*Half of Republicans say Biden won because of a 'rigged' election.*

The Tax Justice Network estimates that countries use $427bn a year in tax revenue due to moving money to tax havens.

The most important tax havens identified were the Cayman Islands (16.5%, $70bn); the UK (10%, $42bn); the Netherlands (8.5%, $36bn); Luxembourg (6.5%, $27bn) and the US (5.5%, $23bn).

*Tax Losses Are Lives Lost.*

Although according to modern monetary theory, the US, having a sovereign currency, can create money to stimulate the economy by spending it on whatever is needed, up to a point where the economy overheats. The US is nowhere near that now, since it is suffering a recession and unemployment.

Mwazulu Diyabanza goes into European museums, picks up African objects, and gives talks alleging that Europeans stole the objects. Perse has been charged with theft for doing this.

Perse describes per actions as "theft" but I am skeptical of that. It is clear that Mwazulu Diyabanza is not really stealing the objects, rather making theater about the idea of stealing them. Perse carries them around inside the museum, and discourses about them, but never tries to remove them. This violates the museum's rules, and maybe it violate some law as well, but it is not theft.

As for whether those objects were stolen in Africa, I have no opinion about that. It depends on details I don't know, and then there would be questions about which moral standard to apply. I don't know whether Mwazulu Diyabanza has thought deeply about these questions or jumped to a conclusion.

I'd like to see per comments and reasoning about the specific objects. If it is deep, there may be much in it to learn from.

The wrecker proposes a rule to forbid banks from refusing to lend to some field of industry for reasons other than profit.

If it is true that banks now recognize that fossil fuel development is an unprofitable investment, that is the occasion for a sigh of relief. However, we have been pushing for years for institutions to stop financing some destructive kinds of "industry" and we must not have the government forbid this.

Many prisons in the US restrict what books prisoners can read. In some cases, they can only get books from one seller, which systematically gouges them and limits them to a small fraction of the books that exist.