"We believe that Mexico has every right to ask for what it wants," says Lynn Clarkson, chief executive of Illinois-based Clarkson Grain company. "As a supplier, the United States should give its customers what they want."
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In the summer of 2020, federal law enforcement launched a broad, and until now, secret strategy to infiltrate racial justice groups.
The post The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes appeared first on The Intercept.
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Leaders of the St. Louis Fed’s signature economic database discuss its evolution as a public service and where they see FRED going next.
Campaigners have a second judicial review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday 21 March 2023 to challenge the Government over the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act 2018. The ways the exemption may have been used by the Home Office and private companies working to control immigration include refusing requests by individuals for […]
oth parties are exacerbating the city/country split. How different are their interests?
Though Silicon Valley Bank contributed to its own demise, the root cause of this crisis is the fact that private banks own government bonds. If they didn’t, then SVB would still be solvent. Its bankruptcy was the result of the price of Treasury bonds falling, because The Federal Reserve increased interest rates. As interest rates … Continue reading "A Simple Solution to the Banking Crisis That No Country Will Implement"
Liz reminded me that I don’t need to publish some abstract essay every day; I can just, you know, blog. Having said all that about my implicit middle-classness, I’m writing this in a J.G. Ballardian brutalist lair somewhere near Sonoma. It’s all glass, infinity pools, uncovered concrete and plastic cows, surrounded by wildfire-scorched desolation. The […]
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As the dust settles on the Robodebt Royal Commission, an examination of how the scheme was orchestrated clearly shows its architects should face prison time. read now...
Paul Keating's Press Club criticism of the AUKUS agreement revealed the true nature of our mainstream media. read now...We have some bad news I don’t think this is even hitting the front pages but it should: Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday. The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.” In sober language, the IPCC set out the devastation that has already been inflicted on swathes of the world.
“They're basically saying the same thing over and over and over again. It's a pattern"
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“They're basically saying the same thing over and over and over again. It's a pattern"
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