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Paul Krugman makes an important point today that I’ve been dying for someone with a big perch to make about the economy. The constant media refrain that the “American public” is deeply dissatisfied with everything, especially the economy ,does not tell the whole story: The economy is good, but Americans feel bad about it. Or do they? The more I look into it, the more I’m convinced that much of what looks like poor public perception about the economy is actually just Republicans angry that Donald Trump isn’t still president. Last year was a very good one for the U.S. economy. Job growth was strong, unemployment remained near a 50-year low and inflation plunged. Some reports I’ve seen suggest that this favorable combination was somehow paradoxical and contrary to economic theory. In fact, however, it’s exactly what textbook economics says to expect in an economy experiencing an improvement in its productive capacity. […] Furthermore, the source of the positive supply shock is obvious: The economy finally got past the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
NASA cosmic dust curator Marc Fries is here to explain.
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While Philip Schofield's 87-year-old mother was receiving medical attention, both she and her son were secretly filmed by the UK's 'Number One Papparazzi' – as media interest in the troubled presenter continues
Why some of us are more susceptible to hypnotism than others.
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Failed politician turned low-rating TV host, Cory Bernardi, has left his fans, all 3 of them, wondering what has happened to him after Sky News Australia dropped their 2024 line-up with Bernardi’s name notably absent from the list. ”Surely they... Read More ›
“A president has to have immunity. And the other thing was, I did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong.” The argument before the panel on the DC circuit was held this morning and it doesn’t sound like they were buying it: Former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Agnifilo took to CNN Tuesday to discuss a moment in Trump’s presidential immunity hearing when his trial lawyers were confronted with past statements made in his impeachment hearings in January 2021. “Clearly, Trump’s arguments in other forums are coming back to haunt him,” Agnifilo said. “You cannot be inconsistent and disingenuous when you are speaking to the court.” Agnifilo was responding to a question from host Kaitlan Collins, who noted Trump’s impeachment lawyers said presidents could be criminally prosecuted.Skip Ad The former prosecutor then argued that the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit would take into account past legal forums before they ruled on the two protections Trump wants to claim.
This should be in every ad, print, digital and TV, for the next 10 months. “When there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president, I just don’t want to be Herbert Hoover.” Oops: By the way:
Listen up, lemmings, because I’m about to clue you in to some hard truths. The mainstream media is trying to keep you in the dark about this story I just heard in the mainstream media.
Read this news article. Why the hell isn’t this in the news?
The fact is, the media elites don’t want you tracking this, because it threatens their power. But I’ve been digging, and this is a major problem that goes back years. Just check out these examples I’ve collected from the Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and PBS. And yet, despite how pervasive this issue is, not a single news organization is covering it.
Want to know how badly we’ve been brainwashed? Before I heard of this issue, I’d never even heard of it.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called the South African application “meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.” John Mearsheimer has considered the 84-page “application” that South Africa has filed with the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and requesting “that the Continue reading »
“If current conditions persist,” said Israeli group B’Tselem, “there is significant risk that famine will be declared throughout the entire Gaza Strip within six months.” The Israeli government “can, if it chooses to,” save more than 2 million people who are starving in Gaza by ending its blockade on aid, an Israel-based human rights group Continue reading »
The Chicken Littles wallowing in the Augean stables of the Murdochracy are obsessing about whether or not the sky will fall if Trump wins the presidential election in November. Trump is unquestionably a squalid creature – personally, morally, politically. However, he is by no means the whole story. The Murdoch lackeys’ obsession with Trump is Continue reading »
Myanmar’s situation is complex: since February 2021, there is a multi-party civil war between the military coup government, the NUG (National Unity Government; successor of the Bamar-majority civil government) and its People’s defense forces, and over 30 different ethnic armed organisations (EAO’s) with shifting alliances/coalitions/loyalties, intersecting with a variety of criminal enterprises that are opportunistic Continue reading »
Taiwan will hold its national presidential and legislative election on January 13. Vice President Lai Ching-teh, the pro independence candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, leads in the polls and will likely be the next president. Officials in Beijing do not like Lai and have expressed their views openly. They call him a secessionist and Continue reading »
It is time for Albanese to take the public into his confidence. He has an instinct for secretiveness that almost matches that of Scott Morrison. If the sacked secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, had planned to appeal or seek judicial review of his sacking, he has probably now run out of time. That deprives Continue reading »
Renewable energy sources supplied nearly 40 per cent of electricity demand in Australia over the course of 2023, according to data from OpenNEM, edging the nation closer to the halfway mark on its target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030. According to OpenNEM, increasing contributions from mostly small-scale solar, wind and large-scale solar supplied Continue reading »
Prime Minister Albanese, “don’t wait 200 years to apologise for the brutality of a coloniser, be on the right side of history now, today.” I am not in the habit of publishing or forwarding work by other writers, but in this case I am making an exception. This is not written by a journalist, but Continue reading »
Between years 2000 and 2018 the North Korea and South Korea governments issued three joint declarations all promising South Korean economic aid to North Korea and North Korean moves to denuclearisation. Year 2002 saw the Japanese-inspired Pyongyang Declaration promising even more of the same. But each time subsequent conservative governments made sure the promises remained Continue reading »
Summary: the distinguished historian Avi Shlaim argues that in its war with Gaza, Israel openly displays its true colours as a Eurocentric settler-colonialist and apartheid state. Today’s newsletter is a transcript of our 6 December podcast with Avi Shlaim the historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In June his Continue reading »
There are two public housing schemes in South London designed by the architect Kate Macintosh, both of which are still much admired to this day. One, Dawson’s Heights, is gigantic and unmissable — an immense brick castle on a hill, inspired by Macintosh’s native Edinburgh. She designed it in 1965, at the age of twenty-eight, for […]
Despite admitting the U.S. killed civilians in a 2018 attack in Somalia, the Pentagon has neither apologized nor offered compensation.
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Can you believe it? “I just think it’s just something where, if you want to accomplish something, you know, a lot of people, I hear, complain about what other people do or why it’s hard, or why it’s impossible,” Kushner said in the video. “And again, I say this as somebody who has been so blessed with so many things in life, but when I’ve had challenges or things I’ve wanted to achieve, I just focus and say, ‘What can I do?’” he added. “I’ll read everything I can get my hands on. If I fail at one thing, if the door closes, I’ll try the window. If the window closes, I’ll try the chimney. If the chimney closes, I’ll try to dig a tunnel. It’s just, if you want to accomplish something, you just have to go at it.” In sharing the post online, Ivanka gushed over her husband, observing that she had received “a remarkable number of gracious compliments” regarding Kushner’s comments. “I personally love this clip as it reveals the determined optimist who firmly believes that there’s always a solution if you’re willing to try enough paths.
Sort of Lawyers are right this minute arguing that Donald “91 felony indictments” Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution for acts he took during his White House tenure. “Circuit judge Florence Pan is putting Trump lawyer John Sauer in a tough spot,” writes The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell. Sauer is still arguing that Trump is not an “officer” of the U.S. You can listen along to the arguments here. On the SEAL Team Six scenario above, Brian Beutler takes on the argument that Trump should be held to a special standard. We all know how special he is, don’t we? Beutler’s “We Can’t Afford Weak-Kneed Liberalism In The Trump Era” refers specifically to objections to disqualifying Trump from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment. Just to get you started: Boiled down, the argument is this: Donald Trump should be held to a special standard, not written into the Constitution, because applying the law to him faithfully is unfair to Republicans, and may allow them to engage in tit-for-tat retribution. Both of these objections are easily refuted.