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the unlucky country — great place but the politics have sucked, are sucking and will sux...
worshipping america...
a real british racket, not a wimbledon racquet...
and suddenly, the dawn of having to fart around for a crust is rising from becoming obsolete...Robotics has replaced humans in many areas of work. One of the latest machines does extreme precision surgery. Presently, one still needs a surgeon to operate it but the technique demands more skills from a video parlour game arcade than from years of operating theatre. Eventually, the machines can learn from doing the job without human intervention, a bit like in car manufacturing.
happy fourth of july...More than three-quarters of a century after the delegates of the Second Continental Congress voted to quit the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared that “all men are created equal,” Frederick Douglass stepped up to the lectern at Corinthian Hall, in Rochester, New York, and, in an Independence Day address to the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, made manifest the darkest ironies embedded in American history and in the national self-regard. “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass asked...
Bleeding womenHere old Gus is taking his life into dangerous grounds. But bear with me.... Jane Caro: During the 2016 American presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump was irritated by some pointed and dogged questions from (then) Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly. He vented his anger by saying “you could see blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”.
preaching to the faithful
morning splurt...Two television hosts attacked by U.S. President Donald Trump questioned the Republican leader's mental health on Friday and accused him of trying to exert pressure on them over unfavorable coverage, calling it blackmail.
the 25% ...We are being lied to - official poverty rates need to be doubled since data on unemployment and income markers is derived from inauthentic starting points, says Gerry Georgatos.
the swan song of democracy...
if you don't know why your country is at war, forget "democracy" and "freedom". think petrodollar...
China and Russia have already ditched the US dollar in their vast energy trade. Now China is leveraging Saudi Arabia to also abandon the greenback for oil sales. No wonder, it seems, that US policies are increasingly lashing out.
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