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Cita de: panoli en Septiembre 20, 2021, 17:01:39 pmhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/20/eat-the-rich-why-millennials-and-generation-z-have-turned-their-backs-on-capitalismCitarEat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalismHow anti-capitalism went mainstream. Illustration: Jacky Sheridan/The GuardianNearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?Mon 20 Sep 2021 10.00 BSTThe young are hungry and the rich are on the menu. This delicacy first appeared in the 18th century, when the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau supposedly declared: “When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich!” But today this phrase is all over Twitter and other social media. On TikTok, viral videos feature fresh-faced youngsters menacingly raising their forks at anyone with cars that have start buttons or fridges that have water and ice dispensers.So should the world’s billionaires – and fridge-owners – start sleeping with one eye open? Hardly. It’s clear that millennials (those born between the early 80s and the mid-90s) and zoomers (the following generation) are not really advocating violence. But it is also clear that this is more than just another viral meme.The world’s most famous leftwing millennial, New York’s rebellious Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, neatly sums up the generation’s zeitgeist. If leftism often seems to be the preserve of socially awkward nerds – hi! – and shouty older white men, she is the totem of the cool kids who like their redistribution of wealth and power with a hefty side order of mainstream popular culture.It doesn’t sit easily with some: when the congresswoman accepted a free invitation to the uber-exclusive Met Ball in a dress emblazoned with “Tax the rich”, even some leftists joined the right in puffed-up outrage. Whether you thought it was an audacious demand for the sickeningly rich to cough up at their own exclusive party – or a stunt compromised by taking place in a real-life version of The Hunger Games’s Capitol – it showed that elites can’t escape the young flexing their political muscles.According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly leftwing turn. Nearly 80% blame capitalism for the housing crisis, while 75% believe the climate emergency is “specifically a capitalist problem” and 72% back sweeping nationalisation. All in all, 67% want to live under a socialist economic system.With a seemingly hegemonic Tory party on a high after routing Corbynism, the IEA warned that the polling is a “wake-up call” for supporters of market capitalism. “The rejection of capitalism may be an abstract aspiration,” it says. “But so too was Brexit.” It’s a striking phenomenon on the other side of the Atlantic, too: a Harvard University study in 2016 found that more than 50% of young people in the heartland of laissez-faire economics reject capitalism, while a 2018 Gallup poll found that 45% of young Americans saw capitalism favourably, down from 68% in 2010.¡La culpa es del capitalimmmmo! ¡Muerte a los ricoh!No membrillos, la culpa es de vuestros padres y abuelos. Los mismos que votan en contra de nuevas leyes de urbanismo para mantener el valor de sus tesoros. Los mismos que tienen el transporte pagado, ayudas a la vivienda y cuidadores gratis pagados por las diferentes administraciones. Esa generación es la que ha acaparado recursos y está exprimiendo la teta pública como si les perteneciera por derecho. La generación que curraba 8 horas y ni un minuto más porque los sindicatos se echaban a la calle. La generación que tenía todo por construir y no tenía que competir con chinos ni países del tercer mundo.Ahora seguid diciendo que el capitalismo es malo y pedid un gobierno socialista. Menudas risas nos vamos a pegar todos cuando lo consigáis. Entonces sí que se va a cumplir eso de "no tendrás nada" (¿y serás feliz?)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/20/eat-the-rich-why-millennials-and-generation-z-have-turned-their-backs-on-capitalismCitarEat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalismHow anti-capitalism went mainstream. Illustration: Jacky Sheridan/The GuardianNearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?Mon 20 Sep 2021 10.00 BSTThe young are hungry and the rich are on the menu. This delicacy first appeared in the 18th century, when the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau supposedly declared: “When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich!” But today this phrase is all over Twitter and other social media. On TikTok, viral videos feature fresh-faced youngsters menacingly raising their forks at anyone with cars that have start buttons or fridges that have water and ice dispensers.So should the world’s billionaires – and fridge-owners – start sleeping with one eye open? Hardly. It’s clear that millennials (those born between the early 80s and the mid-90s) and zoomers (the following generation) are not really advocating violence. But it is also clear that this is more than just another viral meme.The world’s most famous leftwing millennial, New York’s rebellious Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, neatly sums up the generation’s zeitgeist. If leftism often seems to be the preserve of socially awkward nerds – hi! – and shouty older white men, she is the totem of the cool kids who like their redistribution of wealth and power with a hefty side order of mainstream popular culture.It doesn’t sit easily with some: when the congresswoman accepted a free invitation to the uber-exclusive Met Ball in a dress emblazoned with “Tax the rich”, even some leftists joined the right in puffed-up outrage. Whether you thought it was an audacious demand for the sickeningly rich to cough up at their own exclusive party – or a stunt compromised by taking place in a real-life version of The Hunger Games’s Capitol – it showed that elites can’t escape the young flexing their political muscles.According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly leftwing turn. Nearly 80% blame capitalism for the housing crisis, while 75% believe the climate emergency is “specifically a capitalist problem” and 72% back sweeping nationalisation. All in all, 67% want to live under a socialist economic system.With a seemingly hegemonic Tory party on a high after routing Corbynism, the IEA warned that the polling is a “wake-up call” for supporters of market capitalism. “The rejection of capitalism may be an abstract aspiration,” it says. “But so too was Brexit.” It’s a striking phenomenon on the other side of the Atlantic, too: a Harvard University study in 2016 found that more than 50% of young people in the heartland of laissez-faire economics reject capitalism, while a 2018 Gallup poll found that 45% of young Americans saw capitalism favourably, down from 68% in 2010.
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalismHow anti-capitalism went mainstream. Illustration: Jacky Sheridan/The GuardianNearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?Mon 20 Sep 2021 10.00 BSTThe young are hungry and the rich are on the menu. This delicacy first appeared in the 18th century, when the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau supposedly declared: “When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich!” But today this phrase is all over Twitter and other social media. On TikTok, viral videos feature fresh-faced youngsters menacingly raising their forks at anyone with cars that have start buttons or fridges that have water and ice dispensers.So should the world’s billionaires – and fridge-owners – start sleeping with one eye open? Hardly. It’s clear that millennials (those born between the early 80s and the mid-90s) and zoomers (the following generation) are not really advocating violence. But it is also clear that this is more than just another viral meme.The world’s most famous leftwing millennial, New York’s rebellious Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, neatly sums up the generation’s zeitgeist. If leftism often seems to be the preserve of socially awkward nerds – hi! – and shouty older white men, she is the totem of the cool kids who like their redistribution of wealth and power with a hefty side order of mainstream popular culture.It doesn’t sit easily with some: when the congresswoman accepted a free invitation to the uber-exclusive Met Ball in a dress emblazoned with “Tax the rich”, even some leftists joined the right in puffed-up outrage. Whether you thought it was an audacious demand for the sickeningly rich to cough up at their own exclusive party – or a stunt compromised by taking place in a real-life version of The Hunger Games’s Capitol – it showed that elites can’t escape the young flexing their political muscles.According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly leftwing turn. Nearly 80% blame capitalism for the housing crisis, while 75% believe the climate emergency is “specifically a capitalist problem” and 72% back sweeping nationalisation. All in all, 67% want to live under a socialist economic system.With a seemingly hegemonic Tory party on a high after routing Corbynism, the IEA warned that the polling is a “wake-up call” for supporters of market capitalism. “The rejection of capitalism may be an abstract aspiration,” it says. “But so too was Brexit.” It’s a striking phenomenon on the other side of the Atlantic, too: a Harvard University study in 2016 found that more than 50% of young people in the heartland of laissez-faire economics reject capitalism, while a 2018 Gallup poll found that 45% of young Americans saw capitalism favourably, down from 68% in 2010.
Ashmore Among Top Funds With Exposure to China’s Evergrande
The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing MachineIsraeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the father of Iran’s nuclear program, kept a low profile, and photographs of him were rare. This photo appeared on martyrdom posters after his death.Credit: Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times[...]
NYT: Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By an 'AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine' Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:34PM from the long-range-weapons dept.For 14 years Israel had wanted to kill Iran's chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons program, who they suspected of leading Iran's quest to build nuclear weapons.Then last November "they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present" using a "souped-up, remote-controlled machine gun," according to the New York Times:(Thanks to Slashdot readers schwit1 and PolygamousRanchKid for sharing this story.)CitarSince 2004, when the Israeli government ordered its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the agency had been carrying out a campaign of sabotage and cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment facilities. It was also methodically picking off the experts thought to be leading Iran's nuclear weapons program. Since 2007, its agents had assassinated five Iranian nuclear scientists and wounded another. Most of the scientists worked directly for Fakhrizadeh on what Israeli intelligence officials said was a covert program to build a nuclear warhead, including overcoming the substantial technical challenges of making one small enough to fit atop one of Iran's long-range missiles. Israeli agents had also killed the Iranian general in charge of missile development and 16 members of his team.But the man Israel said led the bomb program was elusive... This time they were going to try something new.Iranian agents working for the Mossad had parked a blue Nissan Zamyad pickup truck on the side of the road connecting Absard to the main highway. The spot was on a slight elevation with a view of approaching vehicles. Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62 mm sniper machine gun... The assassin, a skilled sniper, took up his position, calibrated the gun sights, cocked the weapon and lightly touched the trigger. He was nowhere near Absard, however. He was peering into a computer screen at an undisclosed location more than 1,000 miles away... Cameras pointing in multiple directions were mounted on the truck to give the command room a full picture not just of the target and his security detail, but of the surrounding environment...The time it took for the camera images to reach the sniper and for the sniper's response to reach the machine gun, not including his reaction time, was estimated to be 1.6 seconds, enough of a lag for the best-aimed shot to go astray.The AI was programmed to compensate for the delay, the shake and the car's speed.Ultimately 15 bullets were fired in less than 60 seconds. None of them hit Fakhrizadeh's wife, who was seated just inches away.The whole remote-controlled apparatus "was smuggled into the country in small pieces over several months," reports the Jerusalem Post, "because, taken together, all of its components would have weighed around a full ton."CitarOne new detail in the report was that the explosives used to destroy evidence of the remote-gun partially failed, leaving enough of the gun intact for the Iranians to figure out what had happened...While all Israeli intelligence and defense officials still praise the assassination for setting back Iran's nuclear weapons program dramatically, 10 months later and with the Islamic Republic an estimated one month away from producing sufficient enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb, the legacy of the operation is less clear... On the other hand, others say that even if Iran decides to move its uranium enrichment up to 90%, that is weaponized level, they still have to put together the other components of a nuclear weapon capability. These include tasks concerned with detonation and missile delivery. Fakhizadeh would have shone in these tasks and his loss will still be felt and slow down the ayatollahs.
Since 2004, when the Israeli government ordered its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the agency had been carrying out a campaign of sabotage and cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment facilities. It was also methodically picking off the experts thought to be leading Iran's nuclear weapons program. Since 2007, its agents had assassinated five Iranian nuclear scientists and wounded another. Most of the scientists worked directly for Fakhrizadeh on what Israeli intelligence officials said was a covert program to build a nuclear warhead, including overcoming the substantial technical challenges of making one small enough to fit atop one of Iran's long-range missiles. Israeli agents had also killed the Iranian general in charge of missile development and 16 members of his team.But the man Israel said led the bomb program was elusive... This time they were going to try something new.Iranian agents working for the Mossad had parked a blue Nissan Zamyad pickup truck on the side of the road connecting Absard to the main highway. The spot was on a slight elevation with a view of approaching vehicles. Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62 mm sniper machine gun... The assassin, a skilled sniper, took up his position, calibrated the gun sights, cocked the weapon and lightly touched the trigger. He was nowhere near Absard, however. He was peering into a computer screen at an undisclosed location more than 1,000 miles away... Cameras pointing in multiple directions were mounted on the truck to give the command room a full picture not just of the target and his security detail, but of the surrounding environment...The time it took for the camera images to reach the sniper and for the sniper's response to reach the machine gun, not including his reaction time, was estimated to be 1.6 seconds, enough of a lag for the best-aimed shot to go astray.The AI was programmed to compensate for the delay, the shake and the car's speed.
One new detail in the report was that the explosives used to destroy evidence of the remote-gun partially failed, leaving enough of the gun intact for the Iranians to figure out what had happened...While all Israeli intelligence and defense officials still praise the assassination for setting back Iran's nuclear weapons program dramatically, 10 months later and with the Islamic Republic an estimated one month away from producing sufficient enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb, the legacy of the operation is less clear... On the other hand, others say that even if Iran decides to move its uranium enrichment up to 90%, that is weaponized level, they still have to put together the other components of a nuclear weapon capability. These include tasks concerned with detonation and missile delivery. Fakhizadeh would have shone in these tasks and his loss will still be felt and slow down the ayatollahs.
Beijing unlikely to save Evergrande, report saysS&P Global Ratings, the credit rating agency, said in a report on Monday that Beijing "would only be compelled to step in if there is a far-reaching contagion causing multiple major developers to fail and posing systemic risks to the economy," according to Bloomberg. "Evergrande failing alone would unlikely result in such a scenario."
Asia markets fight for footing as investors fret over Evergrande crisisSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks struggled to shake off contagion fears on Tuesday and selling pressure persisted amid concern that troubles at indebted developer China Evergrande could ripple across the world economy, markets and financial system.
Senior EU official warns ‘something broken’ in transatlantic relationsThierry Breton, the EU’s internal markets commissioner, warned that “something is broken” in transatlantic relations, as Franco-American tensions over Washington’s new Indo-Pacific security pact threaten to spill over into trade and commerce. technology.Breton’s comments came after France tried to pressure Brussels to postpone the high-level US-EU trade and technology council (TTC) meeting to be held in Pittsburgh this month, angered by the handling of the Biden administration of its submarine agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom. .“Of course, there is a growing feeling in Europe that something is broken in our transatlantic relations,” Breton told the FT in an interview on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday.He added: “It is true that we hear some voices in Europe saying that probably after what happened in the last two months, it may be a good idea to re-evaluate everything that we are doing and our association.”The TTC has been heralded as an opportunity for the EU to further cooperation with the Biden administration in key areas such as semiconductor manufacturing and advanced technologies. But Breton, a former French finance minister and executive, suggested the chances for any major breakthrough were limited.“In this Council there are many things that we can see quite clearly what we can and will bring to the United States, it may not always be clear what the United States can bring us,” said Breton.“I strongly believe in cooperation between the United States and Europe because we have many common interests. And if this common interest coincides with the European interest, yes, why not? But it should match. ”France’s request to delay trade and technology talks is the latest in a series of diplomatic retaliations from the Emmanuel Macron government after France was excluded from a trilateral security partnership between the US, the UK and Australia.Paris’ request to delay EU talks with senior US officials would lead the bloc directly into the bilateral dispute. The European Commission will have to decide in the next few days whether to proceed with the meeting, which US and Brussels trade officials have been working on for weeks.Breton repeatedly declined to say whether or not the meeting would go as planned, saying that while some asked for a “break,” he had “no information” to offer.“I hope we can reconcile, but this is not done only with words, it is done with actions,” he said.The White House National Security Council said it had “warmly” welcomed the establishment of the TTC “for closer engagement and consultation on our shared interests,” which was launched at the EU-US summit. In June, he added: “We continue to plan for an inaugural TTC meeting in Pittsburgh on September 29.”France has accused Washington of treason, Canberra of duplicity and London of opportunism over the security alliance, dubbed Aukus. Paris withdrew its ambassadors from the United States and Australia and canceled a scheduled Franco-British meeting between the countries’ defense ministers this week.Aukus will allow Canberra to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and is designed to counter China’s military ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region. But it resulted in the cancellation of a $ 50 billion submarine contract between Paris and Canberra, the cornerstone of Macron’s Indo-Pacific strategy.An EU diplomat said France had made the request to postpone talks between the EU and the United States before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in New York on Monday at the UN general assembly. The request has sparked resistance from other member states who are wary of souring transatlantic relations over French grievances.
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Evergrande ficha a Houlihan Lokey, el fontanero de la crisis financiera españolaEl gigante chino, que mantiene en vilo a los mercados, ha contratado a la firma que participó en grandes operaciones de reestructuración como Martinsa Fadesa, Abengoa o Pescanovahttps://www.vozpopuli.com/economia_y_finanzas/evergrande-ficha-fontanero-crisis.html
Cita de: Cadavre Exquis en Septiembre 21, 2021, 08:10:10 am[...]De todo este jaleo de Evergrande hay una cosa que me sorprende. Lo fácil que se olvida la historia.El truco de "lo que los occidentales ya no nos compran lo consumiremos nosotros mismos" ya lo hizo Japón en los 80. Occidente pasó un bache con las crisis del petróleo y tuvo que bajar su consumo.Si tienes una economía exportadora dependes de tus clientes. Sin ellos, no tiene sentido producir la misma cantidad. El truco de las autocompras funciona un tiempo, pero no puedes vivir indefinidamente de eso, al final cae por su propio peso.Eso fue Japón en 1990, y lo que les pasó después se conoce de sobra.Lo que va a atravesar China es esencialmente eso mismo. El tiempo dirá si lo tenían planeado o si simplemente han caído en el viejo error de la huida hacia adelante para evitar una catarsis. En cualquier caso el gobierno chino ya ha visto que no podía dejar que la bola de nieve siguiese creciendo.Y esto mismo también lo hizo Japón en 1990, pinchó la burbuja a propósito. Tenían la esperanza de evitar una crisis dolorosa, pero aunque lleven 30 años estancados, al menos no han decrecido.Desde luego, todo lo que huela a "es hora de tragarse el sapo" es muy mala noticia para quienes tienen la patata caliente. No quieren ni oír hablar de ello.
CitarEvergrande ficha a Houlihan Lokey, el fontanero de la crisis financiera españolaEl gigante chino, que mantiene en vilo a los mercados, ha contratado a la firma que participó en grandes operaciones de reestructuración como Martinsa Fadesa, Abengoa o Pescanovahttps://www.vozpopuli.com/economia_y_finanzas/evergrande-ficha-fontanero-crisis.htmlSaludos.
China's Evergrande missed payments to 2 banks on Monday: reportChina's Evergrande Group on Monday missed interest payments to at least two of its bank creditors, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Banks had expected the payments to be missed after China's housing ministry warned that the company would be unable to pay on time, the report said, noting it was unclear whether the banks would declare Evergrande in default. Concerns about Evergrande were blamed Monday for a sharp selloff in global equities and other assets perceived as risky. U.S. stock-index futures pointed to a rebound on Tuesday.(...)