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Scottish independence, environmentalism, and MMT.HolyRoodLorna Slater: "We're annoying all the right people" - Holyrood MagazineChris Marshall

Happy Labor Day (in the US)Bill Mitchell – billy blogUS labour market recovery stallingBill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Yeah Fed better “take away the punch bowl!” this party continues to get out of bounds… GM is shutting down MOST of its plants in North America because they are entirely reliant on foreign computer chips they can no longer purchase. DISASTER! pic.twitter.com/sOwqWZy9p3— Tim Xeriland (@Xeriland) September 5, 2021

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After David Ditchfield was dragged under a moving train, the way he looked at death changed. Before his accident he didn’t consider the afterlife, but now Ditchfield says he knows there is nothing to fear after we die. He tells Leah what he saw the day he almost died.[embedded content]The Guardian - How a near-death experience changed my life

 We're in trouble!How climate change deniers have been misrepresenting the facts. In this video I wanted to address a common talking point - why have climate change predictions been so wrong? Year after year predictions are made that have no basis in reality, so why - especially in the aftermath of the latest IPCC report - should we trust climate scientists? In particular James Hansen and his prediction in 1988 didn't turn out so well, did it?Well, as it turns out, there's a very good...

 I put this out before, but I thought a revisit was worth it.[embedded content]A reaction to the above clip[embedded content]

 ‘If you are going to train a virus to escape vaccine-induced immunity, you would do exactly what they’re doing’The UK's dangerous and cavalier experiment. University of Auckland microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Newsroom: “The question is, how much worse is Delta going to get?“They are running a really quite awful experiment.”Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Otago, expressed concern that just over half of the UK adult population has been vaccinated and that...

 Democracy in Europe brought about its welfare state, but the ruling class conceded so easily as it was fearful of communism and the Soviet Union. They also felt that the working class were not fit enough to fight wars because of their malnutrition and ill health, so they conceded to the NHS as well. These two reforms did make the working class much fitter and healthier, and they really improved our quality of life, but some of the Chinese elite do not feel such reforms are needed in their...

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