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Two years ago we were reeling from a violent insurrection that he instigated, a global pandemic killing 3,000 people a day in the US and the economy had pretty much come to a standstill and of which he exacerbated with his ignorance and incompetence. But sure, those were the good old days. He will be whipping his followers to crash the economy this summer as the debt ceiling comes up and with McCarthy giving him huge props for his role in the Speaker vote debacle, no doubt they’ll listen to him. The only hope will be a handful of Republicans in swing districts working with Democrats to force discharge petitions. Oy vey. Gird yourself.
Yet another promise shredded as Starmer maintains 100% weasel record Keir Starmer has broken yet another promise – maintaining his perfect betrayal record – by abandoning his pledge to scrap the hateful and cruel Universal Credit system through which the Tories have inflicted years of misery and poverty on the UK’s lowest earning and most […]
Nothing shines a brighter light on the harmful effects of bad intellectual property law than an ongoing pandemic. CEPR’s researchers continue to advocate for reform of this broken system which causes so much damage here in the US and abroad. This year saw some success from the long campaign to waive COVID vaccine patents for […]
The post CEPR Spotlight: Intellectual Property appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
An open thread on the insurrection in Brazil. I’d particularly be interested in comments from a Latin American perspective.
An open thread on the insurrection in Brazil. I’d particularly be interested in comments from a Latin American perspective.
A new Twigs and Branches post, open for comments on any topic. Please take long side discussions on other posts here. The usual rules on civil discussion apply.
Repórter do Intercept percorreu os três prédios invadidos em Brasília no dia seguinte à destruição patrocinada por grupos bolsonaristas.
The post O que eu vi da destruição do Planalto, STF e Congresso pelos terroristas appeared first on The Intercept.
Data on COVID-19 deaths over the last 12 months offers lessons for the future. read now...After 140 years of obsessively watching every second of the cricket, the Australian population has suddenly worked out that no-one is holding a gun to their head to make them do it and they could actually be doing something much... Read More ›
Media Matters reports today on many of the American extremists who expressed support for the Brazilian insurrectionists yesterday which is not surprising. It’s clear that the US right has become quite the inspiration. Here’s an example: Of course. But then he was probably involved in the planning. This piece by Anne Applebaum recalls how the American revolution inspired the French Revolution and Haitian slave revolts in the years after independence. And she writes: The American Revolution also inspired scores of democratic and anti-colonial revolutionaries. Simón Bolívar, remembered as the Liberator in half a dozen South American countries, visited Washington, New York, Boston, and Charleston in 1807 and later recalled that “during my short visit to the United States, for the first time in my life, I saw rational liberty at first hand.” Visits to the U.S. inspired independence leaders from across Africa and Asia, and they still do. Would-be democrats from Myanmar and Venezuela to Zimbabwe and Cambodia reside in the United States, and study the institutions of the United States, even today.
LA's a big place and not entirely homogeneous, but after spending a few weeks there my basic observation is that it tends to have all the costs of population density (cars, it's all cars) without the benefits. Even the more walkable bit aren't pleasant to walk.
There's some tipping point that places just can't get over. If you build for cars, you get cars.
There's some tipping point that places just can't get over. If you build for cars, you get cars.
In the previous post, we looked at the difference-in-difference models of Escobari and Hoover. We noted that they all show the same thing, suffering from the same problem. To identify fraud, they require that however much more the results at the late-transmitting polling stations favored Morales when contrasted with the early ones, they ought to […]
The post The Grand Switcheroo: Escobari and Hoover Reinterpret Their Results to Misidentify Fraud appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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View on my websiteThe links between Brazil's far-right leaders and the US Stop The Steal activists suggest a globally-connected movement determined to attack democracy, reports Sian Norris
I get how con artists manipulate people, how charming narcissists gather people around them, but I do not understand how all the worst people in the world manage to congregate and get along with each other. Like imagine actually wanting to hang out at Mar-a-Lago?
Some things baffle me.
Some things baffle me.
Video and transcript.
Subject: global corporate totalitarianism.
Naked Capitalism
50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Lynn Fries interviews Harris Gleckman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston; Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting, and Board Member of the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
Naked Capitalism
50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Lynn Fries interviews Harris Gleckman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston; Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting, and Board Member of the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
Originally published at GPE Newsdocs
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Judd Legum’s newsletter today reports on an English teacher in Florida who is leading a charge to ban books. She’s doing all the usual banning of LGBTQ material but also wants to make sure her white high school students aren’t made “uncomfortable” by having to read books about race: Vicki Baggett, an English teacher at Northview High School in Florida, is pushing for the Escambia County School District to remove nearly 150 books from school libraries.
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Really shouldn't have given every single chatbot access to the nuclear codes.
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“O.K., guys, you’ve had your fun,” the new House Speaker said, his voice barely audible over the derisive hoots of his fellow-Republicans.
Well, happy 2023 to all my readers. We are back for another year – the 19th in this blog’s existence. All the observers have been waiting for a sign that the US interest rate hikes are slowing the US economy down, which is the mainstream logic that has been used to justify the regressive policy shift. The data, so far, suggests that the inflationary pressures are subsiding as a consequence of the factors other than the interest rate changes which seem to have done little other than redistribute income to the rich away from the poor. The latest labour market data release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics supports that view. Last Friday (January 6, 2022), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – December 2022 – which revealed on-going employment growth, rising participation and falling unemployment. These are good signs for American workers. Further, as inflation is subsiding the modest nominal wages growth is now providing real wages growth – another virtuous sign. The latest data is certainly not consistent with the Federal Reserve type narratives.