So, You Want To Live Tiny? Here’s What To Consider When Choosing a House, Van or Caravan
Discussing tiny house considerations.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2020
Todays’ Water Cooler: China trade deal, Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Iowa caucus rules, unity drive, “artisanal mining,” Twitter, Google, Instagram, Australian bush fires and Murdoch, diet, Panama Canal water level, PFAS, Teamsters, ethics and a zombie apocalypse
Read more...Digital Money: Implications for Emerging Market and Developing Economies
A clinical look at digital money ideas for developing economies finds the benefits are narrower than boosters would have you believe.
Read more...Links 1/16/2020
Trump’s China Trade Deal Handwave
There’s not much to like in the Trump “Phase 1” China trade deal because there’s not much to it.
Read more...UN’s Warning that Gaza Will Not Be a “Liveable Place” by 2020 Has Been Realised
The primary cause of this ‘unliveable’ environment is a highly restrictive Israeli blockade, now in its 13th year, which has reduced Gaza to the point of ‘systemic collapse’.
Read more...John Helmer: German Parliament Office Reports No Russian Invasion of Donbass, Rejects Media and Government Propaganda
An official German report throws cold water on strong-form claims of Russian military incursion into eastern Ukraine.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/15/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, the debate, the handshake, CNN, on-going Boeing debacle, real estate, Austrialia bushfires, coal communities, invasive nutria, pan-psychism, the health insurance industry and the “choice” talking point, FedEx, incarcertation, Tim Geithner, the game of life
Read more...PolitiFact Wrongly Lets Biden Off the Hook: The Truth About Social Security Cuts
Going after yet another Biden lie.
Read more...Links 1/15/2020
Like Adding ‘Five to Six Hiroshima Bombs of Heat Each Second,’ Study Shows Oceans Warming at Record Rate
Ugly climate change news on the oceans front.
Read more...Will Italy’s ‘Sardines’ Be Effective in the Upcoming Regional Election?
Will the populist Sardines shake up the Italian fake left, or will they just be a flash (mob) in the pan?
Read more...Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #9 in Des Moines, Iowa
Candidates! Candidates! Candidates! ★★★ Six candidates on one stage! ★★★ Come on down!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/14/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Buttigier, Booker, Bloomberg, Gabbard, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment, Grindr, Boeing, winter scenes, banning fossil fuel capex, carbon and tourism, Exxon’s Imperial Oil and climate denial, the Mekong, Taiwan and single payer, hospitals, coal train blocked
Read more...Homeless Californians Adapt to Camp Sweeps and ‘The Caltrans Shuffle’
A vignette from a homeless encampment.
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