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Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire A British government operation established to counter Russian disinformation has expanded to Iran, China and Gaza, according to leaked Foreign Office files examined by David Miller, a British political sociologist and investigative researcher specialising in the study of propaganda and political influence. Miller’s investigation for MintPress News draws on internal government pages and an organizational…

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South Korean shipping operator Sinokor Group has offered crews six months of extra salary for a return voyage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a document seen by Bloomberg and cited in a July 20 report. The offer follows a wave of attacks that have killed 17 seafarers and disrupted commercial shipping in and…

The numbers came in just after dawn on the East Coast, and they told a story that no amount of White House spin could obscure. Oil futures had stabilized at $86 per barrel overnight—a figure that would have seemed catastrophic eighteen months ago but now represented a temporary reprieve from the $119 spike that had…

Trading volumes across major centralized platforms fell down to $1.05 trillion, marking the quietest stretch of activity for the digital asset market in over two years. The early freewheeling era of crypto trading took a final blow as BitMEX announced it would permanently shut down its operations in September. The platform, famous for inventing the perpetual…

I really don’t understand the tremendous apathy that I am witnessing right now. Everyone can see that commercial oil inventories are rapidly being depleted. As I discussed yesterday, the global oil market had about 400 million barrels of excess inventory before the war, and now we have “close to nothing”. But at least we still have the…

For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” powerfully captured the essence of the concept of “Mistress of the Seas,” a…

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, 1987 The economy has been growing steadily since we started to recover from the 2020 pandemic and shutdown; the unemployment rate is and has been near the bottom of the range normally considered to be full employment; and, wages adjusted…

Record Labor Force Dropouts The number of Americans age 16 and over not in the labor force reached an estimated 111 million in July, according to a report from ActivistPost.com citing government data, surpassing levels seen during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. A separate analysis from March 2024 placed the figure at…

Nineteen years in. Employee of the quarter twice. “Our most valuable asset,” they said it at the all-hands on Wednesday and everybody clapped. Thursday he’s walking to his truck at 9:15 in the morning with a cardboard box, and his badge stopped working while he was still in the room. Nobody in that building lost…