“George Floyd was killed for passing a counterfeit $20 bill and Eric Garner died for selling cigarettes without a license, but the titans of Wall Street never went to jail for causing the financial crisis and the Great Recession, even though they cost Americans billions of dollars and destroyed countless lives.”
Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2016 4/18 203aaa
Ajamu Baraka:
“There are people who vote democrat who think that Biden coming into the race is about defeating Trump – it is not. It is about stopping Sanders. The democrat party establishment is prepared to split party and lose to Trump before conceding power to its “left” pole.”
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“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are – a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer as we were told.” Ha-Joon Chang
Note: I suspect the real utility of “trickle down” economics is that of a shield for politicians who know that it is a violation of their Oath of Office to only represent the rich.
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“Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States.” W. E. B. DuBois
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“A New Earth – How do you end a book?”
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“When I asked my pediatric oncologist what the hardest thing abt his job was, I expected the most obvious horror: watching babies die. He said it was having to tell parents how much it would cost to keep their baby alive a little bit longer, watching single moms do the math.””
“Anyone who isn’t supporting complete and total Medicare for All, including the elimination of private insurance, is supporting that kind of cruelty.””
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“If you feel pain, you’re alive.
If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Buried in the infrastructure bill”?
“8 cents a mile folks!
20000miles a yr x 8 cents = 1600.00 a year”
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“Whether It’s the Afghanistan Withdrawal or the Federal Debt Crisis, Congress Just Isn’t Capable of Governing”
“Stuck with Problems of Our Own Making”
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“Insurance Going Up” in response to climate collapse
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‘Yes, we are losing more giant sequoia to wildfire this year’
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“George Soros’ dream is that China would do what Yeltsin did to Russia – that it would privatise the economy, really carve it up and let US investors buy control of the most profitable heights. In that way, the foreign investors would be able to sort of get the profits of Chinese industry, Chinese labour, and it would become the darling stock market of the world, just like Russia’s stock market was the leading booming stock market of 1994-96. China would be run to benefit US investment bankers. Soros is furious that China is not following the neoliberal policy that the United States is following. It’s following a socialist policy wanting to keep its economic surplus at home to benefit its own citizens, not American financial investors. For Soros, this is a clash of civilizations. His proposed strategy is to stifle the Chinese economy by putting sanctions against it, to stop investing in it so as to force it to do to itself what Yeltsin did to Russia.”
“China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles”
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“A company didn’t “make” billions of dollars if its employees aren’t paid a living wage, it stole them.”
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Democrats are letting the USPS be privatized and the American People are paying the price:
“Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers”
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“Julie saw first-hand how a private equity firm dismantled her once vibrant local newspaper.
“They were basically just using the newspapers as their own personal ATM machines,” she said.
That’s private equity in a nutshell.”
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“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you.
Know your worth even if they don’t.”
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“"Republicans want to kill the Build Back Better legislation that would slightly raise taxes on giant corporations and the morbidly rich while making life easier for working people and cleaning up the environment."”
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“An after-school snack with a side of… toxic preservatives? Kid favorites like Cheez-It and Pop-Tarts contain the toxic additive TBHQ, which has been linked to harm to the immune system. Take action now and tell Congress to protect our food from TBHQ and other toxic chemicals! #ToxicFreeFoodFDA”
“Tell Congress to protect our kids and foods from toxic chemicals”
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“"Yeah, you deserve a #basicincome, 5-6h workweeks, a ton of time with your family and friends, a healthy biosphere and culture. But that's not what we got in store for you. Here is systemic poverty, an anti-economy, nonsense employment, total climate collapse, pandemics, a ton of existential anxiety ... and a digital kakapo to follow you around during the apocalypse. Oh, and check this out ... Astro ... play Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. ..."”
“Amazon announces Astro the home robot”
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“Why Do We Allow Infinite Wealth Accumulation?
Here’s the date when billionaires will own 100% of the economy
Our total global wealth is currently $431 trillion.
In the past twenty years, billionaires have grown their wealth by 13.5X, to $13.1 trillion, far outpacing the poor and total growth in global wealth.
At their current pace, billionaires will control $176 trillion in twenty years and $2.3 quadrillion in forty.
You read that right: If we do not stop them, billionaires will control the entire globe’s resources within our lifetime.
Jared A. Brock
August 12, 2021
Surviving Tomorrow”
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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” Stephen Colbert
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