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A view from abroad. How some others see us.Not as much about the election as the state of the union.KatehonGeopolitics of American ElectionsAlexander Dugan

Justice officials in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the US say they need access to encrypted apps to police online criminality.India and Japan, which cooperate in intelligence with the Five Eyes group, added their names to the statement.And NSA already pick up everything else.SCMPFive Eyes group demands ‘backdoor’ access to WhatsApp and other encrypted appsAFP

Well, at least now we know unambiguously why we are there.Sputnik InternationalUS Moves to ‘Secure the Oil’ in Syria by Building New Base in Crude-Rich Deir ez-Zor

Why there will be no Asian alliance with the US (and Australia) against China. The game is already over. The dragon has flown.India PunchlineQuad won’t fly. This is why.M.K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign ServiceSee alsoRTBeijing urges Asian nations to unite against Washington’s ‘old-fashioned cold war mentality’

 More than 5,000 Michigan residents have been infected by coronavirus in new and ongoing school-related outbreaks, according to data released Monday, Oct. 12, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.That includes 346 students and staff at outbreaks in 46 schools serving preschoolers through high school. The K-12 clusters include outbreaks involving before- and after-school programs.The bulk of the cases -- 4,862 -- involve outbreaks on or around 29 college...

When a nation or region is experiencing the worst crisis the IMF always comes to the party and makes it worse. The latest evidence from those who study the detail of IMF interventions across the globe have found that the IMF has imposed harsh conditionalities (healthcare spending cuts, cuts to jobless assistance, cuts to public service wages and employment) in 76 out of the 91 loans it has extended to nations in peril as a result of the pandemic. On the other hand, data show that the wealth...

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 Creativity is a relatively new concept. It is largely a psychological one and denotes an ability whose application leads to innovation, either discovery or invention. Creativity doesn't exist in a vacuum, but it is part of a system that falls under the category of human potential.Creativity thrives on curiosity, and in this regard, every child is a creative genius. Unfortunately, this is an ability that doesn't necessary grow and stick as one matures. The challenge of education is how to...

From the perspective of a fixed income practitioner, the easiest way to interpret dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models is that they are a form of arbitrage-free pricing models, albeit with a novel definition of arbitrage. This is not too controversial, as DSGE models are an extremely wide classification of models, and pricing models are one recognised sub-category. The issue is that if we look at DSGE macro models -- models which have some resemblance to a core real business...

And that is a good thing. Were you ever in HK under the UK colonial governor? I was–several times. Great for the established, awful for most of the population considering HK wealth disparity. And no, HK was not democratic then. It was governed by a British-run colonial administration. The quicker HK becomes Chinese, the better off the people will be, and this will involve those now benefitting from the remnant of the British raj either changing or leaving. Most will likely leave as the gravy...