[Peace-discuss] NfN #402 notes

[David Green]

Thank you!

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 7:32 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Perhaps these links will work for you.
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> News from Neptune #402
> Another "Don't mention the war" edition
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MEFlfVG2M
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> A list of links to items mentioned on the show.
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> Adolph Reed & Lynn Parramore on "Erasing Economics and Economic Policy
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> Politics: The Race and Xenophobia Sideshow"
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> https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/erasing-economics-economic-policy-politics-race-xenophobia-sideshow.html
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> Floridian felons can vote now
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> https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/6/18052374/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-rights-results
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> https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2018/11/09/why-the-restoration-of-felons-voting-rights-in-florida-is-a-big-deal
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> https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/florida-felons-voting-rights/
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> Related: "More felons regained right to vote in Florida than population of
> many states"
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> Scott Galloway's tweet:
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> > 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.
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> https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2018/nov/08/steve-galloway/more-felons-regained-right-vote-florida-population/
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> Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout on "New York Should Say No to Amazon"
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/amazon-new-york-business.html
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> Brent Taylor's death in Afghanistan
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-brent-taylor.html
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> https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/politics/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/
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> Tucker Carlson
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> RT points out the Antifa support --
> https://www.rt.com/usa/443499-vox-cofounder-defends-antifa/
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> https://www.vox.com/2018/3/21/17146866/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigration-fox-news
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> https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/11/08/protesters_mob_outside_tucker_carlsons_house_call_him_racist_scumbag.html
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> Louis Proyect on "Why Democrats Are So Okay With Losing"
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/why-democrats-are-so-okay-with-losing/
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> Boilerplate nice-sounding text about Tom Steyer and the "Giving Pledge"
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> http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer
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> 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.org
> covering 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?
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> https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giving-rules-to-hoard-their-fortunes/
> and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRKFTbvVpM tells the tale.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century"
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> Book:
> https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf
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> Trump calls CNN’s Jim Acosta a "rude, terrible person"
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> https://on.rt.com/9i3z
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> Paul Jay with Daniel Ellsberg
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> Links to part in the series of 8 interviews:
> https://therealnews.com/series/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ellsberg
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> You will need to reload that URL to get the links to the newest parts as
> they are released.
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> Thomas Pynchon's Proverbs for Paranoids
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>  From
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> https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Proverbs_for_Paranoids
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> 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
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> 2. The innocence of the creature is in inverse proportion to the
> immorality
> of the Master.
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> 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to
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> about answers.
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> 4.You hide, They seek.
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> 5. Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they
> keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid
> situations.
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> -J
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