Mike Norman Economics

A very interesting YouTube video coming up.  If we have free will, then it's possible that for us to have a soul. Most physicists believe the whole world is based on cause and effect, including our minds, and so they argue that we don't have free will. They say we are biological machines that work on chemical messengers and signals, and this rules out the soul. Some scientists believe our minds have software part independent of the brain, and so we can have free will.  I think there is...

Turcopolier (US preparing false flag using trained Ukie nationalists behind Zelensky's back?)Zelensky says he does not know what DC is talking about.Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) https://turcopolier.com/zelensky-says-he-does-not-know-what-dc-is-talking-about/RTUkraine asks for evidencehttps://www.rt.com/russia/549180-ukraines-president-asks-west-to/North Korea in ‘phase of provocation,’ US [Sec. Blinken] says after Asian allies...

This is probably what is behind current Democrat general animus towards Russia… helps them defend themselves against the current criminal and probably soon to be numerous civil lawsuits…This is a big deal. https://t.co/D1vh5dpmi9— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 13, 2022

Any sane person should be able to see where any of these ideas would lead. The problem is, we’re heading into our third decade of Western leaders embracing not thinking ahead as a core national security concept. It’s like these people went to anti-governing school. "Not thinking things through" = lack of systems awareness, lack of situational awareness, lack of foresight, and lack of empathy. Instead, fixated (obsessed?).There is something seriously wrong with the selection process in...

War drums beating faster.

By announcing forthcoming interest-rate hikes at a time when total US employment is still below its 2019 level, the Federal Reserve war on "inflation" is really a war on American workers.InsightThe Fed's Target Is WorkersJames K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

The current situation is the initial stage of the kind of "military-technical" response Russia promised in case of an unsatisfactory response to Russia's demand for security guarantees. Expect Russia to ratchet up the heat until the US performs comes to an agreement on security guarantees. France and Germany already realize this and are ready to address Russian concerns. But Russia has stipulated that it will only negotiate such measures with the US, since US allies are vassals of the US....

Important backgrounder.Scott Ritter mentions in passing that it was the offense posture of NATO in Yugoslavia and in particular the bombing of Serbia that put Russia on guard. Russians have emphasized that until then, Russia had been pro-American following the collapse of the USSR. But the "rape" of Russia economically by US-led shock therapy and then the attack on Serbia, a Slavic nation, led Yeltsin to promote Putin as his successor. The rest is history.America had Russia wrapped around it...

Good analysis of the state of play.India PunchlineUS war hysteria over Ukraine won’t gelM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service

The news is horrible. Inflation, rate hikes, Fed, war, but is it a moment to jettison the fear?