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Russia, China conduct MASSIVE military exercises in Siberia, and the images are incredible
Here is a look at the massive “Vostok” (meaning “East”) annual military exercise taking place in Siberia in eastern Russia this week and next. This particular run of the war games is huge, with Chinese troops participating in the drills – the first time even on Russian sovereign soil.
President Putin opened a spectacular troop review that saw Russian and Chinese armor, troops and warplanes parade through a training ground in Siberia. The parade was part of the Vostok 2018 exercise, the biggest in decades.
Maximum Overdrive – The Best Film of All Time?
From coke machine gun sequences to minute-long post sequences, the possibility that Maximum Overdrive is the real origin of Skynet and the Transformers – and possibly one of the greatest, deepest films of all time. Given Stephen King’s drug problem at the time, it should have been called Maximum Overdose.
CRASHED: Long version of my Observer review of Adam Tooze’s new book on the Crash of 2008
Every so often humanity manages genuinely to surprise itself. Events to which we had previously assigned zero probability push us into what the ancient Greeks referred to as aporia: a state of intense bafflement urgently demanding a new model of the world we live in. The Crash of 2008 was such a moment. Suddenly, the world ceased to make sense in terms of what, a few weeks before, passed as conventional wisdom – even McDonald’s, for goodness’ sake, could not secure an overdraft from Bank of America!
Hollywood’s Eyes Wide Shut Reality – Warski Live & Jay Dyer: Guest: Sean Stone 7PM EST
Streaming live tonight here at Andy Warski’s channel at 7PM EST.
“La batalla de Varoufakis contra el ‘establishment’ europeo es el libro del año” – Review of Adults in the Room (Spanish edition) in El Confidencial, by RAMÓN GONZÁLEZ FÉRRIZ
El libro de memorias de Yanis Varoufakis sobre sus poco más de cinco meses como ministro de Finanzas griego, ‘Comportarse como adultos. Mi batalla contra el establishment europeo‘, (Deusto) es, probablemente, el libro del año.
Review of French edition of Adults in the Room – in LE GRAND CONTINENT
« Nous allons, en même temps que le possesseur d’argent et le possesseur de force de travail, quitter cette sphère bruyante où tout se passe à la surface et aux regards de tous, pour les suivre tous deux dans le laboratoire secret de la production, sur le seuil duquel il est écrit : no admittance except on business. »
– Marx, Le Capital
Allein gegen die Troika (Alone with the troika) – review of German edition of ‘Adults in the Room’, by Wilfried Loth in FAZ
Schon als Minister legte er Wert auf große Gesten. Yanis Varoufakis bleibt sich auch in diesem Buch treu.
Varoufakis: “No se engañen, la crisis sigue ahí: el euro corre peligro” – El Pais, 2/1/2018
El exministro de Finanzas griego ha publicado un libro sobre las entretelas de la política europea
Yanis Varoufakis, exministro de Finanzas de Grecia. Barcelona, 9 de noviembre de 2017 ALBERT GARCIA