I am calling for the immediate arrest of Gonzalve Bich, the CEO of BIC ballpoint pens. His pens have been used to write down all sorts of devilish plans and to create insensitive imagery for many years. He has done nothing to stop this. Time to hold him accountable.

Great business! 💵💵💵ft.com/content/5e368d…

"Free trade is extremely destructive to economies that are relatively unsuccessful. Instead of making them more prosperous and better-off, it destroys them." -Wynne Godley (interview from the magazine Marxism Today in 1981)

Climate change is winning CO2 emissions have increased 2 billion tons since 2020 Fossil fuel consumption has increased 38 Exajoules (EJ) Wind & solar have increased 14 EJ & nuclear-hydro has increased 8 EJ PLEASE DON'T RESPOND THAT WE NEED TO WORK HARDER ON RENEWABLES

Exxon expects world primary energy demand to increase 77 quads (13%) by 2050 Solar, wind & natural gas demand will each increase about 30 quads All other energy sources will increase slightly except coal which will decrease 57 quads #energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow

Please read Zuckerberg's letter from the beginning until the end. How the new censorship works.

Too little, too late.

En el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 te pueden detener por tocar un cornetín... 🤡

I thought crypto was meant to be free from governments.

There’s been speculation about why Pavel Durov visited France, particularly given that an arrest order had been issued against him there. Rumors now suggest that President Emmanuel Macron might have invited Durov to have dinner with him to lure him into a trap. At least, Le

Mark Zuckerberg’s muted “regret” for wrongly censoring journalism during an election - and thousands of people’s lawful speech during the pandemic - is not quite the breakthrough people think it is… ✍️ I’ve written about it for the Telegraph today telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/2…

1bn cuts from education and 1bn from NHS after 14 years of Tory onslaught.

Macron refuse que Lucie Castets améliore la vie des Français. ➡️ l.humanite.fr/0JM

The most obvious feature of global imbalances (see right graph) is that the US consistently drives the story. Yet the prevailing US policy view is that other parties (China today) must reduce their trade surpluses. Less appreciated is that the international monetary hierarchy

I feel this overlooks the real lesson from the space race which is that getting to the moon was ultimately economically unsustainable on a repeat basis. politico.eu/article/britai…

Fossil-fuel energy discoveries, as in the east Mediterranean, create geopolitical rollercoasters: intense competition to extract with spillover and then serious problems for producer states as the recoverable scale disappoints with more fallout for pre-existing tensions.

Insiders say popular former PM Edouard Philippe is preparing for Macron to step down, despite French president’s insistence he’ll stay in office until end of his term. politico.eu/article/france…

En 1977, en medio de protestas estudiantiles en el municipio de Elota, Estado de Sinaloa, México, el presidente municipal Ernesto Silva cerró la Escuela Preparatoria, detuvo a varios estudiantes y mandó a detener al alborotador: "un tal Carlos Marx". Aún no lo han podido detener

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From 2017. Follow the money. 💰