Category: Politics / Geopolitics

How redistricting will shape politics in the West for the next decade

Randolph Jason

How redistricting will shape politics in the West for the next decade By D. Hunter Schwarz for Deseret News There’s a big difference between states with independent commissions that redraw election district maps and states without them States across the West are finalizing their new election district maps for the next decade based on 2020 U.S. census data, and their decisions will have far-reaching consequences. In California, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes announced he won’t seek reelection after redistricting put him in a much more competitive district, exchanging a shot at the…

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Media Slavishly Praise Strong Jobs Market as Being Saved by Vaccines

Randolph Jason

Media Slavishly Praise Strong Jobs Market as Being Saved by Vaccines by David Haggith for The Great Recession When the LA Times wrote that “A record 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November,” they said it was… a sign of confidence and more evidence that the U.S. job market is bouncing back strongly from last year’s coronavirus recession. Reuters also said it was…  a show of confidence in the labor market. That is what you say when you reach into your answer files and pull out the standard answer even when you are faced…

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What Happened On January 6, 2021?

Randolph Jason

What Happened On January 6, 2021? by Martin Armstrong for Armstrong Economics After a year and hundreds of arrests, we still do not know what happened on January 6, 2021. Over 16 news agencies are urging the US government to release footage from that day to no avail. Were the protestors allowed into the building? The government keeps secrets when it has something to hide. I reported last year that the events that unfolded that day were a false flag. The event was clearly orchestrated in advance to achieve three…

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Will the Washington Idiots Bring the End of the Western World in 2022?

Randolph Jason

Will the Washington Idiots Bring the End of the Western World in 2022? Paul Craig Roberts According to the World Bank, Russian GDP in 2020 in US dollars was $1.5 trillion. The annual budget of the US military/security complex is $1.0 trillion. Thus, the US military/security complex has a budget that is two-thirds of Russian GDP. Of course, the Americans waste most of the money. Nevertheless, the Kremlin understands that a budget two-thirds as large as their economy requires an enemy. And the enemy is Russia. The Kremlin is saying,…

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Despotism Is the New Normal: Looming Threats to Freedom in 2022

Randolph Jason

Despotism Is the New Normal: Looming Threats to Freedom in 2022 By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead for Rutherford “Looking at the present, I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring…

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