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Elections outside the USA
By: AGelbert Date: March 2, 2018, 10:02 pm
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March 2, 2018
[center]How Did Communist China Become a Capitalist
Superpower?[/center]
In his new book, "Competing Economic Paradigms in China," Steve
Cohn examines how China's economic policy went from Maoist to
"iron rice bowl" to neoliberal
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[font=times new roman]Steve Cohn[/font] is the author of 3
books: Too Cheap to Meter: An Economic and Philosophical
Analysis of the Nuclear Dream; Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A
Critical Approach; and Competing Economic Paradigms in China:
The Co-Evolution of Economic Events, Economic Theory and
Economics Education, 1976-2016, published by Routledge Press. He
is interested in the sociology of economic knowledge, that is
how economic theory and economic analysis are influenced by
social and historical contexts."
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Re: China
By: AGelbert Date: May 2, 2018, 4:33 pm
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[center]Spotlight Soybeans: Bunge CEO "China Deliberately Not
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Elections outside the USA
By: AGelbert Date: June 14, 2018, 9:56 pm
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[move][font=courier]Mexico: Bloodiest Presidential Campaign -
about 100 candidates murdered so far! Dirty tricks
abound![/font][/move]
[center]Presidential Campaign in Mexico Gets Dirty[/center]
June 13, 2018
Anonymous phone calls are going out with messages warning that
the leading candidate is a danger to the country. At the same
time, political violence has claimed more than a hundred lives.
Laura Carlsen reports from Mexico
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Re: China
By: AGelbert Date: July 11, 2018, 11:12 am
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[center]Trump's 🦀 Bite 🦍 May Be Worse Than His
Bark: Stockman Slams "Absurd, Dangerous, Stupid"
Policies[/center]
Wed, 07/11/2018 - 10:45
[font=times new roman]Via Global Macro Monitor,[/font]
Excellent CNBC interview with David Stockman, President Reagan’s
head of OMB, who speaks his mind and never holds back. Some
dismiss him as a perma-bear and doomsayer.
We certainly don’t, just has been a bit early, like every
analyst and economist worth their salt. His analysis and model
are sound.
By the way, if you ever meet someone who claims they always top
tick or buy every bottom, and have perfect timing, run as fast
as you can.
Moreover, the former “beltway boy wonder” doesn’t have to make
his money trading and can maintain his conviction without going
bankrupt or losing his career. He will eventually be right.
It’s all timing, my friends.
Listening to him today, we respect him even more for his
intellectual honesty. We have always perceived Mr. Stockman as
a supporter of the president, but we could be wrong.
He never allows his politics to warp his analysis. Rare and
refreshing.
Taken To Woodshed
He was famously “taken to the woodshed” by President Reagan for
his statements in a 1981 Atlantic Monthly article, that
[quote]“supply-side economics — the backbone of the Reagan
economic revolution 😈 👹 – was a ‘Trojan horse’
🐎 that would ultimately benefit 💵 🎩
🍌 the rich.”[/quote]
He laid it all out there today and held nothing back. [img
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[center]Massive trade war won't solve deficits, says former
Reagan WH budget director from CNBC.[/center]
Money quotes from today’s interview *
Imbalances are not the result of bad trade deals
We have had 43 straight years of large and growing current
account deficits, that is a monetary issue
A trade war is not going to solve it…let interest rates find
their right level
The fact is, we are heading into a massive trade war in the
world
Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing at all. He is making it up.
He is a hopeless protectionist with a 17th-century view of the
world
We have an absurd policy — dangerous, stupid. The worst that
I’ve seen since my whole career started in 1970 under [President
Richard] Nixon, and he did some crazy things
The market marches to new highs until it doesn’t
In 1990…the average tariff in China was about 30 percent, the
average tariff in China today is 3 ½ percent. It is not an issue
What they [Trump administration] are objecting to is China’s
policy of “no ticky, no washy.” In other words, if you want to
come to China and do business, you have to be in a joint venture
and share your technology
If somebody wants to go to China so they can come on CNBC and
brag they are in a growth market then they ought to put up with
the local regulations
Don’t start a trade war and throw the soybean farmer under the
bus because of some big business lobby in Washington is whining
about China’s terms of business
*the interview was concluded before the announcement of a 10
percent on an additional $200 billion of Chinese imports was
published by the USTR after the market close.
Tough words.
No Reagan Moment On Free Trade
Sorry, Mohamed, we love you but there will be no “Reagan
Moment” for International Trade. We hope we are wrong, and we
could be, but we don’t think so.
Trump is no Reagan, the ultimate free-trader. Larry Kudlow and
Stephen Moore now talking tariffs? This is not an
administration looking to further trade, in our opinion, but one
only to protect and coddle its political base.
Trump’s triggers his base with words such as “free trade,” among
others, and blames much of their problems on the “bad trade
deals” of previous administrations. It works for him. Why fix
it?
But those who, like me, thought Trump’s bark would be worse than
his bite on trade are having second thoughts about where all of
this might lead. – Dani Rodrik
President Xi Won’t Back Down
Moreover, how in the world can President Xi, after
consolidating power for life as the country’s ultimate strongman
now back down and look weak to the Chinese people? China has
secured the high ground of multilateralism. Even if it’s
bullshit or not. Furthermore, the U.S. appears to be growing
exponentially more isolated.
Nonlinear Dynamics
As we posted on Friday, we are now in a nonlinear trajectory.
Things can unravel fast, or be put right quickly. Maybe the
Senate? Nobody knows where this will end up.
We have all learned over the past 18 months that the president
is capable of doing a 180,even in mid-sentence, and convince
himself he held the position all along. That unpredictability
makes it a risky trade.
Markets In The Land Of Pharaoh
It does feel the markets are in Egypt, however. The land of de
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The post-war international order is more at risk of unraveling –
and we are not saying its demise is imminent – than is currently
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Stay tuned.
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Agelbert NOTE: Stockman interview video at article link.
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Re: China
By: AGelbert Date: July 12, 2018, 10:51 am
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[center]5 Ways China’s Now A Global Climate Leader[/center]
July 11th, 2018 by Guest Contributor
[font=times new roman]Originally published on Climate Reality
Project.[/font]
The world’s biggest emitter decided to take some serious climate
action – and in the process renewed our hope that we will beat
the climate crisis.
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Ten years ago, the idea that China – the planet’s single biggest
carbon polluter – would be a global leader on climate in 2018
would have sounded, well, a stretch.
But with terrifying levels of air pollution threatening to spark
social unrests in earlier years and the US stepping back from
the global stage under President Trump, that’s exactly what’s
happened.
The story begins with a massive public health crisis, but how
China responded – and five steps in particular – lays out a
practical path to a low-carbon future for countries around the
world.
[center]Airpocalypse Now ☠️[/center]
How did the world’s biggest polluter become the world’s leader
on climate?
It all goes back to the “Airpocalypse.”
Not too long ago, many in some of the Chinese cities were going
about their business engulfed in a cloud of pollution. The gray
haze could be so dense, that buildings and trees would quite
literally disappear in front of your eyes. And stepping outside,
even for just a minute, required wearing a facial mask to avoid
directly breathing the toxic air.
How to Keep Climate Action on Track After the Paris Agreement
The source of much of that pollution wasn’t hard to find either:
coal-fired power plants and vehicles on the road. Since the
early 2000s, China’s economy had been growing rapidly, powered
largely by coal.
The unchecked use of coal on such a huge scale didn’t take long
to generate real problems. In 2005, China surpassed the United
States to become the world’s biggest CO2 emitter (a title that
the country has held since the 20th century). And in 2008, 16 of
the 20 most polluted cities in the entire world were in China,
according to the World Bank.
Enough Is Enough
In 2013, the Chinese government finally decided that enough was
enough, introducing a national action plan to curb air
pollution, including a set of coal consumption limits for key
regions including Beijing and the Pearl River Delta.
In 2016, China released its national plan for the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, and committed to lowering the
country’s carbon intensity of GDP by 60–65 percent (below 2005
levels) by 2030 in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
to Paris Agreement. As the world’s second-largest economy – and
home to nearly 1.4 billion people – that’s a big deal to the
world.
Growing Pains and Growing Progress
It hasn’t all been smooth sailing. Emissions are still rising as
the country continues to grow. And although China has halt many
coal projects over the past years, environmentalists have called
it out for investing coal energy in other countries such as
Turkey and Pakistan to satisfy its immense need for energy.
On the other hand, China has made real progress. Between 2013
and 2017, Chinese cities cut the amount of fine pollution
particulates(PM2.5) in the air by an average of 32 percent. And
the capital Beijing has seen a lot more sunny days as PM 2.5
concentration dropped 54 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017,
in comparison to the same period of 2016.
On a global level, there’s also good news. China has been
instrumental in keeping the Paris Agreement process going,
continuing to curb emissions and expand renewables even as the
US (another huge polluter) has dramatically backed down at the
federal level.
[move][font=courier]So how’s China done it? There’ve been many
steps, but five have been especially key.[/font][/move]
1. Bye-Bye, Coal
China has been slowly (but surely) moving away from coal energy.
Last year, the government announced plans to cancel 103 new
plants and closed the very last coal plant located in the
capital, Beijing.
From 2014 to 2015, coal consumption reduced after a decade of
steady increase.
2. Putting a Price on Carbon
One of China’s most impressive moves was to launch the world’s
largest national carbon trading market in 2017. The goal is to
encourage companies to become greener by allowing them sell or
buy excessive carbon emissions. The first phase of the project
only covers the power generation sector, but the initiative is
expected to expand across many other areas of the economy.
3. Clean Bus Rides
China is showing the world how to move many people around
quickly and cleanly. Around 17 percent of the country’s
municipal buses are electric, and the city Shenzhen holds the
record for the globe’s largest electric bus fleet, with all of
its 16,359 buses had gone electric last year. The achievement
was only possible due to government subsidies. But in the long
run, operation and maintenance costs of electric buses are
significantly lower than those fueled by diesel.
4. Making the Investment in Renewables
Moving away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy is not
just an effective way to clean up the planet. It’s also a good
investment.
In 2017, China invested a staggering US$ 126.6 billion in
renewable energy – 45 percent of the total worldwide investment.
The country has been using a whole lot of green technology
internally – nearly doubled its solar generation from 2016 to
2017. But it also has its eyes on a much larger international
market.
5. New Forests
China is so keen on green that it’s deploying soldiers to plant
trees across the country. The goal is to replant many of the
forests that were cut down for industrialization and farmland,
all with an eye to removing carbon from the atmosphere on a
massive scale and doing it naturally.
Sowing seeds is actually one of the country’s Paris Agreement
goals – China wants to increase forest stock volume by 4.5
billion cubic meters by 2030, from its 2005 level. China is also
planting a different kind of forest on its buildings to help
sequester carbon.
The Takeaway
The catalyst was the sight of millions choking on industrial and
power sector pollution, but the result has been one of the most
influential for emissions reduction and energy transformation
the world’s ever seen.
Five steps in the process have been critical:
Cutting coal
Putting a price on carbon
Cleaning up public transit
Investing in renewables
Conserve and rebuild the forest
The good news is that it doesn’t take a public health crisis for
countries to embrace these and other practical solutions. The
world’s second-largest economy has already shown they work, and
now it’s time for other nations to follow its lead.
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2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt of the Disposse
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By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2019, 4:52 pm
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[quote]“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United
States.” -- 19th Century Mexican President Porfirio Díaz[/quote]
[center]2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt
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By Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
December 15, 2019 | EDUCATE!
A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security
advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what
has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio
Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best
characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better
world against the barbarism of neoliberalism.
As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute.
What follows is a briefing on this crossroads. -more-
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orales later made clear that he viewed these events as a classic
right-wing military coup
By: AGelbert Date: December 23, 2019, 5:53 pm
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[center]Watch: Glenn Greenwald’s Exclusive Interview With Evo
Morales in Mexico City[/center]
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On November 10, Evo Morales, who served as president of Bolivia
for 13 years and presided over extraordinary economic growth and
a reduction of inequality praised even by his critics, announced
that he was resigning the presidency under duress, with implicit
threats from the Bolivian military. Morales later made clear
that he viewed these events as a classic right-wing military
coup of the kind that has plagued the continent for decades,
explaining that he was removed from his position by force and
then ultimately pressured by a police mutiny and military
threats to flee his own country.
Morales went to Mexico, where he was granted political asylum,
and lived under heavy security in Mexico City until being
granted refugee status in Argentina. On December 3, I sat with
Morales in Mexico City for an hourlong interview that was
wide-ranging in scope: not only about the events that led to his
removal and exile from Bolivia, but also broader trends in
regional and global politics, as well as the role played by the
U.S. in Latin America.
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Re: Elections outside the USA
By: Surly1 Date: February 11, 2020, 6:02 am
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Re: Elections outside the USA
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