Father, Why is the sky blue? Totalitarian power is not dogmatism which has all the answers; it is, on the contrary, the instance which has all the questions. - The Sublime Object of Ideology (203)
Anyone with over a 75 IQ knows Maxwell and Epstein were intelligence. Real world blackmail honey pot operations became less necessary in the digital age. They lost their jobs to AI. Whatever you think of them, we need to look at the human costs of automating human trafficking.
By constantly threatening both China and Russia, the US empire pushed them closer together:
Putin now says they have "an absolutely comprehensive partnership of strategic nature," and are jointly developing high-tech weapons.
US unipolar hegemony is dead
https://t.co/qgMQQFvywJ
What does the curve shape at the long end tell us about 2021? Nothing good. Nothing inflationary.
In fact, take a look at exactly WHEN it all began to go wrong.
Feb 24/25.
FEDWIRE. Money problem, big one getting bigger.
https://t.co/OhioxtjdwC
What are the growing challenges facing Canadian banks as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes? What do these bank earnings signal for 2022?
Read the full story by @jembradshaw: https://t.co/YvGgK3z9k3
The #EU supported the Military Coup in #Mali and now #Chad - What are we doing in the #Sahel..? We've spent 8.5 Billion in Sahel Region since 2014 + things have only got worse - What was the money spent on? Can we have some accountability for this waste of EU taxpayers money...?
The co-founder of Transparency International has absolutely no clue about the politics & history of corruption. Just another liberal western chauvinist, mouthing chauvinistic homilies. What a shocker.
https://t.co/Hm9cOSWGwL
The West invested tens of billions (mostly in loans) propping up Boris Yeltsin's corrupt regime—backing Yeltsin's '93 coup against Russia's parliament & his fraudulent '96 election—and in return, gained hundreds of billions in offshored Russian wealth.
https://t.co/17GEO23Mt3
The #EU needs to decide which course to take - Support for #US Aggression which may lead to War, or Peaceful dealings with #China, a country that lays no claim to Foreign States but does insist on territorial Sovereignty over it's own territory, in line with International Law...
I’m on the 5th booster watching Tiger King 4. Ellen is President. The camps are for our own good. I’m excited about our day of sun next week. Everything is good.
‘In a trade war / global depression the current-account deficit nations (e.g. 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, Southern Europe) hold the best cards (i.e. demand). But that doesn’t mean they will play them well.’
—@michaelxpettis (well, my paraphrasing)
Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?
A new super interesting paper suggests no.
Many Clean Development Mechanism projects are inframarginal and offsets end up increasing CO2 emissions!
By Calel, @JonathanColmer, Dechezleprêtre, & Glachant.
https://t.co/UC3JcxkhWl
@arghmed @nonoxcol @brokenbottleboy Raymond Williams is incredibly prescient here when he discusses both the emancipatory potential of TV and new media, but also the danger that it could enslave us if it's power ended up in the hands of a few individuals. We know what direction it went