I’ve written a blog post about what Canada’s recent federal budget did for housing and homelessness (which wasn’t very much). Here’s my analysis: https://nickfalvo.ca/canadas-2023-federal-budget/
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Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory in Chicago proves that sometimes, passion and organizing can beat heaps of plutocrat cash.
Somewhere, John C. Calhoun is smiling Haughtiness is a bad look for anyone. Worse still for the insecure who spend a lifetime propping up their self-esteem — for the entitled rich, with conspicuous consumption; for the less “endowed” (materially or intellectually), with boasting and false bravado; for a certain indicted ex-president, with both. For example, Tennessee GOP state Rep. Andrew Farmer’s dressing-down of fellow Rep. Justin J. Pearson last week before the body’s vote to expel him. Farmer didn’t utter the word “boy” in his speech. His tone spoke it loudly enough for the entire world to hear. Then the GOP majority in the Tennessee House voted to void the elections won by Black Democrats in two of the state’s districts. In Texas on Saturday. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott declared he would with all haste work to pardon Daniel S.
A look at how composers Murray Gold & Segun Akinola enhanced some epic Doctor Who moments for more than a decade since its return in 2005.
The US empire does not care about press freedoms, it cares about power and domination.
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A federal judge in Texas blocked the FDA's approval of mifepristone. Another in Washington state issued a conflicting ruling. The matter now seems poised to head for the Supreme Court.
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The Fed’s objective is asymmetric, with inflation overshoots being more costly than undershoots. Using data from the Summary of Economic Projections it shows that the Bernanke Fed was too hawkish, the Yellen Fed was too dovish, and the Fed under Jerome Powell has at times been too hawkish and too dovish.
From the School of the Americas to Cop City, the U.S. has long been complicit in the death of environmental activists.
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The deficiencies in the American character have rotted the world.
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Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable.
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For those that are too young to remember, the legendary English comedy show Monty Python had a famous sketch about a disgruntled customer of a pet shop, who realised he had been sold a dead Parrot. The shopkeeper steadfastly refused to admit that the Parrot was dead: CUSTOMER: I wish to complain about this parrot … Continue reading "The Dead Parrot of Mainstream Economics"
No, Elon, Japan is not a “leading indicator” just because of your billionaire vibes.
The post Elon Musk Wants to Cut Your Social Security Because He Doesn’t Understand Math appeared first on The Intercept.
United Nations panel shows climate change is outrunning emissions goals. Our only option is to adapt.
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The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far. This time the banking crisis is different. It is, in fact, worse than in 2007/8 when we […]
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Mainstream (neoclassical) economics has always put a strong emphasis on the positivist conception of the discipline, characterizing economists and their views as objective, unbiased, and non-ideological … Acknowledging that ideology resides quite comfortably in our economics departments would have huge intellectual implications, both theoretical and practical. In spite (or because?) of that, the matter has […]
A New Zealand mother was detained in Australia for many years and taken away from her family under discretionary ministerial powers, as Fabian Robertson reports. read now..."Some of Fiji's best journalists left the industry as a result and the media still carry the mental scars today from that very disturbing period."
Following the same tag it hit NPR with this week, Elon Musk's Twitter is designating the BBC as "government funded" even though it's not.
In my 2010 review of Sheng Ding’s Little Big Soldier, I wrote: I will confess that I have not gone out of my way to follow action star Jackie Chan’s career. According to the Internet Movie Database, he has made 99 films; after a quick perusal of that impressive list, I’d guesstimate that I have seen approximately, let’s see, somewhere in the neighborhood of, oh, around…four. So when I say that Little Big Soldier is the best Jackie Chan flick I’ve ever seen, you can take that with a grain of salt. There is one camp of Chan’s devotees who would tell you that you can’t truly appreciate his prowess as an entertainer until you’ve seen one of his Hong Kong productions; I think I understand what they are talking about now. Of course, you could easily apply this caveat to any number of accomplished actors from Europe or Asia who, due to their broken English, give the impression of impaired performances when they star in Hollywood films.
