Source: The Hill
by Juan Williams

“What happens to reality TV shows when they go into summer reruns? The ratings sink. That’s also true for a reality TV show host when the audience gets tired of seeing him repeat the same old act. Before the 2018 election, President Trump screamed about a caravan of menacing immigrants approaching the border. For the 2020 election, he is fear-mongering by shouting about chaos and anarchy in cities run by Democrats. As with all reruns, the ratings go down. Now Trump is whining. Last week, he stood in the White House briefing room in front of a national television audience and asked why Dr. Anthony Fauci is so popular.” (08/03/20)

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/510205-juan-williams-the-trump-show-grows-tired

Source: CounterPunch
by Linda G Ford

独立自主！长征五号火箭担当 中国火星探测器7月发射_科技 ...:2021-5-25 · 2021年，我国的火星探测任务正式批准立项，计划在“十三五”规划收官之年，也就是2021年，首次独立自主开展火星探测。据航天科技集团官方消息，当前，我国正在按计划推进“天问一号”火星探测这一重大工程，今年7月，长征五号运载火箭将会发射火星探测器。

http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/03/free-joy-powell-americas-political-prisoner-for-fighting-police-brutality/

Source: Cobden Centre
by Keith Weiner

“Dear Mr. Horan and Mercatus …. You ask the question: Is a Gold Standard Practical Today? The question is more urgent than ever. But your answer does not really answer the question. The lede of your article asserts without evidence, ‘Despite the strengths of a gold standard system, there are better alternatives.’ And in the first paragraph, you commit a logical fallacy that you reuse later in the article, ‘ … it would be immensely difficult to implement in today’s world of modern central banks.’ You have reversed the cart and the horse. You take central banks as a fact of nature, and ask if the gold standard would fit. Instead, you should ask if central banks fit the needs of market participants in a free society.” (08/03/20)

http://www.cobdencentre.org/2020/08/open-letter-to-mercatus-center/

Source: Common Dreams
by Paul Buchheit

“The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to impoverish millions of people around the world, in both developing and advanced countries. But many Americans refuse to allow their nation to be compared to a developing country. Their poverty definitions are simplistic, based on globally calculated ‘dollars per day’ numbers that ignore critical aspects of day-to-day survival in the world’s poorest communities. … Poverty is not just the lack of money and possessions. The World Bank defines poverty as the pronounced deprivation of well-being. The UK’s Poverty and Social Exclusion project lists numerous indicators of deprivation that contribute to poverty.” (08/03/20)

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/03/comparing-poverty-india-and-america-may-surprise-you

Source: FiveThirtyEight
by Maggie Koerth & Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

“Will you get robbed this year? How would you rate your chances? Over 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, the national Survey of Economic Expectations asked respondents to do just that. People estimated their risks for a whole host of bad-news life events — robbery, burglary, job loss and losing their health insurance. But the survey didn’t just ask respondents to rate their chances: It also asked whether those things had actually happened to them in the last year. And that combination of questions revealed something important about American fear: We are terrible at estimating our risk of crime — much worse than we are at guessing the danger of other bad things. Across that decade, respondents put their chance of being robbed in the coming year at about 15 percent. Looking back, the actual rate of robbery was 1.2 percent.” (08/03/20)

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