Seems that Unherd follows the herd that believes Russian propaganda. I’m no great fan of NATO, but I know lots of people who lived in Warsaw Pact countries under Russian domination and none of them want to repeat the experience.
Seems that Unherd follows the herd that believes Russian propaganda. I’m no great fan of NATO, but I know lots of people who lived in Warsaw Pact countries under Russian domination and none of them want to repeat the experience.
At least that one sounds like something he might have said.
a real estate agency called My Home in Israel
There’s a far-right political party in Israel (more a hate group, really) called Yisrael Beiteinu, “Israel Is Our Home,” that advocates ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial executions, disenfranchisement of Arabs who are Israeli citizens, and other ultra-nationalist bullshit. I wonder if the realty’s name is a reference to those bastards.
It’s hard to find LA politicians who are willing to speak out about what’s happening to the Palestinians.
A bigger reason for masks is that Israel and its supporters regularly doxx and harass critics. The Likud fans have learned some tricks from Scientology. I have friends who are peace activists who have received face-to-face abuse, and in some cases their employers have received anonymous calls accusing them of antisemitism.
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It’d be interesting to know how much of that is a mercantilist attempt to capture market share in other countries (i.e., dumping) and how much is reflective of a sincere effort by the Chinese government to address the climate crisis.
I suspect it’s the former, since alongside China’s renewables investment, China’s emissions of greenhouse gases continue to grow, as does its consumption of coal.
I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.
That would be nice, but I’m more pessimistic and think low-information voters (along with the usual racists, xenophobes and other hateful morons) might vote Reform as a protest.
It’ll be interesting to see where he settles and whether his legal troubles are over.
This is likely to become an issue with climate modeling as well, as interested parties attempt to poison the discourse with fake analysis and phony effects models. Perhaps, with the banks, the Fed should require the use of open, peer-reviewed models and reject the use of any closed-source model.
So they’ve moved past denial to bargaining?
I’m not convinced it’s correct to regard populism as being in any way pro-democracy. I’d say it’s more a seizure of power by oligarchs and traditional authoritarian elements at the expense of the bourgeoisie. And in the US, instability in the middle classes has replaced a large section of the bourgeoisie with an unstable and precarious population of technocrats, as other traditional bourgeois occupations such as medicine, academics and law have declined in wealth, influence and security. So in a sense, the US is reverting to an early capitalist pattern where there is a powerful rentier class, a thin middle class delivering administrative and technical services to the rentiers, alongside declining traditional professions that are being hollowed out. And then there’s a vast and growing pool of immiserated, barely-skilled workers who are being transformed into lumpen elements by the oligarch-controlled media and state, and a growing underclass who can only find work in the shadow economy or the gig economy, or who can’t find work at all.
It won’t be the first time they’ve bombed Beirut airport (and other civilian infrastructure in Lebanon). Some of this has nothing to do with Hezbollah and more to do with Israel wanting to keep neighboring states poor.
Millennials, if there’s anything an old guy can do to help…?
One of the low-hanging fruit in combating climate change is to shut down all the golf courses.
They’re all about immanentizing the eschaton.
I read somehwere that some of those creeps even support Nigel Farage. Ewwww.
It’s barely even a Batman movie, it’s just another Tim Burton movie. That guy has milked the same shtick for decades.
Punitively taxing developers that hoard land would be a better solution than using public funds to buy them out.