<div dir="ltr">Thank you!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:32 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Perhaps these links will work for you.<br>
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News from Neptune #402<br>
Another "Don't mention the war" edition<br>
Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MEFlfVG2M" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MEFlfVG2M</a><br>
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A list of links to items mentioned on the show.<br>
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Adolph Reed & Lynn Parramore on "Erasing Economics and Economic Policy from <br>
Politics: The Race and Xenophobia Sideshow"<br>
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<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/erasing-economics-economic-policy-politics-race-xenophobia-sideshow.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/erasing-economics-economic-policy-politics-race-xenophobia-sideshow.html</a><br>
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Floridian felons can vote now<br>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/6/18052374/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-rights-results" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/6/18052374/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-rights-results</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2018/11/09/why-the-restoration-of-felons-voting-rights-in-florida-is-a-big-deal" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2018/11/09/why-the-restoration-of-felons-voting-rights-in-florida-is-a-big-deal</a><br>
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<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/florida-felons-voting-rights/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/florida-felons-voting-rights/</a><br>
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Related: "More felons regained right to vote in Florida than population of <br>
many states"<br>
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Scott Galloway's tweet:<br>
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> The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in <br>
> Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, <br>
> North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and <br>
> New Hampshire.<br>
<a href="https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2018/nov/08/steve-galloway/more-felons-regained-right-vote-florida-population/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2018/nov/08/steve-galloway/more-felons-regained-right-vote-florida-population/</a><br>
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Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout on "New York Should Say No to Amazon"<br>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/amazon-new-york-business.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/amazon-new-york-business.html</a><br>
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Brent Taylor's death in Afghanistan<br>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-brent-taylor.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-brent-taylor.html</a><br>
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<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/politics/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/politics/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/</a><br>
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Tucker Carlson<br>
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RT points out the Antifa support -- <br>
<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/443499-vox-cofounder-defends-antifa/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rt.com/usa/443499-vox-cofounder-defends-antifa/</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/3/21/17146866/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigration-fox-news" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/2018/3/21/17146866/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigration-fox-news</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/08/protesters_mob_outside_tucker_carlsons_house_call_him_racist_scumbag.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/08/protesters_mob_outside_tucker_carlsons_house_call_him_racist_scumbag.html</a><br>
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Louis Proyect on "Why Democrats Are So Okay With Losing"<br>
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<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/why-democrats-are-so-okay-with-losing/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/why-democrats-are-so-okay-with-losing/</a><br>
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Boilerplate nice-sounding text about Tom Steyer and the "Giving Pledge"<br>
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<a href="http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer</a><br>
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Related: Regarding one way in which millionaires keep their money ("what <br>
you can do if you're rich" as David put it) reminds me of a recent segment <br>
on RT's "Redacted Tonight" based in part on an article from TruthOut.org <br>
covering money-laundering "charities" in which wealthy people get tax <br>
deduction for having given to charities they didn't actually give money to. <br>
How does this work?<br>
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<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giving-rules-to-hoard-their-fortunes/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giving-rules-to-hoard-their-fortunes/</a> <br>
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRKFTbvVpM" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRKFTbvVpM</a> tells the tale.<br>
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> The wealthier a donor is, the more likely they are to claim a tax <br>
> deduction for their giving. When they do, the public has a legitimate <br>
> interest in where their gifts are going.<br>
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> DAFs [donor-advised funds] are financial intermediaries that take in <br>
> charitable gifts from donors and then grant the money to active <br>
> charities designated by the donor. Donors claim their tax deduction up <br>
> front when they donate to the DAF before deciding which public<br>
> charities the money should go to.<br>
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> Originally a creation of community foundations, DAFs have been adopted <br>
> with a vengeance by for-profit Wall Street firms like Fidelity <br>
> Investments, Charles Schwab and Vanguard. And the lax rules around<br>
> these giving vehicles are leaving DAFs ripe for abuse in this aggressive<br>
> new market.<br>
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> For every dollar a millionaire or billionaire gives to a donor-advised <br>
> fund, the US taxpayer provides between 37 and 57 cents of the gift in <br>
> the form of lost tax revenue, according to Boston College law professor <br>
> and charitable-giving expert Ray Madoff.<br>
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> [...]<br>
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> The folks giving to DAFs aren’t middle-income families. The average <br>
> donor to a DAF makes more than $2 million annually, according to James <br>
> Andreoni, a professor of economics at the University of California at <br>
> San Diego. That puts them in the top one-tenth of 1 percent of <br>
> households.<br>
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> Unlike private foundations, which must distribute 5 percent of their <br>
> principal assets annually, DAFs can continue to re-invest their funds <br>
> indefinitely, without ever distributing them to charity. So, by<br>
> creating their own DAFs, Wall Street investment firms like Fidelity and<br>
> Charles Schwab are enabling ultra-wealthy clients to collect a<br>
> charitable tax break without necessarily supporting a charity.<br>
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Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century"<br>
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Book: <a href="https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf</a><br>
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Trump calls CNN’s Jim Acosta a "rude, terrible person"<br>
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<a href="https://on.rt.com/9i3z" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://on.rt.com/9i3z</a><br>
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Paul Jay with Daniel Ellsberg<br>
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Links to part in the series of 8 interviews: <br>
<a href="https://therealnews.com/series/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ellsberg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://therealnews.com/series/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ellsberg</a><br>
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You will need to reload that URL to get the links to the newest parts as <br>
they are released.<br>
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Thomas Pynchon's Proverbs for Paranoids<br>
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 From <br>
<a href="https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Proverbs_for_Paranoids" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Proverbs_for_Paranoids</a><br>
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1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.<br>
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2. The innocence of the creature is in inverse proportion to the immorality <br>
of the Master.<br>
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3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry <br>
about answers.<br>
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4.You hide, They seek.<br>
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5. Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they <br>
keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.<br>
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-J<br>
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