Marco Brenciaglia

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power
#Hungary #Russia

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Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

Immigration is good, actually.

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Iranian ships deliver jet fuel, urea to Myanmar junta Iranian ships falsifying their journeys deliver jet fuel, urea to Myanmar junta, circumventing sanctions in both countries.

Shitbirds of a feather flock together
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How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio YouTube video by Principles by Ray Dalio

Informative economics video, liked this one.

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RFK Jr. Recommends Children Smoke No More Than Two Cigarettes a Day Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revised the recommended amount of cigarettes children should smoke daily from zero to no more than two.

#MAHA in a nutshell
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens

New boss, same as the old boss.

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Assad’s Enforcers Brutalized Syria. Now They’re Living Large, Lying Low and Evading Justice.

#FreeSyria

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Truly bizarre that the GOP is moving America towards a CCP style of corporate governance.

The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist Trump’s unprecedented ‘state corporatism’ could stay with us for a long time.

State Capitalism with American Characteristics

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Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t.

Deflation - even worse than inflation.
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Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts to build fighting forces to lead a revolt along Syria’s coast. The governmen...

#Syria

Assad's exiled spy chief and billionaire cousin plot Syrian uprisings from Russia - www.reuters.com/investigatio...

China-Russian hybrid threat.

on.ft.com/3XqxFWN Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker

Georgian Dream is a nightmare.

Five minutes from autocracy: How Georgia U-turned from its Western path - www.reuters.com/world/five-m...

US Manufacturing Shrinks for Eighth Month on Sluggish Demand US factory activity shrank in October for an eighth straight month, driven by a pullback in production and tepid demand.

Manufacturing jobs down 8 months running. If this tariff policy was ostensibly to bring back US manufacturing it’s seemingly ineffective or insufficient.

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From Food Dyes to Vaccines: Fear of Chemicals Endangers Us All | Skeptical Inquirer From tampons to tap water, from cereal boxes to vaccines, nearly every modern health scare rests on the same myth: chemicals are killing us. This fear—chemo ...

The harms of societal “chemophobia.”

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That could have been bad…

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“ in democracy the people vote for what they want and then get it good and hard”
-H.L. Mencken

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

2.5 million child meta-analysis no link between Tylenol and autism.
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The Tylenol gave me AIDS.

Trump Claims Tylenol Causes Autism, Declares 'Life Is Common Sense' in Press Conference with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz The administration says Tylenol causes autism — but experts tell PEOPLE it has an "impressive" safety record for use during pregnancy.

Well that’s stupid…

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I’m old enough to remember when MAGA hated cancel culture . fReE sPeEcH aBsOluTiSts

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Lmao

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Rise in U.S. Inflation Is Likely to Keep Fed Cautious on Pace of Rate Cuts

Stagflation?

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Medical groups call on US Health Secretary Kennedy to step down Multiple health groups said he was disregarding decades of lifesaving science and reversing medical progress.

RFK go away

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US manufacturing contracts for sixth straight month amid tariff drag U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration's import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as "much worse than the Great Recession."

tArRiFs wIlL bRiNg bAcK uS mAnUfcturing
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“Trump’s floating the possibility for air support could mean American pilots engaged in defensive operations, guarding against Russian missiles, or simply providing support for other aircraft — such as air-to-air refueling or for transportation of military equipment.”

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Cuomo Admits He Really Needs Trump’s Help The mayoral hopeful told donors that the president will be instrumental in his campaign to beat Zohran Mamdani.

Hello New Yorkers. Agree with the policies of the Trump administration and want to show your support ? Vote for his best friend Cuomo.

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This is not withstanding the tariff policy - a tax on consumable goods- that overwhelmingly hits those that spend higher percentage of their incomes on said goods. This percentage steadily decreases as you go up the income ladder. ‘Trumponomics’ is regressive tax policy

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Azerbaijan, Armenia publish text of US-brokered peace deal Armenia and Azerbaijan published the text of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Monday, pledging to respect each other's territorial integrity and formally put an end to nearly four decades of conflict.

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