10 Reflections On Ukraine After Its Latest Independence Day Celebrations
10 Reflections On Ukraine After Its Latest Independence Day Celebrations Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Ukraine celebrated its 33rd Independence Day on Saturday, during which time Zelensky made a hyper-aggressive speech boasting about his forces’ ongoing invasion of Kursk. So much has happened in the over 900 days since the latest phase of this already decade-long conflict began that many […]
Fascism 2.0, Part 3: Feudalism 2.0
Fascism 2.0, Part 3: Feudalism 2.0 Authored by Paul Lancefield via Off-Guardian.org, Read parts 1 and 2 HERE and HERE Now in this third article in the series, I want to link this back to what we started out discussing. How our closed and controlled Social Media services are now processing every post with an LLM. My point […]
Are We Headed For Another Great Depression?
Are We Headed For Another Great Depression? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World, Today’s economy is like that of the late 1920s… Today, there is great wage and wealth disparity, just as there was in the late 1920s. Recent energy consumption growth has been low, just as it was in the 1920s. A […]
Pennsylvania Judge Rules Cornel West Can’t Appear On Ballot In Key Swing State
Pennsylvania Judge Rules Cornel West Can’t Appear On Ballot In Key Swing State Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A court in Pennsylvania on Aug. 23 ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West cannot appear on the presidential ballot in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state that determines the 2024 election. Cornel […]
Pope Francis Condemns Ukraine’s Ban On Country’s Largest Orthodox Church
Pope Francis Condemns Ukraine’s Ban On Country’s Largest Orthodox Church Pope Francis has condemned the Ukrainian government’s move to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which maintains communion with the Moscow Patriarchate. His Sunday remarks emphasized that “churches are not to be touched” and come the day after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed parliament’s newly passed bill into […]
Judge Clears Former Police Officers Of Key Felony Charges In Breonna Taylor’s Death
Judge Clears Former Police Officers Of Key Felony Charges In Breonna Taylor’s Death Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has dismissed the most serious charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying the search warrant that played a key role in a sequence of events culminating in the […]
Rare Mosquito-Borne Disease Triggers Voluntary Curfew In Massachusetts Towns
Rare Mosquito-Borne Disease Triggers Voluntary Curfew In Massachusetts Towns Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Four towns in central Massachusetts are advising residents to stay indoors at night to avoid contracting a rare but potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus. The voluntary curfew notice was issued after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Aug. […]
The Social Recession Is Accelerating
The Social Recession Is Accelerating Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is social recession in a nutshell. A reader asked about the term social recession which he’d noted in my book Get a Job, Build a Real Career […]
Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme
Dems Scramble To Walk Back Harris’ Price Control Scheme Democrats are in damage control mode after Kamala Harris’ communist price control scheme received a harsh rebuke – including from the Washington Post, which characterized it as “populist gimmicks.“ Facing pressure to defend the plan, Democratic lawmakers are downplaying it as a pipe dream that has […]
Visualizing How The G20 Generates Electricity
Visualizing How The G20 Generates Electricity This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows how much electricity is generated from renewable sources among G20 countries. The data is based on Ember’s yearly and monthly electricity reports as of 2023. Data for Saudi Arabia is not available. Brazil Leading in Renewable Energy The global average for renewable electricity is 30%, […]