A Foreign Policy email rproted on the Amazon summit in Brazil. According to the article: On Tuesday, members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), Latin America’s largest environmental bloc, met in Belém, Brazil, for a two-day summit to further… Read More »Amazon Summit
The United States has increased restrictions on high tech chip related items being exported to China, according to Wikipedia. In 2022 it issued new Department of Commerce regulations restricting the types of chips that can be sold to China as… Read More »Export Controls on China
The federal court decision striking down Biden’s asylum rule for migrants is just the latest example of America not being able to function because of proliferating court decisions that block government actions. Legal review is necessary, but it should be… Read More »Broken Legal System
Today’s political turmoil highlights the insightfulness of James Madison’s Federalist Papers Number 10, which addressed the need to “break and control the violence of faction.” Madison said that often “the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties,… Read More »Federalist #10
The Inflation Reduction Act included an $80 billion increase over ten years for the Internal Revenue Service. Subsequently as part of the agreement on the debt ceiling, the IRS budget would be cut by up to $21.4 billion over three… Read More »IRS Funding
The Inflation Reduction Act included an $80 billion increase over ten years for the Internal Revenue Service. Subsequently as part of the agreement on the debt ceiling, the IRS budget would be cut by up to $21.4 billion over three… Read More »IRS Funding
The Washington Post reports that one the eve of the NATO summit, Turkey has agreed to allow Sweden to join NATO. It says: Turkey has agreed to admit Sweden to NATO, the alliance’s secretary general said Monday, dropping months of opposition that… Read More »NATO: Sweden Gets OK from Turkey
According to the Associated Press, in June the UN adopted a treaty to protech biodiversity in waters outside national boundaries, known as the high seas. It will be opened for signatures on September 20 and will take effect when it… Read More »UN Adopts Treaty to Protect High Seas Marine Life
Brazil’s electoral court has barred former president Jair Bolsonaro from office for eight years. Like Trump, Bolsonaro had claimed that Brazil’s voting machines were unreliable. This looks like it will be difficult for Bolsonaro to make a comeback, but the… Read More »Bolsonaro Barred from Office for Eight Years
The Economist magazine just held a webinar on energy. I thought it was very reasonable, not wishful thinking about a carbon free environment. It touched on most of the important technologies, including nuclear and hydrogen. It did not mention the… Read More »Economist Webinar on Energy