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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Gaddafi’s prophecy comes true as foreign powers battle for Libya’s oil

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A showdown looms in the fight for control of the country – with Africa’s largest oilfields as the prize I bet Hilary sleeps sweetly at ...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Dilip Hiro — Donald Trump Is Losing His Tech War with Xi Jinping

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Backgrounder on Chinese tech. China is way bigger than the US — the market numbers are astounding.  They are also a lot more focused, and th...
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The Mathematical Model of Modern Monetary Theory: One Mathematical Model of Modern Monetary Operations — Steve Keen

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Like it says. But a simplified model, as Steve Keen points out.  Patreon The Mathematical Model of Modern Monetary Theory: One Mathematical ...
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Primer: Understanding The Money Multiplier Model — Brian Romanchuk

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The standard MMT position is that the money multiplier is wrong (doesn't exist in the real world of banking). MMT explains this is in te...
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Monday, August 17, 2020

Jacob Bergdahl - Why jK8v!ge4D isn’t a good password

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They say buying an password app that generates passwords and keeps them in an online vault is the best method, not I've never done it, I...
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Joshua Landis and Steven Simon - The Pointless Cruelty of Trump’s New Syria Sanctions

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Assad Doesn’t Care if More of His People Starve This article frames the US as the good guys, but says sanctions won't work.  In...
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Global firms expected to sue UK for coronavirus losses

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Dispute settlement clauses in trade agreements open way for investors to demand compensation for lockdowns Profits before the people! G...
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Gorgeous Pictures of Damascus

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Covid-19 Deaths Skew Younger Among Minorities

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Coronavirus infections take a heavy toll on Latino people in their prime working years, data show Covid-19 is known to be particularly ri...
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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Worried about debt? Not in a world running on MMT

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‘Modern Monetary Theory gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy’ Balancing budgets, reducing deficits and eli...
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Economist: Facing Imminent Economic CRASH, Now Is The Time For A Federal Jobs Program

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Economist, Pavlina Tcherneva, weighs in on the CARES Act and what lawmakers need to do to help strengthen the U.S. economy.
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The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back

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The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to...
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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Podcast - Like It or Not, a Modern Monetary Theory Experiment Is Underway

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Robert Hormats says the pandemic has forced the ‘involuntary utilization’ of MMT. Robert Hormats, who has worked in senior economic and...
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New catalyst efficiently turns carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals

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As levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide continue to climb, scientists are looking for new ways of breaking down CO 2  molecules to make ...

Video: WHO: Avoid routine dental appointments amid COVID-19

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I bought a WaterPick last year, which now looks like a good investment. Video: WHO: Avoid routine dental appointments amid COVID-19
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KV Tweet - Our Family Run Criminal Enterprise

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I came from a council estate in South London. We were very poor as my dad had multiple sclerosis and eventually became too ill to work, s...
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Friday, August 14, 2020

Xinjiang Local Tour

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I can't understand what the women are saying, but it's a video about China by the Chinese themselves. I converted the YouTube comm...
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Why the West Needs to Stop its Moralising against China, Kerry Brown

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After the American led wars in the ME, which may have over half a million people dead, and the financial collapse in 2008, where it bailed o...
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Unmasked Chinese fake quits HK - but keeps phony persona

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An American who posed as a Hong Kong, Chinese man - who wrote anti-China articles - has been outed by Grayzone.  The Grayzone said tha...
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Eric Campbell and Hagar Cohen - The power of Falun Gong

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They’re a familiar sight exercising and meditating in suburban parks. A joint Foreign Correspondent-Background Briefing investigation delve...
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Someone Replaced All The Wands In The First ‘Harry Potter’ Film With Guns And It’s Very Funny

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But, in a world of magic where there’s talking snakes, floating brooms, jumping chocolate frogs, horcruxes and all that other fun stuff, gun...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Is Sweden's coronavirus strategy a cautionary tale or a success story?

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What about the economy? “This has never been done to save the economy. It’s been done to save public health,” says Tegnell. And that means p...

Now This News - Here's What Goes on Inside America's Wet Markets

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Here's what really goes on inside America's wet markets, where live animals are sold on the spot (warning: graphic imagery).
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Xinjiang: From the eyes of an Australian British who cycled across China

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Ex British policeman cycles across Xinjiang and finds no evidence of Uighur oppression at all. He was never restricted from going anywhere h...
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Tyler Cohen - Not Even Herd Immunity Can Fully Protect Us

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If some areas get immunity against Covid-19 sooner than expected, the world still faces huge challenges. Opinion by Tyler Cohen, profess...
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Stop Trying To Make ‘Herd Immunity’ Happen: Sweden’s Attempt At Covid-19 Herd Immunity Failed, by Misha GajewskiC

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.                  They went for herd immunity in Sweden, but one problem, no one wants to be part of the herd. It will be a few yea...
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KV - Fashion in China

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Western fashion has led the world and people from different ethnic backgrounds have sometimes even had plastic surgery to get that Western l...
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My new podcast episode is out. Payroll taxes and Social Security. How Biden, Bernie and the Dems are blowing it. Plus, Covid and media ignorance.

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MoA - 'Western' Media Falsely Claim That Russia's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Ready To Go

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More anti-Russian fake news in the Western media. Putin's daughter has tried the new vaccine, and Duterte says he will try it to show In...
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Greyzone - US gov regime-change plot in Nicaragua exposed

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A superb discussion about the US foreign policy in Latin America. The US claims to support human rights and democracy but its actions are th...
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