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The new school and Farewell to capitalism
Kerstin Chavent and Rudiger Dammann
2021-08-02 10:45 AM
"You can never solve problems with the same way of thinking that created them." That is why copyright reform, patent and property law, and many other regulations of the material "goods economy" that have grown up in the industrial age are not suitable for meeting the challenges (text/plain)
The Viral Death of School
Bertrand Stern
2021-07-31 2:46 PM
A real improvement in the school system could only come from a change in the underlying conception of man. Children must be treated as human beings with their own dignity and rights - not as stuffed geese that can be filled with knowledge of the state at will. (text/plain)
Capitalism as the religion of indebtedness and debt
Maurizio Lazzarato and Klaus Wagener
2021-07-30 1:50 PM
In capitalism, the fundamental social relation is neither exchange nor production. Rather, it is debt that dominates and supersedes every other way of recognizing and valorizing the measure between people. Those who have money are creditworthy, manifesting the sign of God's grace. (text/plain)
The United States Intelligence Community
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2021-07-29 6:38 PM
The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that were working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole would include 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.[4] According to a 2008 study by the ODNI, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the U.S. intelligence community and account for 49% of their personnel budgets.[5] (text/plain)
How the financial market redistributes from poor to rich
Gerhard Schick
2021-07-29 5:00 PM
"Some business models, such as high-frequency trading, where huge blocks of shares are shuffled back and forth every millisecond, have no added value for society, but bring profits to a few financial professionals at the expense of everyone else." (text/plain)
Passing It On!!!!!!
Lightening
2021-07-28 3:41 AM
Totalitarianism in Power
Sovereignty and Freedom
2021-07-28 2:01 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (text/plain)
Femicide? We still call it homicide!!!
Breaking Ignorance
2021-07-27 3:52 PM
Why they still call it femicide? (image/png)
Thank You
First Time Reader
2021-07-22 7:53 PM
The mystery of `populism' and The anarchism stereotype
G.A. Tamas and David Graeber
2021-07-21 9:10 PM
How many hours would we really have to work to maintain a functioning society - that is, if we got rid of all the useless or destructive jobs like telemarketers, lawyers, prison guards, financial analysts, public relations experts, bureaucrats, and politicians? (text/plain)
S.F. STILL PROMOTING GENOCIDE
Aleksander and Friends - Part Two
2021-07-20 9:51 PM
San Francisco still refusing to tell the truth about any of this. Still promoting genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Housing and Public Employment
Manfred Krenn
2021-07-19 10:38 PM
How does the interplay of supply and demand affect the housing market? What influence does the financial market have on housing prices?
What happens when tenant protection in tenancy law is relaxed and the market is given more leeway?
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NOT IN SAN FRANCISCO
Larisa
2021-07-18 10:28 PM
NOT IN SAN FRANCISCO
Larisa
2021-07-18 10:25 PM
GENERATIONAL
OUR FAMILY
2021-07-16 9:25 PM
The Origins of Totalitarianism Quotes
Just Do What I Say
2021-07-13 7:48 PM
“The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.”
— Arthur Koestler (text/plain)
Capitalism is not natural
John-Baptiste Oduor
2021-07-13 5:52 PM
Political programs in the 20th century, then, were meant to create equality, not merely alleviate poverty. How we live collectively, what we value as a society, and how we want to conceive of ourselves - all these questions were politicized by these programs... (text/plain)
No More America
kein Verstndnis
2021-07-12 7:32 PM
The "Great Reset" and the Deep State
Norbert Haering and Paul Scheyer
2021-07-11 1:23 PM
Taboo truths, about which the authorities remain shamefully silent, can indeed be kept under the carpet very well for decades. The course of history is massively influenced by these informal, unelected structures that operate in the interests of the old elites. (text/plain)
Criminal banks and criminal capitalism
Gerd Bedszent
2021-07-08 11:52 AM
Since the 1970s, the real economy and the financial economy have been increasingly diverging. Gigantic assets vagabond around the globe, desperately looking for profitable investment opportunities. (text/plain)
Time to end the panic mode
Chris Hedges, Werner Ruemer &Wolfgang Pomrehn
2021-07-05 4:07 PM
Tyrannies reverse the rule of law. They turn law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in false legality. They use the outward decorum of courts and trials to disguise their criminality. (text/plain)
PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS
ALWAYS LIBERTY
2021-07-03 3:15 AM
Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
William Janeway
2021-06-29 8:01 PM
disappeared curriculum vitae from a Helios Server
Satan's Mark
2021-06-29 3:02 PM
Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy
Lynn Parramore
2021-06-28 8:00 PM
When mergers increase market concentration, we know that competition has been harmed even if to a small extent. Since this is the case, it makes sense to ask the merging parties to establish that the merger will provide benefits to the economy. (text/plain)
Scene of Death
Peggyl Lee Kennedy
2021-06-27 7:43 PM
Scene of Death
Peggyl Lee Kennedy
2021-06-27 7:43 PM
Learning from MLK, the inconvenient Hero
Rob Johnson
2021-06-26 6:13 PM
We should not lose our sense of how the civil rights movement happened, because if we do, younger generations, along with ourselves, will lose a sense of how new opportunities were fought for, and won. (text/plain)
TO THE S.F. UNIONS
WHAT YOU MUST DO
2021-06-25 10:11 PM
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Lynn Parramore
2021-06-25 8:54 PM
The Chamber of Commerce, for example, has pushed the U.S. to stop expanded unemployment insurance benefits so that people will be forced to return to low-wage jobs. Some Republican-dominated states have jumped on board with this idea. (text/plain)
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