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US farmers, lots of them in the State of Iowa, are not happy about losing the Chinese market, fearing it not come back once China substitutes.This article suggests their fear is justified. Earlier this week, Russia offered to bail out China from the trade war with Washington. Moscow offered 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of arable land available to Chinese farmers to meet its large-scale demand for soybeans — and of course, prevent a massive soybean shortage that would lead to...

About John Brennan.Sic Semper TyrannisDitto Colonel Lang Publius Tacitus See alsoUS Information classification and clearances Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence...

If you are in a position to step up....Sic Semper Tyrannis If I am going to continue with SST...Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all...

Some philosophy of statistics. Short read. Not wonkish.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceThe fallacy of the excluded middle — statistical philosophy editionAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

MR Online Imperialism in the 21st Century — Global Value Chains and International Labour Arbitrage Dev Nathan Originally published: Economic & Political Weekly (Vol. 53, Issue No. 32, August 11, 2018)

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Yes, I know its August and all that, but this is too good to pass up. Scott Adams has been on this for a long while. Donald Trump could not ask for better adversaries from the point of view of persuasion. He doesn't even need to write the script. They are doing it for him. All he need do is tweet it.Moon of AlabamaJohn Brennan Is No Match For Trump bSee also We are coming down to the moment when anybody who’s a hero in Washington will be an automatic supervillain in the world. America...

The winner of this will have a big effect on what the markets do.

Beware of blowback. Strategic Culture Foundation America the Punitive Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

About thirty years ago the British hi-fi press became enthralled by Peter Belt and his mysterious products. Just an elastic band and a cable tie treated by Peter Belt could transform the sound of a hi-fi system, and he could even treat a glass off water to have the same effect.A few months later the was a big hi-fi exhibition at Heathrow Airport and I went along with my girlfriend. We went and listened to the various hi-fi company demonstrations and got bored as hell, but at the end of the...