May 2024

California-budget lunacy per usual, brilliantly described

5-11-24
CalMatters
Newsom finally aligns with Legislature’s gloomier budget outlook, blaming ‘massive volatility’
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BY DAN WALTERS

When Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a 2024-25 state budget in January, he declared that the state faced a $38 billion deficit and chided journalists for citing wider projections in the gap between income and outgo from the Legislature’s budget analyst.

It just keeps on going on

There is probably no one writing in English better situated, after years studying the pipelines of Central Asia from his base in Hong Kong, than Pepe Escobar, to report on the rise of multi-polar opposition to hegemony, in large part due to American denial that the most important story in the world is happening at all. -- blj

5-25-24
Unz Reader (originally in Strategic Culture Foundation)
Russia and China Have Had Enough
Both have had enough of being “polite”. You want confrontation? Confrontation is what you’re gonna get.
PEPE ESCOBAR