October 1, 2019
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A global manufacturing recession
As we enter October, the global recession is with us – in manufacturing. The PMI manufacturing activity indexes for most of the major economies are below 50, the threshold for expansion or contraction. These are only surveys of corporate managers asking them about production, sales, employment etc. But PMIs have been reasonably accurate indicators of… Continue reading
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How the Trump Admin Used a Secret Livestream to Spy on Julian Assange
Working directly with Ecuador’s corrupt government, the U.S. government abandoned all sense of legality and moral decency by spying on Assange twenty-four hours a day via an illegal livestream surveillance operation set up by a private security firm and approved by Ecuador’s president. Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Remarks and Answers to Media Questions Following the High-Level Week of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joked that CNN was “fake news” and described the network quizzing him about Moscow’s hypothetical response to a possible US intervention in Venezuela as a “fake question.” (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Veritable Uprising or it’s The (Faux) Real Thing™: Greta and Climate Activism in a Wilderness of Projections
PR: Kenn, recently, this observation of mine provoked a measure of ire: Street demonstrations, even large ones, are apropos of nothing as long as they are manifested as de facto state sanctioned protests. A march proceeds, chants are cast into indifferent air, speechifying comes to pass by the usual gasbags then the assembled head home… Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 1 October 2019
1 October 2019 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Will Boris Johnson become a ‘Brexit martyr’? http://infobrics.org/post/29423/ Boris Johnson: UK offering EU ‘very constructive’ Brexit proposals https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49893963 Continue reading
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Is Johnson really going to ‘rein in’ NHS privatisation? Don’t you believe it!
The Guardian reported last week that Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock plan to “rein in” NHS privatisation in a new NHS Bill to be published next month. NHS England (NHSE) has released a document detailing “22 key changes it believes will be included” in such a bill, and the Guardian tells us their proposals are “likely”… Continue reading
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Capitalism and the climate disaster: The issues posed by the worldwide protests By Bryan Dyne
Last week’s climate strikes, in which more than 7.6 million people participated in international protests September 20-27, reveal the willingness among broad masses of young people to fight for their future, that of Earth and of humanity. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 191 October 2019 – is now on line
1 October 2019 — Coldtype Continue reading
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In Media Newspeak, a ‘Peace Plan’ for Israel/Palestine Is Anything US Proposes
Prior to the elections in Israel/Palestine in September—marred by blatant racism posturing as the “democratic process,” with millions of Palestinians living under varying degrees of Israeli rule unable to vote due to their ethnicity—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated headlines for repeatedly pledging to annex nearly a third of the illegally occupied West Bank, in violation of international law, to… Continue reading
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The Bee: “The Most Important Living Being on the Planet”
The Earthwatch Institute concluded in the last debate of the Royal Geographical Society of London, that bees are the most important living being on the planet, however, scientists have also made an announcement: Bees have already entered into extinction risk. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 30, 2019
30 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 30, 2019 Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Prison Updates
There have been no noticeable changes to Julian Assange’s prison conditions or treatment since his bail sentence ended on 22 September and his imprisonment on remand for the United States’ extradition request began the following day. He remains in effective solitary confinement within healthcare, spending 21-23 hours in his cell every day and with “controlled… Continue reading
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