03/25 Open Thread: Free Market Capitalism Leads to Oligarchy
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 5:00am
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The Evening Blues - 3-24-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 4:34pm
Rich and poor countries paying workers, we get the shaft?
Submitted by smiley7 on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 11:15am
Pay the people or get out of DC members of Congress and administration.
Impeach this MAGNA insanity by unanimous consent. Stand up for the people; don’t trade lives for profits.
Deliver the badly needed resources our healthcare community needs, yesterday.
Damn It!
Tuesday Open Thread ~ The Monkey Mind
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 03/24/2020 - 2:03am~
Buddha described the human mind as being filled with drunken monkeys, jumping around, screeching, chattering, carrying on endlessly.
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From hidden exterminism to open exterminism
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 8:56pmWe are now at the stage where expanding the death toll is advocated openly.
Eight days ago I wrote a diary titled "From Fascism to Exterminism," in which I laid out the idea of exterminism. Here's E.P. Thompson again:
The Evening Blues - 3-23-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 4:44pm
Monday OT: March 23 is World Meteorological Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 5:00am
March 23 is day 83 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, Discord 9, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.6.9 by the Mayan Long Count
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro begs Cuba for help
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 12:53am
Just over a year ago Bolsonaro had this to say.
Our sanctions have only negative outcomes
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 11:18pmThis was an unusual headline to see on the NY Times.
London's Great Plague and the response to Coronavirus.
Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 3:36pmUnequal Implementation, A study made about the Great Plague makes interesting reading today.
This paper will argue that the government’s health policies not only failed to help the sick but in fact harmed the poor while at the same time these policies did little harm to the wealthy and in some ways gave privileges to them.
The markets are still collapsing
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 2:48pm
That's an ADDITIONAL. $1 Trillion. Daily.
SF-Oakland Bay Area PSA - Coronavirus Testing
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 2:24pmThe city of Hayward is opening a Coronavirus Testing Center this week
Open to sick people and first responders regardless of where they live and regardless of immigration status.
Hayward Fire Station No. 7, 28270 Huntwood Ave, open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Tulsi Explains Decision To Support Biden - Jimmy Dore
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 11:49amMeditation on the Seventh Day
Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 11:16am
TO FIND THE WAY BY WHICH THE INVENTIVENESS OF MAN SHALL BE CONSECRATED TO HIS LIFE
Most of what you know is simply the opinions of others.
Some of what you know is an attitude born of propaganda.
Think critically.
I've seen you do that before.
Remove your desire to be right from the equation.
Don't induce. Deduce.
Subtract low-level mistakes from high-level motives.
Look at deeds not words in order to fully understand the long term goals of those involved.
Coronavirus Pandemic Panic and Shrinking Civil Liberties & Privacy Rights
Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 11:09am
In my last post, I’d asked:
‘Will citizens have any civil rights in the end? Will the most draconian laws and protocols sunset eventually, or be covertly extended for other purposes? Israel, for instance, is using counter-terrorism protocols cell phone data to monitor the movements of citizens who’ve tested positive for the virus.’
Many citizen civil and privacy rights are being ceded voluntarily; many are being trampled on far more covertly.
