Yves here. A few months back, John Mearsheimer pointed out (IIRC on Judge Napolitano), that even when Russia won the war in Ukraine, the war in a broader sense would be far from over. The sore losers in the Collective West would be sure to keep trying to mix things up with Russia in places […]
Greetings gentle readers, welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today we have the sequel to the previously posted Kolchak: The Night Stalker. This is the Night Strangler, another “gem” of 1970s made-for-tv film. Reviews: imdb says: Follow-up to the 1972 TV movie “The Night Stalker”. Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is now in
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Conor here: The world is increasingly the billionaires’ playground. As the following piece shows, Gates role in the World Health Organization will only grow as the US government’s diminishes as billionaires take over their niche markets in what was previously state roles. As Gates infamously said about India and its cooperation with his foundation, it’s
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“If you don’t have AI, there’s nothing going on.” Those are Peter Thiel’s words in an interview with Ross Douthat for the podcast Interesting Times. To put it into context, Thiel is referring to something he calls the “stagnation hypothesis.” Thiel’s view is not unique—others such as Tyler Cowen and Robert Gordon have proposed something
Yves here. Trump’s minions are in the process of re-writing, or perhaps more accurately, re-imaging US history so as to downplay and even eliminate the contributions made by members of out groups. It seems as if Team Trump thinks that DEI was so hugely successful that the American public needs to be deprogrammed…as if achievements
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It’s not just Mexico’s government that is calling for economic diversification away from the US; so, too, is its biggest business lobby. Until recently, the accepted wisdom in Mexico was that Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s and too dependent on the US for it to be able to join
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Yves here. Economists have much to answer for. This post describes (and IMHO is not even remotely critical enough) of how the World Bank and other powerful voices sold the canard to developing countries that opening themselves to “global value chains” as in multinationals and their foreign contractors, would provide a boost by improving wage
On this Independence Day in one country in North America a few notes on life outside current politics, scientific and otherwise. Part the First: The Archaeology of Food Is Fascinating. Having read about Roman eating habits over the years I have wondered about two things, fish sauce and the dormouse. Now we know which fish
Yves here. We have regularly criticized the Green New Deal and other initiatives to try to limit carbon emissions and thus climate change because they are based on the feel-good falsehood that the mere adoption of new tech will enable humans to keep modern lifestyles. The only very faint hope, which if more countries don’t
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Yves here. To clarify Richard Murphy’s headline, he is not referring to all levels of government in the UK, but “Government” which in US-speak would be “Administration”. His point is that the UK and US national governments will never run out of currency and do not need bond markets to fund budget deficits. Bond issuance
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