October 31, 2022

Brazil election: Bolsonaro yet to concede after Lula's win Published 58 minutes ago

(Talk about something from the foregone conclusion files)

More than 17 hours after Brazil's electoral chief declared Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of the presidential election, defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has yet to concede.

The far-right president is said to have gone to sleep after he narrowly lost to his left-wing arch rival.

His silence is raising concern that he may not accept the result.

He has in the past cast unfounded doubts on the voting system.

More deja vu at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63451859

October 30, 2022

Putin's war: scenarios for the short, medium & long term - Geopolitics with Alex Stubb

Alex Stubb is a former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Finland.

How many of us got it 100% right?

Kudos to him for admitting his own mistakes and crediting Poland and the Baltic states for getting it right.

October 15, 2022

Hooray! Somebody else finally said it--the stock market is hyperinflated

October 15, 2022

Don't you think that Russian TV is full of propaganda?

People weren't saying this stuff just four months ago. I have to like the woman who says she only tunes in to get a dose of cringe.