Beforetheflood

Tel Aviv being hammered these days >>> Never forget who they are and what they did

WOW!!! “Female power” at EUCO in Brussels! Just look at these brilliant woman-leaders whose nurturing qualities have literally stopped wars! 🤭

We are back in a global energy crisis and the question of price controls is on the table once more. Our research shows that in emergencies like the one we face, prices are not rational and price controls are optimal in a perfectly mainstream economic model.

@Normanjam67 @NewnhamTony Quantitative easing is an asset swap to provide liquidity. It led to increased inequality, but progressives need to put down the phone and read a book because you're helping the fascists get in because of your ignorance.

The Bank of England has spent £895 billion on quantitative easing since 2008 to bailout the financial markets. When do we get a bailout?

This is why we advocate for Federal Arts Stipend and Federal Job Guarantee. The arts and humanities are important for society's emotional maturity while stable job market provides automatic financial security.

Beautiful new housing in Asker, Norway. Sand-coloured brick, with oak window frames. Strong hints of art deco, and an activated ground floor. Lots to like! By Vigsnæs+Kosberg++ Architects

US-Israel bombed a shop in Iran where people with Down Syndrome worked. Remember that.

Energy should be nationalised. No more bailouts, no more of our money so these pricks can get a nice few million pounds in bonuses at the end of the year and the shareholders get to go on their yachts to pedophile islands

@DavidPintoD here describes the ideas of John Maynard Keynes as “nonsense”. Keynes, widely recognised as the greatest economist of the 20th C. The man whose ideas Thatcher tore up before she destroyed our economy. Pinto: another Public School economist defending the status quo.

@justsurfing12 @DavidMcNab17 @RoryStewartUK Here's a 5" BBC reel from aages ago that explained the basics, but classical economists & the wealthy do everything they can to mock & refute the truth... because of how much they stand to lose if we cottoned on! youtube.com/watch?v=d_udbs…

Keir Starmer has dragged the UK into this war against our will. UK bases face further attacks - putting military personnel and civilians in the potential line of fire. This is a Prime Minister who promised a vote before any military action - that must now happen on Monday.

If your only tool is a hammer, you treat every problem like a nail.

Rather than suffer the same economics that has delivered only austerity, poverty, and recession, we need a better economics. @ZackPolanski knows what he’s talking about and is supported by genuine economists, not paid puppets. x.com/malcolm_reavel…

@HugoPap2 MMT doesn't argue to just spend, it describes how the economy works now we're off the gold standard. MMT is happening today.

Did you actually watch Zack’s speech? The Greens don’t believe in MMT, and warned against spending too much. We want to borrow for investment, not for consumption, which is literally just classic Keynesian economics, and in most cases, not inflationary.

@zubirahmed Zack is correct in how the UK's fiat economy works, David and yourself are pushing Thatcherite lies to protect capital.

Pseudo-science in economics is even more dangerous than in medicine. Great infomercial here from my friend David 👇

@DavidPintoD @ZackPolanski Hope the people of Hendon can see through your lies. Another Labour MP protecting capital with neoliberal propaganda on how our economy works. Zack is correct in his description of the economy. There were once literate Keynesians in the Labour Party at the very least.

You may have seen @ZackPolanski speaking about economics this week. But the theory behind his thinking is a pretty wild one - and could end up costing you dearly 👇

When Eisenhower was asked why the United States did not allow the 1956 Vietnamese reunification elections agreed upon at Geneva, he answered with unusual honesty. He said that if elections were held, Hồ Chí Minh would win with approximately 80 percent of the vote. So they cancelled the elections. Think about that every time an American politician talks about "spreading democracy." They cancelled the democratic election because the "wrong" person would win. They then spent the next two decades killing people to prevent the government that would have been democratically elected from taking power. And they called the other side anti-democratic. This is not ancient history. This is the logic that still governs every "democracy promotion" operation today. Democracy is acceptable when it produces the "right" results. When it does not, you cancel the election, back a coup, fund the opposition, impose sanctions, and call the government that the people actually chose a "dictatorship." Vietnam exposed this logic completely. Not with arguments. With history. With the receipts.

This is a group of coal miners packed into a multi-level elevator cage, preparing to descend into a mine shaft in Europe. The capitalists would have loved to import slaves from Africa, but by the time the Industrial Revolution took off in the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe had an abundance of displaced rural peasants because pro-capital land reforms had forced millions of people off ancestral lands and into cities. So, it was significantly cheaper to pay a local labourer a subsistence wage than to purchase, transport, and maintain a slave from across the Atlantic. Also, in contrast to owning slaves, the wage-slave system they were running in Europe meant, the employer wasn’t responsible for the worker’s housing, food, or health when they weren’t working or when they became too old or sick to produce. Beyond this, mine owners feared that unlike in the cotton farms in America, a workforce of slaves with nothing to lose would be more prone to sabotage in a highly volatile underground environment where a single misplaced support beam could destroy the entire capital investment. There’s also the thing with Britain making slavery illegal. So, capitalists found it more effective to keep “free” labour in Europe and forced labour in the colonial periphery like the rubber extraction plantations in the Congo.

"Taxpayer" is an in-group out-group dogwhistle. It is a way of saying that some people just don't matter, and it does so by saying that there is a certain in-group of people who matter more. It ALWAYS HAS meant that. It has not been more recently corrupted.

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public project and we’ll probably never come close again