Friday, July 24, 2026

Recent Payment Outage in Germany Underscores One of the Dangers of a Cashless Economy: System Fragility

As recent events in Germany (and elsewhere) have shown, even strong proponents of a cashless economy have an interest in safeguarding the future of cash, if only for the sake of financial stability. 

The Next PM Won’t Be Any Better – Look at the MPs Who Want Boris Johnson Out

Boris Johnson’s continuing survival as Prime Minister demonstrates how weak and rotten UK leadership has become.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/6/2022

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~

Will “Living With Covid”™ Even Be Possible? (Because What About the Brain Fog?)

A review of what we know of Long Covid, with some lateral thinking.

Links 6/6/2022

Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate

Internet access may be boosting the desire to emigrate while reducing the costs of finding information on opportunities abroad

Michael Hudson: Is US/NATO (with WEF Help) Pushing for a Global South Famine?

Are the coming famines in Africa and parts of Asia an accident or design?

Blowback for the Twenty-First Century, Remembering Chalmers Johnson

visiting Chalmer Johnson’s over 20 year old classic, Blowback, which dishearteningly has become if anything more prophetic as time passes.

Did New Ambassador Bridget Brink Undermine President Biden’s Ukraine Rockets Policy Her First Day on the Job?

Vicky Nuland, at it again!

Links 6/5/2022

Q&A: The Causal Relationship Between Inequality and Climate Change

Climate change policies focused only on greenhouse gas emissions will be less successful than a broader approach that tackles inequality and climate change together.

Links 6/4/2022

Our Country Is Trading Children’s Lives for Guns

Gun culture is fed by gun-makers and the gun lobby, the right-wing media and Hollywood. Our children are paying the price.

Biden Kowtows To Saudi Arabia

A scheduled Biden in-person meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a sign of desperation.

A Small Win Out of Our Post on CalPERS’ Covid Regulation-Breaking and (Yet Again) Fibbing

Our warning about a big Covid outbreak at CalPERS may not have produced any changs there, but it did lead other state agencies to shape up.