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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 05:57
POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss California USA is a right-wing Catholic who picked a fight with zionists at a meeting of the Commission. Here’s how NBC describes the dust-up: A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission […]
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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 05:09

Today’s High Court decision that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is disproportionate and unlawful is a welcome victory for the whole Palestine movement. It is also a humiliating defeat for a Labour government marked by authoritarianism and repeated attacks on civil liberties. Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary when the ban was introduced, […]

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 04:14

An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’s aggressive push to restart their operations. When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about […]

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:56
Peter Mandelson was not one bad apple: he was brought in repeatedly by governments to do their dirty work. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  10th February 2026 History is being rewritten. The story we are told is that an evil man called Peter Mandelson, pursuing his own interests, went rogue to collaborate with […]
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:00
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 13:12
In my long post about silver prices, I talked about a reversion to the mean. This is something that frequently happens in life: something overshoots the norm and then it swings back and overshoots the abnormal. Slowly but surely it finally settles smack in the middle of the bell curve, to use a shit metaphor. […]
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 01:00
Giovanni Covi and Tihana Škrinjarić The ability of the banking system to absorb shocks and continue providing vital financial services is important because it underpins the smooth functioning of the broader economy. We propose a methodology that serves as a valuable tool for monitoring banking system stability. It quantifies the resilience of the banking system … Continue reading Measuring banking resilience to adverse outcomes
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 00:00

For people in relationships, February 14 is a day to celebrate love and romance with a heart-shaped box of chocolates and a thoughtfully written card. But for those in less clear-cut dynamics, Valentine’s Day creates a difficult quandary: How to acknowledge your insignificant other without jeopardizing the carefully crafted gray area of your situationship. They’re definitely not your Valentine, but they’re still… something. And surely that something deserves a card too?