9.18.2018

From the Last Few Days.

Cool Stuff

Si-Fi KFC - found at Dangerous Minds




Medicare for All

Government spending would increase but the nation's total health care spending would decrease



What could go wrong?

British private security firm hires ex-military from Sierra Leone at $250 a month to help the US military in Iraq.  The price of precarious labour in contemporary warfare


Corporate American

Umair Haque on Why a Divided America is Collapsing
"Corporations became people in a clever legal trick — basically, to evade taxes. And over the years, their powers expand and multiplied, quite naturally, as their money did. So now America has a strange and bizarre situation where corporations are super-people. They have powers actual people don’t — and can’t. They can be in infinite places at once. They know where you live and track your moods and your emotions and thoughts. And they don’t have to pay taxes or live in the country and so forth. Actual people are puny things compared to corporate people. But corporate people are just legal and social fictions which represent capitalists. (In Europe, though, corporations are not people — not in remotely the same way as in America — and so such a class does not really exist, a point I’ll return to.)"
I agree. Corporations have too much power. We have to start putting not only CEOs but top management and board members in jail for corporate actions that would land the perp in jail if done by normal person. The Boston gas explosions come to mind. 

Media

Trump won most counties with the lowest newspaper circulation rates - I'll bet they had Fox News though.


The Lobby

Wow....Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel was brought to you by Jeffrey Goldberg. This'll fire'em up.

TEXAS REQUIRES SCHOOLS TO BLAME ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT ON ARABS - do they mention the occupation?


Trump

Farm Country Gets What It Voted For - Trump's policies hurting farm income.






















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