[embedded content] The US perpetual war machine is a money making racket, says Bill Binney, an ex US intelligence official. Now they invent a new cold war with Russia because of the hacking scandal that never happened, which is supposed to be on par with Pearl Harbour, so they can swindle even more trillions out of the tax payer. These wars never seem to end, says, Bill Binney, as the Syrian war starts up again, and they will be able to drag the new cold war out for years making some...
Read More »Masha Gessen — The Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments
Even Russian ex-pat Putin-phobe Masha Gessen gets the Mueller indictments essentially right.First politicized intelligence, then politicized justice.The New YorkerThe Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments Masha Gessen, staff writerSee also Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda The Guradian (March 17, 2011) Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain
Read More »Ramanan — A Short Biography Of Robert Neild
Robert Neild was an associate of Wynne Godley in the Cambridge Economic Policy Group. Keeper Godley quote, too.The Case for Concerted ActionA Short Biography Of Robert NeildV. Ramanan
Read More »Farid Ben Amor — How should we regulate the flow of online content?
Under a "free market system" platforms become the curators of content and its flow because "business decisions are best left to the private sector." However, the dynamics of this market limit competition and the tendency is toward concentration. This leaves just a few at the top in the drivers seat. Content creation and distribution are increasingly being combined as major players go vertical. The result is growing market asymmetry. Is this an issue that should be addressed politically...
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Read More »OffGuardian- “Yanks to the rescue”: Time’s not-so secret story of how Americans helped Yeltsin win 1996 presidential election
Steve keen tweeted this. So, Steve Keen is in with us on this one, and he reads the OffGuardian too. A great guy. KVImagine Izvestia ran a headline in January 2018 titled “Rescuing Donald”, in which it proudly boasted that a group of crack Russian election-fixers had been sent over to Washington to make sure Trump beat Hillary. Does anyone imagine it would stop short of impeachment for Trump and maybe even hot war with Russia? Yet 22 years ago Time magazine ran just such a feature on how...
Read More »Nafeez Ahmed – ISIS recruiter who radicalised London Bridge attackers was protected by MI5
From collusion to blowback Dr Nafeez Ahmed is a serious scholar and not a conspiracy theorist. He once worked for the UK Guardian but he started getting too close to the truth for them. He still sometimes writes for The Independent. KV Except - The terrorists who rampaged across London on the night of 3 June were part of a wider extremist network closely monitored by MI5 for decades. The same network was heavily involved in recruiting Britons to fight with jihadist groups in Syria,...
Read More »The Saker — Hilarious (and politically incorrect!) video to encourage Russians to vote (MUST SEE!)
I laughed my head off when I saw this. So I emailed Eugenia and begged her to subtitle this in English (press “cc” to see the English subs). Not only is this video really funny, it is blissfully politically incorrect. Just see for yourself! Truth be told, the message of this video is pretty clear: vote for Putin or brace for either Commie or Western hell. In a deeper sense it also shows how most Russians feel about Soviet or Western “values”. By the way, a lot of people in Russia...
Read More »Edward Harrison — James Montier: The Advent of a Cynical Bubble
James Montier is one of my favorite market strategists. He is really good on behavioral economics. And his work inspired one of my favorite posts here on 17th century philosophers Descartes and Spinoza. James is also very good on his macro because he understands modern money and the sectoral balances framework of the late Wynne Godley.... Credit Writedowns James Montier: The Advent of a Cynical BubbleEdward Harrison also We are going from a market protected by the Fed to one in which the...
Read More »Scott Adams — What if the News Reported Only Facts?
The business model of the news media has moved away from hard reporting and toward punditry and opinion. Viewers enjoy opinion-driven content and it costs a lot less to produce than hard news. And that means the news industry has moved from factual reporting to — for all practical purposes — some form of imaginary mind reading to fill the hours. I’ll need some examples to make my point. Below I will imagine how several headline stories about President Trump could have been reported...
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