Saturday, December 14th, 2019 |
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12:00 am |
Peak meat
*Reach ‘peak meat’ by 2030 to tackle climate crisis, say scientists.* |
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Power of human emotion
*Populists understand the power of human emotion. Europe’s liberals need to
grasp it, too.*
I think that a passionate defense of liberal democracy must also
be compassionate towards the millions that have been deprived by
the plutocracy that has manipulated it for its own gain.
In other words, we must defend liberal democracy as a platform
for the many to defeat the plutocrats with. |
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Billionaire privileges
The trial of the libel suit against Elon Musk exemplifies how
billionaires have made themselves into a legally privileged class —
not entirely above the law, but treated with privileges.
Compare, for instance, how Bill Gates was able to make US schools
twist education around a standardized test. |
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12:00 am |
Binational people's bank accounts locking
There must be over 100,000 Europeans who have US citizenship but don't
know it. Due to a threat from the US, European banks may now freeze
their accounts.
I think it is entirely reasonable for the US to demand its citizens
pay taxes on large foreign income. (ISTR that there
is already an exemption for up to a certain amount.) However, The US
should revise the FATCA law so that the tax applies only to FATCAts,
and only to people who have acknowledged US citizenship in some way
since attaining adulthood.
The EU should do more than just beg the US to back off. It should
protect its citizens by setting up alternative banks which do no
business in the US, and legislating that banks which close accounts
under threat from FATCA must move the accounts to the alternative
banks rather than freeze them. |
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12:00 am |
Low shopping celebrations
*Berlin’s rubbish collection service is urging [people to celebrate
by] shopping less, choosing to eat rather than throw away leftovers,
and doing a good turn for a neighbour.*
Bravo!
You could also celebrate Grav-Mass. |
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12:00 am |
Ukraine and Russia
*Could peace between Ukraine and Russia finally be at hand?*
Putin started that war because having a war there would be convenient
for him. The Russian-speaking rebels depended on Russia's military
support all along, and without it, I think they would accept some kind
of autonomy as part of Ukraine. |
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Less bad NAFTA
*NAFTA 2.0 Is an Assault on Food, Air, and Water.*
Balancing these new injustices against the elimination of part of the current NAFTA's injustices, I think the new one is less bad. |
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12:00 am |
Silencing boycott
The bully plans a sneaky, indirect move to force US universities to
shut down student groups that support the Palestinian boycott,
divestment and sanctions campaign to end Israel's military occupation
of Palestine.
On all issues pertaining to Israel, I ask myself, "What would Uri
Avnery do?" Avnery, who grew up in Germany and saw Nazis in power,
compared the oppression of Palestinians to the Nazi oppression of Jews.
in the 1930s. He used the term "Araberrein", meaning "without any
Arabs", to describe Israel's real goal for the West bank, as a
reference to the Nazi term "Judenrein".
A legal requirement for people to keep silence about this truth
is political censorship. |
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12:00 am |
How will we pay for it
Nonprogressive US legislators gave the Pentagon even more than the war-lover
asked for, and didn't raise the question of "how will we pay for it"
That question is raised whenever progressives propose to protect
non-rich Americans from the bigger dangers — hunger, homelessness,
mounting debt, surprise medical expenses, and global heating disaster
— because the wealthy believe they can cope with those problems
on their own, by abandoning the rest of their country.
They may be right, in regard to most of those dangers. Rich people
are not likely to lack money for food, shelter, or medical care. But
they can't save themselves from global heating disaster alone. |
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12:00 am |
Targeted political ads
Facebook pressures political organizations to show ads only to people
that Facebook believes support them. It charges extra to show the
ads to anyone else.
This has the effect of encouraging twofaced campaigning. |
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Detrumpification
Defeating the bully is the first step: after that, we will need
detrumpification of the nonelected officials of the US government. To
do this will require a substantial progressive victory and the will to
do the job.
One part of this process must be to increase the size of the Supreme Court
so as to dilute away the influence of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. |
Friday, December 13th, 2019 |
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12:00 am |
Urgent: no new Trump tax scam US citizens: call on Congress to oppose any new Trump tax proposal and repeal the 2017 tax scam.
If you call, please spread the word! |
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Weaponized humans
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt: During this election I have felt my Jewishness
and my blackness frequently weaponised, sometimes pitted against each
other. I have cried, I have been angry, and I have often found it
impossible to articulate how horrific this has all been. …
Labour has admitted fault on the issue of antisemitism and begun to
reform in a way that the Conservative party has not.
She seems to have been mapped by intersectionality into the empty set. |
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12:00 am |
Factchecking Aung San Suu Kyi
*Factchecking Aung San Suu Kyi's claims over genocide allegations.*
Many of them are at best half-truths. |
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12:00 am |
Antibiotics
*Americans take fish antibiotics because it's cheaper than a visit to the
doctor.*
It is bad for society as a whole when people people get antibiotics on
their own and use them without seeing a doctor. They are likely to
use antibiotics when they shouldn't be used. That tends to promote
antibiotic resistance.
Medicare for All would avoid this problem by making it easy and cheap
to see a doctor and cheap to fill the prescription. |