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“It is clear the US is pushing the battle line to our door … We can completely regard the US arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a declaration of war against China.” So read an editorial in the Global Times of China on December 6, the day after Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese company Huawei was taken hostage by the Canadian and American governments on December 1. The daughter of the founder of China’s largest telecommunications company was arbitrarily arrested and detained by...

The way I see it there are only two possible explanations for the unanimous consensus in mass media on these issues: Explanation 1: The consensus exists because the mass media reporters are all telling the truth all the time. OR Explanation 2: The consensus exists because there is some kind of system in place which keeps all mass media reporters lying to us and painting a false picture about what’s going on in the world. Those are the only two possibilities, and only one can be true,...

Chasing after things you cannot predict is not investing.

It's amazing what people can think up next, when there is no hope we still go on to find something that helps.There is too much carbon in the atmosphere, which mankind seems incapable of reducing, but researchers have found that if people in the third world graze their livestock properly by moving them around, they re -fertilize the ground bringing about massive new plant life growth which soaks up the carbon, and what was once a near desert can be turned into lush green productive land...

The records “rewrite the history” of the CIA’s covert and illegal MKUltra project, according to researcher John Greenewald Jr who spent almost 20 years trying to obtain the documents  MKUktra? I've never written about that here, well, I would be considered to be a conspiracy theorist, something we are not at MNE's. I never saw enough evidence for it to until now, and without evidence it can only be a curiosity, but now the evidence is out, but only a little bit of it, it's so redacted....

Explosive leaked documents passed to the Sunday Mail reveal the organisation’s Integrity Initiative is funded with £2million of Foreign Office cash and run by military intelligence specialists. I have read how some people on the right tend to be paranoid seeing enemies when their aren't any. Could these people at the British Foreign Office really believe Russia-gate nonsense? It's disturbing.   A secret UK Government-funded infowars unit based in Scotland sent out social media posts...

LabourEmily Thornberry responds to reported government funded attacks on the Labour Party Zero HedgeChina Summons US Ambassador Over Huawei Arrest, Threatens "Further Action" ReutersU.S. says March 1 'hard deadline' for trade deal with ChinaThe HillKudlow: Trump did not know about plan to arrest Huawei executive Megan Keller Zero HedgeOPEC's Deep Cuts & The Rise Of The Petroyuan Tom Luongo Syrian PerspectiveTHE INVASION OF IDLIB HAS BEGUN; 150,000 SYRIAN SOLDIERS AT THE READY;...

David Graeber has been complaining that he can only get published in French now. Here is an English translation of one of his latest. Infoshop News via La MondeThe “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet See also at Infoshop NewsYellow Vests Movement Rocks France See also Not actually official since there is no organization.  The Yellow Vest movement is being viewed as a sequel to Occupy Wall Street. One of the criticisms is that Occupy never produced a set...

My comment there:While the EZ certainly should scrap the euro as a failed experiment, which was really an attempt to impose neoliberalism, elite control and corporate totalitarianism on Europe, doing so will not solve the problem, since it is only part of the problem.The underlying problem is capitalism in the sense that "capitalism" means favoring capital formation and accumulation over the other factors of production — labor (people) and land (environment) — because "growth" and...

Must-read.Joe Brewer elaborates on the foundation for contemporary problem solving at the macro level. It's short and to the point. This is going to take specialists in a variety of fields and generalists to tie it together. Being complex and therefore subject to emergence, it's always a work in progress as seizing opportunities leads to fresh challenges.ResilienceSociety As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science Joe Brewer