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.
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Monday, July 21, 2025
Amid Steep Global Bird Declines, Farmers Create Refuges
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Permaculture, Species loss
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 9/8/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 147 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 9 Comments »
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.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 53 Comments »
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.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:56 am | 12 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:23 am | 8 Comments »
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!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 3 Comments »
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.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 7:00 pm | 31 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/7/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 87 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:28 am | 28 Comments »
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.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:08 am | 6 Comments »
Links 9/7/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 177 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 12 Comments »
Desperately Seeking Entertainment
Why entertainment is not what is used to be.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:40 am | 56 Comments »
Emerging Economies Face Prospect of Worse Than 1970s-1980s Wave of Financial Crises
This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 212 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, or PayPal. Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser, what […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:58 am | 3 Comments »