Mike Norman Economics

Russiagate but not Israelgate. Hypocrisy about "foreign influence"?Sic Semper Tyrannis Harper: A Reminder Of The Obscene Power Of The Israel Lobby

I have long been an originalist, strict construction libertarian believing as did Mr. Jefferson (the slave owner and sage) that "the best government is the least possible." The trick being to discern what the least possible might be.Therefore I find it odd that I am somewhat disturbed by what is being said on the Democratic Party side of Congress, in the MSM... Sic Semper TyrannisAnd now, a civics seminar ... Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang...

Steve Keen explains why austerity doesn't work and can never work - you can't save yourself to growth. He say's how the Tories have committed themselves so much to austerity now that they can't pull out and admit their mistake, so only the Labour will be able end austerity. [embedded content]

Skyrocketing land rent in the UK. In just two decades the market value of land has quadrupled, increasing recorded wealth by over £4 trillion. The driving force behind rising house prices — and the UK’s growing wealth — has been rapidly escalating land prices. For those who own property, this has provided enormous benefits.... Open DemocracyIt’s Time to Call the Housing Crisis What It Really Is: The Largest Transfer of Wealth in Living Memory Laurie Macfarlane

Stigmatizing Russian broadcasting is the latest unnecessary escalation in the new Cold War. Western elites are playing with fire in the expectation of political gain at the expense of risking war and threatening liberal democracy in a bogus attempt to defend it.On the other hand, sates do has the right and responsibility to protect themselves from foreign influence, and tin this regard the US has also been a key player in influencing other countries.So there lines that need to be drawn. The...

Giving "innovation" new meaning.EcnsHow smart are China's electric toilets? CGTNSee also'World's first cargo drone' shows off 'one-click landing' in ChinaAlsoA Chinese manufacturer's bittersweet bite of innovationAlsoFirm modifies violent mobile game to include socialist core values

See that full stop at the end of the last sentence there [in The Atlantic quote of Wikileaks]? That’s journalistic malpractice. Selective editing in one way spin and disinformation get created. Another is selective reporting that omits relevant facts. This is how propaganda works to create faked news. The author of the Atlantic article, Julia Ioffe, put a period rather than a comma at the end of the text about not wanting to appear pro-Trump or pro-Russia, and completely omitted WikiLeaks’...

The nitty-gritty behind William Binney's claims.Washington's BlogHow to Instantly Prove (Or Disprove) Russian Hacking of U.S. Election

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Giddens: We live in a world that has moved ‘off the edge of history’ at the same time as it remains deeply embedded in it. By this I mean that today we face risks that no other civilisation has to deal with – such as climate change, the massive growth in world population, or the existence of nuclear weapons. Some of these risks are existential: they are threats to the very continuity of the industrial order as it spreads across the face of the earth. We cannot say which are the ‘most...