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Steel Series gaming add-ons, their home page,used for the keyboard RGB Tags: technology msi games

“The whole international financial system is a massive pretense to avoid paying taxes to the countries that are the host countries for investment and to avoid making companies responsible for the economic damages that they cause to the environment and to the rest of the economy. All of this is part and parcel of the international reserves and the international financial system.” – Michael Hudson Tags: games classwargames imperialism2030

Labour’s 2024 Manifesto Tags: politics labour manifesto ge2024

The Greens have published their manifesto on the web. Tags: politics ge2024 greenparty

How to Watch the Star Wars Shows in Chronological Order Tags: culture starwars

It may not have straddled the harbour; Whether the Colossus of Rhodes watched over the harbor from its mouth or from high on a hill further inland, it was no match for the gods of nature. When an earthquake hit the city in 226 B.C., it came tumbling down. Tags: history art sculpture religion greece collussusofrhodes helios greekmythology rhodes

A tabulation of the MRP publications Tags: politics ge2024 prediction

A very detailed look at the meaning of Labour’s “Fix Brexit” promises; Unilateral alignment is not good enough coz it doesn’t do away with compliance documentation. On services he points out the foolishness in demanding freedom of movement for consultants but not young people. He describes it as a bold move. He ends, “And there are dangers in the likes of @RachelReevesMP over-selling them. Those risks are with, the public, the pro-EU wing of the Labour Party, some business groups, the EU itself, which doesn’t want another unrealistic/cakeist UK govt. A reset is coming, and not before time. And the EU will be receptive. On defence and security, carbon markets and…maybe…trade. But Labour needs to demonstrate that it is serious, prepared to do the graft and understands balance of rights & obligations. Tags: politics labour fixbrexit internationaltrade

On British exports, Ed Conway unravels Sunak’s claims that UK exports have climbed to the fourth in the world; they haven’t [at least not climber] and we are still a net importer of goods and services Tags: politics economics internationaltrade

A fascinating review of the centripetal forces within the AfD; a new use of the personal is political and looks at why the AfD are the nearest to being a neofascist party. Tags: politics germany AFD

The Commission president needs the Renew group’s support for a new term — but the faction is shedding seats. Tags: politics europeanunion ep2024

It’s considered a ‘hanging offense,’ but could some EU countries hash out side deals with the UK on financial services? It won’t be easy; why should the EU agree? Tags: politics brexit internationaltrade financialservices ftca

via Zelo Street, “But above all, Labour has to have the courage to talk about the EU. To be straight with the voters. This may well risk the bad faith lobbyists who lied and conned their way to success last time to crawl out of the Tufton Street woodwork. So what? They will have to be faced down whatever happens.” Tags: IFTTT Feedly Brexit europe politics

By Michael Chessum, wile sub-titled with references to Mussolini and Petain, this qyoute is key, “The class that runs our political institutions, in Brussels and in Westminster, is fond of telling us that there is no alternative. Once, there was no alternative to the onward march of deregulation. Now, there is no alternative but to vote for them – or else. Progressives are offered a future in which they must cower behind the centre to defeat the nationalist right. All the while, the centre apes the far right’s rhetoric, adopts its policies, and co-opts its more respectable leaders. Europe’s leaders may salute the historical defeat of fascism, but they seem committed to repeating the mistakes of the past.” Tags: politics europe fascism neofacism ep2024

A very interesting review of the politics behind constructing the next EU institutional leadership. The quotes all assume that democracy is an arithmetic concept. Tags: politics europeanunion ep2024

via The Guardian, After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been published in the UK. There’s no real surprises in the polemic, early capitalist economists commoditised humanity (inc. Malthus and Ricardo); the brutal reactions of fascism and stalinism were predictable. “Today, The Great Transformation is lauded as a masterpiece and praised for its prescience by everyone from the former chief economist of the World Bank – the Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz – to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and the French “rock star” economist Thomas Piketty. Yet Polanyi’s status as a Hungarian-Austrian foreigner of Jewish descent and the postwar popularity of Keynesian economics meant his book’s prophetic insights were, for decades, rejected …” Tags: IFTTT Feedly fascism politics capitalism communism

It looks like she’s out of luck and Renew have time to recruit some more members; they may need to give a senior commission job to the Italian nominee. Tags: ft.com politics europeanunion europeancommission giorgiameloni

An essay on the US shift to manufacturing surplus i.e. an exporter and became top nation. It contrasts this with current day China and observes that the US was able to replace the UK relatively peacefully although one would have to discount the 2nd world war from the definition of relatively peacefull. Also recent reading suggests to me that the UK did not pursue a pro-manufacturing economic policy which is why it was overtaken by both the US and Germany. By Prof Richard Baldwin Tags: politics economichistory richardbaldwin internationaltrade USA China

An essay on Vietnam’s investment in Education whcih the Economist argues is more effective than it’s closer neighbours. One thing thya do differently from us ias invest in the professionaism of their teachers; the article also argues that schools and teachers are better managed. I wonder what lessons there are for the UK? Tags: politics education Vietnam

A Labour government under Keir Starmer will fail to maximise the UK’s economic growth unless it takes the country back into the European Union’s single market and customs union, leading economists and diplomats have said. Where does the growth come from? Tags: politics keirstarmer brexit rejoineu internationaltrade macroeconomics growth