Friday, October 3, 2025

Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change

Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.

The Villa of Reduced Circumstances is still facing tough times, but the CEO (that is me) and the Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Felines (that is also me when I have to negotiate with the neighborhood cats), are in strong agreement that we can afford to give $5 to Naked Capitalism. Another Anon Aloha […]

Links 9/21/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Shooting (1966) Run Time 1H 21M

The Shooting is a movie about desperation and revenge set in the Old West.

A Walk Across Alaska’s Arctic Sea Ice Brings to Life the Losses That Appear in Climate Data

A climate scientist gets a firsthand look at the results of the data they’ve been tracking for a decade.

Links 9/20/2025

The Dollar: Ripples Presaging a Financial Tsunami

A detailed analysis of the poor prospects for dollar hegemony and the forces that could trigger a sharp unwind.

The Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want to Assimilate

Poland-Ukraine frictions are at odds with some possible end-of-Ukraine-conflict schemes.

Coffee Break: The Next Surgeon General, Gene Therapy, Ozone Hole Closes, Daylight Saving Time, and American Socialism

Part the First: The Next Surgeon General Prepares for her Closeup.  In a surprise to absolutely no one, Casey Means MD discloses financial ties to supplement industry. New financial disclosures from surgeon general nominee Casey Means show that she’s made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting supplements and other health and wellness products, details likely […]

Michael Hudson: Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture

How Trump’s policies are destroying key elements of U.S. economic prosperity, with agriculture as a canary in the coal mine.

Links 9/19/2025

US Expands Scope of Its (Fake) War on Drug Cartels to Colombia; Colombia Responds By Threatening to Stop Buying US Weapons

Is this the beginning of another US-sponsored coup?

Trump Administration, Jimmy Kimmel, and Media Brownshirting

Like it or not, the FCC had ABC and Disney completely over barrel in the Jimmy Kimmel ouster.

AI Chatbots Need Guardrails to Protect Users’ Mental Health

Chatbots are designed to be addictive and have produced psychotic behavior. But suppliers have yet to implement protective features.

Israel’s Attack on Qatar Shows What Gulf States Have Yet to Grasp

It’s a cruel irony that Qatar has been bombed twice in the last three months by two sworn enemies, first by Iran and then by Israel. Neither has received kinetic retaliation from the very power supposedly guaranteeing Qatar’s security: the U.S. This signals a shift in the world order that Israel has already understood, but […]