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| 12:03a |
Employers profiting by wage theft
*Billions stolen in wage
theft from US workers.*
*Critics say government is toothless to help.*
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| 12:03a |
FBI Mfg. terrorist cases
The FBI is
arresting fantasy terrorists
again, protecting us from biddable young people who can be lured into playing a minor role
in imaginary fund-raising for PISSI.
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| 4:03a |
Urgent: Call on CNN not to give the wrecker any more town halls
Everyone:
call on CNN
not to give the bullshitter any more "town
halls"
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| 4:03a |
Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
As the people of Hamtramck elected Muslims to the city council, those who make
"diversity" their cause applauded … until they discovered that those
Muslims were
religious conservatives on social issues.
I advocate equal rights, not "diversity."
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| 4:03a |
slavery and the fight for Black history
Broadening historical preservation in the US to include homes of people who
were not rich, and
perhaps not white either.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important,
usually because they have something to teach about racism or fighting
racism. That article is one of the exceptions.
I disagree with one point mentioned in the article. I don't believe
anyone living today needs to feel guilty over having had ancestors
that had dealings with slavery or slave-owners. The test for our
consciences is whether we support freedom today.
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| 4:03a |
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| 4:03a |
Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m
UK thugs say that repressing Just Stop Oil protests cost them
around
6 million dollars.
By comparison continued global heating will cost billions of dollars, if not
trillions, and hundreds of millions of lives, if not billions.
Clearly the government should stop repressing Just Stop Oil and start
heeding it.
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| 4:03a |
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| 4:03a |
People who use ‘smart drugs’ worse at complex tasks, study finds
*Research has found those who use medications such as Ritalin without having conditions such as ADHD actually reduce their
mental performance.*
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| 10:48a |
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| 10:48a |
Artistic culture and nation-states
*We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but
we’re not at war with Russian
culture.*
*If even the British establishment in the midst of an existential war
with Nazi Germany could see German music as more than simply
"enemy" culture, but as part of a common civilization, surely we
should be able to do the same today?*
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| 10:48a |
Neoliberal economics as criminal
Philippine
human rights defender Walden Bello:
*Neoliberal Economists
Should Be Recognized as Criminals, Not Prize-Winners.*
Global trade, unleashed from national frontiers, has proved extremely
effective for converting the Earth's natural resources, and the work
of the non-rich, into wealth to spread among the affluent few. That is
what the World Trade Organization locks countries into.
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| 10:48a |
Cisgender and transgender women's true issues
*There is so much more for us [women] to worry about than
men
masquerading as women
to access single-sex spaces.* (Which hardly ever happens.)
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| 10:48a |
Occupied Ukraine survivor
Olena Yahupova lived in Enerhodar when
the Putin forces captured it.
Perhaps because her husband is a Ukrainian officer — no other
plausible explanation is mentioned — the Putin forces tortured her
for days, then put her in prison for months.
Then they forced her to dig ditches and tell lies on camera. Then an
officer in the Putin forces decided to release her and apparently gave
orders that permitted her to go to Russia and from there to Estonia.
Some of the events in this story are puzzling — I can't see explanations
for what some Russians did. But that doesn't mean they didn't do them.
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| 10:48a |
Report: Amazon an EU monopoly
The EU is investigating
Amazon's use of its anticompetitive practices
in advertising.
Amazon carries out auctions for ad space, and charges web sites for that.
It also represents the bidders for the space, and charges them for that.
Independent sellers are effectively compelled to use Amazon.
So it has to be broken up.
However, laws that require proof of specific abuses before breaking up
a giant company are too weak. Simply being so big as to have power over
a market is ipso facto too big.
See also
my proposal for a progressive tax
on a corporation's gross income.
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| 10:48a |
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