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Metal Fans Unlikely To Cheat, Jazz Fans Are Boning Everyone According To A Study Metal in Action (Micael T) Welcome to the wild world of

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Black Sites and Black Days

Yves here. Readers may know that some of the history of US black sites, as in torture sites, overseas has become public. I understand from

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USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues

Yves here. On one level, this story about the Administration intensifying its campaign against furriners, here academics, should come as no surprise. The Trump Team

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The Great AI Displacement: Fracturing Tomorrow’s Labor Market

Yves here. Please welcome Goran Lazarevski, who sent us an article of his on LinkedIn which he then revamped and expanded for publication here. Lazarevski,

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ICE Called Out by Minneapolis Police for Harassing Off-Duty Officers of Color as DOJ Targets Minnesota Officials Personally with Criminal Subpoenas

Yves here. The march towards a tyranny in the US continues apace. Below we feature a clip in which police chief in Minneapolis take the

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Inside the Economics of Venezuela’s Elusive Oil Reserves

Yves here. This high-level post usefully debunks the Trump hucksterism about Venezuela’s crude. It also contains a chart documenting a point made here earlier, that

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‘Could I Be in Their Cabinet?’: Big Business Eyes Up Reform

Conor here: Sounds like a continuation of the Tory-Labour practices. Meanwhile, it sounds like Your Party is struggling to iron out its differences. By Ethan

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What Can We Do for the 250 Million and Counting Displaced by the Environmental Crisis?

Conor here: While the following piece highlights a major growing problem, I’m not sure expanding the Refugee Convention to cover those displaced by environment factors

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Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux

Yves here. I attended a full day of presentations at the Explorers’ Club presenting findings of on-the-ground research from the 2007-2008 International Polar Year. The

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Critics Say Trump ‘Joke Healthcare Plan’ Nothing But a ‘Con’ of the American People

Yves here. We wrote yesterday about the gimmick of Trump’s pretense that he will cap interest on credit cards at 10% for only a year.