Mike Norman Economics

Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the worldAntiscience is the rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods or their replacement with unproven or deliberately misleading theories, often for nefarious and political gains. It targets prominent scientists and attempts to discredit them. The destructive potential of antiscience was fully realized in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin. Millions of...

De-dollarization continues owing to politicization of the USD by the US government as a foreign policy tool. US economic warfare is also driving a closer Sino-Russian alliance, including military and technology sharing, as well as renewing the arms race. Cold War 2.0 is on, and the parties are setting up for it to last.Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)Russia Prepares to Transfer All Currency Liquidity From Dollar to EuroTransition From Dollar in Int'l Settlements Happens...

 Neoliberalism: corporate profit as public purpose.The United States might learn from China’s success in investing in high-speed rail and try and emulate it; however, according to the ITIF, China’s high-speed rail policies damage “innovation” by privileging domestic market development and state-owned enterprises over the interests of private, foreign firms primarily residing in the West. China is accused of employing a form of “mercantilism” to manipulate the global market at the expense of...

 How liberalism’s blind spot let cancel culture bloomUnless you are unusually interested in American political data analysis, you probably haven’t heard of David Shor. He spends his professional life studying public opinion and the variables that affect it, immersed in polling data and the relevant academic literature. And he does this mostly with the aim of figuring out how the Democrats can win elections. As a 20-year-old prodigy, he spent 2012 crunching numbers for the Obama...

Where are all these quacks who've seen saying this for so long and are so WRONG??!!!

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Moon of AlabamaRoman Protasevich, Casualty Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus, Is Spilling The BeansUFO Reports Are Fertilizer For Military BudgetsSputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)China’s UFO Task Force 'Overwhelmed' by Reports of Mysterious Sightings, Report SaysRT (Russian state-sponsored media)Germany warns EU ‘cannot work’ if member states keep obstructing policy, as Hungary once-again blocks statement condemning China‘Actions, not promises’ required to restore...

 Gu Li is a Uyghur whose account was suspended by Twitter. Her account wasn't very old and it showed what daily life was like in Xinjiang, but I think Twitter felt that the CPC was involved in her account, or they used this reasoning as an excuse to suspend her account. She always seemed pretty genuine to me. Anyway, I'm posting this video because you can see how middle-class life in China is very similar to middle-class life in the West, and from what I can tell, the Chinese smile a lot...

The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world China's successful mixed economy model, with the state providing low cost services to the public and industry, is seen as a threat to the Western elite and Wall Street, who believe they should profit from everything themselves - which was the drive behind the neoliberal privatisation - even when their system was shown to be expensive and inefficient. Rather than...

 According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the United States has seen 33,349,058 cases and 597,082 deaths. Worldwide, 172,678,875 people have contracted the disease, and 3,714,610 have died.News Channel 3 - COVID-19 in Michigan: Confirmed cases reach 890,345 with 19,365 deaths