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From what i read it has been those internet businesses that have been boosting the stock-market prices…now it seems they cannot sustain their boom.
Tesla’s shares fell 21% and Elon Musk’s net worth plunged $16.3bn (£12.7m), Musk’s loss is the amount China (population 1.4 billion) set aside to tackle coronavirus in March
Multi-billionaire Bloomberg couldn’t buy the nomination so he is doing the next best thing – buying the nominated candidate instead.
He plans to spend at least $100 million to help Biden in the important swing state of Florida.
And they say the Tories are the law’n’order party
Labour’s Left shifts right
“The left has got to build an alliance with that centre-left of the party that voted for Starmer…”
150 public figures hit back at government moves to classify Extinction Rebellion as an “organised crime group” in a letter to be published in the Observer.
With wages going straight into a bank account, with standing orders and direct debits paying the utility bills and mortgage, and now mobile telephones paying for daily expenses in shops, i wonder if the more abstract the concept of cash becomes, the easier it will become to convince people of the redundancy of money. UBI would be another perspective, that there in no longer any need to earn an income. Money become simply figures on a print-out, and we begin to query why other peoples figures are higher than our own…just musing
A word i picked up today
But it means delaying action, not slowing down actual climate change
Bijou, I think you know i was referring to the arctic and antarctica polar regions where glaciers are melting at record rates, far more rapidly than all the previous models predicted.
And now we have after the Siberian forest fires, the Western American fires burning. Half a million climate refugees, even if the media decline to use such language.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54128872
And, as you say, ALB , the Times has its very own agenda in discrediting XR, not merely because of its campaign against the press but Murdoch, the owner, remains a Climate Change Delayer, and there is ample evidence of this from his Australian media coverage. Even one of his sons has distanced himself from their position.
But the innuendo that somehow financiers and hedge fund managers are using the XR campaign is questionable. The biggest backer has been the the Climate Emergency Fund – so who finances them…George Soros?
Goldsmith told The Times: “I wonder if the kinds of shock tactics employed by Extinction Rebellion today are in fact putting people off engaging with these issues at all.”
So perhaps the money from his source will dry up.
The Republican-Democratic Consensus
Trump hasn’t said a word about the wildfires blazing across multiple states in nearly three weeks. Democratic leaders also have been slow to call attention to the fires in California, Oregon and Washington. Pelosi barely mentioned the fires, which are ravaging her own home state of California, until Thursday
“It’s not just the Republicans who are letting us down. It’s the Democrats who aren’t fighting for a better climate future either,”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/12/wildfires-democrats-climate-crisis
I’m not at all surprised that Bahrein, the home of the American 5th Fleet, has now normalized relations with Israel.
Iran once more should be worried at this encirclement by its enemies.
Most news coverage of the wildfires raging in California, Washington and Oregon on American TV channels made no mention of the connection between the historic fires and climate crisis, according to a new analysis from Media Matters
Reviewing coverage aired over the 5-8 September holiday weekend, the progressive media watchdog group found that only 15% of corporate TV news segments on the fires mentioned the climate crisis. A separate analysis found that during the entire month of August only 4% of broadcast news wildfire coverage mentioned climate crisis.
While what you say is true, Marcos, what i find frustrating is the anti-Trump liberals and progressives ignoring the failures of all the rest of the world’s politicians to tackle the pandemic effectively. They procrastinated as much as Trump and do we ignore the Democratic Governor of NY Cuomo contributing to the death toll of those elderly in the care homes as expendable – as did that so-called shining beacon of social democracy -Sweden.
A few nations responded in a timely fashion with effective lock-downs but they were the exception.
And now we have the haste to return to work in the industrialised nations which is already resulting in a second wave of infection and the return of local lock-downs.
I’m going to give Trump a pass on the pandemic since his actions reflected the policy of many other countries such as our own Boris Johnson and his failures are only being emphasised because of the election and Biden’s attempt to discredit Trump. I don’t believe a President Biden and a Democratic Party administration would have much of a different outcome.
As for Woodward’s ‘Rage’, he himself is deserving of a lot of criticism for sitting on the details for month after month, with-holding the information on Trump until his book’s publication just so he can sell more books – not the act of a responsible journalist.
Further on words
The term “Chicano” had its origins among the Aztec Indians. “Chicano” is derived from a word used by the Aztecs which they pronounced ’Meshicano.’ Since the Spaniards had no ’sh’ sound in their language, they tended to write the word as ’Mexicano.’ However, the last part of the word as pronounced by the Aztecs has survived ’Shicano’ or ’Chicano.’
Another word for Mexican Americans is cholos
Marcos will be pleased to know that i am beginning to research the Mexican-American War of the 1840s and The Spanish-American war of the 1890s for a two-part article on US expansionism.
Links to online sources would be appreciated.
Recently i have become only too aware that the average American has little knowledge of its history. Later i will concentrate on the hidden history of the American labor movement.
David Rovics’ St Patrick’s Battalion is a musical reminder of the Irish deserters who fought for the Mexicans
