Ann Pettifor
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Ann Pettifor
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· Jul 15
After doing several laps we're now on the last editing lap - and getting ready for take-off - in January 2026.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Does Evan Davis enjoy dominating and silencing elected politicians (like the leader of the Lib Dems) to his 5 pm program in the BBC Radio 4? He certainly gives the appearance of relishing his ability to overwhelm a politician trying to get a message across..
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Does Evan Davis enjoy dominating and silencing elected politicians (like the leader of the Lib Dems) to his 5 pm program in the BBC Radio 4? He certainly gives the appearance of relishing his ability to overwhelm a politician trying to get a message across..
The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat - thanks to RFK.. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat - thanks to RFK.. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Floods Have Killed at Least 1,200 in Southern Asia. Here’s What to Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
Floods Have Killed at Least 1,200 in Southern Asia. Here’s What to Know.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Floods Have Killed at Least 1,200 in Southern Asia. Here’s What to Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
Sri Lanka is ‘a Disaster Zone,’ as Cyclone Deaths Surpass 350 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
Sri Lanka is ‘a Disaster Zone,’ as Cyclone Deaths Surpass 350
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sri Lanka is ‘a Disaster Zone,’ as Cyclone Deaths Surpass 350 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
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It's been a wet start to December for many of us, with up to 80 mm of rain having already fallen in the wettest parts of Wales since yesterday evening 🌧️🌧️
Here's the latest on where it's raining now 👇
Here's the latest on where it's raining now 👇
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It's been a wet start to December for many of us, with up to 80 mm of rain having already fallen in the wettest parts of Wales since yesterday evening 🌧️🌧️
Here's the latest on where it's raining now 👇
Here's the latest on where it's raining now 👇
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
Mark E. Thomas: "this is a compromise Budget which will enable Labour to get many smaller things right, but condemn it to fail on the biggest issues if it does not challenge its fiscal rules ..(which) prevent economic renewal".
99-percent.org/will-this-bu...
99-percent.org/will-this-bu...
Will this Budget Keep Labour’s Promises? - 99%
Backbench rebels have made this a better Budget than it would have been, but they have more to do to prevent the UK having the Biden experience Labour made several […]
99-percent.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Mark E. Thomas: "this is a compromise Budget which will enable Labour to get many smaller things right, but condemn it to fail on the biggest issues if it does not challenge its fiscal rules ..(which) prevent economic renewal".
99-percent.org/will-this-bu...
99-percent.org/will-this-bu...
China’s Treasury holdings as a % of all foreign holdings is down to 7.6%, the lowest in 23 years.This % has declined -20 points over the last 14 years.
China now ranks as the world’s 3rd-largest foreign Treasury holder, after holding the top spot.
meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/pardon-me-...
China now ranks as the world’s 3rd-largest foreign Treasury holder, after holding the top spot.
meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/pardon-me-...
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
China’s Treasury holdings as a % of all foreign holdings is down to 7.6%, the lowest in 23 years.This % has declined -20 points over the last 14 years.
China now ranks as the world’s 3rd-largest foreign Treasury holder, after holding the top spot.
meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/pardon-me-...
China now ranks as the world’s 3rd-largest foreign Treasury holder, after holding the top spot.
meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/pardon-me-...
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Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
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#GVerse The man who shoot those two West Virginia National Guard in DC was working with the CIA. He was vetted by #Shit4Brain's administration. #Shitface is lying about everything.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#GVerse The man who shoot those two West Virginia National Guard in DC was working with the CIA. He was vetted by #Shit4Brain's administration. #Shitface is lying about everything.
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MSCI's consultation on companies that exist basically to buy digital assets closes this month. Anyone whose total assets are +50% made up of digital assets would be excluded from their indices.. yet another thing that could see things unravel further
December 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
MSCI's consultation on companies that exist basically to buy digital assets closes this month. Anyone whose total assets are +50% made up of digital assets would be excluded from their indices.. yet another thing that could see things unravel further
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Svulstig Last Christmas - Wien 2014
YouTube video by Kjetil Aamann
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
So there…I told you so….
“There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse,” said Adam Morgan McCarthy, senior research analyst at crypto data firm Kaiko. “It’s a vicious cycle. As soon as the prices start tanking, it’s a race to the bottom.”
“There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse,” said Adam Morgan McCarthy, senior research analyst at crypto data firm Kaiko. “It’s a vicious cycle. As soon as the prices start tanking, it’s a race to the bottom.”
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December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
So there…I told you so….
“There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse,” said Adam Morgan McCarthy, senior research analyst at crypto data firm Kaiko. “It’s a vicious cycle. As soon as the prices start tanking, it’s a race to the bottom.”
“There’s going to be a fire sale at these companies; it’s going to get worse,” said Adam Morgan McCarthy, senior research analyst at crypto data firm Kaiko. “It’s a vicious cycle. As soon as the prices start tanking, it’s a race to the bottom.”
“At present the Starmer government has no wish, nor capacity, to break out of the doom loop. On the contrary, they ....double down further on the failed nostrums of the past rather than getting to grips with new realities."
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Labour's conformism is crushing Britain
Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite
www.newstatesman.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“At present the Starmer government has no wish, nor capacity, to break out of the doom loop. On the contrary, they ....double down further on the failed nostrums of the past rather than getting to grips with new realities."
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.”
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions.”
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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The ocean remains the only true carbon sink. 🥲
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The ocean remains the only true carbon sink. 🥲
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Reminder that the deadline for the next SASE conference is on the 16th of December:
Submit your International Financial Subordination papers!
More info👇
Submit your International Financial Subordination papers!
More info👇
Join Us at SASE 2026 in Bordeaux!
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reminder that the deadline for the next SASE conference is on the 16th of December:
Submit your International Financial Subordination papers!
More info👇
Submit your International Financial Subordination papers!
More info👇
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And here is the Monday after that Mini Budget (26th September 2022)...
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
And here is the Monday after that Mini Budget (26th September 2022)...
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Anyway, here are some front pages from the day after the most disastrous fiscal event in the UK since Robert Peston started a run on Northern Rock...
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Anyway, here are some front pages from the day after the most disastrous fiscal event in the UK since Robert Peston started a run on Northern Rock...
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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We're already seeing the beginnings of a world without the US: building an international order that excludes a trash-bin fire.
I am no expert on these diplomatic affairs - but it seems to me that Trump will very likely dismantle/destroy the G20... And what of NATO?
November 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We're already seeing the beginnings of a world without the US: building an international order that excludes a trash-bin fire.
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Yep, balancing budgets by moving resources from here to there is all very well in theory, but...
Ruth Curtice: "The next Spending Review...will be a series of painful choices. ...even more painful after this week’s decision to give departmental budgets a squeeze in 2028-29. The horrors of local government finance may have become too gory to conceal in the depths of the forecast tables".
This Budget’s tax decisions will haunt the government
The buffer Reeves built into her plans is admirable, but no guarantee of avoiding the nasty dilemmas to come
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yep, balancing budgets by moving resources from here to there is all very well in theory, but...