[Peace-discuss] NfN notes with corrected, working links

[David Green]

[J. B. Nicholson]
Notes on News from Neptune #402
Another "Don't mention the war" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MEFlfVG2M

A list of links to items mentioned on the show.

Adolph Reed & Lynn Parramore on "Erasing Economics and Economic Policy
from Politics: The Race and Xenophobia
Sideshow"https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/…/erasing-economics-economi…
<https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/erasing-economics-economi%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>

Floridian felons can vote
nowhttps://www.vox.com/…/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-righ…
<https://www.vox.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-righ%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>https://www.economist.com/…/why-the-restoration-of-felons-v…
<https://www.economist.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/why-the-restoration-of-felons-v%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>https://edition.cnn.com/…/pol…/florida-felons-voting-rights/
<https://edition.cnn.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/pol%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/florida-felons-voting-rights/>
Related: "More felons regained right to vote in Florida than
population of many states"
Scott Galloway's tweet:
The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in
Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and
New Hampshire.https://www.politifact.com/…/more-felons-regained-right-vo…/
<https://www.politifact.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/more-felons-regained-right-vo%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/>
Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout on "New York Should Say No to
Amazon"https://www.nytimes.com/…/opi…/amazon-new-york-business.html
<https://www.nytimes.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/opi%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/amazon-new-york-business.html>

Brent Taylor's death in
Afghanistanhttps://www.nytimes.com/…/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-bre…
<https://www.nytimes.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-bre%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>https://edition.cnn.com/…/polit…/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/
<https://edition.cnn.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/polit%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/>

Tucker Carlson
RT points out the Antifa support --
https://www.rt.com/usa/443499-vox-cofounder-defends-antifa/https://www.vox.com/…/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigrati…
<https://www.vox.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigrati%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/…/protesters_mob_outside_…
<https://www.realclearpolitics.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/protesters_mob_outside_%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>

Louis Proyect on "Why Democrats Are So Okay With
Losing"https://www.counterpunch.org/…/why-democrats-are-so-okay-w…/
<https://www.counterpunch.org/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/why-democrats-are-so-okay-w%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/>

Boilerplate nice-sounding text about Tom Steyer and the "Giving
Pledge"http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer

Related: Regarding one way in which millionaires keep their money
("what you can do if you're rich" as David put it) reminds me of a
recent segment on RT's "Redacted Tonight" based in part on an article
from TruthOut.orgcovering money-laundering "charities" in which
wealthy people get tax deduction for having given to charities they
didn't actually give money to. How does this
work?https://truthout.org/…/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giv…/
<https://truthout.org/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giv%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/>
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRKFTbvVpM tells the tale.

The wealthier a donor is, the more likely they are to claim a tax
deduction for their giving. When
they do, the public has a legitimate interest in where their gifts are going.

DAFs [donor-advised funds] are financial intermediaries that take in
charitable gifts from donors and then grant the money to active
charities designated by the donor. Donors claim their tax deduction up
front when they donate to the DAF before deciding which public
charities
the money should go to.

Originally a creation of community foundations, DAFs have been adopted
with a vengeance by for-profit Wall Street firms like Fidelity
Investments, Charles Schwab and Vanguard. And the lax rules around
these giving vehicles are leaving DAFs ripe for abuse in this
aggressive new market.

For every dollar a millionaire or billionaire gives to a donor-advised
fund, the US taxpayer provides between 37 and 57 cents of the gift in
the form of lost tax revenue, according to Boston College law
professor and charitable-giving expert Ray Madoff […]

The folks giving to DAFs aren’t middle-income families. The average
donor to a DAF makes more than $2 million annually, according to James
Andreoni, a professor of economics at the University of California at
San Diego. That puts them in the top one-tenth of 1 percent of
households.

Unlike private foundations, which must distribute 5 percent of their
principal assets annually, DAFs can continue to re-invest their funds
indefinitely, without ever distributing them to charity. So, by
creating their own DAFs, Wall Street investment firms like Fidelity
and Charles Schwab are enabling ultra-wealthy clients to collect a
charitable tax break without necessarily supporting a charity.

Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century"
Book: https://dowbor.org/…/w…/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf
<https://dowbor.org/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/w%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf>
Tax wealth, not income.

Trump calls CNN’s Jim Acosta a "rude, terrible person"https://on.rt.com/9i3z

Paul Jay with Daniel Ellsberg
Links to part in the series of 8 interviews:
https://therealnews.com/…/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ell…
<https://therealnews.com/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ell%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>
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Thomas Pynchon's Proverbs for Paranoids
>From https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php…
<https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A6>
1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
2. The innocence of the creature is in inverse proportion to the
immorality of the Master.
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
worry about answers.
4.You hide, They seek.
5. Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because
they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into
paranoid situations.

-J
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