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TIDBITS – MAY 25, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: GOP DEFAULT DISASTER;
CHILD LABOR LAWS GOP SOLUTION IN RED STATES: GUN DEATHS STILL CLIMB,
UVALDE ANNIVERSARY; SARTRE; WELCOME-THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources and Announcements - May 25,
2023, xxxxxx

 

* DEFICIT ATTENTION DISORDER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE THOMPSON
* RE: OBEY THE CONSTITUTION - BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT  (CHARLES
PATRICK LYNCH)
* WINGMAN  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: BERNIE SANDERS: IT’S TIME TO GUARANTEE HEALTHCARE TO ALL
AMERICANS AS A HUMAN RIGHT  (MAX MASTELLONE)
* RE: TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN, LET’S TAX OUR RICH  (ROBERT LAITE)
* RE: WISCONSIN TEACHER TO BE FIRED AFTER COMPLAINING ABOUT
“RAINBOWLAND” SONG BAN  (E BETH DAVIS)
* RE: RED STATES ARE NOW WEAKENING CHILD LABOR LAWS  (GINA KLEIN;
JULIA VAN HAAFTEN)
* CHOOSE WISELY  (UVALDE: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY)  --  CARTOON BY
DAVID WHAMMOND
* DURHAM REPORT  --  CARTOON BY BOB ENGLEHART
* RE: THE UAW IS RIGHT TO WITHHOLD ITS ENDORSEMENT OF JOE BIDEN
 (BUZZ DAVIS)
* MCCARTHY CARES --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: KISSINGER’S BLOODY PAPER TRAIL IN CHILE  (AILEEN GRIBBIN;
DON POLLOCK)
* RE: CONTEMPORARY PUNDITS NEED A REFRESHER ON POPULISM’S HISTORY
 (MISSION POINT PRESS)
* RE: CONDEMNED TO FREEDOM, SARTRE SOUGHT EXISTENTIAL RESCUE  (PAUL
BUHLE; ETHAN YOUNG; GRAHAM BARNFIELD)
* RE: FBI FOR ABUSES SURVEILLANCE TOOL 278,000+ TIMES  (DAVID
RICHARDSON)
* RE: THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY  (STEVE BROWN; MODERATOR'S
RESPONSE)

 

RESOURCES:

* UKRAINE PEACE APPEAL: TOWARDS A MORE INFORMED SOLIDARITY
 (UKRAINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS TO PACIFIST AND PEACEBUILDING
MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE)

 

DEFICIT ATTENTION DISORDER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE THOMPSON

 

Mike Thompson
May 22, 2023

 

RE: OBEY THE CONSTITUTION (BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT)
 

The national debt is not a true static debt. It is an amount that
reflects the size of the economy and its goods and services. It is a
promise to pay, ,but in an economy as big as the US, money comes and
goes on a regular basis. There may be a surplus as taxes come in, and
a deficit as large payments go out. As long as there is faith that the
US intends to pay, nothing else matters.

There is not a one time, this amount is due tomorrow situation.
Instead, we pay tomorrow, and if there is not enough cash on hand, we
borrow. Plenty of entities are willing to lend (for interest), banks,
countries, corporations, individuals. This whole discussion is silly.
Now if nobody will buy US bonds, then we could not pay.

The Republicans are basically saying that there is a limit to the
total amount they are willing to pay. It is a silly self imposed limit
(no, I won't buy more groceries, you can't make me). It is an excuse
to not spend money in ways they don't want to (education, health,
helping the poor, aid for elders and children). They are basically
saying to lenders, we won't pay you back because we don't want to.
This would destroy the entire economy, and at some point the Chamber
of Commerce would come to its senses and send them all to Guantanamo
Bay! LOL.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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WINGMAN  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
May 24, 2023
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: BERNIE SANDERS: IT’S TIME TO GUARANTEE HEALTHCARE TO ALL
AMERICANS AS A HUMAN RIGHT
 

Embarrassment is not a motivator for the elite who consign and confine
the US population to social and economic mediocrity and austerity.
Their quest for profit is not deterred by such things as feelings,
ethics or morals. Business is business and no cost, including human,
is too high to pay for the sake of profit.

Max Mastellone
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RE: TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN, LET’S TAX OUR RICH
 

Easiest way to make a fair tax system is this. The first $50k you earn
is tax free. Every dollar you earn over $50k gets taxed at the current
rate for earnings over $50k. Where this works is you have to tax ALL
forms of income at this rate and close the bazillion loopholes. You
want to talk about growing the economy?

Imagine all of the middle income and low income families suddenly
having that tax money back in their pockets. Do you think they will
squirrel it away and invest it off shore like the rich do? No! They
will spend every dollar of it on better healthcare, education,
renovations, vacations, dinners out etc. The rich, won't even feel a
difference in their lifestyle.

Robert Laite
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RE: WISCONSIN TEACHER TO BE FIRED AFTER COMPLAINING ABOUT
“RAINBOWLAND” SONG BAN
 

A teacher is fired for calling out censorship in the classroom after
she’s corrected for using a “ controversial “ song in a concert.
It’s a Dolly Parton song about choosing love over hate, so of course
it’s deemed “ controversial “. Conservatives have lost their
damn minds.

E Beth Davis
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RE: RED STATES ARE NOW WEAKENING CHILD LABOR LAWS
 

Do they also want abortion abolished to increase births so there are
more children available?

Gina Klein
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The photographer's name is Lewis Hine, not Hines (see
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for more century-old child labor. Who is photographing today's
outrage?

Julia Van Haaften

 

CHOOSE WISELY  (UVALDE: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY)  --  CARTOON BY DAVID
WHAMMOND

 

David Whammond
May 26, 2022

 

DURHAM REPORT  --  CARTOON BY BOB ENGLEHART

 

Bob Englehart
May 16, 2023
Tampa Bay Times
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RE: THE UAW IS RIGHT TO WITHHOLD ITS ENDORSEMENT OF JOE BIDEN

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Thanks for the good article!  I am glad at least the UAW has gotten
up off its chair.  Now if someone can light a fire under the Am. Fed.
of Govt Employees to fightback against VA privatization hard it will
help.

Peace

Buzz Davis
Vets for Peace in Tucson

 

MCCARTHY CARES --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
May 25, 2023
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RE: KISSINGER’S BLOODY PAPER TRAIL IN CHILE
 

Vile

Aileen Gribbin
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Nobel Peace Prize!

Don Pollock
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RE: CONTEMPORARY PUNDITS NEED A REFRESHER ON POPULISM’S HISTORY

Congratulations to Steve Babson on receiving some high profile
recognition for his recent book Forgotten Populists: When Farmers
Turned Left to Save Democracy. History News Network
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opinion piece and xxxxxx
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RE: CONDEMNED TO FREEDOM, SARTRE SOUGHT EXISTENTIAL RESCUE
 

He had his flaws, but unlike his rival Camus, Sartre supported the
revolutionary movements of the Global South.

Paul Buhle
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Solidarity with national liberation followed directly from antifascism

Ethan Young
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"The Outsider" A Review of Ronald Aronson's Camus & Sartre: The Story
of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. University of Chicago
Press, 2004. 291 pp.

Reconstruction 8.1 (2008)
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Graham Barnfield
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RE: FBI FOR ABUSES SURVEILLANCE TOOL 278,000+ TIMES
 

When Edward Snowden decided to go public, he decided to use a
mainstream reporter, Barton Gellman, as well as Laura Poitras and
Glenn Greenwald, to get his story out.  Last week I finished
Gellman's Dark Mirror, which considers the whole field of electronic
surveillance as well as Snowden's life story and Gellman's
interactions with him.

The National Security Administration (NSA) administers the collection
of electronic data outside the US.  (Domestic data collection is
illegal.)  However, anyone who appears in a data transmission
intercepted on foreign soil is considered to be a non-US person,
'inadvertent' data collection IS legal, and hence data on almost
everyone appears in the NSA database.

David Richardson

 

RE: THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY
 

I'm happy to have just discovered xxxxxx.

Is "This Week in People’s History" a new feature? When I do a search
for it within xxxxxx, it only yields two results--May 23 and May 16,
2023.

It would be helpful if your homepage indicated that you do have
archived material.

Thank you.

Steve Brown

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Moderator's Response:

Yes, This Week in People’s History is a new feature.

On the xxxxxx homepage, in the left column of our most recent posts,
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UKRAINE PEACE APPEAL: TOWARDS A MORE INFORMED SOLIDARITY

 

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1. We, Ukrainian civil society activists, feminists, peacebuilders,
mediators, dialogue facilitators, human rights defenders and
academics, recognise that a growing strategic divergence worldwide has
led to certain voices, on the left and right and amongst pacifists to
argue for an end to the provision of military support to Ukraine. They
also call for an immediate cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia as
the strategy for “ending the war”. These calls for negotiation
with Putin without resistance are in reality calls to surrender our
sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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2.    We ask for nothing less than the full respect
for internationally agreed humanitarian and human rights law and the
UN Charter and the practical means to defend ourselves, our popular
sovereignty and our territorial integrity, to resist the Kremlin’s
expansionist and imperialistic attempts to re-colonize its neighbours.
Yes, we need diplomacy, and yes, we need humanitarian aid, but make no
mistake, Ukraine needs to continue to be supported with modern
weaponry and other military assistance and strict economic and
legal sanctions on the Kremlin.

3.   Stopping weapon deliveries to Ukraine now would not lead to
“peace by peaceful means” but offer a pause for Putin’s
authoritarian regime to renew its aggression against Ukraine. It is a
dangerous call for appeasement. We have documented how the Kremlin
treats prisoners of war and civilians in the occupied areas. We have
seen how it treats its own legal political opposition. This is not
peace. We believe that a strong defence and sustained resistance with
steady and informed global solidarity for the Ukrainian people is the
best incentive in such a radically asymmetric conflict for a cessation
of violence and a negotiated withdrawal of Russian forces. 

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4.   Acceptance of Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territories
and resulting impunity would set a dangerous precedent for other
authoritarian regimes wishing to revise international borders. It
would also lead to an increase in the proliferation of nuclear weapons
globally, as it would signal to others a destructive idea that
possession of nuclear weapons is the only guarantee of one’s
security.

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5. We ask that international organisations and movements respect the
right of Ukrainians to be at the front and centre of determining how
to make their peace and how to defend themselves and their rights. We
ask for respect for our calls for inclusion and that when it comes to
determining our future there should be “nothing about us without
us”. We object to conferences and marches for “peace in
Ukraine” where Ukrainians are neither meaningfully involved nor
fairly represented.

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6.   We find the language on the right and left that Ukrainian
soldiers are somehow fighting as proxy’s for the West deeply
offensive. This argument denies us our humanity and diminishes
Ukraine’s history of hardwon independence and the legitimacy of the
peoples’ choice of their democratically elected government. This is
deceptive and harmful political rhetoric. Russia’s invasion and
illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine in 2014 was a result of Russian
aggression and expansionism and was not a response to any credible
threat.

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7.    We appreciate continued international mediation and mediation
support for humanitarian negotiations calling for Russian withdrawal
and on the exchange of prisoners of war, return of deported Ukrainian
children, eliminating the nuclear threat and for the free transport of
grain. These are hugely important, should be sustained and developed
further.

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8.    We ask for your continued international understanding and
informed solidarity. This needs to be done with a new imagination and
a new approach to working internationally for peace with mutual
respect, understanding our complexities, sustaining, and not breaking
social connections and networks of the global constituency for
justice, peace and democracy.

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9.    We believe in the face of this resistance, and with your
support, over time, we will overturn Russia’s unsustainable
occupation, and they will lose this brutal and illegal war of
attrition. We hold them to account for what they have done. We know
that solidarity comes at a price, and this price is shared across many
shoulders. We choose to live in a world where human lives matter,
where democracy matters, where international law matters, and we have
not given up on fighting for the world we want to see for our children
and their children.

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10.   We thank the international community for standing beside us
and for sharing this painful price for peace.

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