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Any chance you can change the format to be more website friendly and send to the SPC to add to their archives
Going against the popular trend – a sceptical article on UBIhttps://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/want-equal-society-universal-basic-income-might-not-policy-looking/
Quote:…the superficial simplicity of a Universal Basic Income belies a multiplicity of versions, and raises several questions. At what level should a UBI be paid? How does it factor in children? How will it support those with disabilities or who are out of work? Will it sit alongside or replace existing social security arrangements? And most importantly, what are the economic arrangements which govern how a UBI would be paid for?…those who advocate Universal Basic Income have varied motivations for doing so, and there are also multiple versions of what a UBI could look like in practice. For instance, there is a drastic rift between those for whom UBI is about transforming the economy and those for whom it is about papering over its cracks. This acknowledgement is often lacking from the UBI debate, but should be of primary interest…That there are radically different visions for Universal Basic Income is somewhat lost in a policy debate, which often presents UBI as a catch all policy which can offer both cost-effective efficiency and radical emancipation for those on low incomes. Worryingly this tension, and the myth of a coalition of support between left and right which underpins it, might see policymakers sleep walking into a position that suits very few…unless we are to engage in a radical economic transformation which drastically increases common ownership of economy, it is unlikely that Universal Basic Income on its own will do more than lock us into our current predicament….Proponents of UBI need to go big or go home.Another on-the-ground doing what journalists are supposed to do – investigate Fisk reporthttps://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/27/what-mysteries-lie-in-the-ruins-of-the-scientific-studies-and-research-center-in-damascus/
Quote:The problem is that while we believe all Arab dictators regularly lie, we Western folk are supposed to hold our own leaders to account – and ensure that they tell the truth when they claim to act on our behalf. That’s why the Douma attack must be fully explained, and that’s why I wanted to know if this wreckage in Barzeh (the direct response to Douma, although of course no one was killed in Barzeh) was what we said it was, or whether it was what the Syrians claimed it to be – a medical research facility…It looked, indeed, very much like a site where, according to the 192-nation Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, during its most recent visit last November, there was no evidence of chemical or biological weapons being developed, tested or produced…Would the Syrian regime have maintained a chemical weapons research centre which could so easily have fallen into the hands of its enemies – then or later? If the Americans were correct when they said at the weekend that the Barzeh centre is used for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weaponry, then the regime was certainly taking some grave risks – before or after – the battles. For the American claims to be correct, then, an awful lot of work must have gone on to change the nature of this complex in the past five months – since the OPCW inspectors were last there.John McGovern and Guy Aldred cited. Sadly no mention of the SPGBGame of Two Halveshttps://books.google.co.th/books?id=RCTpCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT21&lpg=PT21&dq=archie+macpherson+ilp+politics&source=bl&ots=WydsTgn8Cq&sig=PmYFgmQGFbuysLE0uedT60rgvns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ4dqlvdraAhWBo48KHX3YALoQ6AEITjAF#v=onepage&q=archie%20macpherson%20ilp%20politics&f=false
Interesting…This be in the 1940s then, maybe early 1950s, who would the main speakers be?But next you'll be telling us that Arthur Montford bought the Socialist Standard from Dick and Vic
Visit UK/Scandinavia …$5000 hotel and food Visit India – $2000I wanaa be part of this…i wannaaa paid vacation too in the name of socialism
Part 2 of the Medialens articlehttps://dissidentvoice.org/2018/04/douma-it-just-doesnt-ring-true/
Quote:We have no idea who was responsible for the event in Douma – we don’t know even if there was a chemical weapons attack. Our point is not that credible, sceptical voices are right, but that they should be heard.It appears that Albert Einstein could possibly be accused of anti-semitism under this definition that is being imposed"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."
Quote:Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948Begin became prime minister of Israel 1977-83
MediaLens reviews the reporting of the Douma chemical attackhttps://dissidentvoice.org/2018/04/douma-deception-in-plain-sight/
sounds delicious but don't broadcast this around too much , otherwise JDW will have us selling it online on our website
This article seems to suggest that the death of the UBI in Finland was prematurehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-universal-basic-income-experiment-wages-a8322141.htmlMiska Simanainen, a social affairs official, said the trial, where about 2,000 unemployed people aged 25-58 are being paid a tax-free €560 (£490) monthly income with no questions asked, was "proceeding as planned."
The head of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims has said anti-Semitism is sinful and must be tackled.Hatred and abuse of Jewish people are against the tenets of Islam, the president of Germany's Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, said, adding that the Muslim community had work to do in tackling the problem. "Anti-Semitism, racism and hatred are great sins in Islam, therefore we will also never tolerate that…We take it very seriously that there is anti-Semitism present among some refugees," Mazyek told the Düsseldorf-based newspaper. He added that the Central Council was organizing meetings between Jews and refugees, and that it was running educational programs that included visits to memorial sites at former concentration camps.http://www.dw.com/en/german-muslim-leader-says-anti-semitism-is-a-sin/a-43506121
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43887223"Words in letters and newspaper articles will never be enough. We welcome the fact that Mr Corbyn's words have changed but it is action by which the Jewish community will judge him and the Labour Party…Adopt in full the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism""Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/sites/default/files/press_release_document_antisemitism.pdfWe should all turn ourselves over to the police right now, comrades, for according to this statement, we are indeed anti-semitic.
