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Tue, 23/12/2025 - 00:54
Statens betalningar skapar de medel som sedan används av privata aktörer för att betala skatter och köpa statspapper. Staten är självfinansierad i sin egen valuta – staten är ju ensam utgivare och kan därför omöjligen låna samma pengar som bara den kan skapa.

Staten är således finansiellt obegränsad i sin egen valuta och kan alltid operativt […]
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Mon, 22/12/2025 - 06:16
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 21, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   Strategic Political Economy The $79 Trillion Heist Harold Meyerson, December 03, 2025 [The American Prospect] …As Emma Janssen has reported in these pages, marketers are going where the money is, like bank robber Willie Sutton. First-class and business-seat travel on the airlines is […]
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Mon, 22/12/2025 - 01:37

Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, el Comité Nobel desobedeció los principios entronizados en sus documentos fundacionales, así como la ley sueca, alega Julian Assange en un escrito legal explosivo revisado por The Grayzone. El gobierno sueco violó sus propias leyes al concederle el Premio Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado, según un escrito legal explosivo introducido por […]

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 05:00

“Why, for fifty-three years, I’ve put up with it now! I MUST stop this Christmas from coming! But HOW?” — Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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1. He’s roughly fifty-three years old, give or take.

2. Unlike the music from his day, he thinks everything the youth are listening to is just a bunch of noise, noise, noise, NOISE.

3. Anticommercialist. Every year, he makes the same cynical comments about Christmas.

4. He’s used to being culturally excluded, forgotten, and ignored. But he doesn’t care.

5. Deep contempt for groupthink and is suspicious of the motivations of people, corporations, and the government.

6. He was a latch-key kid and still thrives with lots of alone time.

7. Definitely got some sort of heart trouble. You can tell by looking at him.

8. He wears his apathy as armor because he’s emotionally ill-equipped to handle the earnest sentimentality that comes with the holiday season.

9. His awkward presence could be described as “lurking.”

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 02:54

Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influence, and Silicon Valley’s role in modern warfare.

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 01:00

FEATURES:

- Ossuary jars
- Anti-revolutionary painting
- Toxic dust
- Solastalgia

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It was a cold, dry night in April, and a crowd had gathered in the center of Nukus, the capital of the Central Asian Republic of Karakalpakstan, to squint through a skein of toxic dust into the illuminated lobby of one of the world’s most peculiar cultural institutions: the Nukus Museum of Art.

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 00:00

Overall, you’ve got a strong concept: a log burning in a fireplace, on a loop for five hours. But we have a few notes.

  • Can the log be more aspirational?
  • Focus-group it to see if kids aged six to eleven think fire is too urban.
  • The log seems passive. Provide more backstory.
  • Can the fireplace have a cool sidekick? (e.g., a smart-mouthed pinecone.)
  • Does the music have to be Christmas music?
  • Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
  • Make the fire more appealing to single men.
  • Where’s the merchandising tie-in?
  • Could the fire sing a duet with Michael Bublé?
  • Instead of a holiday one-off, could it be a weekly series? (e.g., Jake Log is an ex-cop turned P.I. who plays by his own rules.)
  • Why fire?

Otherwise, it’s perfect.

Happy Holidays!