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 Boom! John Stewart lowers it on Larry Summers, that is. BTW, John Stewart has been coached in MMT.

Video, no transcript, of John interviewing Larry. Short.

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. Absolutely lovely! Comedian and television host Jon Stewart turns out to know much more about real-world economics than mainstream Harvard economist Larry Summers. Don’t know why, but watching this interview/debate makes yours truly come to think about a famous H. C. Andersen tale …

What could go wrong? And what happens if this “protest” doesn’t materialize? Update:

. Norman Whitfield’s instrumental arrangement to this 1972 ‘psychedelic soul’ hit is still unparalleled.

Does anyone doubt there’ll be trouble? NBC News reports: Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as next week Meaning pro-Trump violence: Local, state and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald Trump will be indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations.  Law enforcement agencies are conducting preliminary security assessments, the officials said, and are discussing potential security plans in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court, at 100 Centre Street, in case Trump is charged in connection with an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and travels to New York to face any charges. The officials stress that the interagency conversations and planning are precautionary in nature because no charges have been filed.  The agencies involved include the NYPD, New York State Court Officers, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the officials said.

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By L. Randall Wray and Stephanie Kelton

The banality of Tiny D and Donald News outlets broadcast the Trumpist riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 live from coast to coast. An hours-long insurrection was underway. Against the U.S. government, against our government, not some remote country in Asia, Africa, or South America. As unsettling as watching that was asking who are these people battling police with their Trump and Confederate flags, Christian nationalist, and even Nazi symbols? Unsettling answer: They walk among us. The United States of America did not end that day. But reflecting on events in HBO’s postapocalyptic “The Last of Us,” Tom Nichols ponders “Who Would You Be If the World Ended?” In his newsletter for The Atlantic, Nichols drops a lot of spoilers I’ll try to avoid here. What’s different about the series is how it differs from the Cold War versions of the genre. Mostly lone-wolf “Radioactive Rambos” would “would wander the wasteland, killing mutants and stray Communists” while shooting everything in sight and “saving a girl, or a town, or even the world” along the way. Nichols observes: But we live in more ambiguous times.

Civicus rates UK civil liberties and democracy alongside Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary and Burkina Faso in annual survey, amid government’s war on civil rights – but there will be no improvement under a Starmer government The UK’s democracy and civil life have been downgraded to ‘obstructed’ in the Civicus annual survey of almost two hundred countries, […]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Agent Elvis, Star Trek: Picard, Red Dwarf, The Mandalorian, SNL, Doctor Who, Ghosts, The Flash & lots more!

In the 1930s, Lionel Robbins laid down the basic commandments of the discipline when he said that the premises on which economics was founded followed from ‘deduction from simple assumptions reflecting very elementary facts of general experience’, and as such were ‘as universal as the laws of mathematics or mechanics, and as little capable of […]

Doctor Who stories involving parallel worlds tend to work best when emotions and heartbreak are tied to science fiction high-concepts.

The 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa

Why has Australia signed up for a pricey and security-diminishing nuclear sub deal?

The U.S. has a long and disturbing habit of ignoring the violence it commits overseas as well as at home.

The post Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own. appeared first on The Intercept.

Briahna Joy Gray and Matt Stoller discuss the collapse of SVB, and anti-trust in relation to East Palestine and the prospective merger between Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines.

The post The Roots of the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse (w/ Matt Stoller) appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Nearly 30 pages of FBI documents obtained by Unicorn Riot reveal a pattern of monitoring of Pilsen Community Books, a worker-owned and collectively managed bookstore in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.

The post FBI Bookstore Spying in Chicago Eyes Abortion Rights, Cop City, Anti-Development Activists appeared first on scheerpost.com.

A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation.

The post ‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed By Top Academic Journal? appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Com a saída de Amoedo para salvar sua biografia e a contratação de Leandro Narloch, partido mostra que quer abertamente se abraçar com a ultradireita.

The post O Novo não precisa mais disfarçar: já pode alinhar os sapatênis com os coturnos appeared first on The Intercept.

Graham Norton, Lulu & Sam Ryder had to audition a lot of folks to choose the UK's Eurovision entrant - including a Dalek from Doctor Who?!?

This is Part two of a story by Dr Evan Jones, which lays bare Liberal lurks, like the lockdown fee scam imposed on those under NSW COVID-19 quarantine. read now...

I have a couple of friends who (like my other friend below, who is also not made up) are very irritated by the non-stop AI/GPT coverage. I’m really intrigued by the hard and somewhat arbitrary line between those — like me, I admit — who are just endlessly fascinated by all its developments, and those […]