EDITORS—We know that America has been fighting the Battle of the Bulge for a long time, and losing, but its usual partner in crime, Britain, is also afflicted by the fat epidemic. In this powerful documentary we get an inside look at the NHS hospital fighting the obesity epidemic in the UK. Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv One of the UK’s biggest and busiest obesity units opens its doors to allow an exclusive insight into the battle with the bulge. Sunderland Royal Hospital is at the heart of one of the fattest places in the country and deals with thousands of patients turning to surgery to beat their obesity. But before they go under the knife, they need to come to terms with why they’re overeating. At 47 stone, 29-year-old Terry is one of the biggest patients the unit has ever treated.
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KARL SANCHEZ—Most will have heard that POTUS Joe Biden has withdrawn as the D-Party POTUS candidate/nominee, but as the graphic suggests was he really “running the nation”, and what does that really entail anyway? General policy continuity has continued for over 40 years and will continue regardless Trump or Harris—even a Stein won’t be able to change much given the enormity of the task because Congress will still be hostile.
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EDITORS—Both analysts believe this was not so much incompetence but a well planned operation that failed due to those things that no one can predict and prepare for, Like Trump moving his head angle a fraction of a second before the assassin’s bullet hit home. The Establishment…The Democrats have been trying to kill Donald Trump politically forever. They tried the courts, and it failed. Now they went for this. How do we explain we have a kid with a phone with 20 encrypted channels, with links overseas. Regarding the Ukraine and Palestine, both experts think that it’s too early to tell the details, but it’s rather clear that Trump will not change US posture toward Israel, perhaps making it a bit worse, and that Ukraine and Zelensky are finished. But, ultimately, despite his braggart’s and bully’s instincts, Trump is also a pragmatist. When reality hits him between the eyes, he reaches out for negotiations. In that sense, he’s better than Biden, who was frozen in his criminally mediocre and devious policy of supporting Israel at any price. Trump might end up negotiating with Hamas.
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JAMES PURTILL—China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear. While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China may meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month, according to a report.
What’s next?
Energy experts are looking to China, the world’s largest emitter and once a climate villain, for lessons on how to rapidly decarbonise. While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables. New figures show the pace of its clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week.
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ROGER BOYD—Japan may also be harbinger of what is to become of South Korea with its own population decline and turn to neoliberalism after the 1997 Asia Financial Crisis, and a pointer to the fundamental weakness of the US position in Asia with respect to China. We are now seeing reports such as this below, with an average of only 0.68 children being born for each South Korean woman (far below the Japanese level of 1.2); the natural replacement rate at which the population remains stable is 2.1. As with Japan, given the brutal Chinese competition and its already high GDP per capita of US$33,000 at market interest rates and US$59,000 at purchasing power parity, there is a very restricted ability for the nation to offset working-age population decline with increases in GDP per capita. Even more than Japan, South Korean industry is concentrated in areas wide open to Chinese competition, such as car manufacturing (Hyundai and Kia), electric batteries (LG Energy, Samsung SDI and SK On), steel (POSCO), and electronics (Samsung, LG, SK Hynix). Its car industry, with its exports predominantly dependent on the now protected US market (although exposed in Canada, Australia and the UK) may have a better chance of withstanding Chinese competition; it no longer sells cars in China.
