‘Enshittification’ of American power: How US hegemony is sustained by network logic that’s difficult and expensive to break away from

‘Enshittification’ of American power: How US hegemony is sustained by network logic that’s difficult and expensive to break away from

So dollar clearing is an expedient. It’s also the chief enforcement mechanism of US financial policy across the globe. If foreign banks don’t implement US financial sanctions and other measures, they risk losing access to US dollar clearing and going under. This threat is so existentially dire that, when Lam was placed under US sanctions

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Air India crash investigation report pinpoints pilot confusion that led to the accident that killed 260

Air India crash investigation report pinpoints pilot confusion that led to the accident that killed 260

The commanding pilot of the Air India plane was Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, who had a total flying experience of 15,638 hours and, according to the Indian government, was also an Air India instructor. His co-pilot was Clive Kunder, 32, who had 3,403 hours of total experience.

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Boeing settles with a Canada-based Kenyan man whose wife and three children perished in 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

Boeing settles with a Canada-based Kenyan man whose wife and three children perished in 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

Boeing reached a settlement on Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to a devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets. The jury trial at Chicago’s federal court had...

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Covid fraud: Scientists tell leading European public broadcaster ‘Never seen science so compromised’

Covid fraud: Scientists tell leading European public broadcaster ‘Never seen science so compromised’

Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that censorship extended to intelligence agencies. In August 2021, the Biden administration excluded the FBI from a White House intelligence briefing, preventing the bureau from presenting evidence supporting the lab-leak theory.

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Erotic Hollywood producer’s companies gleaned millions from unusable dating sites

Erotic Hollywood producer’s companies gleaned millions from unusable dating sites

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China’s Shenzhen investment group targets 400 million consumers in COMESA bloc as it sets base in Kenya

China’s Shenzhen investment group targets 400 million consumers in COMESA bloc as it sets base in Kenya

Kenya is emerging manufacturing zones ranging from Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Athi River to Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Dongo Kundu, Eldoret and Naivasha, are set to benefit from such collaborations, especially as the country seeks to raise its manufacturing contribution to GDP from 7.6 per cent to 20 per cent by 2030.

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

In order to roll back the labour victories of the postwar era (which had become harder to justify in the wake of falling profits), American elites both empowered finance capital (leading to a series of bubbles) and embraced deindustrialization, with many industries shifting to the Global South (notably China).

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Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

After serving in the Marines and graduating from Yale Law School, Vance bounced around from a stint on Capitol Hill in Texas senator John Cornyn’s office to a federal clerkship in Kentucky to a brief stint in corporate law before cutting his teeth in the VC field at Mithril Capital, a firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.

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Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

Alternative medicine: Why after FDA finding that snake venom in approved drugs treats stroke convinces biohackers humans can live forever

For the biohackers, decentralisation is a feature, not a bug. It’s a safeguard against corruption. “The biohacking community,” Fabrizio “Fab” Mancini, a chiropractor and frequent flier of the daytime TV medical circuit, tells me, “is not owned by any one entity. It’s actual individuals.” In a community for whom deregulation is entirely the point, though, how do you screen for bullshit?

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New data doubt if Covid vaccines saved ‘millions and millions’ of lives, calls it a drug marketing gimmick

New data doubt if Covid vaccines saved ‘millions and millions’ of lives, calls it a drug marketing gimmick

Building on our prior work, we critically examined the hypothetical statistical models that produced this extraordinary figure, as well as multiple randomised and controlled trials and large-scale observational studies that served as the empirical basis for the vaccine efficacy estimates fed into these models.

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