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What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?
“Taking our data without notice isn’t convenient, it’s creepy."
A little change of pace. As part of the Not Secret But Not Entirely Documented Either plan to save the Internet, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with lisp weenies. The parenthesis are rubbing off on me, I think primarily because you can stuff lisp into tinier nooks than even Linux fits. One […]
Law and economics expert Walker Todd explains how a financialized system creates havoc and why it’s time to rethink banking
Polling indicating extreme negative sentiment… embarrassing…
Jeremy Scahill tracks the destructive history of U.S. imperialism in Iraq.
The post The Bloody U.S. Legacy in Iraq appeared first on The Intercept.
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Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.
The post Texas GOP Wants Citizens to Stop Migrants. Critics Say It’s a “Vigilante Death Squads Policy.” appeared first on The Intercept.
“Like lambs to the slaughter” was how an elderly neighbour described the deaths of youngsters travelling on Intercity 62 which, on the night of 28 February, crashed head-on with a freight train in Greece killing 57 people. Many of the dead were students returning after a long weekend from Athens to their universities in Thessaloniki. […]
The post Europe’s latest illiberal democracy: Greece! – New Statesman appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
From the very beginning, Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon’s statues and friezes caused something of a discursive British civil war. On one side were humanists, like Lord Byron; on the other were Empire apologists, who defend Elgin’s actions and support the British Museum’s inalienable property rights to the artefacts it, eventually, purchased from him. Over […]
The post On the shameful deal Osborne-Mitsotakis are hammering out over the Parthenon antiquities – UNHERD appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
On 7th February 2023, I returned to the Chamber to discuss a wide variety of issues, beginning with a Europe-at-war, post-Brexit Britain, the New Cold War that marks capitalism’s global transition to (what I call Technofeudalism), the state of the Left in Eastern Europe and more. Thanks Cambridge Union!
The post Britain, Europe, the New Cold War Finance & Technofeudalism – at the Cambridge Union appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
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 An announcement by the Victorian Government of a new mental health commission is worthless when mental health laws are being routinely broken. read now... Australia’s longest-running terrorism saga is set to finally end — 44 years, 1 month and 7 days after it began. read now..."These are the type of big sacrifices we all need to make" The post ALP Marks Earth Hour by Pausing All Fossil Fuel Donations for 60 Mins appeared first on The Shovel. Only months before its troubles, First Republic pressured bank overseers to preserve the status quo
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being nationalized: What the authorities did over the weekend was absolutely profound. They guaranteed the deposits, all of them, at Silicon Valley Bank. What […] The post Ellen Brown: Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game appeared first on scheerpost.com. | ||
