What is Universal Basic Income?
Universal Basic Income is a Plan to ensure that the millions of us whose jobs are permanently lost to “new technology” have sufficient income to “reduce conditions of scarcity, poverty, and financial insecurity”* while the Planners wait for you to die off.
That is all.
You’re welcome.
Iran made a very big mistake!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2019
The Band – Moondog Matinee (1973). Thread’s up.
Sorry about the link. Fixed now.
The traumatic lives of Facebook moderators;
Cognizant received a two-year, $200 million contract from Facebook to do the work, according to a former employee familiar with the matter. But in return for policing the boundaries of free expression on one of the internet’s largest platforms, individual contractors in North America make as little as $28,800 a year. They receive two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch each day, along with nine minutes per day of “wellness” time that they can use when they feel overwhelmed by the emotional toll of the job. After regular exposure to graphic violence and child exploitation, many workers are subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions.
Yet they still manage to summon the strength to censor white bread conservative content. Where’s my violin?
Scheer climate plan would encompass more big polluters, require investments as penalty
A portion of Scheer’s plan, obtained by CBC News, would compel facilities that produce 40 kilotonnes of emissions or more per year to invest in green tech. The Trudeau government’s current rules impose emission caps on firms that emit more than 50 kilotonnes per year.
Scheer will outline his party’s much-anticipated environmental policy at a speech in Quebec on Wednesday. The Liberals have criticized him for taking such a long time to release a climate plan; Scheer was elected leader of the Conservative Party in May 2017. […]
In 2017, the 1,622 facilities monitored by Environment Canada’s GHG Reporting Program accounted for 292 megatonnes of emissions — 41 per cent of Canada’s total, according to Environment Canada. The oil and gas sector was responsible for more than a third of those emissions.
Mining and oil and gas have been the only sectors to increase emissions since 2005.
Coulda had Max.
Related: Limousine Liberal Catherine McKenna’s “climate emergency” hypocrisy
h/t A Canadian, Nancy Ross
Lady Justice trades in her blindfold for a DNA test;
It means that the same crime committed against two women could result in a harsher sentence against the criminal who attacked an Indigenous woman, while a weaker punishment would be levelled against the criminal who attacked a woman of any other race or background.
And as criminals who attack Indigenous women are more likely to be Indigenous men or women than they are any other race, there’s already a fix for that.
Under the recently introduced bill, people would not be allowed to keep their dogs outside even during perfect weather unless the dog has access to shelter that meets a strict building code. That code stipulates that the shelter be waterproof and windproof, built three inches off the ground, out of material that does not conduct heat or cold and with a 6-inch awning covering the entrance.
The outdoor dog ban would apply to fenced-in backyards, even if they have big shade trees. It would apply to fenced-in runs at dog kennels. It would apply to a partly cloudy day with a 70-degree temperature. Senate Bill 551 would also ban hay, blankets, or other materials that can retain moisture, no matter how frequently the bedding is changed.
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A few decades of ever-spiralling climate warnings, trillions spent, massive renewable energy development, and we are moving further away from climate targets. It should be stunningly clear that the movement to isolate/strangle/destroy the fossil fuel industry is not working; all the war is doing is reshaping it – production is moving from regions where comfortable activists can attack it to regions of the world where people welcome it. Read more…
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who they won’t deplatform: If Cusack was anywhere right of Marx, he’d no longer have a Twitter account. Instead, he was given full pardon.
Live coverage of the UK Tory leadership contest at Sky News: The latest as the contest to succeed Theresa May steps up a gear, with at least one candidate set to be eliminated from the race.
Updates to follow (when I have time).
…Boris Johnson comfortably wins second ballot in Tory leadership contest with 126 votes
Further ballots will be held later this week.
Comments open.
Arch-globalist Merkel spotted visibly unsteady and shaking (like the EU) when she met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Is she using medication? pic.twitter.com/OKKZeqLyCk
— JOHNMEYER (@JOHNMEY28401489) June 18, 2019
Update: The video keeps getting nuked by our Social Media Minders. It’s still up at Foxnews, however.
After two weeks of working 18 hour days, topped off with another 18 hour drive home from Minneapolis yesterday, I’m only partially “back”. I need a day or so to rest up, clean up, and get my mind back into current events.
Many thanks to our guest bloggers for helping when they could, and to you our readers, for your patience.
On another note, it seems a few of you in the comments section have been abusing your privileges by posting borderline commentary and beyond. I’ll be clamping down on this in the coming days, and may even do some mass deletions if I see fit. Bottom line, this is my private property. You’re welcome to visit and discuss and debate, but when you write graffiti on my walls expect to be shown the door.
Blogging should return to normal in about 48 hours.
But I’m sure it will make him feel good.
I really didn’t want to write this post. It is vile and disgusting and incendiary, and can only serve to increase polarization. But the comments in the headlines were actually said, in a church, by activists, while the likes of David Suzuki and Naomi Klein sat approvingly in the audience. And Canada needs to hear what Green New Deal people actually are thinking, if their madness is to be part of the upcoming election. Read more…
Lashes out at 6 premiers……