Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnificent new movie “One Battle After Another” arrived in theaters last week, but it was made in the America that existed before Donald Trump’s return. Watching it, I kept wondering if such a forthrightly antifascist film could be produced in Hollywood today.A political thriller shot through with absurdist humor, the movie has several scenes that might have seemed imaginatively dystopian when they were shot but now look like news outtakes. Its villain, a military officer named Steven Lockjaw, is an anti-immigrant fanatic who at one point lays siege to a sanctuary city under the dishonest pretext of fighting cartels.

Trump’s fantasy of triumphing over 3,000 years of history

There is no way that, assuming Mamdani wins—especially if he wins big—every stumble, everything he says that’s controversial, every problem that arises from his agenda as it gets enacted in New York, won’t be hung around the neck of every Democrat in the country when they run.

In the lead-up to the storming, Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war.

former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines as a speaker. Gaines' speech campaigned to exclude trans women from women's sports. After her speech she was met with protestors, which prompted campus police to escort her to a computer room where they remained for several hours. Gaines says that she was physically assaulted twice by one person and missed her flight due to being barricaded in a classroom

interventionist secret service called Special Circumstances

If you want war, prepare for peace

that knows what it wants, and how to get it

Why would we want to encumber 30 years of future tax so wealthy people with capital can invest in gov bonds instead of investing in the real economy? Why is that some noble social benefit?

MMT is factually incorrect, as the forensic accounting clearly shows. I would urge you to really think this through and come off of the fence, and realize the idea the gov creates money is simply an error in thinking b/c the CBS is hiding the important differentiation about who buys the gov bonds.

he ONLY way the Consolidated Balance Sheet CBS comes to the conclusion that the Gov is issuing money is when the CB issues new money when the Gov spends, so crediting the receiving bank’s reserve account, which ONLY happens when the CB buys the bond, as the CBS hides this from view. If the public buys a bond to fund the Gov, the Gov is clearly borrowing deposits then spending them, while creating negative equity for the Gov (they have to pay back the deposits in the future under the bond) thereby creating public equity-D (public) -R (public’s bank) +R (TGA) +bond (public) = -D +BondWhen the gov spends those bond sales receipts:-R(TGA) +R(payee’s bank) +D (payee) = +D +BondTogether, sale of bonds to Public then Gov spend proceeds-D -R +R +Bond -R +R +D = +BondWhen banks buy those bonds and the Gov spends:-R (bank) +R (TGA) +Bond (bank) -R (TGA) +R (Bank) + D (payee) = +Bond (bank) + Deposits3. When the CB buys those bonds and the Gov spends those bond sales receipts:+R (TGA) + Bond (Fed) -R (TGA) +R (bank) +D (payee) = +D + R + Bond

Yet, last year the gov printed $0…because the Gov does NOT PRINT MONEY! They only borrow it.

The problem is, new money created for the financial economy is seen as less risky, so banks make those loans against newly created financial assets creating new money and financializing the assets in the real economy every day.

should create new money for the real economy at 2%, maybe less, but we don’t because the financial markets rip everytime we lower rates. Stocks get overvalued, real estate purchasing power increases, and we end up creating all of this money for unproductive ventures, which drain new GDP from the real economy to the financial economy

telegrams

These policies have had profound effects, not only on societal phenomena like democracy and community cohesion but also on individual users’ sense of well-being. If the Great Decentralization continues, that experience will change.

“[With The Capital Order], we can begin to see method in the madness: austerity is a vital bulwark in defense of the capitalist system.” ― Business RecorderA 2022 Best Book in Economics ― Financial TimesFall 2022 Book Recommendation (General Interest) -- Sean Guynes“Shocking disparities underlie economist Clara Mattei’s topical study of austerity measures promoted over the past century. Focusing on 1920s liberal-democracy Britain and fascist Italy, she argues that the profitable application of austerity to these dissimilar nations licensed its use as a capitalist ‘tool of class control.” ― Nature“She argues that forcing a recession or cutting social welfare is not really about budgets and debt. This so-called “economic pain” is inflicted deliberately to make the labour force feel insecure and to stop demanding better conditions.” ― Irish Examiner“Clara Mattei shows how the supposedly apolitical science of economics has served, and continues to serve, as an ideology of class oppression. The chapters exploring the birth, in Britain and Italy in the 1920s, of what the author calls ‘the technocratic project’ of austerity, and its political and economic consequences, are particularly illuminating.” -- Robert Skidelsky“Illuminating . . . Any reader of The Capital Order will be struck by the contemporary resonances.” ― The New Statesman“There is a long history of efforts to separate the political from the economic domain. . . . One very impressive recent study, by Clara Mattei, argues persuasively that this dichotomy, typically taking the form of austerity programs, has been a major instrument of class war for a century, paving the way to fascism, which was indeed welcomed by Western elite opinion.”—Noam Chomsky  ― Truth Out"In her book The Capital Order, economist Clara Mattei shows that austerity was thought of as a counter-offensive against experiments in economic democracy." ― Alternatives Economiques“A work with remarkable resonance for the moment we are living through. I found it impossible to put down.” -- James K. Galbraith“Austerity is not an innocent policy error, but a fallacy functional to dark interests. Mattei’s admirable new book exposes austerity’s hidden agenda.” -- Yanis Varoufakis“[A] message for our time.” ― Brazzil Magazine“Clara Mattei’s work is an important contribution to building a new economic narrative. At a time when inflation is up and governments feel inclined to once again ‘tighten their belts,’ this book is as relevant as ever.” -- Mariana Mazzucato"The Capital Order uses the historical record in Europe to argue that austerity—tightening the belt, cutting government programs—is less about budgets and debt and more about deliberately making the labor force feel insecure." ― APM's Marketplace Morning Report“A very readable and historically profound work.” -- translated from German ― H/Soz/Kult“Brilliantly provocative . . . powerfully argued. . . . With her history of the relationship between liberal economists and fascism, Mattei puts the skids under complacent champions of liberal democracy who today summon the fascist figure as a reassuring boogyman. . . . A round house critique of the role of liberal economics in general.” -- Adam Tooze ― Chartbook"Through meticulously compiled archival material, Mattei explores austerity by studying economists in the 1920s from the birthplace of liberalism (Britain) and the birthplace of fascism (Italy) to draw a provocative conclusion about its nature: 'an anti-democratic reaction to threats from bottom-up social change.'” ― Politics Today"The capital order asserts the primacy of capital over labor in the hierarchy of social relations within the capitalist production process. That primacy was threatened after World War I in what Mattei claims was the greatest crisis in the history of capitalism. . . . To counter these trends, Mattei argues, unelected technocratic elites 'invented' austerity as a means of re-naturalizing the capital order. . . . What Britain’s technocrats accomplished through the market, Italy’s fascists accomplished through Mussolini’s edicts. . . Recommended." ― Choice"Austerity is premeditated policy. It’s a blunt instrument that preempts resistance by weakening and dividing the working class while unifying different wings of the ruling class. . . . Mattei documents austerity’s essential role in the rise of fascism." ― Counterpunch"Mattei shows how austerity emerged as the response of international capital to the risks to its power and wealth. Its aim was to rescue capitalism from ‘its enemies’ by taming an increasingly politicized and restive class and restoring the prewar order." ― History Today"There are few books that once read manage to leave a clear idea and a full-fledged thesis imprinted on the reader’s mind: Chiara E. Mattei’s book is one of them." ― The Journal of European Economic History"Mattei reminds us that . . . austerity is a one-sided class war, conducted in numbers and defended by economists’ jargon.” -- Aditya Chakrabortty ― The Guardian"A wonderful book [and a] compelling story." ― Rethinking Economics"She [Mattei] has done an impressive amount of archival research and has skillfully mined the published literature of the interwar period. The fruit of these labors is a rich and insightful account of a pivotal moment in capitalism’s history." -- Gary Mongiovi ― Catalyst“It’s often been pointed out that austerity just doesn’t achieve its stated aims of balancing the books and paying down public debt. [In Mattei’s] analysis the actual aim is not the stated one, it is to discipline the working population. Over the last century it would seem to have achieved that quite successfully.” ― The National“A powerful critique.” ― Asiana Times“A serious economic history of the 1920s and its fiscal and credit policies, and you should not dismiss it.” -- Tyler Cowen ― Marginal Revolution“A fascinating history of the rise of austerity policies in post–World War I Europe and how it paved the way for fascism—along with many of the economic policies of today. A must-read, with key lessons for the future. Historical political economy at its best.” -- Thomas Piketty"Austerity’s defenders claim that any adverse impact on employment will quickly end and will be justified by eventual success. Such is the theory. Clara Mattei will have none of it. Her vigorously written and well-researched new study, The Capital Order, insists that austerity is a class strategy, not just a policy to restore economic equilibrium." ― European Review of Books“A decade after austerity tore British society apart, the UK government stands ready to do so again. Given that it didn’t work the first time around, one wonders why they want to try it again. This is where Mattei’s explanation illuminates brightly: if we think of austerity not as an economic policy, but as a form of capitalist crisis management for moments when the lower orders start to question the governing classes’ preferences, then its repeated dosage—despite its damages—makes much more sense.” -- Mark Blyth"Meticulously researched. . . Mattei’s analysis is an exemplary work of historical political economy that seeks to steer the conversation on capitalist crisis from Keynesianism back toward Marx." ― Phenomenal World"In our current moment, as policymakers are once again entertaining monetary tightening as a means to impose necessary hardship & discipline on working people, The Capital Order is a potent reminder of the cruel rationality of austerity." ― Dissent Magazine

<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/amazon-avatars-global/default.png"/>Reader5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore ALL critics until you've read the book(s) on MMT from the MMT scholars themselves Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023Verified Purchase Read the book. If you're curious, just read the book for yourself. For now, just ignore ALL critics.Read any book on MMT from the original MMT scholars/economists. THEN you'll notice that all these critics of MMT haven't read much, IF ANYTHING,....IF ANYTHING from these scholars. Critics boldly misrepresent what MMT scholars are saying...they create straw man arguments to deter the curious. It is the disingenuous critics who are clearly the "political" movement keeping the facts about money(specifically fiat-money), and how it works, hidden from the public. Ignore ALL critics until you've read the book(s), THEN you'll see the critics are disingenuous, arguing against strawmen, with their own political agenda to protect their OWN interests at all costs...even at the cost of the truth. Once the FACTS are out there, like mainstream non-MMT economist Paul Samuelson said, (about the balanced budget myth/superstition), once the cat is out of the bag, it's not going back in. You can find his interview on youtube "paul samuelson budget myth superstition." People also need to understand that in today's highly polarized political climate, telling the truth is called a "political movement" only because it exposes the extreme-lies we've been told. When COVID-19 hit, congress got together and passed a spending bill. Money appeared. Did they get taxes from us or cut trillions in spending beforehand, in order to spend? No. THAT should be a clue.

Inasmuch as evolution is the fundamental motion of the entire universe, an ascent along a privileged and necessary pathway towards consciousness

as central to a Harris presidency than it was to the Biden presidency

development requires the learner to actually experience success in an area of activity that is currently outside their competence – through what is termed ‘scaffolding’.

Sustainable transformations require shifts on the inside, because what’s inside us finds a way out.  For many personal changes, healing and growth are the only way forward

marries brief flashes of scholarly acumen with casual, 4chan-style bigotry will not surprise anyone who has followed Richard Hanania closely. A bombshell HuffPost exposé published last month revealed that he

Ocasio-Cortez found a seat at the congressional table despite the fact that the median net worth of U.S. Congress members is over $1.1 million as of 2015, with a cumulative wealth of at least $2.43 billion. The self-described democratic socialist caught heat shortly after her election when the media learned she had less than $7,000 in her bank account. Instead of shying away from her account balance, Ocasio-Cortez doubled down to tweet that she was newly insured and had recently purchased her first couch.

Although the outcome of the protests is still up in the air, if they lead to snap elections, nationalists could win greater political power, Butkevich said, especially Svoboda, the far-right parliamentary party in the coalition of three opposition parties leading the protest. (Right Sector criticizes all three for “pacifism,” including Svoboda.)

He continued: “Why do I feel guilty, like I'm betraying my country for saying that, I'm not, I love America.

“But I think this is a beautiful city. I can say that. And I don't know if I'm allowed to say that.

demonstrated itself culturally able to take advantage of educational systems abroad

causal reasons

evolvability as one of the most metaphysically and epistemically challenging topics in modern biology and philosophy today

HPS

pussyfoot

how

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Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights—such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections—but to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice.

non-selectionist approach to evolutionary epistemology, based on “Poincaréan dynamics,” has been proposed by Barham (1990).

Oct. 23, 1983, suicide bomber attacks mounted by Hezbollah against the U.S. Marine and French military barracks in Beirut. Those bombings killed 241 U.S. military personnel and 58 French troops. Iran has only recently admitted its responsibility, but the U.S. intelligence community had proof at the time of Iran’s involvement. Yet the United States never effectively retaliated. Instead, the Reagan administration traded arms for hostages with Tehran.

becomes despondent in the wake of his father Peter’s (Jackman) remarrying and birth of a succeeding sibling. Within the film’s contextual setting however — where intricately interwoven circumstances might otherwise reflect nothing more than a temporarily disheveled family milieu, Nicholas nevertheless, finds himself in a disparate struggle to retain his sense of place, meaning, and functional connection with the world and others.

So my answer is not to give up on people, to write people off as racist. It's really to activate other stories

paradigm is an internally coherent system of thought that results in useful insights but also finds it difficult to escape its own assumptions.  This is close to the concept of a basin of attraction in complex system theory

requires the adoption of particular methodologies

Consequently, the tragedy of the commons is circumvented at the metapopulation scale in the Restricted treatment” (2006:77)

assumption must be revised on the basis of agent‐based models

Consumers that reproduce at the maximum rate are selectively advantageous within groups, but tend to drive their resource (and, therefore, themselves) extinct

Sober E, Wilson D S. 1998. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press

D S Wilson (1997) referred to these themes as “altruism” and “organism.”

It is unlikely that these coordination mechanisms evolve as a coincidental byproduct of organisms that are adapted exclusively to survive and reproduce better than other members of their same group

heritable trait that increases the fitness of others in a group (or the group as a whole) at the expense of the individual possessing the trait

the short‐term gain for the user (avoiding negative associations)

Mrs. Teasdale, you did a noble deed. I’d be unworthy of the high trust that’s been placed in me if I didn’t do everything within my power to keep our beloved Freedonia at peace with the world.I’d be only too happy to meet Ambassador Trentino, and offer him on behalf of my country the right hand of good fellowship. And I feel sure he will accept this gesture in the spirit in which it is offered.But suppose he doesn’t. A fine thing that’ll be. I hold out my hand and he refuses to accept it. That’ll add a lot to my prestige, won’t it? Me, the head of a country, snubbed by a foreign ambassador. Who does he think he is, that he can come here, and make a sap out of me in front of all my people?Think of it – I hold out my hand and that hyena refuses to accept it. Why, the cheap four flushing swine, he’ll never get away with it I tell you, he’ll never get away with it!”Trentino enters.So, you refuse to shake hands with me, eh?

whom Gorbachev had silenced

In the early 1980s I attended a conference in Boston at which the thought was clearly expressed that international capitalism was the glue that would hold nations together and prevent world war. Nobody (in the power structure anyway) would condone blowing up another country that housed the factories supplying the goods the capitalists needed for creating profit. Spreading factories abroad was viewed as stabilizing

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simply "pre-bunking and debunking" lies is not going to be enough.

not so different with America, in particular during and post WWII.

bottom left-hand corner

too much of an institutionalist to charge a former President.

collective action, collective intelligence and collective knowledge among groupings of individuals;

[78,151,152] may be. The main thrust of Gruber et al. is to further distinguish efficiency in the currency of the performing organism's fitness, from efficiency in the currency of the cultural entity's fitness

study of present-day peoples dependent on the hunting and gathering (HG) ways of life

field of human cultural evolution

Handbook of collective intelligence

negotiated route choices

Ants mark trails with pheromones

information is linked collectively

across partial turnovers in group membership,

hard to meet more,

Perhaps my best suggestion would be to eliminate all public employee unions (the path to political corruption) and return to civil service protections for employees.

"Jacksonian Miscellanies"