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Private equity parasites
Private equity parasites did their usual trick of threatening to move
to a different country, to bully Labour into dropping its plan to tax
them more.
I suggest that countries impose the higher taxes private equity
deserves to pay is to impose them, not on the fund organizers or fund
"investors", but on the companies they own — so that the "investors"
and "funds" can't get out of it by relocating to a tax haven.
This would go well with another reform I have proposed, which is to
require private equity funds to obey the rules that exist for public
corporations.
This makes sense, because private equity investing is effectively a
subterfuge to evade those rules. To be airtight, this requirement
should be imposed by a country, not on the private equity funds set up
in that country, but rather on those that own part of businesses in
that country.
Private equity funds are often company-wreckers. They buy a
company, then sell it off so loaded with debt that will will
go broke and shut down.
If the result of justified regulation and taxation on private equity
funds is to make them sell off all assets in your country, your
country will be better off.
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US vetoed Security Council resolution
The US vetoed a Security Council resolution
that demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire"
in the war between Israel and [HAMAS], along with "the immediate
and unconditional release of all hostages".
All the other members of the Security Council voted for the
resolution.
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Resolution to black arms deal defeated
Bernie Sanders's resolution to block the new arms deal to Israel
was defeated.
I agree with what Sanders is quoted in this article as saying.
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Brazilian police arrest five over 2022 plot to assassinate Lula
*Brazilian police arrest five [military and police] over plot to
assassinate Lula after 2022 election win.*
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Calling China and India developing countries
*China and India should not be called developing countries, several
Cop29 delegates say.*
I agree. China and India are economic powers. They are now among the
countries that exploit others, rather than among the countries that
get exploited.
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Threat of ordering military to deport non-citizens
The wrecker seems to be serious about ordering the US military to
participate in deporting millions of non-citizens from the US.
I have never advocated "open borders". However, the US has a duty to
give asylum to those who those who ask for it and meet the international
criteria for deserving it. It must not create artificial obstacles,
such as the wrecker set up when he was president before,
and Biden more or less continued.
Instead, the US must speed up making the correct decisions about
asylum cases, so that immigrants entitled to asylum are not subject to
cruel treatment during years of waiting.
And there is no excuse for gratuitous acts of cruelty,
such as separating families
and deporting people who came to the US and could not fit
in in the countries they supposedly "came from".
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Employees punished for showing support to Gaza
UC San Francisco is punishing employees for showing support
for Gaza under attack.
I think it is legitimate for an organization that provides crucial
service to the public to insist that employees in work activities
stay neutral on political issues — provide this policy is general and
unbiased.
However, to punish employees for advocating political views outside
of work activities, as UCSF did to Marya, is a violation of their
human rights.
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British surgeon on what he saw in Gaza
A British surgeon who has worked as a volunteer in Gaza reports on what
he saw there, including an apparent campaign by Israeli snipers to
render men permanently disabled.
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