Thursday, April 24, 2025

What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like? 

The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature. 

David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture

Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.

Links 1/18/2025

Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex?

On Biden’s self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.

Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada

Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts that Lambert does not like; Faiz Shakir throws his hat in the DNC ring; Ancient Britain a matriarchal society? ~

mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down

Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.

Links 1/17/2025

New York Judge Loretta Preska Just Declared Open Season on Argentina’s Gold Reserves

The question is: where is the gold?

Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk ‘Planetary Insolvency’ as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin

A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.

Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration

Quelle surprise! Historically, high levels of immigration in the US led to more union formation.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/16/2025

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Treasury nominee Bessent under fire? RedNote’s moment to pass? Infantry in battle ~

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’

Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones

Links 1/16/2025

Gaza Ceasefire Deal Still Not Approved by Knesset. And Why Should the World Trust Israel to Comply if So?

Sadly Netanyahu is trying to slip the noose of the much-ballyhooed Gaza ceasefire deal and may succeed.