Now and then, even the most seasoned politician happens to slip up and accidently speak the truth. This is what occurred during a recent debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, when the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock openly stated that “we are fighting a war against Russia”. The German government was quick …
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Toby Green and I have written an article about the highly disturbing (but underreported) phenomenon of excess deaths: in all Western countries, people are dying at much higher rates than the pre-pandemic average, and only a fraction of these deaths are attributable to Covid. More young people are dying today than during the pandemic. This is the …
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Everything you need to know about the world’s elites annual get-together.
Rising prices don’t necessarily mean a rise in overall inflation. This blog post explains the difference between increases in relative prices and the inflation rate.
There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th February 2023 If you wanted to kill as many people as possible, deniably and with no criminal consequences, what would you do? You’d do well to start with a bird flu. Bird flus are responsible […]
The problem with a table presenting multiple estimated effect measures from the same model (“Table 2”) is that it encourages the reader to interpret all these estimates in the same way, typically as total-effect estimates. As illustrated above, the interpretation of a confounder effect estimate may be different than for the exposure effect estimate. Of […]
Emissora deixou de faturar valor em um único mês, após anunciantes cancelarem contratos por pressão do movimento Sleeping Giants Brasil.
The post E-mails internos mostram executivos da Jovem Pan lamentando prejuízo de R$ 838 mil com perda de anúncios appeared first on The Intercept.
An effort to deflate the hype over the probable loss of the war by Ukraine does not go far enough.
More debate about the role of energy price increases in consumer inflation.
Four cartoonists on the worst employer they have ever worked for.
Oh man, I should really respond to Mark.
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February 13th, 2023: Tasks, am I right? If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine. The post Chris Hedges: There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power appeared first on scheerpost.com.  After ten long years of Coalition rule, Labor rank and file members came together for the post-election conference at the National Press Club in Canberra. read now...This is Part 6 of a series on Deep Adaptation, Degrowth and MMT that I am steadily writing. I have previously written in this series that there will need to be a major change in the composition of output and the patterns of consumption if we are to progress towards a sustainable future. It will take more than cutting material production and consumption. We have to make some fundamental shifts in the way we think about materiality. The topic today is about consumption but a specific form – our food and diets. Some readers might know that there has been a long-standing debate across the globe on whether a vegetarian/vegan diet is a more sustainable path to follow than the traditional meat-eating diet. Any notion that the ‘meat’ industry is environmentally damaging is vehemently resisted by the big food corporations. Like anything that challenges the profit-seeking corporations there is a massive smokescreen of misinformation created to prevent any fundamental change. In May 1921, the wives of miners from Platt Bridge in Wigan organised a football match against the neighbouring village of Abram. The final score was 4-1 to Platt Bridge, who ‘quickly commenced a lead which they maintained until the end’, according to the Wigan Observer’s contemporary match report. It was a kickabout between two […]  Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark. read now...This is Part 6 of a series on Deep Adaptation, Degrowth and MMT that I am steadily writing. I have previously written in this series that there will need to be a major change in the composition of output and the patterns of consumption if we are to progress towards a sustainable future. It will…
It’s true. Here’s what the book is about: The charming, acclaimed book about a cat who is teased for the food she brings for school lunch—and that launched the beloved series about Yoko—is about accepting and embracing our differences. Mmm, Yoko’s mom has packed her favorite for lunch today—sushi! But her classmates don’t think it looks quite so yummy. “Ick!” says one of the Franks. “It’s seaweed!” They’re not even impressed by her red bean ice cream dessert. Of course, Mrs. Jenkins has a plan that might solve Yoko’s problem. But will it work with the other children in class? = I suppose it is too much to ask that these people actually try to teach their kids to be polite, decent citizens, tolerant of differences with other people. After all, they are cretinous morons themselves and only want their kids to grow up to be just like them. But what the hell? I think maybe we need to start looking at what books they want the schools to teach. A child’s guide to Mein Kampf? The Jim Crow Reader?
Unlike the federal government, individual states really do need to “find the money” to pay for their spending. And since more than 60 percent of the nation’s wealth resides in these states, it’s easy to see why lawmakers have focused on their high net worth residents. The Lens Eight States Have Joined Forces to Raise Taxes on America's Wealthiest Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders I guessed that most people would think that industrialists like Ford and Edison were opposed to fiat money, and in favour of "sound money"—money backed by gold or some other commodity. As this post will show, that is a false belief. These two industrialists were outright fans of fiat money—money created by the government—and critics of both the gold standard and, to some degree, private bank-created money as well./.…Building a New Economics Ford and Edison, the anti gold bugs Steve Keen | ||
