markr

Well the link is pretty horrid, but there appears to be a whole lot of Alan Dershowitz this and Alan Dershowitz that in the released documents.

he's a center-left social democrat.

but as it is already, peripheral countries have almost zero ability to set monetary policies. Basically only the US, the EU, Japan and China can do that. The rest of the world is effectively managed by the central banks of the bigs, and even then it is really the US Fed that is in control. He's just ceding what little control the argentine central bank had.

The actual tragedy of the commons was the enclosures and evictions that dispossessed free people and destroyed the commons as their economic base.

I just keep repeating ‘this was the 5th hospital struck so far’, and pretty much stop there. The source was (perhaps inadvertently) the NYT showing a graphic map of Gaza with approx locations of Israeli attacks, and a list of targets struck by type. Four hospitals on that list, before this one. I need verifiable physical evidence evaluated by credible independent parties for any claim of responsibility to be taken seriously.

Nonononono. China’s economy is collapsing. My news feed tells me this everyday.

Um, that’s how banks work. You give them your money. They invest your money. They credit your account with some of the profits from those investments. They don’t just put your money in a vault. Well they can, some banks do offer vault services. But you pay them to stash your valuables in a lock box in their vault.

Thousands of missiles were launched from Gaza last week with zero reports of any of them turning around and striking Gaza.

We are the only nation allowed to sabotage pipelines. This is a well known fact. Also we can spy on everyone everywhere.

Actually it was very smooth.

I rode the maglev to the shanghai airport, it was awesome. The newer version in Beijing is significantly faster. But yeah super expensive to build.

Crime is down, despite the determined and successful efforts to convince us otherwise. Also some states have stepped back from the stunningly huge mandatory sentencing policies imposed during the 80s and 90s.