Amazing URL squatting :D :D
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""I can't provide refugees fast enough for all the Canadians who want to sponsor them," John McCallum, the country's immigration minister, said in an interview." Vox
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"Why were these Europeans heading east? Around the year 1944, the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration (MERRA) began opening camps in Syria, Egypt and Palestine. With promises of a safe place to wait out the war and escape the bloody conflict, people of all ages and classes began the long journey... Just 70 years ago, blonde haired Europeans were fleeing east. Now the situation has been reversed. Will we return that kindness?" So Bad, So Good
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This is disgusting and horrifying - Hackney council is basically closing down support services for sex workers, and switching all its focus to enforcement (i.e. harassing and arresting already-vulnerable people).
If you live in Hackney, please right to your local representatives. Everyone, sign this petition.
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"Nations with high religious diversity and high religious attendance had respondents who were significantly less likely to say they could generally trust other people. Conversely, nations with high religious diversity, but relatively low levels of participation, had respondents who were more likely to say they could generally trust other people." Society Pages
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An alternative perspective on monetary policy and money supply. I think the graph by itself makes a pretty good case for more expansive monetary policy in the UK - the overall present money supply is far below the long-term trend of where we'd expect it to be.
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"No governing body has so tenaciously tried to determine who counts as a woman for the purpose of sports as the I.A.A.F. and the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.). Those two influential organizations have spent a half-century vigorously policing gender boundaries. Their rationale for decades was to catch male athletes masquerading as women, though they never once discovered an impostor. Instead, the athletes snagged in those efforts have been intersex women — scores of them." NY Times
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"Conceivably, if you showered every day for 30 minutes after waking up, there would be the same kind of antidepressant action I measured in our clinical trials.” Nautilus
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This does not look good for Labour - although I imagine the next general election won't be a simple Pro- vs Anti-Brexit matchup. How would Labour do running on a pro-EEA platform, along Norwegian lines, against a Tory party promising to end free movement of labour?
"Although the referendum result was close nationally, Remain piled up many of its votes in a relatively small number of constituencies (London and Scotland being prime examples). As a result, the UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system would produce an extremely skewed result. In our projection, Leave would win 421 seats across the UK, while Remain would win just 229."
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"...socialist politics is inevitably a task of “building the crisis.” And the great tragedy of postwar socialism was the perverse division of political labor it gave rise to, between revolutionaries who refused to engage with reformist politics, and reformists who were unable or unwilling to deal with the crisis that their victories inevitably produced." Jacobin
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"What if evidence-based policy ideas are coming up against a public that is not actually sceptical of experts, but of public relations? Of advice generated by thinktanks and advisory bodies that are either simply created to be biased or refracted through the prism of media organisations that struggle to recognise their own systemic bias? A news media that regularly portrays commentators with vested interests as impartial and thinktanks with neoliberal sympathies as neutral obviously runs the risk of losing its audience’s trust." Guardian
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"Perry believes that the council's strategy for Open Doors is part of a wider move to shift "undesirables" from Hackney. As the borough becomes gentrified, penalisation of the homeless and outdoor sex workers has increased. Last year, Hackney council's plans to issue rough sleepers with court action and fines of up to £1,000 was only quashed after a campaign by homelessness groups and local residents. This year, once again, the homeless – and now sex workers – appear to be in the firing line." Vice
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"Abolishing the police is an extreme measure, but as a measure of justice, it should be our ultimate goal." The Nation
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The curious case of an utterly bankrupt country with an avowedly socialist government that continues to service its international debt religiously...
"since Chavez swept into office 17 years ago, the country’s bonds have handed investors a total return of 517 percent."
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This is so upsetting :'( :'( :'(
[CN for police violence, esp if you watch the video]
""I wanted to put it on Facebook and go viral so the people could see," she told reporters Thursday. "I wanted the people to determine who was right and who was wrong.”
Then she wept.
"They took my lifeline," Reynolds said. "That was my best friend.""
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Well, great.
"“All SIM cards in Zimbabwe are registered in the name of the user. Perpetrators can easily be identified,” Potraz said in a public notice on Wednesday.
The notice further stated that “any person caught in possession of, generating, sharing or passing on abusive, threatening, subversive or offensive telecommunication messages, including WhatsApp or any other social media messages” will be arrested."
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A really clear explanation of why sex work legalisation (NOT decriminalisation), along German lines, is a terrible idea.
"It is easy to predict that only a few brothels will be able to get the necessary certification by state authorities. This will lead to an artificial shortage of legal workplaces. Let’s just think for a minute about supply, demand, labour exploitation and who will be the most vulnerable link in this capitalistic chain. It will probably not be the big brothel owners, but rather us workers. We will be caught between the exploitative practices of big brothels and illegality, where we risk abuse and blackmail by third parties."
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"... the coupling of saving money with mental health outcomes has become acceptable in a way we would not see with, for example, cancer treatment. We do not, would not, hear that chemotherapy is worth funding because it helps the public purse through getting people back to work. The emphasis is rather on quality of life and the reduction of suffering, precisely the kind of outcomes mental health service users are most interested in. Yet these ideas are not challenged in mental health because of the ongoing link between mental distress and moral failure, or failure to have sufficient willpower." Huff Post
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Looking forward to a world without work :)
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This is a really good comment, and I think expresses my feelings about Corbyn and Sanders. I don't think either of them is a particularly talented politician, or that their positions are especially appealing (relative to other possible platforms that would still count as left wing). It's simply that they were the only options available!
"And so it is that we enter a period of renewed left organizing with men like these as our figureheads. Their particular combination of idealism, ruthlessness, and iconoclasm made them well-suited to the dark years of “lifeboat socialism” that they survived. These traits do not, however, make them particularly well-matched to the period we are now entering. And so we will need to find new leaders from the ranks of organizers who have been radicalized over the past decade."
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"Has it really come to this? Yes. Yes, I’m afraid it has. There are few neater indicators of quite how far we’ve travelled over the past 14 days than to find so many people, particularly non-Tory voters, now actively yearning for it to be Theresa May. “Christ,” muttered one friend with wry despair, “I now want this more than I did Obama.” Yup, we’re all realpolitikos now. Stick a fork in my dreams. They’re done." Guardian
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"“The cosmopolitan life here [among the Philistines] is so much more elegant and worldly and connected with other parts of the eastern Mediterranean,” Stager said, adding that this was in contrast to the more modest village lifestyle of the Israelites who lived in the hills to the east." Guardian
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Wow, so utterly blatant
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