Anonymous ID: cde36b July 17, 2020, 1:02 a.m. No.9985506   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5543 >>5618 >>5722 >>5730

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Modern Monetary Theory: How MMT is challenging the economic establishment

 

a good introduction to the crazy imo theory of MMT, and how governments can borrow and print money to finance spending almost infinitely without consequences. Closely tied to the political left, ie Bernie Sanders et al

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-17/what-is-modern-monetary-theory/12455806

Anonymous ID: cde36b July 17, 2020, 2:08 a.m. No.9985731   🗄️.is 🔗kun

South-East Asian countries are using the COVID-19 pandemic to silence their critics. But these women are fighting back

 

Observers are worried these incidents and other recent examples in other Asian nations are a sign of a broader shift to supress free speech.

Earlier this month, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet raised the alarm about a clampdown on freedom of expression during the pandemic.

She said there were reports in at least 12 Asian countries of arrests for expressing discontent or allegedly spreading false information through the press and social media.

 

That included Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-17/cambodia-malaysia-coronavirus-covid-19-free-speech-crackdown/12454124