Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Defense Racketeering
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the defense contractor racket – what it is and how to stop it
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Despite Last Week’s Nationwide Blackout, Spanish Government Takes Criminalisation of Cash to Whole New Level
Taking money out of the bank becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare. Anyone looking to withdraw more than $3,000 of their own money must notify the State in advance as well as explain the reason(s) why, or face fines.
Read more...Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
Read more...At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead
More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond, Tyrants Edition
The leaders of the three largest countries in Western Europe (excluding Russia) are acting like tyrants as their economies implode.
Read more...The EU Zombie Uses Trump as Cover to Further Feed on Citizens
Ursula and company are inching towards using emergency powers for first installment of 900 billion ‘rearmament’ because Trump.
Read more...Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) Run Time 1h 20m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) A wonderful little movie about an intelligent robot and its very human relationships.
Read more...Underage Workers, Millions of Dollars and Trucks Full of Dead Chickens — Inside the Business of Killing in Response to Bird Flu
The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
Read more...The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
Read more...Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
For reader delectation, some promising indie film venues.
Read more...Coffee Break: The Attack on Scientists and Scientific Research Continues, Plus One Great Result on a Vaccine That Prevents Cancer
Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context. From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence. “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]
Read more...Washington Is Once Again Weaponising the IMF to Try to Reclaim Its “Back Yard”
Through its selective lending to struggling economies in Latin America, the IMF is helping Washington, once again, to reassert its strategic influence.
Read more...What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?
Scientists are investigating how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, and are worried about what they’ve learned so far
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