Mike Norman Economics

Dances with BearsREWRITING THE END OF WORLD WAR II, UNDOING THE GERMAN DEFEAT, DESTROYING RUSSIA THE US WAYJohn Helmerhttp://johnhelmer.net/rewriting-the-end-of-world-war-ii-undoing-the-german-defeat-destroying-russia-the-us-way/Oriental ReviewMaking Sense Of The Ukraine StandoffEric Zuessehttps://orientalreview.org/2022/02/14/making-sense-of-the-ukraine-standoff/The Vineyard of the SakerSitrep: What’s New? Maria Zakharova Comments, China...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) claims that tax revenues from the rest of the UK are “transferred” to Scotland. This is followed by claims from Unionist groups such as These Islands and Scotland in Union that the Scottish economy is subsidised by taxpayers from the rest of the UK. Thus, without taxpayers from the rest of the UK, an independent Scotland would need to implement both austerity and high taxes.Modern Money Scotland specialises in the economics of monetarily sovereign...

A Debate on Superdeterminism Another good debate coming up on YouTube. Bernardo Kastrup is going to debate with Sabine Hossenfelder about superdetermism. Sabine is pretty much a hard core physicist who believes we don't have free will. Bernardo wrote the book;Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe, and everything.Bernardo Kastrup is a computer scientist (PhD) and a philosopher (PhD). He draws heavily on the works of Carl...

There was an informative article in the UK Guardian over the week (January 13, 2022) – Australia’s supply chain issues likely to continue despite drop in Covid cases – which documented the many ways in which the pandemic has led to difficulties in getting goods supplied to retail outlets or their destination (in the case of overseas mail deliveries). The majority of recent articles about the economy and policy options have erred on the side of the need for interest rate hikes and fiscal...

India Punchline (one would hardly notice from the headlines hyping an imminent Russian invasion)Biden dials back belligerence toward RussiaM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Servicehttps://www.indianpunchline.com/biden-dials-back-belligerence-toward-russia/Craig Murray BlogCry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Dogs of WarCraig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of...

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.