Tuesday, December 24, 2019

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Tory Islamophobia row: 15 suspended councillors quietly reinstated. Guardian investigation finds suspensions lifted despite apparent Islamophobia or racism

Conservative Party conference proves too exciting for some audience members

Stock futures rise on report of progress in U.S.-China tariff talks

Dow jumps more than 100 points, rebounds from 3-day losing streak

The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s constitutional changes: he cannot be trusted.  The Tory leader will not spell out what his manifesto means. But the threat to law and democracy from many of his ideas is immense

How the right’s radical thinktanks reshaped the Conservative party: In the wake of the Brexit vote, ultra free market thinktanks have gained exceptional access to the heart of Boris Johnson’s government.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit envoy to US resigns with furious attack on government ‘peddling half-truths’: Alexandra Hall Hall says civil servants being asked to be not ‘fully honest’ with the public

A Decade of The Tories.

British diplomat in US resigns, saying she can't 'peddle half-truths' on Brexit: Alexandra Hall Hall, Brexit counsellor in Washington, described UK government’s ‘use of misleading or disingenuous arguments’

Boris Johnson skewered as Phillip Schofield reveals US firms already target NHS: "You're already doing it" - The Tory leader squirmed as the This Morning host reeled off a list of NHS services where US firms are already involved

Boris Johnson abandons Lancashire visit after protestors take over town's high street

After Brexit: the UK will need to renegotiate at least 759 treaties.  FT research reveals that agreements with 168 countries must be redone just for Britain to stand still

Older people dying for want of social care at rate of three an hour: Age UK estimates that between last general election and next, 74,000 of cohort in England have died or will die waiting for care

One thousand truck drivers block motorways across France in diesel protest

Calls grow to stop Boris Johnson with tactical voting as race tightens: Eleventh-hour appeal to anti-Tory voters as poll shows Conservative majority halved

Euthanasia is sometimes the right choice: Ireland should urgently legislate for assisted suicide. It is the humane thing to do

Understanding The U.S. Economy: Lots Of Rotten Jobs

Help support the Public Banking Institute for 2020

Reporter seemingly groped on live TV while working: 'No woman should EVER have to put up with this'

HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been illegally withholding aid to Puerto Rico for months

US firms keep hiring, easing worries of weakening economy

Why Virginity Tests Are Making News — In The U.S. And Afghanistan

Despite Job Boom, More Men Are Giving Up On Work

Uber Received Nearly 6,000 U.S. Sexual Assault Claims In Past 2 Years

Student Loan Borrowers With Disabilities Aren't Getting Help They Were Promised

A Dreaded Part Of Teachers' Jobs: Restraining And Secluding Students

Saudi Aramco prices shares at top of range in world's biggest IPO

GM and LG plan to build a $2.3 billion battery plant near the closed Lordstown plant

Uber reveals extent of sexual assault problem: thousands of abuse reports a year: The figure was among several alarming statistics made available in a first-of-its-kind company safety report released Thursday.

OPEC and Russia Agree to Cuts in Oil Production to Push Up Prices: It remains to be seen whether the reduction in output will have an impact on prices amid a worldwide glut and cheating

National Strike In France Shuts Down Cities Over Macron's Pension Reform Plans

WHO decries 'collective failure' as measles kills 140,000

Look-alike Oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl worries officials

Toomey, Jones, Sensenbrenner, and Connolly Redouble Effort to Fight Fentanyl Imports

Harry Dunn: US diplomat's wife Anne Sacoolas 'will not return to UK', Trump note says.  Harry Dunn was killed in a car crash involving Anne Sacoolas, who has since been granted diplomatic immunity.

Brexit: Corbyn releases leaked government documents that show Boris Johnson ‘lied about deal’
Labour says document is ‘hard evidence’ that prime minister is ‘misleading’ people about his Brexit deal

Economic Update: Competition & Monopoly In Capitalism

Johnson delivers 20-minute barrage of mansplaining and manspreading: Sky’s Sophy Ridge gaslit by man who would brazenly tell the lies everyone else was too ashamed to say out loud

General election 2019: Leaked document raises fresh concerns about GB-NI trade after Brexit

Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since census started tracking it, data shows

NFL star Khalil Mack pays off 300 holiday layaway accounts at a Walmart in his hometown

Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less.  Beneath the rosy employment report lives a reality of low-paying part-time and temporary work with no benefits or security.

Access to pot DOES cut use of heroin and illegal opioids to manage pain in half - but only if people smoke or eat cannabis DAILY, study suggests

'It's really over': Corporate pensions head for extinction as nature of retirement plans changes

Oral Testimony of Jean Ross, RN, National Nurses United, Before the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, December 10, 2019 — Hearing on “Proposals to Achieve Universal Health Care Coverage”

New tools needed in the fight against substance use disorder: The infrastructure around treatment must be strengthened by equipping medical professionals with the tools to manage patients with substance use disorders.

SMR - An Appeal To Conservative Voters (GE2019)

One of the UK’s oldest Labour voters cast her vote today – aged 108: Amy ‘Win’ Hawkins, the oldest person in Wales, has voted for the party in every single election - apart from in 2017 when she was disenfranchised due to a clerical error

“It’s hell”: Meet the starving grandfather outside Tory HQ who Boris Johnson is ignoring.  Peter Cole, 76, a professor of respiratory diseases and doctor, is on hunger strike for Extinction Rebellion.

Johnson & Govefunkel - Fridge Over Troubled Water

UK election results live: Labour suffer in heartlands as Tories on course for landslide
Polls have closed, and the usually reliable exit poll predicts a Conservative majority of around 80 seats, with Labour losing about 70. Find out what’s happening in every constituency as the official results are announced.

US prosecutors turn to possible bribery charges in investigation over Ukrainian natural gas company

Trump administration proposes Social Security rule changes that could cut off thousands of disabled recipients

James O'Brien's reaction to Boris Johnson's huge general election victory

How Parliament would look if the UK had proportional representation at this general election: The headlines this morning would be very very different

General election news LIVE: Boris Johnson thanks northern voters on 'victory lap' as Jeremy Corbyn comes under fire

Bishop: Daughters Should Be Uneducated So They’re Not Smarter Than Husbands

House passes bill to lower prescription drug costs

Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack: No 10 boycotts Today programme and considers decriminalising non-payment of licence fee

Why the impoverished are still voting Tory, and how to help them.

The fight carries on, says anti-Brexit protester after UK vote

A Recession Hasn’t Arrived (Yet). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.

Farewell and Be Safe, Sweet Britain

Supreme Court lets stand ruling that protects homeless people who sleep on sidewalk

Brexit Fatigue Is No Reason to Leave the EU: British MPs are tired of arguing, but that’s no reason to approve Boris Johnson’s disastrous deal.

China approves Donald Trump-branded spas, escort services, hotels and massage parlours without US Congress permission: Preliminary approval has been granted for 38 trademarks which raises further questions about conflicts of interest

The return of the 'stoned ape' theory: A long-ridiculed theory about humankind's early leap of consciousness is revived.

The opioid crisis exposed in photos from a hard-hit neighborhood: Photographer David Guttenfelder has documented horrors around the world, but he was shocked by what he saw on a Philadelphia street

Poland may have to leave EU, Supreme Court warns

How to Not Waste the Next Economic Crisis: A downturn will (eventually) come—and with it, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the US economy.

We Need a Green Bailout for the People: Here’s what the government should demand when the economy tumbles and Wall Street comes begging.

Recessions Are Racist (But They Don’t Have to Be): How to stop the next economic slowdown from decimating black wealth a second time over.

Make Antitrust Democratic Again!  The response to the next recession should put economic power back in the hands of the people.

An Economy for the Whole Family: The next recession is a chance to put public policy back in the service of life.

Why Democrats Need to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit: Delivering on big progressive ideas like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal will never happen until Democrats get over their fear of red ink.

My Friend’s Husband Joined the Racist Brexit Party. Help!  Another reader asks why they got fired after they’d already quit.

We Asked the 2020 Contenders How They Plan to Tackle Inequality: A surging egalitarian current is shifting the Democratic Party’s policy mainstream—so we asked the presidential candidates about it.

The Rest Is Up to Us: Ted Chiang’s science fiction helps us look past the power of technology.

Eat the Rich: The tension between satire and tragedy in HBO’s Succession.

Workers Are Heading Back to the Picket Lines: Despite job growth, employees face daunting precarity—and they’re fed up.

Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantics’ Is a Startling Study of Power: As the contemporary film landscape heralds the coming of a class war, Diop’s beautiful movie reckons with capital and labor in groundbreaking fashion.

Elephants in the Room: Workforce Respect and Equity

Wanted: 500 young adults to work outside, learn skills.  AmeriCorps opportunities based in Duluth, Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Bemidji

The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer

Brexit Party MEPs abstain on vote to condemn homophobic abuse

Boris Johnson called out for playing on phone in Commons rather than listening to MP

The Gloppy Mess of Merger Mania

Where to get the money to start fixing inequality

Don’t Just Sit and Take It

Watch Out, Seniors: Trump just launched a Stealth Attack on Medicare: The administration and its congressional allies are playing a game of bait and switch

Inequality Is Literally Killing Us: Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live.

WHERE IS ‘LINE WORKER BARBIE’?  CEO-worker pay gaps are the clearest proof that corporations like Mattel and many others don't respect their employees.

The Dark Side of Billionaire Philanthropy — and the Threat to American Democracy: Philanthropy is fine, but to preserve a functioning democracy, everyone, including billionaires, must pay a fair share of taxes.

A Different World for the Poor

‘Class traitor’ Abigail Disney calls out exorbitant pay of namesake company’s CEO

Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth

Making America Cruel Again, Next Chapter

California’s Fair Pay to Play Act

Poverty and Perspective

Trump Attacks NBA Coaches Over China: For the first time, Trump went after white men in the world of sports.

How Trump Lost His Trade War: On speaking loudly and carrying a small stick.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: A Timeline

Exclusive: The Brits who won't Brexit

'Handing control away': UK's sale of Cobham defence firm to US company decried.  Founding family criticises approval of £4bn deal despite national security concerns

US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

Homeless population rises for third year in a row

Tony Blair is godfather to Murdoch's daughter? Now it all makes sense.  The true bond between Blair and Rupert Murdoch is revealed, and with it the extent of the media baron's proximity to power

Questions are beginning to be asked around a number of anomalies at the recent British General Election, particularly surrounding the issue of postal voting.

81 People Died Without Housing In D.C. In 2019. On A Bitterly Cold Night, Mourners Remembered Them

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