"“Who gave this sonofabitch his green card?” Sean Penn demanded before presenting Mexican film-maker Alejandro González Iñárritu the best picture Oscar for Birdman" Guardian
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"When Mason and his friend aren’t punished for drinking and driving – indeed, when we are left longing so clearly for Mason’s success despite his being a rather mediocre shit – it reinforces a supremacist mindset about the value of darling white boyhood, while black and Hispanic boyhood, not to mention girlhood of any race, is not considered even worthy of mention." Guardian
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"Ulbricht began as an idealist, setting out to build a market free from what he described as the ‘thieving murderous mits’ of the state. He ended up paying muscle to protect the bureaucratic system that he had created." Aeon
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"According to one intelligence officer with extensive experience in South Africa, the NIA is politically factionalised and “totally penetrated” by foreign agencies: “Everyone is working for someone else.” The former head of the South African secret service, Mo Shaik, a close ally of the president, Jacob Zuma, was described as a US confidant and key source of information on “the Zuma camp” in a leaked 2008 Wikileaks cable from the American embassy in Pretoria." Guardian
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This study reiterates a useful point: that racism often operates at the level of discretion, i.e. whether or not someone in authority is willing to bend the rules to help someone out.
"A police officer is an out-and-out bigot if she targets innocent blacks for speeding tickets. But an officer who is more likely to give a pass to white motorists who exceed the speed limit than to black ones is also discriminating, even if with little or no conscious awareness. This is one reason the Twitter hashtag #crimingwhilewhite is so powerful: It draws attention to the racially biased exercise of discretion by police officers, prosecutors and judges, which results in whites getting a pass for the kinds of offenses for which minorities are punished." NYTimes
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"The chorus was made up of both People of Color and white people. The white people, however, weren’t singing. They simply marched in step, and side by side with the Black people on the stage. The only voices we heard were the voices of POC. White people showed UP. They walked. They stood shoulder-to-shoulder. They marched. And they let the people of color do the talking. They stood silently so Black voices could be heard. What a brilliant piece of staging that should really resonate, I thought." Broad Side
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And yet, so far as I know, a true land value tax has never been implemented.
"Contemporary sources and historians claim that in the United Kingdom, a vast majority of both socialist and classical liberal activists could trace their ideological development to Henry George. George's popularity was more than a passing phase; even by 1906, a survey of British parliamentarians revealed that the American author's writing was more popular than Walter Scott, John Stuart Mill, and William Shakespeare." Wiki
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Here's one for LSE grads. Basically arguing that NATO should have allowed Qadaffi to crush the Libyan rebels back in 2011 and allowed the country to reform gradually under the leadership of Saif Qadaffi. The benefit of hindsight is much in evidence, as you'd imagine. Foreign Affairs
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Trying to prevent drugs being used recreationally in rich countries often puts them out of reach of medics in both rich and poor countries. This article related to ketamine specifically, but I'm aware that opiates are generally under-prescribed for pain management. That is to say, the "war on drugs" hurts not only informal drug users, but even people within formal medical settings.
"A proposal that is about to come before the UN to restrict global access to ketamine, a drug abused in rich countries, would deprive millions of women of lifesaving surgery in poor countries, according to medicines campaigners." Guardian
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Here's the answer, ok everyone? Wired
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Cooking with physics XKCD
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"When Mason and his friend aren’t punished for drinking and driving – indeed, when we are left longing so clearly for Mason’s success despite his being a rather mediocre shit – it reinforces a supremacist mindset about the value of darling white boyhood, while black and Hispanic boyhood, not to mention girlhood of any race, is not considered even worthy of mention." Guardian
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"Ulbricht began as an idealist, setting out to build a market free from what he described as the ‘thieving murderous mits’ of the state. He ended up paying muscle to protect the bureaucratic system that he had created." Aeon
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"According to one intelligence officer with extensive experience in South Africa, the NIA is politically factionalised and “totally penetrated” by foreign agencies: “Everyone is working for someone else.” The former head of the South African secret service, Mo Shaik, a close ally of the president, Jacob Zuma, was described as a US confidant and key source of information on “the Zuma camp” in a leaked 2008 Wikileaks cable from the American embassy in Pretoria." Guardian
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This study reiterates a useful point: that racism often operates at the level of discretion, i.e. whether or not someone in authority is willing to bend the rules to help someone out.
"A police officer is an out-and-out bigot if she targets innocent blacks for speeding tickets. But an officer who is more likely to give a pass to white motorists who exceed the speed limit than to black ones is also discriminating, even if with little or no conscious awareness. This is one reason the Twitter hashtag #crimingwhilewhite is so powerful: It draws attention to the racially biased exercise of discretion by police officers, prosecutors and judges, which results in whites getting a pass for the kinds of offenses for which minorities are punished." NYTimes
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"The chorus was made up of both People of Color and white people. The white people, however, weren’t singing. They simply marched in step, and side by side with the Black people on the stage. The only voices we heard were the voices of POC. White people showed UP. They walked. They stood shoulder-to-shoulder. They marched. And they let the people of color do the talking. They stood silently so Black voices could be heard. What a brilliant piece of staging that should really resonate, I thought." Broad Side
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And yet, so far as I know, a true land value tax has never been implemented.
"Contemporary sources and historians claim that in the United Kingdom, a vast majority of both socialist and classical liberal activists could trace their ideological development to Henry George. George's popularity was more than a passing phase; even by 1906, a survey of British parliamentarians revealed that the American author's writing was more popular than Walter Scott, John Stuart Mill, and William Shakespeare." Wiki
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Here's one for LSE grads. Basically arguing that NATO should have allowed Qadaffi to crush the Libyan rebels back in 2011 and allowed the country to reform gradually under the leadership of Saif Qadaffi. The benefit of hindsight is much in evidence, as you'd imagine. Foreign Affairs
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Trying to prevent drugs being used recreationally in rich countries often puts them out of reach of medics in both rich and poor countries. This article related to ketamine specifically, but I'm aware that opiates are generally under-prescribed for pain management. That is to say, the "war on drugs" hurts not only informal drug users, but even people within formal medical settings.
"A proposal that is about to come before the UN to restrict global access to ketamine, a drug abused in rich countries, would deprive millions of women of lifesaving surgery in poor countries, according to medicines campaigners." Guardian
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Here's the answer, ok everyone? Wired
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Cooking with physics XKCD
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