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2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges
While this post confirms the sightings by many readers, of a fall in bird populations, it also describes a program to help rebuild their numbers.
IBM Reneges On Its Post-George Floyd Pledge to Abandon Facial Recognition Business
The US tech firm could not have found a better partner with whom to get back into the facial recognition market than the current UK government.
Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?
How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight
There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.
The Rev Kev: World Leaders Want You to Give to Naked Capitalism
Naked Capitalism’s friends in high places urge you to go to the Tip Jar and give generously.
Kudos! Met Our Second Target! On to the Third: Continuing Expanded News Coverage
Please suppprt your daily news fix of our many. carefully selected, and often juicy daily links!
After Much Effort, New Naked Capitalism Payment Option: Clover, in Addition to PayPal
Naked Capitalism finally has a new payment option, Clover. We hope you are chuffed! But it was unreasonably hard to get to this point.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
How 9/11 Bred a “War on Terror” on Steroids
Tracing how the US response to 9/11 got us where we are, in a bad way for us and far worse for much of the Middle East.
Hooray! Met First Goal, Now on to the Second: Supporting the Commentariat
Thanks for getting the fundraiser off to such a good start! We are already on to our second target, investing in the commentatriat.
Announcing the Tremendous Trio “Double Your Donations” Challenge!
Three generous readers are making a fundaiser challenge! Be fast off your marks to take it up.
