The Chinese government refined its COVID-19 prevention and control measures recently, ushering in a new phase of the country’s efforts to prevent and control the disease. The refined measures are in line with people’s wishes, conducive to China’s economic and social development and world economic recovery, and will inject more stability and positive energy into Continue reading »
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Australia’s Albanese government has taken the lead of countries in North America, Europe and Asia by introducing COVID-19 testing measures on arrivals from China. The decision was reached in variance to advice from the Commonwealth’s chief medical officer, Paul Kelly that there was no “sufficient public health rationale” for the measure. It looks like yet Continue reading »
Starting with Robert Parry’s groundbreaking reporting on the 2014 Maidan coup, through the Russian intervention this year, Consortium News has been a leading source of analysis on Ukraine that defies the ‘psyopcracy.’ Consortium News has been on the leading edge of Ukraine coverage, beginning with Robert Parry’s work in 2014 to identify U.S. involvement in Continue reading »
One of the empire’s strongest assets is the widespread assumption that propaganda is something that only happens to other people. Another is the widespread assumption that propaganda only comes from other countries and other political ideologies. The status quo remains the status quo because those who benefit from the status quo are able to use the Continue reading »
Philip Stratton-Lake, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading, died last month following a period of serious illness. David Oderberg, Head of the Department of Philosophy at Reading, shared the following brief memorial notice: Philip was a much loved and respected colleague in the Department since he joined in 1998. He was an internationally reputed moral philosopher with expertise in a wide range of areas including meta-ethics, moral epistemology, Kantian ethics, contractualism, intuitionism, and Ross-style pluralism. He was one of the world’s leading figures in the revival and defence of ethical intuitionism, writing the article on the topic for the Stanford Encyclopedia and editing a seminal volume (Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations). He also edited the now standard edition of W.D. Ross’ The Right and the Good. Other work includes an important monograph on Kant (Kant, Duty and Moral Worth) along with many articles and chapters in collections.
Here is a clip song from a live stream show we did on our YouTube Channel.
Variation witch (Live in studio)
This is one of the songs from an hour-long set list we played showcasing songs from our Rom-Comm Mixtape, Spaghetti Mid-Western EP, and some of our recent singles.
One of the singles we played was this one here called "Variation witch".
You can watch the full video of the show here - LORENZO'S MUSIC LIVE IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE - DEC 14, 2022
Feeding time.
A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Robert Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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I hate to be the bearer of more bad news, but there’s a story that appeared in the Business Press but received almost no attention in mass media. I think capitalism is in chaos and is out of solutions. If the climate crisis wasn’t enough to convince you, here’s another example.
Two philosophers were given honorary titles as part of the UK’s 2023 New Year Honours, which recognize people who have “made achievements in public life [and] committed themselves to serving and helping the UK”. John Finnis (Oxford, Notre Dame) was named a “Commander of the Order of the British Empire” for “services to Legal Scholarship”. Edward Harcourt (Oxford, Arts and Humanities Research Council) was named a “Member of the Order of the British Empire” for “services to Interdisciplinary Research”. You can check out the full list of those honored here.
If anyone still labors under the impression that Donald Trump invented the shitshow that is the modern Republican Party, Tuesday’s performance on Capitol Hill will have disabused them of that notion. It was déjà vu all over again, just like in 2015 when Kevin McCarthy was humiliated by far right bomb-throwers simply because he was so easy to humiliate, thus giving them leverage and pleasure in equal measure. Poor McCarthy spent the next seven years groveling and genuflecting to these extremists under the foolish impression that they would reward him for his fealty. As Salon’s Rae Hodge lays out in detail, on Tuesday afternoon they simply laughed in his face and humiliated him again. Back in 2015, the newly formed Freedom Caucus, born out of the Tea Party class that came into Congress five years before in the 2010 “shellacking,” managed to force then-Speaker John Boehner to resign for having the temerity to make deals with the Democrats in the Senate and the White House in order to keep the government functioning.
With A&E in crisis and emergency care in a state of emergency, Sian Norris speaks to a GP about the knock-on effect to primary care
The Lever’s new video reveals how lax regulation and government missteps led to the air travel crisis that stranded a million travelers over the holidays.
The November jobs numbers came in stronger than most economists had expected. There is considerable evidence from regional Fed surveys, unemployment insurance claims, and elsewhere that the labor market is weakening. Nonetheless, the payroll data has been showing strong job growth through the fall. The big question is whether evidence of labor market weakening will […]
The post Preview: What to Expect in the December Jobs Report appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Mike's right that Santos was on his way to be an "Attack Queer" - Richard Goldstein's term for right wing LGBT people who easily obtain media prominence to attack other LGTB people/communities
Musafir, a young member of the Taliban, conscripted into the organisation when he was still a child
I think this is a genuine "blame the headline writer not the journalist" case but the widespread journalistic sympathies to the Effective Altruism scam cult keeps tingling my spidey sense.
With no room at the pediatric ICU, or no pediatric ICU A friend is a retired neonatal ICU doctor. It’s a tough gig watching premies struggle for life. Even tougher when she lost one. Tougher still for the parents. Alexander Stockton and Lucy King produced a video diary for the New York Times about how COVID, RSV and flu are hitting young kids especially hard this winter. My connection to RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) is modest but memorable. So when it pops up in the news I notice. This year it’s a tripledemic (Yale Medicine): “What we are seeing is record levels of RSV in young children. Usually, we see a spike in December or January, but it’s earlier this year,” says Scott Roberts, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist. Meanwhile, as of early December, RSV cases reported by Yale were beginning to go down and COVID-19 and flu cases were increasing. A big part of the flu increase, he explains, is our lack of immunity from having not been exposed to the virus for several seasons due to masking and other precautions, many of which have fallen to the wayside.
I just posted these comments on Twitter having watched Sunak speak to the nation on his 'vision':
Thanks largely to the violence meted out by the Israeli government, 2022 was likely the most violent year for the West Bank since 2005. Yet a new hope lies on the horizon in the form of a slew of new, well-disciplined Palestinian resistance groups.
The post For Palestinians, 2022 Was a Year of Renewed Tragedy and New Hope appeared first on MintPress News.
Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
Após prejuízos de R$ 117 milhões com multas ambientais não recolhidas, Secretaria de Meio Ambiente acelerou andamento de processos.
The post Mato Grosso zerou uma década de multas ambientais após farra das prescrições appeared first on The Intercept.
Stuart Spray reports on the inspiring work being done to restore the UK's seas and coastlines and the bad news threatening to undermine this
It seems reasonable to hope that a successful explanation of wage rigidity would contribute to understanding the extent of the welfare loss associated with unemployment and what can be done to reduce it … Many theories of wage rigidity and unemployment include partial answers to these questions as part of their assumptions, so that the […]