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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.

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Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks

Yves here. It is depressing but climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is inevitable. Our putative betters are not just not doing remotely enough to try to

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Venezuelan Oil and the Limits of U.S. Refining Capacity

Yves here. Many commentators have described the sorry state of Venezuela’s oil industry and taken a stab estimating what it would take to turn that

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Somaliand, Fraud, Frey, Walz and Trump

Minnesota on ICE: With the killing of Renee Good, Minneapolis has become the frontline of POTUS Trump’s incitement and the reasons why go back decades