*Real Estate CEO: Recession Could Be "Good" If "Unemployment … Puts Employers Back in the Driver Seat."*

In a purely journalistic site, "Executive will not regret suffering for the masses if it increases rich people's power" might not count as news. It is too much like, "Dog wants to bite man." But I'm publishing political notes, not news.

On the importance of remembering slavery and commemorating its history.

The article is about slavery and Britain, but even though the history in the US is different in detail, the point is basically the same.

*Identitarianism is Incompatible with Humanism.* The Council for Secular Humanism declares to judge and treat individuals and their ideas based on the group identities each is assigned to.

*Idaho librarian resigns over "atmosphere of extremism" and "intimidation tactics"* of the right-wing Christians.

At this state of the fight, resigning in protest can be a powerful gesture. However, as time goes on, it will be necessary for librarians to find ways to fight that don't involve taking themselves out of the battle.

New Zealand calls on the world's nuclear powers to get serious about nuclear disarmament.

It is a valid argument that, if countries have nuclear weapons, sooner or later some country is likely to use them. By the same argument, if it is possible to build nuclear weapons, sooner or later some country will build some.

Thus, abolishing nuclear weapons globally will take us one step further away from a nuclear war, but not in an irrevocable way. We will be in a less acute variant of the same dilemma we are in now.

So I think global nuclear disarmament calls for a strategic plan: if after global nuclear disarmament one country builds nuclear weapons again, how should the rest of the world respond?

• What if China is that country?
• What if Russia is that country?
• What if the US is that country?
• What if India is that country?
• What if Pakistan is that country?
• What if Israel is that country?
• What if Iran is that country?
• What if Saudi Arabia is that country?
• What if North Korea is that country?
• What if South Korea is that country?
• What if Burma is that country?
• What if Ethiopia is that country?
• What if Hungary is that country?

Along what lines should the world respond?

• Ignoring the nuclear weapons, acting as if they did not exist?
• Pressuring that country to get rid of them?
• Building nuclear weapons and making that country back down?
• Some other approach?

I pose these questions but I do not have answers for them.