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American politics are a mess, but around the world, lots of things are improving!

qz.com/1169003/the-99…
New cholera vaccine! Wow!
nytimes.com/2017/02/06/hea…
Soda sales are dropping! Die sugar industry die...

reuters.com/article/us-sod…
Zika has been defeated: sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/z…
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people in India are getting access to proper sanitation: gatesnotes.com/Development/In…
The end of coal is proceeding rapidly: endcoal.org/global-coal-pl…
UK carbon emissions are down to 1894 levels. Wow!
independent.co.uk/environment/uk…
Solar energy is responsible for 2% of all jobs being created in the United States!
cnbc.com/2017/02/07/sol…
In the U.S., teen suicide rates are falling, and LGBT suicides are falling especially fast: theguardian.com/us-news/2017/f…
The Netherlands has a bunch of refugees, but crime continues to plunge. Prisons are being closed, and turned into refugee housing! fastcompany.com/3067951/this-i…
Global deaths from terrorism have plunged. reliefweb.int/report/world/g…
PAKISTAN now recognizes more than two genders. vox.com/world/2017/6/2…
Mass incarceration in the United States continues to decrease: nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opi…
Bullying and violence have decreased in American schools!
apnews.com/73b134eca24142…
Executions have fallen dramatically around the world: bbc.com/news/world-395…
Racial discrimination is falling around the world: qz.com/983016/the-dat…
The bad guys are pushing hard on a few fronts, and have won a few victories.

But on 100 other fronts, progress is marching on.

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
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Hey, everybody! Today's post is about MMT, and about government budget deficits, and about what happens if you keep running infinite budget deficits.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
A theory called MMT (a new name, but not a new idea) is rapidly gaining currency (heh) among some segments of the left, especially the DSA. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken highly of it.

businessinsider.com/alexandria-oca…
MMT's central idea is that the government has no budget constraint. And, therefore, that you don't need taxes to pay for government spending.
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The core of the Green New Deal - a huge industrial policy push for green energy that will also directly employ a lot of working-class Americans - is a very centrist idea, and not a new idea by any means.
That core idea is a GREAT one. And we absolutely NEED to do it.

But I think we shouldn't package that core idea with pie-in-the-sky income redistribution that has little to do with climate change:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Also note that the Green New Deal has a little-discussed third idea - environmental justice - which is REALLY important, and is the single most under-emphasized idea on the left today.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Good point by @jbarro about MMT:
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
I find that MMT proponents tend to imply - but only their most dedicated, aggressive internet trolls explicitly state - that inflation is an impossible thing, and not worth worrying about at all.

And given recent experience in America and Japan, people will believe it.
BUT, as Barro notes, MMT is helping push back against the more entrenched and even more intuitive fallacy of austerianism.
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New: here's how hackers are defeating Gmail two-factor authentication at scale. Automating the process of sending a 2FA code to a target phone, phishing that, and passing it back to Google to login. This is within reach of lower level actors now. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Here's what the hackers' infrastructure is actually doing when bypassing 2FA; driving the browser to certain URLs to request and feed tokens (this example is for Yahoo but Amnesty, which found the campaign, said it is the same for Gmail) motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Although this particular campaign focused on defeating SMS 2FA, the same approach could likely be applied to grabbing Google Authenticator codes. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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Hey everyone. A very good evening to you all. Thanks for joining me and thank you @PBSfrontline for inviting me back to do another “live engagement” for tonight's #frontlinePBS special
The show begins in thirty minutes from now - at 9pm EST #frontlinePBS
I’d like to spend the next 25 minutes providing some background, data, links etc. that may be of interest to those of you wanting to learn more about the growing menace of hate crimes and violent extremism here in the US #frontlinePBS
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
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1. The weaponization of our society seems to cover just about every facet of #American lifestyle. From life's necessities to technology, to media, even our governing agencies. We have to ask: #WhereDoesItAllEnd?.. in #MartialLaw?

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Just #Lookup!.. it's not hard to spot But what are the motives? We've heard it all. #Chemtrails #OpChemtrails #HAARP
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