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🟡🧠🔨Ray Dalio Reveals the Hard Truth About America's Path Forward (Tone: 270)
Ray Dalio warns of America's shift towards industrial self-sufficiency & rising BRICS influence. Expect geopolitical & economic transformation. #Economy #Geopolitics
Posted on November 19th, 2024 by @TomBilyeu ABOUT THIS VIDEO: In this video, Ray Dalio discusses America’s economic, political, and geopolitical future. He outlines five key forces driving global changes, including debt cycles, internal political order, international relations, technological advancement, and acts of nature such as climate change. Dalio highlights a shift towards a more…
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#America First#BRICS nations#chip manufacturing#deregulation#Economic Growth#Economic Predictions#economic restructuring#education reform#geopolitical tension#global order#global power shift#government efficiency#industrial policy#international trade#Leadership Transition#manufacturing independence#modern monetary theory#national resilience#political reform#productivity reforms#protectionism#Ray Dalio#societal division#tariffs#technological self-sufficiency#U.S. dominance#U.S. economy#U.S.-China relations
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Trump's Plans for Government Overhaul and Budget Cuts
Trump’s Ambitious Plans for Government Overhaul President-elect Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he intends to tackle wasteful government spending head-on, vowing to terminate what he deems rogue bureaucrats and to reorganize federal agencies upon his return to power. However, the challenges associated with drastically cutting the budget and significantly reducing the federal workforce are…
#budget cuts#Department of Government Efficiency#Donald Trump#Elon Musk#federal agencies#federal budget#government efficiency#Manhattan Project#Vivek Ramaswamy#wasteful spending
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CMCI 2024: Parañaque falls down to 27th place among Highly Urbanized Cities on Competitiveness, finishes dead last on Government Efficiency
The latest results of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) for the year 2024 showed that the City of Parañaque fell down to 27th place among the 33 Highly Urbanized Cities (HUCs) in terms of Competitiveness when compared to last year’s results. Also for the 2nd straight year, Parañaque finished dead last at 33rd place in the category of Government Efficiency. Parañaque…
#Asia#Bagong Parañaque#Blog#blogger#blogging#Carlo Carrasco#cities#Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index#City Government of Parañaque#City of Parañaque#CMCI#economic dynamism#geek#governance#government efficiency#Highly Urbanized Cities (HUCs)#infrastructure#innovation#Metro Manila#National Capital Region (NCR)#NCR#news#Parañaque#Parañaque City#Parañaque news#Parañaque Renaissance#Philippines#Philippines blog#Pinoy#public service
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IAS Reshuffle in Jharkhand: Key Departments See Changes
Top bureaucrats reassigned in major administrative overhaul by state government The Jharkhand government has executed a significant reshuffling of IAS officers, impacting several key departments. RANCHI – A major administrative reorganization has been implemented by the Jharkhand government, resulting in the transfer and reassignment of numerous high-ranking IAS officials across various…
#administrative reorganization#राज्य#bureaucratic changes#departmental transfers#government efficiency#Jharkhand IAS reshuffle#key appointments#Mastram Meena#Nitin Madan Kulkarni#state#Sunil Kumar
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Engineers Believe Smart Contracts Can Revolutionize Governance in Nigeria
Despite arguments against local government #autonomy due to fears of #mismanagement, #corruption at the state level is demonstrably high. #Blockchain technology, particularly #smartcontracts, offers a secure and transparent solution for managing funds...
Can Blockchain Technology Solve Nigeria’s Local Government Woes? The debate over local government autonomy in Nigeria has resurfaced, and once again, the governors and naysayers seem to have the upper hand. The persistent belief that local government officials are merely appointees of state governors, rather than products of a legitimate electoral process, continues to undermine local…
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#bitcoin#blockchain#CBN#crypto#cryptocurrency#Ethereum#Government efficiency#LG Autonomy#smart contracts
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fortunately, or unfortunately, they only see each other like 3 times a year…
#danny phantom#danny fenton#valerie gray#college au#blood#gore#grayghost#they have a situationship for sure#but are so not on the same page#danny would have really liked this to go differently#but he lost track of time and his opponent got bored of waiting#Valerie hunts ghosts for the government#she’s more targeted and efficient than the giw#and travels a lot#but her home base is amity#where sometimes she sees fenton on weekends he’s home from school#he revealed his identity right before leaving for college#and she’s had a minute to sit with it#she’s very against the bridge thing#but keeps his identity secret#on the off chance she figures out how to get rid of phantom without harming danny#don’t worry tho she’ll get his ass for this#pheeeeew#this is probably (definitely) the most involved comic I’ve ever done#enjoy!
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just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they're just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.
war crimes aren't considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.
Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren't suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don't hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.
The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we're expected to celebrate both.
not bc they're Jewish. this isn't a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it's not evidence that antisemitism doesn't exist.
it's just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)
#this widespread support has NOTHING to do w Israelis being Jewish apart from evangelicals wanting to use them as pawns for armageddon#the primary reason this is all being treated like it's ok is cuz it's useful to the usa#i feel like this post is going to bring terrible ppl into my inbox but i'm gonna leave it rebloggable for now#if our (US+EU) governments push back at all it will be because it stops being useful to us#either because Israel isn't doing this as quickly & efficiently as promised and it looks like Palestine might actually do some damage#or if it otherwise becomes too politically costly by causing too much tension between the US & other nationstates#either allies like Saudi or if states we aren't quite ready to have war w seem to be ready to throw down over it
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The efficient healthcare is desired
#The efficient healthcare is desired#mental health#healthcare#health & fitness#health and wellness#healthylifestyle#health#healthcheckup#health center#politas#ausgov#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#class war#palestine#free palestine#freepalastine🇵🇸#wariscapitalism#waristerror#war is real#war is coming#exploitation
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Expert agencies and elected legislatures
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions
Since Trump hijacked the Supreme Court, his backers have achieved many of their policy priorities: legalizing bribery, formalizing forced birth, and – with the Loper Bright case, neutering the expert agencies that regulate business:
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/scotus-decisions-chevron-immunity-loper
What the Supreme Court began, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are now poised to finish, through the "Department of Government Efficiency," a fake agency whose acronym ("DOGE") continues Musk's long-running cryptocurrency memecoin pump-and-dump. The new department is absurd – imagine a department devoted to "efficiency" with two co-equal leaders who are both famously incapable of getting along with anyone – but that doesn't make it any less dangerous.
Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.
You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them. You could figure out how to assess the Common Core curriculum for pedagogical soundness. You could learn the material science needed to evaluate the soundness of the joists that hold the roof up over your head. You could acquire the biology and chemistry chops to decide whether you want to trust produce that's been treated with Monsanto's Roundup pesticides. You could do the same for cell biology, virology, and epidemiology and decide whether to wear a mask and/or get an MRNA vaccine and/or buy a HEPA filter.
You could do any of these. You might even be able to do two or three of them. But you can't do all of them, and that list is just a small slice of all the highly technical questions that stand between you and misery or an early grave. Practically speaking, you aren't going to develop your own robust meatpacking hygiene standards, nor your own water treatment program, nor your own Boeing 737 MAX inspection protocol.
Markets don't solve this either. If they did, we wouldn't have to worry about chunks of Boeing jets falling on our heads. The reason we have agencies like the FDA (and enabling legislation like the Pure Food and Drug Act) is that markets failed to keep people from being murdered by profit-seeking snake-oil salesmen and radium suppository peddlers.
These vital questions need to be answered by experts, but that's easier said than done. After all, experts disagree about this stuff. Shortcuts for evaluating these disagreements ("distrust any expert whose employer has a stake in a technical question") are crude and often lead you astray. If you dismiss any expert employed by a firm that wants to bring a new product to market, you will lose out on the expertise of people who are so legitimately excited about the potential improvements of an idea that they quit their jobs and go to work for whomever has the best chance of realizing a product based on it. Sure, that doctor who works for a company with a new cancer cure might just be shilling for a big bonus – but maybe they joined the company because they have an informed, truthful belief that the new drug might really cure cancer.
What's more, the scientific method itself speaks against the idea of there being one, permanent answer to any big question. The method is designed as a process of continual refinement, where new evidence is continuously brought forward and evaluated, and where cherished ideas that are invalidated by new evidence are discarded and replaced with new ideas.
So how are we to survive and thrive in a world of questions we ourselves can't answer, that experts disagree about, and whose answers are only ever provisional?
The scientific method has an answer for this, too: refereed, adversarial peer review. The editors of major journals act as umpires in disputes among experts, exercising their editorial discernment to decide which questions are sufficiently in flux as to warrant taking up, then asking parties who disagree with a novel idea to do their damndest to punch holes in it. This process is by no means perfect, but, like democracy, it's the worst form of knowledge creation except for all others which have been tried.
Expert regulators bring this method to governance. They seek comment on technical matters of public concern, propose regulations based on them, invite all parties to comment on these regulations, weigh the evidence, and then pass a rule. This doesn't always get it right, but when it does work, your medicine doesn't poison you, the bridge doesn't collapse as you drive over it, and your airplane doesn't fall out of the sky.
Expert regulators work with legislators to provide an empirical basis for turning political choices into empirically grounded policies. Think of all the times you've heard about how the gerontocracy that dominates the House and the Senate is incapable of making good internet policy because "they're out of touch and don't understand technology." Even if this is true (and sometimes it is, as when Sen Ted Stevens ranted about the internet being "a series of tubes," not "a dump truck"), that doesn't mean that Congress can't make good internet policy.
After all, most Americans can safely drink their tap water, a novelty in human civilization, whose history amounts to short periods of thriving shattered at regular intervals by water-borne plagues. The fact that most of us can safely drink our water, but people who live in Flint (or remote indigenous reservations, or Louisiana's Cancer Alley) can't tells you that these neighbors of ours are being deliberately poisoned, as we know precisely how not to poison them.
How did we (most of us) get to the point where we can drink the water without shitting our guts out? It wasn't because we elected a bunch of water scientists! I don't know the precise number of microbiologists and water experts who've been elected to either house, but it's very small, and their contribution to good sanitation policy is negligible.
We got there by delegating these decisions to expert agencies. Congress formulates a political policy ("make the water safe") and the expert agency turns that policy into a technical program of regulation and enforcement, and your children live to drink another glass of water tomorrow.
Musk and Ramaswamy have set out to destroy this process. In their Wall Street Journal editorial, they explain that expert regulation is "undemocratic" because experts aren't elected:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020
They've vowed to remove "thousands" of regulations, and to fire swathes of federal employees who are in charge of enforcing whatever remains:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301975/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-plan
And all this is meant to take place on an accelerated timeline, between now and July 4, 2026 – a timeline that precludes any meaningful assessment of the likely consequences of abolishing the regulations they'll get rid of.
"Chesterton's Fence" – a thought experiment from the novelist GK Chesterton – is instructive here:
There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
A regulation that works might well produce no visible sign that it's working. If your water purification system works, everything is fine. It's only when you get rid of the sanitation system that you discover why it was there in the first place, a realization that might well arrive as you expire in a slick of watery stool with a rectum so prolapsed the survivors can use it as a handle when they drag your corpse to the mass burial pits.
When Musk and Ramaswamy decry the influence of "unelected bureaucrats" on your life as "undemocratic," they sound reasonable. If unelected bureaucrats were permitted to set policy without democratic instruction or oversight, that would be autocracy.
Indeed, it would resemble life on the Tesla factory floor: that most autocratic of institutions, where you are at the mercy of the unelected and unqualified CEO of Tesla, who holds the purely ceremonial title of "Chief Engineer" and who paid the company's true founders to falsely describe him as its founder.
But that's not how it works! At its best, expert regulations turns political choices in to policy that reflects the will of democratically accountable, elected representatives. Sometimes this fails, and when it does, the answer is to fix the system – not abolish it.
I have a favorite example of this politics/empiricism fusion. It comes from the UK, where, in 2008, the eminent psychopharmacologist David Nutt was appointed as the "drug czar" to the government. Parliament had determined to overhaul its system of drug classification, and they wanted expert advice:
https://locusmag.com/2021/05/cory-doctorow-qualia/
To provide this advice, Nutt convened a panel of drug experts from different disciplines and asked them to rate each drug in question on how dangerous it was for its user; for its user's family; and for broader society. These rankings were averaged, and then a statistical model was used to determine which drugs were always very dangerous, no matter which group's safety you prioritized, and which drugs were never very dangerous, no matter which group you prioritized.
Empirically, the "always dangerous" drugs should be in the most restricted category. The "never very dangerous" drugs should be at the other end of the scale. Parliament had asked how to rank drugs by their danger, and for these categories, there were clear, factual answers to Parliament's question.
But there were many drugs that didn't always belong in either category: drugs whose danger score changed dramatically based on whether you were more concerned about individual harms, familial harms, or societal harms. This prioritization has no empirical basis: it's a purely political question.
So Nutt and his panel said to Parliament, "Tell us which of these priorities matter the most to you, and we will tell you where these changeable drugs belong in your schedule of restricted substances." In other words, politicians make political determinations, and then experts turn those choices into empirically supported policies.
This is how policy by "unelected bureaucrats" can still be "democratic."
But the Nutt story doesn't end there. Nutt butted heads with politicians, who kept insisting that he retract factual, evidence-supported statements (like "alcohol is more harmful than cannabis"). Nutt refused to do so. It wasn't that he was telling politicians which decisions to make, but he took it as his duty to point out when those decisions did not reflect the policies they were said to be in support of. Eventually, Nutt was fired for his commitment to empirical truth. The UK press dubbed this "The Nutt Sack Affair" and you can read all about it in Nutt's superb book Drugs Without the Hot Air, an indispensable primer on the drug war and its many harms:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/drugs-without-the-hot-air-9780857844989/
Congress can't make these decisions. We don't elect enough water experts, virologists, geologists, oncology researchers, structural engineers, aerospace safety experts, pedagogists, gerontoloists, physicists and other experts for Congress to turn its political choices into policy. Mostly, we elect lawyers. Lawyers can do many things, but if you ask a lawyer to tell you how to make your drinking water safe, you will likely die a horrible death.
That's the point. The idea that we should just trust the market to figure this out, or that all regulation should be expressly written into law, is just a way of saying, "you will likely die a horrible death."
Trump – and his hatchet men Musk and Ramaswamy – are not setting out to create evidence-based policy. They are pursuing policy-based evidence, firing everyone capable of telling them how to turn the values espouse (prosperity and safety for all Americans) into policy.
They dress this up in the language of democracy, but the destruction of the expert agencies that turn the political will of our representatives into our daily lives is anything but democratic. It's a prelude to transforming the nation into a land of epistemological chaos, where you never know what's coming out of your faucet.
#pluralistic#politics#political science#department of government efficiency#loper bright#chevron deference#david nutt#drugs#regulation#democracy#democratic accountability#ukpoli#nutt sack affair#war on drugs#war on some drugs
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The Department of Government Efficiency [D.O.G.E.] is officially a reality. Elon Musk is now the head of a federal agency. Vivek Ramaswamy is now one of the most powerful men on earth. Damn it feels good to be MAGA.
#department of government efficiency#doge#elon musk#vivek ramaswamy#trump administration#donald trump#president trump#republicans#politics#us politics#american politics#make america great again#maga#united states#usa#america#2024
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Department logo just dropped
#doge#department of government efficiency#elon musk#manchild strikes again#at least it's funny this time
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this isn’t what i meant when i said wanted more autistic people in the white house
#never said it in the first place but my point still stands#elon musk#department of government efficiency#here we go again#autism#autistic#actually autistic#asd#autism spectrum disorder#on the spectrum#autistic problems#autism problems
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CMCI 2024: Muntinlupa is the 4th Most Competitive Highly Urbanized City of the nation, 1st on Innovation
The latest results of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) for the year 2024 showed that the City of Muntinlupa is now the 4th Most Competitive Highly Urbanized City (HUC) of the nation as well as a very high finisher among other categories including 1st place on Innovation. Muntinlupa City, which was the 5th Most Competitive last year, scored 53.5967 points in total on…
#achievements#Asia#awards#Blog#blogger#blogging#Carlo Carrasco#cities#Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index#City Government of Muntinlupa#City of Muntinlupa#CMCI#competition#competitiveness#economic dynamism#geek#governance#government efficiency#Highly Urbanized Cities (HUCs)#infrastructure#innovation#Metro Manila#most competitive city#Muntinlupa#Muntinlupa City#news#Philippines#Philippines blog#Pinoy#public service
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How come almost every rechargeable device in the world has a lithium battery which will one day, at the end of its life, swell up into a ticking time-bomb full of fire and toxic gas, and yet whenever this happens and I phone up my local council waste management department/recycling center/fire safety advice hotline like "Hi, i have a bomb, who do i give it to" they're all like
#'Put it in a metal bucket outside with some sand' AND THEN WHAT?#IT STAYS THERE? FOREVER??#The fire dept was like 'IDK take it to the tip or to a mobile phone shop'#and the tip and all the mobile phone shops were like 'I don't want this'#'We take regular LI batteries but this is now a Hazardous Material. Ask the council'#And the council was like 'IDK. Ask the fire department'#British government efficiency at its finest
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Trump names Elon Musk to lead government efficiency drive.
via Reuters
This doesn't strike fear and loathing into every fiber of my being. Elon Musk and co-lead Vivek Ramaswamy don't make me despair for our government and our very country.
Except, you know, they do. I'm fucking terrified.
#news#us politics#reuters#donald trump#fuck trump#elon musk#vivek ramaswamy#government efficiency drive wtf#election 2024
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