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a chart showing that the top 0.0001% of the US population (about 3400 people) has wealth equal to 12% of US national income.

stock (wealth) vs flow (GDP or GNI, can't tell) but in anycase a very very healthy oligarchy here. this is maybe around 3000 people

Confessions! This is why they should all resign their positions so actually competent people can take those jobs.

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Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
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Imo, the starting point of any sort of Marx-inspired political economy is that while individual capitalists qua capitalists seek greater money profits, capital owners as political actors seek to increase the authority that possession of money gives them over other human beings.

More, please

Starting to believe the armchair at a distance diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder…

My US and Norwegian students will recall that i stressed that US income deciles 20-50 basically had the worst deal in the US welfare state, which was both cause and consequence of a non-universal welfare state
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My working theory of Trumpism is that he is (among other things) the cutting edge of the bosses' campaign to reassert control over their white-collar workforce. The loss of control provided by the physical office during/after the pandemic would then. be part of what they're pushing back against.

At war with its own citizens.

Again, death in detention is a feature not a bug of the american Dachaus. Bad food, minimal water, no medical care, no heating (and eventually cooling), overcrowding = make thins so bad that “remigration” seems a better choice, if you have one.

#theywantyoudead 109
But mostly it will be children from missing vaccines
Elderly from unnecessary cancer (deletion of mRNA cancer treatments)
Everyone in between from more pollution

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

#R&Ddata
Switzerland, land of pharma and machinery; Syngenta is now Chinese owned. ABB is a SWE/CHE hybrid. tech here (and above) = software, chips, health equipment, telecom equip, computer hardware, electronics unless separated out. 5/5 (11/11)

#R&Ddata
Italy and Sweden. note SWE is now 2x ITL absolutely! & both are reliant on a single firm in many sectors (and note Chinese FDI into SWE via Geely = volvo cars vs "Volvo" = trucks) 4/5 (10/11)

#R&Ddata
Germany & France
note that tech firms like Infineon are extension of the auto industry (it makes chips for engine control modules) 3/5 (or 9/11)

...leading to misleading conclusions re where firms like Stellantis or Airbus actually do R&D (for tax purposes they are notionally HQ'd in NLD. ( #R&Ddata 2020-2024 here). 1: the private sector anchor for R&D ecosystem relies on a handful of firms. 2: core Europe is (still) mostly a car economy 2/5

#R&Ddata continues with the bigger euros plus switzerland. first some context: all of Europe (including UK and the rest of EFTA). note the dominance of FRA and DEU, but also the Scando overachievers; the salience of a few key firms in private R&D; allocation is to corporate HQ... (2004-08 here) 1/5

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

More Parents Are Rejecting a Lifesaving Vitamin Shot for Newborns

For more than 60 years, newborns in the US have routinely received vitamin K injections to prevent potentially life-threatening bleeding. These aren't vaccines, but they are getting swept up in anti-vaccine sentiment, doctors told me, and more parents are rejecting them.

Still a weasel answer allowing him to claim, as RFKjr does, that it’s too many vaccines too close together at too young an age.
verges on negligent homicide.
588 confirmed measles cases as of 30Jan26, likely even more given outbreak @ dilley (American dachau) detention ctr

UVA undergrad is ≈ 20% Asian/Asian-Am. 82k applicants this year for 4k slots of which 70% must be VA residents. High A/A % is a function of immigration & full tuition foreign students. A/A ≈ 8% VA pop but concentrated in the excellent NOVA school districts (esp’ly Fairfax) so hard work + environment

Only the best people, good people on both sides.

“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.” That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. “Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

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Apparently it takes some kind of specialized equipment to remove the ice from the bus roofs - they have some but not enough. Big chunks of ice flying off vehicle roofs are dangerous to trailing vehicles. It’s not economical to own this equipment in our region (atm anyway).

This is a self answering question.
Whether they have had a measles (MMR) vaccine is a different question.

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is:

The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

Dachau Texas
Important to recall that the concentration camps started out as detention centers with deliberate malnutrition, abuse etc. both in 1902 (Anglo-Boer war) and 1933

Feature, not a bug. Allows selective prosecution of folks exposing the real criminals here. A legal version of the car bombing of the journalist who released the Panama Papers.

DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM."

BREAKING: The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell.

Newspaper owned by billionaire says billionaires should not be taxed, news at 11…