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Will the Ukraine be partitioned next and, if so, how? Tue Aug 16, 2022 20:55 | The Saker
Interesting info today. First, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has, through the statement of a Colonel General, made the following statement (translated by my friend Andrei Martyanov on his blog):
False System vs False System in the Netherlands Tue Aug 16, 2022 17:46 | The Saker
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News Round-Up Wed Aug 17, 2022 00:26 | Jonathan Barr
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians? efforts to control the virus ? and other acts of hubris and folly ? not just in Britain, but around the world.
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Civil Disobedience is Coming Tue Aug 16, 2022 15:51 | Toby Young
Thomas Farzi has written a pessimistic essay for UnHerd in which he predicts widespread civil unrest in the UK this winter, thanks to spiralling household energy bills and other self-imposed political disasters.
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Do Masks Do Anything to Prevent Transmission of Influenza or Influenza-Like Viruses? Clinical Trials... Tue Aug 16, 2022 13:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have launched a new Substack account that everyone should subscribe to. In their latest post, they look at masks and say the clinical trial evidence suggests they're ineffective.
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New Food Study Gives Bacon a Higher Nutritional Score than Couscous Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:51 | Toby Young
A new American study ranks food according to its nutritional content and puts bacon above couscous, crisps above multigrain crackers and chicken currie above veggie soup.
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Ireland to Pass New Media Law Pushing Climate Propaganda Tue Aug 16, 2022 09:00 | Toby Young
Ireland?s Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is like the Online Safety Bill on steroids. Among other things, it will create a new media commission to promote climate change hysteria.
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Jump To Comment: 2 1interesting that you conveniently omit the fact that israel chairs the Kimberley process committee
The true wonder of the diamond is its plenty - there are really are so many of them on the planet that they ought not be as expensive as they are. But the cartels which control their supply ensure that they their prices stay elevated. Anyone who wants to understand late capitalism and the dichotomy between commodities which are fungible and those which are not (such as diamonds) should do a bit of reading on the history of the diamond corporations and take note how De Beers removed its components from publically listed companies (traded and bought and sold in shares) to ensure its cartel continued - just about the time the international community started bleating on about stopping blood diamonds.
quite - not because of the blood. oh no. more because the diamond market could have been flooded by the post soviet reality. for even the soviets had played the cartel game.
All those workers' dreams put on ring for betrothal mean nothing.
Coal - now there's a commodity which is finite, non-renewable and when you think about it - really quite fungible weight for weight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
(oddly enough nobody vandalises the fungibility page)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
(predictably people are always manipulating the history of diamonds)
All Diamonds are Blood Diamonds as every lump of coal surely carries a spleen wrenching cough