"A bombshell report released last week by the RAND Corporation revealed an astonishing upward redistribution of $47 trillion from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent between 1975 and 2018. In their paper, authors Carter Price and Kathryn Edwards argued that if the country’s economic gains over that time period had been distributed as they were in the postwar era—that is, prior to the explosion of a bipartisan free market mania that slashed taxes, hobbled unions, and eviscerated public programs—median worker pay today would be about twice what it is."
https://newrepublic.com/article/159478/rich-people-hilariously-freaked-biden-presidency
https://newrepublic.com/article/159478/rich-people-hilariously-freaked-biden-presidency
The New Republic
Some Rich People Are Hilariously Freaked Out About a Biden Presidency
The mere prospect of a Democratic president nominally meddling with their plunder has generated anxiety among the wealthy. Poor things.
Forwarded from The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-protect-phone/ #SimLock #InfoSec #OpSec #Security
The Intercept
One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone
You can add a PIN code to your phone’s SIM card in order to prevent police from cloning it.
#video (very much socdem, but still, you can show it to liberals and conservatives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK2chgNPZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDK2chgNPZM
YouTube
Ted Turner asks Carl Sagan if he is a socialist.
Interviewed in 1989, Carl Sagan describes in eloquent fashion how "socialism" is simply having a government that cares for its people.
I wake every day to this, by Marge Piercy
Cruelty seems to win votes.
The shouter is heard. The whisperer
shot to silence. Words turn
to worms and wriggle in our food.
We live in times dangerous
to butterflies, polar bears and us—
the 99% who don’t count.
I bathe in cold fear each dawn.
The news is a rabid bat.
Government is a deadly virus.
There’s no refuge from slow
murder by the state, pollution,
toxins on our plates, plastics
in our blood. Fast murder
by police. The ocean wants
to kill us for poisoning it.
We are a pox upon the earth.
Bees sing repent! Change
before we all die. Do you want
an earth where cockroaches rule?
source
Cruelty seems to win votes.
The shouter is heard. The whisperer
shot to silence. Words turn
to worms and wriggle in our food.
We live in times dangerous
to butterflies, polar bears and us—
the 99% who don’t count.
I bathe in cold fear each dawn.
The news is a rabid bat.
Government is a deadly virus.
There’s no refuge from slow
murder by the state, pollution,
toxins on our plates, plastics
in our blood. Fast murder
by police. The ocean wants
to kill us for poisoning it.
We are a pox upon the earth.
Bees sing repent! Change
before we all die. Do you want
an earth where cockroaches rule?
source
Monthly Review
Monthly Review | I wake every day to this
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
"Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock.""
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
History News Network
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in the quest for a co-called "Master Race," and IBM aided and abetted the effort.