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In the midst of war, Ukraine has made exceptional progress on meeting the requirements for joining the alliance argues Mark Temnycky

The Immigration Exemption to data protection is STILL unlawful as Courts tell Home Office again that they cannot sidestep Parliament when using personal data to profile migrants. The Court of Appeal found today that the Immigration Exemption in the Data Protection Act 2018 is unlawful. The Home Office uses the exemption to deny migrants access […]

An oligarchy, as we use the word today (the dictionary definition is different) is rule by the rich, because they are rich. (A feudal king may be rich, but his power is not primarily a result of his wealth, but rather his wealth is primarily a result of his power.)

As I have written a number of times before, Russia is NOT a plutocratic oligarchy. America, on the other hand, is. What wealthy American elites want is what they get, and what ordinary people want they don’t get: this was shown clearly by the Princeton Oligarchy Study.

When Putin took control of Russia he broke the oligarchs.

Economic theory vs. economic reality Reaganism was the Grinch that stole Christmases for decades. The rich got the elevator and the rest got the shaft. The chart above from Forbes is illustrative (although out of date). George Packer reflects on several books on the era for The Atlantic. One, “Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream” by David Leonhardt of the New York Times I finished recently. It examines the economic and working class realignment away from Democrats since the early 1970s. Leonhardt notes the red-shift, and that Reaganism was part of it, but sees broader trends. A more technocractic turn among Democrats took their focus off the working class and neoliberal economics ascendant under Reagan undermined labor. Leonhardt “shows that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which liberal politicians sold as nondiscriminatory but still restrictive, opened the gates to mass immigration. The result put downward pressure on wages at the lower end of the economy.

Check out the lyric video for Murray Gold's "The Goblin Song" ahead of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, "The Church on Ruby Road."

A number of Israeli rape claims, including one coming from an alleged member of Israel’s unit 669, feature significant inconsistencies. Meanwhile, the main source for a BBC report on October 7 mass rapes was none other than May Golan, infamous for leading an anti-black rally in Tel Aviv, screaming, “I am proud to be a racist.”

The post Did Hamas Carry Out Mass Rapes On October 7? appeared first on MintPress News.

Cut my hair too short

Start trimming my ear hair

Force me to have an opinion on the ’86 Mets to avoid a lull in the conversation

Cut my hair longer somehow

Start using a product I don’t recognize

Start using a product I do recognize: Kikkoman Soy Sauce

Start talking about me on their cell phone

Start talking about me on my cell phone

Say, “I wonder if I’m ambidextrous”

Shave part of my head

Wax part of my head

Wax my whole body

Tell me my hair is “brittle”

Say, “Whoopsie daisy”

Call over the barbers to snap pictures of something on the back of my head

Say, “Be right back,” and then go on vacation

Tell me my hair is “sleepy”

Start sneaking sips of that blue liquid he keeps his combs in

Steal my wallet

Steal my wife

Tell me he’s going to give me the “Van Gogh”

Say, “Wow, that’s a lot of blood”

Insist I had only one ear when I came in

Cut up a line of dry shampoo and ask if I “party”

Ask for a tip after each snip

Sneeze on the back of my head

Get upset when I don’t say, “Bless you”

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, Rick and Morty, Saturday Night Live, Red Dwarf, Conan O'Brien, X-Men '97, Ahsoka, and more!

In the run-up to the 1992 General Election, the BBC filmed a documentary following the trials and tribulations of bus drivers at one of London’s largest bus garages, Westbourne Park in Notting Hill. Drivers were incensed by Tory proposals to privatise London’s buses. George Rhoden, an official of the Transport and General Workers Union, the […]

What the Government seems to have overlooked is that the European Convention on Human Rights isn’t merely referenced in the Good Friday Agreement – it’s threaded throughout it, writes Emma deSouza

“I think the whole thing is thoroughly broken at this point" a focus group participant said

For millennia, humans masturbated without shame. How did this pastime become a taboo? And how has it since been reclaimed?

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

It’s well established that we absorb less well when reading on screen. But why? And can we do something to improve it?

- by Lili Yu, Sixin Liao, Jan-Louis Kruger & Erik D Reichle

Read at Psyche

I was the victim of a carjacking. The trauma from that experience was unendurable. Then I discovered eye movement therapy

- by Madison McLoughlin

Read at Aeon

“Being a contractor is lit.”

The post TikTok Influencer Recruiting for Secret U.S. Bases in Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

Benjamin Zephaniah’s passing last week has rightly touched a lot of people. There are those of us who fell in love with his poetry and its beautiful delivery. There’s those of us who heard him talk about inequality and injustice articulated in a way they couldn’t find the words for themselves. Then there’s those of […]

The National Education Association’s benefits arm is pushing high-fee, poorly performing retirement plans run by a firm accused of fraud and mismanagement.