservatives, Trump’s policy rollout was a watershed moment, one that signaled a hard right turn from debates focused on transitioning youth to a broader attack on the very concept of transgender identity itself. Trump had already supported efforts by red states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and transgender student athletes.
In his recent essay for The Monthly, Treasurer Jim Chalmers laid out his blueprint for abandoning the neoliberal era of "supply-side" economics, to a new concept of "values-based" capitalism. The question remains: whose values? read now...
MNE dispatched its roving reporter to the Atlantic coast today to cover the shoot down of the China spy balloon here is the footage:
Our reporter on the scene heard 2 explosions… This may have been an initial miss:
Then this might have been the hit:
Social Security and Medicare cuts are back on the menu Whatever “populist” impulse Donald Trump brought into the party didn’t take among hardcore conservatives: Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, said Thursday that he wants to “reform” Social Security and institute private savings accounts for recipients. “There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” Pence told an audience at the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors summit in Washington, D.C. “I think the day could come when we could replace the New Deal with a better deal. Literally give younger Americans the ability to take a portion of their Social Security withholdings and put that into a private savings account.” Video of the event was obtained by the Democratic tracking group American Bridge 21st Century. The comments mark one of the first policy proposals from Pence as the field for the Republican nomination is fast taking shape.
[Netanyahu's] government is fiercely far-right, although from the standpoint of the Palestinians there is steady continuity in Zionist state policy, whether the government is led by the far-right or by less right-wing sections.
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...this is a war that will yield no victors and will, in guaranteed fashion, make a mockery of victory.
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How they spent their first week of business Following up on the post below, here’s Dana Milbank with a piece on the new House majorities first orders of business. I confess that I had not heard about the important vote to condemn the Russian Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields. Frankly, I’m surprised any of the Republicans had even heard of these things but I’m sure their leadership told them it would like, totally own the libs so they enthusiastically signed on: A CNN poll last week found that about three-quarters of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, think House Republican leaders aren’t paying enough attention to the country’s most pressing problems. So this week, GOP leaders set out to rectify the situation. They approved a resolution condemning the Russian Revolution. Of 1917.
By Nolan Higdon / Project Censored The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everything at the wall from baseless claims about work productivity to coercive policies to cement their power over faculty. Coined by John and […]
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Those of you with gray hair certainly remember Dan Burton, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee during the Clinton years who famously conducted a “forensic experiment” in his backyard to prove that Clinton aide Vince Foster had been murdered (presumably by Hillary Clinton…) The experiment consisted of shooting a watermelon to see if it was feasible that Foster had actually committed suicide. Well, get ready for his heir, James Comer, the new Chairman of the House Oversight Committee: The man is giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money. The last I heard from these guys was that COVID is nothing worse than a cold and that it’s the vaccines that kill people. But whatever …
Following yesterday’s funeral of Cardinal George Pell, I was disturbed to read this from a Sydney Morning Herald letter writer: ‘I went to St Mary’s Cathedral to tie a ribbon on the iron fence for a friend who was raped by a priest when he was seven years old. My ribbons were cut off by Continue reading »
Pandemic stimulus not the cause. Fed runs its accustomed playbook to screw labor and reward capital based on junk economics.
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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
James K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Naked Capitalism
James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
James K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
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