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@ThomasSowell The biggest fallacy isn’t to rally against government with politicians existing to impose their own will and set of acceptable trust to parties rooted in dual corporate and more, and when that trust fall,they never take any responsibility for advocating failed policies and trust.
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@ThomasSowell Can’t talk about illegal immigration when America has immigration policy that has been for decades in existence with open borders Trump is closing. Reality; Americans are the descendants of Europe.If one think that is a fallacy.Then,must check their racial origin intermixtures.
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@Xohi1260 Such strike near Bushehr nuclear power is flash points that risk Persian Gulf waters contamination. GCC countries should be not just concerned but take all Millitary measures to deal with those who strike near the Bushehr. That will be correct use of diplomacy towards peace.
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@ThomasSowell Forget Hayek an Australian’s influence by father liberal economist. Rather,stick with T.Sowell.Truth of fact; humanity under liberalism is comprised entirely of individuals,is naturally drawn toward universality and seeks to become global and unified.That is pure totalitarianism.
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@ThomasSowell That is an intellectual hubris take. Fascism is an ideology of Nazis by the West and has nothing to do with socialism/ communism.The West,just love Italy’s Mussolini,the father of Fascism and associate that with Hitler’s National Socialism. Yet,real socialist were against Hitler.
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@constantinvonh Truth is,when Chancellor Merkel decided to take in thousands of Syrian refugees who were stranded in Hungary,the faction in the AfD became stronger,and the party’s focus shifted to criticism of too much immigration and,in particular of Muslim immigrants. No need to defend Dugin.
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The AfD does not have homophobic and anti-Muslim positions. A sizeable percentage of Muslim immigrants in Germany are AfD voters. One of its leaders, Alice Weidel, is openly lesbian. It is also not anti-Europe. It is essentially anti-EU, which means it is pro-Europe as the current incarnation of the EU (and the West as a whole) is the enemy of Europe.
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@IOL Hebanna. Welcome to the puppet show wherein the 1.1 million equals to the number of educated and qualified people unemployed in SA.
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Public anger mounts as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana stated that the R800,000 vehicle price threshold for official vehicles for members of the executive was no longer viable and has been revised to R1.1 million.
#Godongwana #VehicleThreshold #R800kToR1.1m #PublicAnger #MinisterialPerks #CostOfLivingCrisis"
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@MedvedevRussiaE Knowing Macron has a tendency of changing mind depending on where wind blows . You have a correct point.
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@thesiriusreport What ? 🤣😂. Well, UK energy policy express existential fear. Hence, the report about fuel shortages. What do you expect when UK has announced high ambitions to be carbon neutral by 2050. Yet, has zero details on how to do it and no publication has been release on that .
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@MzwaneleManyi @IndWorldThinker Wrongly remembering Soweto uprising. Should be remembering on the same day,the arrest of Steve Biko for Black consciousness who rose up against Afrikaans as the lagua of instruction forced in schools. Soweto uprising was just a protest for what Biko was against.
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@constantinvonh That is indisputable. The modern world is in the throes of a crisis and unless a change of direction ensue soon, no doubt doomsday is near.
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@GeromanAT That is Pasadaran work. The slow will say is launched by Iran army as if Iran army has the control of strategic missile.
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@SongezoZibi Tensions with the Islamic world won’t change. One thing certain about Iran is to MIGA (Make Islam Great Again), which is not part of Trump calculus. Whether it change to using diplomacy for the release of war prisoners, that won’t change the tension fuelled by Isreal.
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@ThomasSowell It's all about scaming,a scamdemic pandemic. Too bad that voting is common danger that unites the bitterest enemies to be scammed.
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@ThomasSowell That is an excusable untruth. A wealth without limit is called wealthy and find not opposite to hoarding which is purely making money in excess unnatural. Let me repeat, Hayek was an ignorant failed liberal Australian economist. Better stick with Thomas Sowell for sanity.
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@postlaborian @AGDugin Yes, hoping you didn’t mis my saying a given “wrong political right”. Reality based question. When Russia expelled Jews. It expected them to stay where.? Can’t just easily separate Jews from Isreal,from Russian history because of wanting focus to be on Russian colony today.
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@LungaMrhetjha Wekhethu. As long inflation exists as hidden tax that pays for nothing at Reserve Bank level.Interest rates,as a monetary policy tool will remain an effective tool for fraud.worsened by countries who keep their Gold in US vaults.wherein,Trump admin doesn’t release audited report.
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“We understand better how little we understand about inflation.” - Jerome Powell
When Powell said this, I knew instantly that things were fundamentally wrong. That was a clear confession from central banks that their model is shaky.
For years, the playbook was simple. Inflation was caused by too much demand. And when you raise interest rates, you slow down the economy and inflation drops.
It was clean and predictable. Then one day, this model stopped working properly.
Post-COVID, inflation didn’t behave. It wasn’t just people spending too much. It was supply chains breaking, energy prices jumping, war shocks and logistics collapsing.
So now, central banks are confused because they were busy hiking rates but inflation wasn't responding the way they had hoped or expected. Powell’s statement was premised on this dilemma.
Now if you bring it closer to SA, you realize that SARB still runs the same playbook. It uses interest rates as the main weapon. But the problem is that we don't have "too much demand" inflation. Ours is cost-pushed.
What’s actually driving prices up in SA is electricity tariffs, fuel, food and a weaker ZAR. All of these factors have nothing to do with the consumers overheating the economy.
So when SARB raises rates, it doesn't fix Eskom or reduce food costs. It just makes money more expensive.
This spells more trouble for households and businesses, and job creation slows down.
And that's essentially the contradiction here. We’re using a demand weapon to fight a supply problem.
Powell’s quote hits deeper when you look at SA. Because if the US is saying “we don’t fully understand inflation anymore:, hen what about us, with structural inequality and weak growth?
The fact of the matter is that inflation today is not just about demand. It’s about infrastructure ,energy, global supply chains and market structure. These things cannot be fixed merely with interest rates.
Interest rates, as a monetary policy tool, are no longer that effective. Right now it feels like we’re pressing the same button and hoping for a different outcome, while the real issues sit elsewhere.
Powell didn’t just admit uncertainty. He exposed a gap in the system. And in SA, that gap is even wider.

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