Consent of the governed? Bah! Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has seen it in North Carolina (2016). And Gov. Tony Evers in Wisconsin (2018). Voters’ choices pitted both Democrats against hostile Republican-dominated state legislatures. Before even taking office, Republicans in lame duck sessions, with support from outgoing Republican Govs. Pat McCrory and Scott Walker, stripped powers from the incoming Democratic governors. If Jan. 6 and GOP election-denying in its aftermath did not clue you in, political niceties such as respecting the will of voters is not part of the Republican playbook. Raw power is. Richard Nixon torpedoed the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 to win his. Operatives for Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1980 delayed for months the release of Americans held hostage in Iran ahead of his election and inauguration. Power mattered more. Neither paid a personal price for the resulting deaths and extended captivity of Americans. Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, reminds Slate readers that Republican power stripping of the sort deployed against Cooper and Evers has not stopped. After disturbing photos appeared in 2020 of Sen.
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Still from a video by rapper Izo, leader of 5 Segonn, a well-known gang in Port-Au-Prince.
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Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.
Facing hundreds of renters at a meeting in parliament earlier this week, the new government housing minister Rachel Maclean promised a ban on Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions would become law by Autumn. ‘My civil servants will probably kill me for this—but yes,’ she said, in answer to housing journalist Vicky Spratt. Maclean, who in February […]
Co-authors: Vladimir Roudakov, Lisa McCray
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Yes, Putin and his henchmen should be prosecuted for war crimes. So should those who led the invasion of Iraq. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th March 2023 It goes beyond hypocrisy. It’s an assault on memory. Gordon Brown, calling for a special tribunal to punish the Russian government, correctly states that an […]
Even if they go to the Fed to borrow reserves at par of their USTs they don’t have the capital to support the increase in reserve assets they borrow from the Fed…iow if they are sitting there in compliance with SLR of 0.10 …. A-L=C…. Use the SVB reported numbers…. 200-180=20… (A-L)/A = 0.10 ….. ok everything is fine.. somebody comes in and tries to withdraw 20… they don’t have any reserves as RRR is 0%… they pledge UST assets at par to borrow 20 reserves from Fed… now 220-200=20 … (A-L)/A = 20/220 = 0.09 …. ie SLR drops below threshold due to the Fed transaction and they have to be shut down and everybody there gets wiped out with all the chaos… 🤔
Andy Vermaut shares:U.S. Banks are sitting on $1.7 trillion in unrealized losses, research says. That's not a problem—until it is: "As long as people aren't all coming in at the same time and demanding that their deposits back, you're okay,… https://t.co/6ZAbd2rwnf Thank you. pic.twitter.com/EXv2JFDE4r
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MAGA take on the current crises….
On the 20th Anniversary of "Bowling for Columbine" winning the Oscar, you can watch it for free
The post Michael Moore: Guns Don’t Kill People, Americans Kill People appeared first on scheerpost.com.
A lot of people beyond Ben Barnes have said that Reagan’s 1980 election campaign conspired to keep American hostages in Iran.
The post A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times appeared first on The Intercept.
By Ryan Fatica and Chris Schiano / Unicorn Riot Atlanta, GA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County southeast […]
The post Behind the #StopCopCity Domestic Terrorism Warrants appeared first on scheerpost.com.
What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?
“Taking our data without notice isn’t convenient, it’s creepy."
A little change of pace. As part of the Not Secret But Not Entirely Documented Either plan to save the Internet, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with lisp weenies. The parenthesis are rubbing off on me, I think primarily because you can stuff lisp into tinier nooks than even Linux fits. One […]
Law and economics expert Walker Todd explains how a financialized system creates havoc and why it’s time to rethink banking
Polling indicating extreme negative sentiment… embarrassing…
Jeremy Scahill tracks the destructive history of U.S. imperialism in Iraq.
The post The Bloody U.S. Legacy in Iraq appeared first on The Intercept.
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Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.
The post Texas GOP Wants Citizens to Stop Migrants. Critics Say It’s a “Vigilante Death Squads Policy.” appeared first on The Intercept.
“Like lambs to the slaughter” was how an elderly neighbour described the deaths of youngsters travelling on Intercity 62 which, on the night of 28 February, crashed head-on with a freight train in Greece killing 57 people. Many of the dead were students returning after a long weekend from Athens to their universities in Thessaloniki. […]
The post Europe’s latest illiberal democracy: Greece! – New Statesman appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
From the very beginning, Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon’s statues and friezes caused something of a discursive British civil war. On one side were humanists, like Lord Byron; on the other were Empire apologists, who defend Elgin’s actions and support the British Museum’s inalienable property rights to the artefacts it, eventually, purchased from him. Over […]
The post On the shameful deal Osborne-Mitsotakis are hammering out over the Parthenon antiquities – UNHERD appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
On 7th February 2023, I returned to the Chamber to discuss a wide variety of issues, beginning with a Europe-at-war, post-Brexit Britain, the New Cold War that marks capitalism’s global transition to (what I call Technofeudalism), the state of the Left in Eastern Europe and more. Thanks Cambridge Union!
The post Britain, Europe, the New Cold War Finance & Technofeudalism – at the Cambridge Union appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
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