‘Totally Indefensible’: Biden Nominates Death Squad Backer Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel
Eliot Abrams is a liar and an ex-convict. No wonder the Biden Administration is keen about him.
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Links 7/5/2023
Industrialism Is Bad for Our Health: The Series Continues
New studies shed more unflattering light on the impact of modern diets on health.
Read more...“Should There Really Be a Supreme Court? Its Role Always Has Been Anti-Democratic”
How much is the Supreme Court to blame for the red shift in policies?
Read more...“Links for a Fourth of July”
Some links from Thomas Neuburger loosely related to the theme of the Fourth of July. Be sure to check ou the one on WhatsApp.
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How corporate interests created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...The Candidacy and Claims of RFK Jr.
Economist Rajiv Sethi has a look at RFK, Jr.’s election prospects and thinks mainstream experts are underestimating him.
Read more...Links 7/1/2023
Are Rocks The Future Of Solar Power Collection?
Why rocks like granite may have potential as thermal storage media.
Read more...The Invisible Effect Medical Notes Have on Care
Doctors sometimes describe their patients negatively. How does that affect their care down the line?
Read more...The New York Times Thinks Worker Suffering Is a Fair Price for Lower Inflation
Per the Times, inflation must be tackled, and the only way to do so is through lowering incomes and potentially jacking up unemployment.
Read more...Rob Urie: Mr. Prigozhin Goes to Washington
Rob Urie uses some widely-ignored aspects of the Prigozhin mutiny as a point of entry to explore the US relationship to Russia.
Read more...Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis.
Read more...Energy Destinies – Part 3: Energy Storage – Inconvenient Complications
Satyajit Das continues his in-depth analysis on whether the green energy revolution can deliver on its promises, focusing today on batteries.
Read more...Is Ireland Getting Ready to Unite?
Is the big challenge to the UK Ireland unification rather than Scottish independence?
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