Banality of travel, every subway car we’ve all seen in photos: Hong Kong, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, London or Toronto; just a visual fragment is…
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Ozymandias is one of the great poems of the English language, even if Shelley was a confused, womanising wife-swapper who drove his first wife to…
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The US are playing dirty again in IT, barring their competitors from the playing field: FCC Blocks Huawei, ZTE From Lucrative American Markets. Iconoclast422 points…
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After doing untold damage to the United States water table with fracking, Chesapeake Energy has at last filed for bankruptcy. Its former CEO Aubrey McClendon…
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There’s lot of talk about pulling manufacturing out of China and a renaissance in Made in America manufacturing. Most of the talk is unrealistic. Product…
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Dmitry Orlov has been predicting the destruction and demise of the US Empire since 2006. He considers its situation to be very similar to the…
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Often when people discuss American healthcare, we get lost in details of costs and difference kinds of insurance. sha384 over on Zerohedge summarised the situation…
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Will the collapse of US shale end the Petrodollar?
I’ve just read through another impossible long comment thread at Moon of Alabama (146 comments and counting) in response to Bernhard’s essay MoA – Negative…