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Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America.
Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The tech and market revolutions of recent decades have created riches on an unprecedented scale.
Changing norms on executive compensation and lower-tax policies under Republican and Democratic administrations have helped insul…

It’s not just Trump. Billionaires dominate politics more than ever.
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to 'assert its will' over allies (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/12/danish-intelligence-accuse-the-us-of-using-economic-power-to-assert-will-over-allies
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p13#a251213p13

"The Venezuelan people, already suffering under economic collapse and political repression, now face the prospect of becoming collateral damage in someone else’s power consolidation project."
Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab
Trump has manufactured the Venezuela crisis, not to grab more oil but to expand his executive power.

“an EV owner in Shenzhen, told Rest of World he earned 1,400 yuan ($197) in charging credits after leaving his car in a #V2G-enabled parking lot for two days. The money he earned was enough to cover his charging costs for an entire year. The parking lot that Li used, however, was one where power..

China wants electric cars to feed power back to the grid
The world's largest EV fleet could become a giant battery network if economic and technical hurdles are overcome.

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
Jihun Lim, Sungwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07338 https://

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
To facilitate the widespread adoption of renewable energy, dispatchable, zero-emission power sources are essential for grid stability. This work performs a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of a self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system, an architecture that integrates solar charging to function as a standalone power generation asset. Using theory-based models for air-bridge InGaAs and Si diode cells, our analysis reveals that while the system is not currently competitive from a pur…

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Economic Anger Once Again Punishes the Party in Power (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/economic-anger-once-again-punishes-the-party-in-power-71d14d18
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p175#a251105p175

Sweden has had a stated goal of economic equality for 20 yrs, but the income gap between men and women remains the same. Capital is the blind spot. Women own less, save less and therefore benefit from significantly lower capital returns than men.
Additionally, capital is taxed less than wages which further reinforces the inequality. As long as Sweden's rules put more resistance in women's paths than in men's, capital, power and security will primarily benefit men.
Fro…

Ny vitbok gör politiken svaret skyldig: Halvera inkomstgapet till 2030 | Fredrika Bremer-förbundet
Inkomstgapet mellan kvinnor och män har varit oförändrat i tre decennier. Kvinnor har fortfarande bara cirka 80 procent av mäns disponibla inkomster. Nu släpper Fredrika Bremer-förbundet vitboken "Därför blir män rikare än kvinnor" som visar varför vi står och stampar, och vad som krävs för att vända utvecklingen. Vitbokens forskarteam lyfter 20 skarpa åtgärder för att minska den ekonomiska ojämställdheten. Målet är tydligt: inkomstgapet ska kunna halveras till år 2030.

Chief Justice John Roberts,
who has used his position to do Trump a lot of favors,
noted that Trump’s use of IEEPA to claim an unlimited tariff authority ran up against the separation of powers.
Tariffs are “taxes on Americans, and that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, likewise a reliable pro-Trump vote, worried that gifting Trump a vast power to impose tariffs would be a “one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual ac…

On tariffs, the Supreme Court's GOP justices appear ready to save Trump from himself
The administration's economic recklessness threatens Republicans' grip on power.

Tropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.

Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics
Low-cost renewables provide an opportunity for tropical islands to drive a sustainable, secure and self-sufficient economy. Solar PV emerges as the bulk energy provider, driven by excellent resource conditions and fast-improving economic attractiveness. The anticipated momentum of solar PV in tropical islands can best be characterised as a Solar-to-X Economy.

Hey, reminder about #BlackOutTheSystem and #MassBlackout. (#Trump to go, there's a way to make that happen. Mass economic action sends the absolutely clearest message there is in the one language American power speaks. From November 25th through December 1st, they're calling for a mass coordinated economic action.
You don't have to feel helpless anymore. There are things you can do that actually hurt the system and can force it to comply.
Here's some info from the announcement page:
The Mass Blackout is a nationwide economic action, coordinated across aligned organizations, calling Americans to:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
- Remove the regime
If you must spend: support small, local businesses only. Pay in cash.
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movment #NoKings

@… Good. An economic turndown is the only thing that will get MAGA out of power.

Algorithmic A-Legality: Shorting the Human Future through AI
Scott Veitch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18195 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18195

Algorithmic A-Legality: Shorting the Human Future through AI
This article provides a necessary corrective to the belief that current legal and political concepts and institutions are capable of holding to account the power of new AI technologies. Drawing on jurisprudential analysis, it argues that while the current development of AI is dependent on the combination of economic and legal power, the technological forms that result increasingly exceed the capacity of even the most rigorous legal and political regimes. A situation of "a-legality" is emerging …

Integrated analysis of informality, minimum wage, and monopsony power: A synthesis of meta-analyses with unified theoretical underpinnings
Ricardo Alonzo Fernandez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20465

Integrated analysis of informality, minimum wage, and monopsony power: A synthesis of meta-analyses with unified theoretical underpinnings
This document offers a synthesis of recent economic literature on three interconnected areas of labor markets: informality, the effects of the minimum wage, and monopsony power. Through the consolidation and meta-analysis of findings from multiple existing systematic reviews and meta-analyses, their causes, consequences, and associated public policies are examined. It is concluded that conventional views on these topics often overestimate the magnitude of effects. Policies to reduce informality…

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

#Syriza's capitulation to the #Troika, 10 years on.
<<The limits of left populism when it gains power: without sufficient institutional and economic support, symbolic actions can rebound on those who promote them.>>
"los límites del populismo de izquierdas cuando este alcanza…

El largo final del verano de la izquierda griega
Diez años después del referendo y la capitulación ante la troika, la izquierda griega intenta resurgir de sus cenizas pero sin un proyecto clave ni ningún liderazgo que la guíe.

Stochastic Economic Dispatch with Battery Energy Storage considering Wind and Load Uncertainty
Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18100 https://…

From Greta's book. 🎯

It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…

Donate to AOC.
Alexandria is fighting for progressive policies that can help create social, racial, and economic justice for all. That's why she's taking $0 from corporations and lobbyists and is relying on the grassroots to power her campaign.

Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk
Denmark sounds the alarm about the U.S.’s increasingly antagonistic posture toward Europe.
"The United States uses economic power, including in the form of threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer excludes the use of military force, even against allies," it said, in a pointed reference to Washington trying to wrest control of Greenland from Denmark.
https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-intelligence-classifies-donald-trump-america-as-security-risk/

2025 Southeast Asia Eleven Nations Influence Index Report
Wei Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19953 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19953

2025 Southeast Asia Eleven Nations Influence Index Report
This study constructs a fully data-driven and reproducible Southeast Asia Influence Index (SAII v3) to reduce bias from expert scoring and subjective weighting while mapping hierarchical power structures across the eleven ASEAN nations. We aggregate authoritative open-source indicators across four dimensions (economic, military, diplomatic, socio-technological) and apply a three-tiered standardization chain quantile-Box-Cox-min-max to mitigate outliers and skewness. Weights are obtained through…

Predicting Credit Spreads and Ratings with Machine Learning: The Role of Non-Financial Data
Yanran Wu, Xinlei Zhang, Quanyi Xu, Qianxin Yang, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19042

Incorporating flexibility and resilience demand into capacity market considering the guidance on generation investment
Yunpeng Xiao, Hui Guo, Wenqi Wu, Xiuli Wang, Xifan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23269

Incorporating flexibility and resilience demand into capacity market considering the guidance on generation investment
The capacity market provides economic guidance for generation investment and ensures the adequacy of generation capability for power systems. With the rapidly increasing proportion of renewable energy, the adequacy of flexibility and resilience becomes more crucial for the secure operation of power systems. In this context, this paper incorporates the flexibility and resilience demand into the capacity market by formulating the capacity demand curves for ramping capability, inertia and recovery…

Another intriguing finding of the research, though, is that despite their economic costs, these leaders tend to be good at holding on to power, lasting on average eight years, compared with four for their more moderate equivalents.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other