Mike Norman Economics

Rolling StoneThe Malaysia Scandal Is Starting to Look Dire for Goldman SachsMatt TaibbiTruthdigBanishing Truth [on Seymour Hersh, corporate media, self-censorship, and fake news] Chris Hedges RTIrony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots...was running an army of fake Russian bots Danielle Ryan, Irish freelance journalist The Vineyard of the Saker [If you missed this fascinating and timely travelogue on BRI.]A two part Pepe Escobar report on the China, Pakistan and the new...

Made in 2010, this BBC video is very interesting because of what a young Crimean girl, called Anea, has to say about Stalin, Lenin, and the Soviet Union. [embedded content] Michael Palin visits the tourist resort town of Yalta in the Ukraine to learn how much the local population know about the historic Yalta Peace Conference and try out the local fairground attractions. Interesting video From BBC travel documentary, Palin's New Europe. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC...

In German debt and guilt are the same word: Schuld. So, in Germany, debt has a morally negative connotation. Further, the state budget is referred to as “Haushalt”, which is the word for household. Germans equate state finances with those of personal finances, a concept that is reinforced by German political parties across the whole of the political spectrum. Flassbeck EconomicsThe debtor is always guilty Heiner Flassbeck

According to Steve Keen, Victoria Grant is wrong about the payment of interest, where her says the velocity of money means the interest on loans can be paid - and he even has software models to prove it, although not everyone is convinced.Victoria Grant has more of a Ellen Brown take on things, but it's not a bad start. [embedded content] Second speech by 13 year old Victoria Grant on the issue of corruption within the banking system. She argues it is a cause of extreme poverty.I have...

Some people, like PCR, says women's rights have gone too far and men are being undermined. Maybe that's true, I don't know. Some aggressive feminists are certainly over the top, but how many are there, few thousand here and there, maybe? A very tiny minority.The dialectic process: thesis - a male dominant society; antithesis -a rise in feminism; synthesis - both male and female roles have equal value and reward in society.I read years ago about how women often made better bosses than men...

Strategic Culture FoundationGefälschte Nachrichten ["Fake News"] ZMAN Intel TodayTwo Years Ago — “US Global Engagement Center” Set Up to Fight Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Fort Russ NewsWest is ‘Shocked’ at Underestimating Russian Capabilities Paul Antonopoulos The National InterestChina’s New Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missile Can Hit the U.S. Michael Peck Sputnik InternationalIndia Believes West is Not Altruistic About China's Huawei - Official Sputnik...

The company, New Knowledge, alleges to track Russian Twitter trolls who are meddling in U.S. elections, except they have been outed as setting up these fake Twitter accounts in the first place, but the media is not reporting on it. [embedded content]

Reminiscence of the FutureSome News For Tom Rogan. Andrei Martyanov The Vineyard of the SakerGame-Changer! New HYPERSONIC Missile System Means No One is Bombing Russia EVER! The Saker Valdai Discussion Club‘No existing countermeasures’ to Russian hypersonic weapons, US govt. report admits Sputnik InternationalUS Aims for Space Supremacy Pose Potential Threats to Russia, China - Ambassador SouthFrontUS Boosts Number Of Its High-Precision Weapons Near Russian borders: Navy TASSUS planned...

George Galloway is fearless. As a young man he was a boxer, but he wasn't all fireworks, like Mike Tyson, or a showman, like Muhammad Ally; no, he would just give one fatal blow after another until his opponent wilted. George knew when he was going to win, which was when he saw in his opponents eyes that they just wanted it to stop. Today, he still sees that look of fear in many of his political opponent's eyes.He's making another film, which is about the strange death of Dr David...

Uh-oh! [embedded content] Charlotte Dubenskij reports on the ongoing Yellow Vest movement in France and the petition circulating demanding to sue the government over negligence when it comes to fighting climate change. Then, Ashlee Banks talks with Former UK MP George Galloway about Macron’s concessions, the future and goals of the Yellow Vest movement and the uprisings across Europe and Asia that they are inspiring.