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Wrecker invited by supporters to seize voting machines to "prove" victory

mardi 14 juin 2022 à 02:05

Some of the wrecker's supporters invited him to order seizure of voting machines so as to "prove" he had really won the 2020 election.

Film censored by extremists' bullying

mardi 14 juin 2022 à 01:20

The film, The Lady of Heaven, that was censored by bullying in the UK was made by Shi'ite Muslims. The bullies that censored it were led by an extremist Sunni Muslim.

The bullies used the film the way Republicans use abortion, masks, or discussion of queer gender roles, and the way some progressives use cancellation of people who don't toe the line -- as opportunities to show their power and make others afraid.

CEO rebukes tired pilots for refusing to fly

mardi 14 juin 2022 à 01:20

Pilots are supposed to refuse to fly when they are too tired to fly safety. The CEO of Wizz Air rebuked the company's pilots for doing this "too often."

Airline regulations should be changed so that that CEO is forbidden to be an executive in any airline.

Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity

lundi 13 juin 2022 à 23:35

*How will the White House ensure that powerful interests do not turn the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity "into another corporate-dominated, wildly unpopular trade exercise?".*

The goal of "mobilizing private investment" sounds like an excuse for more neoliberalism and trickle-down Reaganomics. If that's what it is, we should kill the whole thing rather than allow that.

The other goals seem good, more or less, but "building on the foundation established by our [so-called] free trade agreements" has to be bad. We must weaken or eliminate those business-supremacy treaties.

WTO prioritizes business-supremacy over Covid-19 medicine access

lundi 13 juin 2022 à 23:35

*WTO Negotiations Prioritize Institution's Reputation Over COVID Medicines Access.* They seem dead set on cntinuing the patent and secrecy obstacles that prevent vaccinating everyone against Covid-19.

The WTO is fundamentally bad because it is a business-supremacy treaty, designed to suppress democracy and give businesses power over over people and their democratic institutions.

What gives rise to the WTO's repuitation? It is a battle between the plutocratists, driven by the profits of the companies that the WTO primarily serves, and the defenders of democracy who attack the WTO. I'm proud to be on democracy's side.

The article falls into the trap of using the term "intellectual property," which was promoted by businesses to create a presumption of legitimacy for ten or more different laws that the WTO pressures governments to submit to. These laws all tend to be more or less plutocratist, but they are so different in their manner of operating that generalizing about them all makes it hard to criticize any one of them.

Please join me in never using that term.