The Evening Blues - 3-25-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 3:25pm
Here is the bailout brick congress just laid
Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 2:48pmSome of this might not be true or things will change, but let's look at what we are getting:
NO rent freeze
NO student debt forgiveness
ONE time payment
$1200 per person
NO money until May
Money will be taxed
Am I being charged interest? Do some have to pay this back? Is this a loan? Cuz it’s def not relief -it’s a bullshit attempt at shutting us up. #stimulusbill— Thia is with Bernie (@ThiaBallerina) March 25, 2020
Julian Assange to apply for bail amid coronavirus dangers in British prisons
Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 11:26am
From Oscar Grenfell at wsws.org March24, 2020:
“WikiLeaks announced this morning that Julian Assange’s lawyers will file a bail application at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow. The attempt to secure Assange’s release from the maximum-security Belmarsh Prison comes amid warnings that the British penitentiary system is at risk of an eruption of coronavirus infections.
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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