kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Sweden tops Europe COVID-19 deaths per capita over last seven days

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN22V26A

Very interesting feature of economy is Russia is large percentage of people employed in all kind of "security" jobs - army, security services, national guard and a dozen of others. Out of 75m "economically active" citizens over 4.4m is employed in government "security" plus another 2.4m in private security sector, 9% in total.

P.S. before you comment "what about America", please go and bring the data here so we have something to compare :)

"We will have phased out nuclear energy by 2022. We have a very difficult problem, that almost the only sources of energy that will be able to provide baseload power are coal and lignite. We cannot do without baseload energy. Natural gas will play a greater role for another few decades. I believe we would be well advised to admit that if we phase out coal and nuclear energy then we have to be honest and tell people that we’ll need more natural gas.."

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/speech-by-federal-chancellor-angela-merkel-at-the-49th-world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-in-davos-on-23-january-2019-1574188

#Energiewende

Margarita Simonyan: "Coronavirus only infects ethnical Chinese" (now you understand why she's head of Russia Today)

Imagine where we are in terms of general education if in 2020 this picture has hundreds of likes and retweets with comments like "WOW BEES RESPECT HOLY ICON" and nobody mentions pigments in oil paint... 🤦‍♂️

И есть тоже по-русски 🇷🇺

Джулиан Саймон "Неисчерпаемый ресурс (The Ultimate Resource)"

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=4D598C72E29C6C6109B4B19DEB3BB2FE

If you're looking for a fat facts-filled book on environment and economy, that is in addition slightly optimistic - this one is available in full for free.

Julian Simon "The Ultimate Resource II: People, Materials, and Environment" (1998)

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/

For convenience you might prefer the PDF version

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5222531522477C18CF5BDA3286176ECB

"Three Russian billionaires lead the list of wealthiest UK citizens"

The problem is that once you take control over judiciary and media, you can't do significant reforms even if you want. Or even if you desperately need them because your economy is crumbling.

You're effectively a hostage of the people you lifted to power, all those anonymous officials who were placed in privileged position just by their political affiliation rather than merit.

Now, whether it's good for the countries is another question. Putin took the country with skyrocketing oil prices... and nobody cared about social and economic reforms as the money was trickling down.

Poland's economy is now also blooming now which conveniently serves as a proof that PiS "is doing everything right".

A massive scandal in #poland these days 🇵🇱 Polish state radio deleted a song by a popular artist (Kazik) as they realized it's critical to the ruling party. As result lots of artist boycotted them, shitstorm in social media etc.

What people don't understand is the ruling PiS party simply doesn't care. If you want to know what happens next, look at Russia in 2000's 🇷🇺 and Hungary in 2010's 🇭🇺 . They did not care as they took control over the judiciary and media as they had popular support.