Caleb James DeLisle @cjd@mastodon.social

"#China is forcing its Muslim minority to wear state-issued tracking devices while they perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage. A whole new terrifying level of surveillance"

https://twitter.com/Rowaida_Abdel/status/1025030922633129985

Opinion: Picture

JPMorgan Now Expects Trump to Put Tariffs on Absolutely Everything China Sells to the U.S.

"JPMorgan has adopted a new baseline that assumes a U.S.-China endgame involving 25% U.S. tariffs on all Chinese goods in 2019"

"growth forecasts for both the U.S. and China aren’t much affected"

Opinion: Elephant in the room: Who is cooking their books (worse) ?

http://fortune.com/2018/10/01/jpmorgan-trump-china-tariffs-trade-war/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article

I would say #China more or less out of the #ParisAccord

"Beijing will not renew significant cuts on steel production and coal use this winter ... regulators are replacing hard caps on coal use and steel production with less stringent targets, weakening draft guidelines put out in August"

https://twitter.com/laurimyllyvirta/status/1046780462700646401

"The bond market has voted on the Italian budget. It said no."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-02/the-bond-market-is-not-impressed-with-italy-s-budget

Analysis: Bond yields rising means fewer people want to lend to Italy. It's kind of like the stock price of Italy going down. Everybody knows the ECB is secretly buying up Italian debt with printed €€, perhaps they are behind the yield spike, hard to know...

Prediction: Next election cycle they're going to get chucked out on their butts.
Opinion: I have concerns about the moral maturity of the challengers. #HopingForTheBest

France freezes Iranian [intelligence service] assets over Paris bomb plot said thwarted by Mossad

https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1047076967428718592

7 days ago: "EU Member States will set up a legal entity to facilitate legitimate financial transactions with #Iran."

https://twitter.com/eu_commission/status/1044511323973914624

Opinion: EU elite apparently so obsessively anti-Trump & anti-Israel that they will rather do business with an actual rogue state which takes their money and uses it to bomb Europeans.

"I have a very different impression about the type of people who are managing the creation of the surveillance bureaucracy in the United States"

"I think they’re mostly lawyers, the sort of lawyers who write briefs excusing torture."

"I don’t think they’re evil people. Evil would require too much effort. But they are douches. Meaning they are casual in their thoughtlessness."

"Meaning they tend to treat others as a means to an end rather than as an end in themselves."

https://www.epsilontheory.com/from-thugs-to-douche-bros-the-evolution-of-the-surveillance-state/

"DENMARK TO BAN SALES OF FOSSIL FUEL CARS IN 2030"

https://twitter.com/moved_average/status/1047068045410279424

FTSE #Italy Banks Index in free fall. Plunges to lowest since 2017.

https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1047029596774961152

Opinion: What dems did is same as Hamas putting rocket launchers next to apartment buildings. GOP *will* "bomb the launcher" (appoint K) b/c they need red SCOTUS nomination, that's just the game. "apartment building" (cultural recognition of sex crimes as crimes) *will* be damaged.

People get away w/ sex crimes all the time, it's tragic, but a senate confirmation hearing is not a court of law. There will be no justice served here, only a political dog-and-pony show.

"BREAKING: Multiple sources now telling me 3 additional investigations are about to open:
1. FBI - felony lying to Congress by accusers making false claims.
2. Congress - Feinstein's handling of Ford letter.
3. DC Bar - into Ford’s attorneys malpractice."
https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1046505561309810688

2/

Regardless of whether he did it (lets assume he did) - I'm no expert but I've never heard anybody say that sex assault cases should be handled "in the court of public opinion".

Connecting it to partisan struggle over political leaning of SCOTUS strikes me as a recipe for disaster.

Here we go:
WSJ reports: Sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell in memo to senators, "I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case."
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1046629551562985472

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#Russia placed on notice ahead of US midterm election:

https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1046461290158477313

Hours before the deadline, #Canada finally signs on to new #NAFTA agreement.

New agreement imposes racheting quotas, forcing Canada to slowly stop pipelining Chinese goods into the US.

But, capitulating to environmentalists, Canada has already destroyed it's industrial base, must build factories or else become a desert.

MCGA ?

https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1046621611330277377

#Twitter
It’s a war out there right now, and by war I mean game.

"Even the rage engagement is not real rage. It’s a faux rage. No one writes a snarky reply to @realDonaldTrump because they’re really engaging with The Donald. No, they’re posting to their mirror engagement crew, who they know is also in a rage engagement with @realDonaldTrump."

https://www.epsilontheory.com/a-game-of-you/

I don't remember who gave me the link to Dunter crypto-government (I'm calling it a government because it is bigger than a simple cryptocurrency).

Finally looked at the intro, it looks very workable.

Copying the design of modern liberal democratic countries (voting, money, law) is a good way to get a cryptocurency which works well...

Excellent take against Kavanaugh, and the entire private school fancy university, fraternity hazing power culture:
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1046044213991870472

#TheAristocrats