EDITORS—Both analysts believe this was not so much incompetence but a well planned operation that failed due to those things that no one can predict and prepare for, Like Trump moving his head angle a fraction of a second before the assassin’s bullet hit home. The Establishment…The Democrats have been trying to kill Donald Trump politically forever. They tried the courts, and it failed. Now they went for this. How do we explain we have a kid with a phone with 20 encrypted channels, with links overseas. Regarding the Ukraine and Palestine, both experts think that it’s too early to tell the details, but it’s rather clear that Trump will not change US posture toward Israel, perhaps making it a bit worse, and that Ukraine and Zelensky are finished. But, ultimately, despite his braggart’s and bully’s instincts, Trump is also a pragmatist. When reality hits him between the eyes, he reaches out for negotiations. In that sense, he’s better than Biden, who was frozen in his criminally mediocre and devious policy of supporting Israel at any price. Trump might end up negotiating with Hamas.
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AMARYNTH—There is very little new here. The RoW faces a repeat of the previous Trump administration, because Trump is not able to understand that many of the ‘international crises’ were of his doing. I don’t see, intuit or sense a change. I don’t find an understanding that the problems are US Policy and not so much what he did, or what Biden or anyone else did. It is systemic and long term.
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China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
36 minutes readJAMES PURTILL—China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear. While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China may meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month, according to a report.
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Energy experts are looking to China, the world’s largest emitter and once a climate villain, for lessons on how to rapidly decarbonise. While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables. New figures show the pace of its clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week.
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“White Trash” Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” & Class in America
9 minutes readEDITORS—American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the “self-made man myth.” Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with. “Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions,” Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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ERIC ZUESSE—What has been documented here is that neither of the two Parties represents you — your choice between them would be only your choice of which group of billionaires will run America’s Government for the next four years. And ESPECIALLY, neither of the two Parties’ s ‘elected’ nominees for the U.S. Presidency will represent you. It’s remarkable how similar billionaires are to each other. For example: all of the evidence consistently shows that anti-Israel billionaires don’t exist. Wow, isn’t that amazing! Just think about that stunning fact. So, to vote for either Trump or Biden is to be a fool of either Republican billionaires or Democratic billionaires.