Monday, May 6, 2024
Remembering A Day the West Wants to Forget
Russia celebrates its victory over Nazism on May 9 while in the West decades of historical revisionism blaming the USSR for WWII has helped rehabilitate Nazis and lead us to the New Cold War crisis today.
Tuberculosis Emergency in California After Death in Homeless Shelter Outbreak; Follows Chicago Migrant Shelter Cluster and Earlier IM Doc Anecdata
The rise in tuberculosis cases as an indictment of US public health and immigration policy.
How ‘Apocalypse’ Became a Secular as Well as a Religious Idea
The meaning of “apocalypse” has expanded in recent decades from an exclusively religious idea to include other, more human-driven apocalyptic scenarios
The Problem of Feeding a Still-Growing Population: Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Industrial farming, with its international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle, undermining the feeding of the world.
Could WHO’s Technical Report on “Pathogens That Transmit Through the Air” Already Be Obsolete, Two Weeks After Its Release?
WHO’s terminology and WHO’s science are both questionable.
Which Industries Lost Jobs, Which Gained Jobs: Longer-Term Employment Trends in Charts
Which Industries Lost Jobs, Which Gained Jobs: Longer-Term Employment Trends in Charts
‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time
“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.
Are the BRICS and Their New Development Bank Offering Alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF?
An assessment of how far BRICS has gotten in creating new monetary arrangements and institutions. The short version is “not very”.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Bragg’s theory of the case:: section 17-152, sodium batteries, Google up-ranking big media sites using AI-generated content ~
The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap
More and more EU voters are rejecting the Union, as some like to call it. Economic malaise looks to be a big reason why.
Tony Blair and His Associates Are Waiting in the Wings to Take Back Power in UK
Blair is closer than ever to regaining political power, albeit through a proxy Labour government led by Keir Starmer. The beauty (for Blair) is that he will be able to continue expanding his global political consulting empire at the same time.
