Mike Norman Economics

Ignore the establishment: Trump has a huge opportunity at his upcoming summit. Another excellent article from the American Conservative, this is about half of it. KV. The upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is an overdue opportunity for the American president’s next bold peace initiative. It is time for the U.S. to stop its wasteful wars, and Russia can be a constructive partner to this end. The mainstream press on both sides of the Atlantic will howl against...

There are obvious technological applications for GQN, but it has also caught the eye of neuroscientists, who are particularly interested in the training algorithm it uses to learn how to perform its tasks. From the presented image, GQN generates predictions about what a scene should look like — where objects should be located, how shadows should fall against surfaces, which areas should be visible or hidden based on certain perspectives — and uses the differences between those predictions...

In summary, Putin advocates national sovereignty and opposes liberal internationalism and liberal interventionism based on as another form of imperialism. The West, the reverse. More broadly, Russia is traditional while the West is liberal. This basis of the broader conflict between the East and West, Global North and Global South.  This conflict is dialectical. The economic basis is capitalism versus socialism. Both capitalism and socialism are internationalist. This...

Space wars.  The arms race to control space is on, especially after the US announced the establishing of a "space force" to dominant weaponized space.On the positive side, it may spin off new technology with non-military applicationsFort RussWhy is Russia creating a new EMP blast warplane? Paul Antonopoulos

Workers’ wages have been stagnant for the past decade across the 36 countries that make up the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. But the problem has been particularly acute in the United States, where the “low-income rate” is high (only surpassed by two countries, Greece and Spain) and “income inequality” even worse (following only Israel). The causes are clear: workers suffer when many of the new jobs they’re forced to have the freedom to take are on the low end of...

Reuters reported (July 8, 2018) that the awful Madame Lagarde was in France last week lecturing people on how the “joint euro zone budget could be designed with conditions so that it does not become a no-strings transfer of rich countries’ cash to poorer members”. Meanwhile, Jürgen Habermas was lecturing all and sundry on how a “frightened retreat behind national borders cannot be the correct response to … the politically uncontrollable functional imperatives of a global capitalism that is...

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Jimmy Dore exposes Western propaganda again. Ed Shultz had an excellent program on RT which exposed all the crimes of Western corporations, the sort of thing that the MSM should be doing. Ed Schultz had previously lost his job in the MSN for doing this so RT took him on. [embedded content]

The take-away. A single tweet reportedly contains 144 fields of metadata, according to RT. "That’s the mentality with metadata," the study’s lead co-author Beatrice Perez of University College London told Wired. "People think it’s not a big deal." Something to remember when the intel agencies say that they are "just" collecting metadata and not reading text.Zero HedgeResearchers Unmask Anonymous Twitter Accounts With 97% Accuracy Using Machine Learning Tyler Durden

Chinese handcuffs part 2: the risk of military conflict Authored by Michael Cembalest, JPMorgan Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, via LinkedIn.com, Zero HedgeJPMorgan On The Risk Of Military Conflict With China