Mike Norman Economics

Theresa May is lying.  I have now received confirmation from a well placed FCO source that Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation “of a type developed by Russia” after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation. The Russians were allegedly researching, in the “Novichok” programme a...

Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced. Yet here at home, there’s nothing real about those wars. Here, it’s phony war all the way. In the last 17 years of “forever war,” this nation hasn’t for one second been mobilized. Taxes are being cut instead of raised. Wartime rationing is a faint memory from the World War II era. No one is being required...

DURING THE NUREMBERG TRIALS after World War II, several Nazis, including top German generals Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel, claimed they were not guilty of the tribunal’s charges because they had been acting at the directive of their superiors.Ever since, this justification has been popularly known as the “Nuremberg defense,” in which the accused states they were “only following orders.” The Nuremberg judges rejected the Nuremberg defense, and both Jodl and Keitel were hanged. The United...

Not just about the impending Russian election. It's a brief summary of most of what's important going on in Russia, none of which the Western media will touch.Asia TimesIt’s all Putin’s fault… but still he wins Pepe Escobar

Stripping a phemenon of its social context, normalizing a base rate to 50%, and seeking an on-off decision: all of these can give the feel of scientific objectivity—but the very steps taken to ensure objectivity can remove social context and relevance. Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceGaydar and the fallacy of objective measurementAndrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

Leapfrogging. The Chinese are starting to set the pace. "Innovation" is not just a Xin Jinping Thought slogan.The ConversationHow China is rebooting retail Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, IMD Business School, and Jialu Shan, Research Associate at Global Center for Digital Business Transformation, IMD Business SchoolSee alsoScandinavia and Switzerland.World Economic ForumThese are the happiest countries in the world Briony...

One sane voice.Why should Putin, or anyone else in the Russian state, suddenly want him dead now for anything he did more than a decade ago? Or destroy the precedent that spy swaps should always be honoured? If Russian agents considered Skripal a great danger, they had plenty of opportunities to murder him earlier — or simply to keep him in jail. It would hardly be in Russia’s interest to be seen to renege on a spy swap, which would make co-operation with Britain — or any other country —...

Russian film explaining what is happening in the West. Our dodgy capitalist system, the mass immigration we don't want, etc. English subtitles. I haven't watched it yet because I'm a bit upset about all this TBH, but I'm going to watch a bit now. It's banned on YouTube and is only available on Vimeo.Off-Guardian - WATCH: “No Russia, no world!” – World Order 2018 “World Order 2018” is a new documentary movie by TV host, Vladimir Soloviev, in which he discusses with Russia’s President Putin...

Pretty soon it's going to be "the Russians are causing cancer and Alzheimer's."Fast CompanyThe FBI makes it official: Russia is attacking US energy, water, and critical systemsAlsoAntiWarHaley: World Must Punish Russia Or They’ll Chemical Attack New York City Next Jason Ditz

What Russians are viewing on the news commentary.Russia InsiderUS and UK Trying to 'Iraq' Russia - What's Really Happening (Russian TV News) Mark BodenalsoCraig MurrayThe Novichok Story Is Indeed Another Iraqi WMD Scam Bothered By Midgies also Sputnik International Envoy to OSCE: Russia Never Created Nerve Agent Dubbed Novichok