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Just doing LJ office work, here.  I'll be posting more on COVID long-haulers over at anti_viral, and then more about how the vaccines have been countre-productive.  So, please keep an eye on that comminity.  The tag for long-haulers there is TAGI see I don't have a specific tag for that, here, in this journal.  You here enough of CFS, anyway.  I do have a ( Read more... )

The Holy Grail will be found within the next 12 years.

Can you guess why I say this?

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Have you ever foreseen, or correctly predicted, the future ( Read more... )

Sanders will do well in Nevada today.  Why?  He has done well, working for the Hispanic vote.  But, also because since Bloomberg is now in, there will be a general rush to support Sanders, (as the strongest against Trump), versus the Dem billionaire. But Warren and Pete B. will do alright, since they did well in the debate.  I think it will be: ( Read more... )

Why is populism suddenly all the rage?

In 1998, about 300 Guardian articles mentioned populism. In 2016, 2,000 did. What happened?
• Revealed: how populists tripled their vote over 20 years

Populism is sexy. Particularly since 2016 - the year of the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump - it seems as if journalists just cannot get ( Read more... )

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