The filmmaker has been friendly with the Russian president for several years The Russian law about 'anti gay propaganda' doesn't seem that bad to me. All cultures are different, and that law suites them. It doesn't make the Russians evil, and they could be right. Russia is still a liberal culture Vladimir Putin is believed to be godfather to Oliver Stone’s 22 year-old daughter, after transcripts from an interview between the pair revealed that Stone had taken advantage of an Orthodox...
Read More »Pepe Escobar — How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win
Backgrounder on Afghanistan. Not really about Trump except the first few paragraphs. Trump just talking though his butt. The real not-so-hidden agenda lies elsewhere. And, as everywhere, "follow the money."Asia TimesPepe Escobar: How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win Pepe Escobar
Read More »Lars P. Syll — Arrow-Debreu and the Bourbaki illusion of rigour
It's about mathematical economics and its limitations. Don't let the title scare you off. Not at all wonkish (no math), although it helps if have some background in the controversy.Basically, it's Plato (formalism) versus Aristotle (empiricism). Most mathematicians today are Platonists, while most scientists are Aristotelians. But that is another story.Lars P. Syll’s BlogArrow-Debreu and the Bourbaki illusion of rigour Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
Read More »Caitlin Jonestone – The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power
Caitlin Jonestone explains how propaganda works, that people blame the unfortunate and those who are are the victims of what is wrong in our society on them, and so the poor are 'undeserving' and Jullian Assange is suffering because he did some 'bad things'. And so Iraq is in the mess it is today because it is a bad country with bad people (poor Muslims), and not because it has always had its economy wrecked by the West, its dictators installed by the West, and then, finally, attacked and...
Read More »Nothing has Changed: Libertarians losing their $hi+
Wow the libertarian House Freakdom Caucus is really losing their shit (ALERT Art trained morons: Figurative Language, I mean they are exceedingly upset and irritated, not really having uncontrolled bowel movements...) over the Trump budget deal:The Freedom Caucus took an official position OPPOSING the budget agreement.Our country is rapidly approaching $23 trillion in debt. We should be negotiating a responsible budget that serves taxpayers better—not raising spending by $323 billion with...
Read More »Hedge Fund Losses
These guys should just subscribe to Mike's report and they'd be doing a lot better financially... Wow Bridgewater probably 25% below S&P 500 returns so far this year: Bridgewater’s flagship Pure Alpha fund lost 4.9% in the 6 months through June, the FT reports https://t.co/iL9MAuDoB4 — Bloomberg (@business) July 21, 2019 Druckenmiller also all pissed off and negative in view of the Trump budget deal so he is probably short/neutral and suffering from TDS: Stanley Druckenmiller on...
Read More »Aaron Maté’s Questions for Mueller
Aaron Maté singlehandedly exposes the Robert Mueller investigation for the nonsense it is. The quality of the alternative media is so good, and all of it ignored by our comic book MSM. [embedded content] On the eve of the Robert Mueller hearings, Aaron Maté shares his top questions for the now former Special Counsel and savior figure. Read Aaron's article in The Nation: "These Questions for Mueller Show Why Russiagate Was Never the Answer" https://www.thenation.com/article/que...
Read More »Hedge fund gurus freak out over market rally
They don't understand anything.
Read More »Voodoo economic revisionism abounds – and it is not MMT doing the voodoo Bill Mitchell
The epithets being used as put-downs for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) are growing. But some of the good old terms – that one might actually apply to mainstream macroeconomics – are also in currency. An article in Project Syndicate (May 27, 2019) – Japan Then, China Now – declared MMT to be “the latest strain of voodoo economics” that is “alluring for the Trump administration”. The article by a Yale University lecturing staff member (and former investment banker) really just reminds us why...
Read More »Links — 22 July 2019
Dances with BearsMH17 EVIDENCE TAMPERING REVEALED BY MALAYSIA – FBI ATTEMPT TO SEIZE BLACK BOXES; DUTCH COVER-UP OF FORGED TELEPHONE TAPES; UKRAINIAN AIR FORCE HID RADAR RECORDS; CRASH SITE WITNESS TESTIMONY MISREPORTEDJohn Helmer Antiwar.comTrump: ‘OK’ With a War Against Iran NowJason DitzGeopolitikaWestern NGO's: intervention in other way Leonard Savin India PunchlineBelt and Road takes a leap forward to the GulfM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service...
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