AMERICAN BRAINWASH

GODFREE ROBERTS—China is home to four of the world’s five largest unicorns, led by Alibaba’s Ant Group, which has a US$150 billion valuation. The total value of all known unicorns in the world is US$1.9 trillion, equivalent to the GDP of Italy. Vehicle sales rose 15% in July. Sales of sedans, SUVs, and commercial vehicles increased to 2.08 million units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said. Tesla’s made-in-China cars are quality market leaders while Tesla’s US-made vehicles are scoring the lowest for quality. The average passenger car in China gets 37.2 quality complaints per 10,000 cars over the last quarter. Over the same period, Made-in-China Model 3 only received 0.7 complaints – topping the chart.

Caleb’s chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. In this episode Caleb tackles one of the oldest lies about socialism/communism—their supposed inability to literally deliver the goods. This and much more.

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STEPHEN SEFTON—The dependence of international human rights NGOs on corporate and government funding and on publicity via corporate media and public relations over time has generated the osmosis of corrupt corporate practice into the human rights industry. Writers like Cory Morningstar have analyzed exhaustively how this takeover by corporate culture of the “non-profit industrial complex serves hegemony as a sophisticated fine-tuned symbiotic mechanism in a continuous state of flux and refinement.

The New York Times today buried some news that could turn out to be vital to peace in the Middle East over the next few months. Toward the end of a report on Trump’s bizarre press conference/campaign rally at his private club in New Jersey last night, the paper revealed that he is quarreling with Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire pro-Israel mega-donor.