Sunday, December 21, 2025

Links 12/21/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: An Ideal Husband (1969) Run Time: 1H 22M Bonus: Woo!

An Ideal Husband is a humourous play about past mistakes and future serendipities.

These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.

Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?

Links 12/20/2025

Michael Hudson: Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony

Why Trump’s National Security Strategy and his efforts to shore up dollar dominance are proofs of weakness.

Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?

Why alarmism about public debt is fundamentally misguided.

Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines

Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?”  Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]

Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador

Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.

Links 12/19/2025

Shining a Light on How Exxon Mobil Indirectly Funds Think Tank “Experts” Calling for Regime-Change War in Venezuela

When Trump talks about Venezuela stealing US oil, he’s almost certainly talking about Exxon Mobil’s oil. 

“The Truth Behind Trump’s Aggressive Venezuela Strategy”

An explanation of why US belligerence against Venezuela is not about exploiting its oil. So what is it about?

Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious

Unpacking the data crime in the new inflation report: a bizarre fall in housing costs, aka Owners Equivalent of Rent, which is 26% of CPI.

‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting

‘Emotional loading’ is a technique used in the coverage of Bondi Beach to shape the narrative and sideline critical analysis

“Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”

The elites, including those in science, seem to think that their loss of legitimacy can be solved by messaging. Good luck with that.

Links 12/18/2025