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Bipartisan investigation of Washington state legislator Matt Shea is in progress spokesman.com/stories/2019/j… Meanwhile, Shea apparently has absolute confidence that his constituents support #RightWingExtremismspokesman.com/stories/2019/a…
Keep in mind that Matt Shea wrote “a ‘how to’ manual consistent with the ideology and operating philosophy of the Christian Identity/Aryan Nations movement and the Redoubt movement of the 1990” lawandcrime.com/politics/if-th…
“Muslims, journalists & critics ... are ‘supporting tyranny’ if they don’t support his view that the United States is ‘a Christian nation.’ Critics fear that Shea, an Army combat veteran, has begun employing that same principle to justify violence” theolympian.com/news/politics-…

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For 40+ years neoliberalism has treated Economics as a high priesthood of solemn esoteric knowledge beyond the grasp of ordinary people. This stance is manipulative & wrong 1/6 To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in. —Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Even trained economists may fall into the trap of thinking in absolutes about the discipline 2/6 The academic curriculum has been hijacked to replace classical political economy with a seemingly de-politicized but actually pro-rentier ideology. Mathematical symbolism is given the sanctifying role once afforded by Latin. Aping the natural sciences, economists take refuge in abstruse modes of expression. The more complex the math, the more simplistic and banal the postulated relationships and conclusions tend to be. Most of the math refers to choices between different “menus” of goods and services, without much analysis of how these come to be produced, or the long-term economy-wide cons...
Politicians & pundits also try to frame Economics in mathematically based black & white terms (think Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “There Is No Alternative” to neoliberalism), but in reality Economics is a social science 3/6
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Pro Israel Magen Am or “protector of the nation” is private security for Jewish communities. It began in LA but has spread to AZ. At the beginning the organization offered its services free of charge #UCLAProtest @TinaDesireeBerg 1/7forward.com/news/470196/la…
Now Magen Am has a subscription based service 2/7
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Mar 6, 2024
Is forcing people back to work while they are sick really good policy @CDC? That is what doing away with COVID-19 isolation recommendations has accomplished🧵 1/20
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Aside from Blinken’s ability to arbitrarily declare an “emergency” allowing him to bypass the Arms Export Control Act (ordinarily Congressional oversight is required) & do things like expedite 14K tank rounds to Israel, there’s the US weapons “stockpile” in Israel issue 🧵1/16
Billions of dollars worth of US military equipment sits in closely guarded warehouses in Israel. Supposedly it is for US use in the event that war breaks out in MENA, but the Israelis have been permitted to access & use it in “emergencies” 2/16
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Popular sentiment (“it’s just a cold”) is driven by both human nature & propaganda. @JohnSnowProject recently published information about the big picture, explaining in detail that a COVID infection has both an acute (immediate) phase & a chronic phase johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-new…
When some people catch the virus (the acute phase) they may not have any symptoms at all, or they may have the “just a cold” experience. Others, especially those who are immunocompromised or who have other health conditions, may have more serious outcomes.
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Explains a LOT a.co/bW9faTo
Instead of facing the dock at The Hague, Douglas Feith & the rest of the neocons who destroyed Iraq for no reason continue operate in & around the center of US power militarist-monitor.org/profile/dougla…
In the wake of 9/11, Douglas Feith was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. Here’s just a bit of what then CIA Director George Tenet had to say about him
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