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Privatizing Public Services | Prisons and Schools

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Privatization is supposed to lower costs, improve efficiency, and improve quality. Does that line of thinking work in public services?

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How Privatisation Fails: Railways – Shaun – https://youtu.be/nP95Frc0v4k

Charter Schools: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – https://youtu.be/l_htSPGAY7I

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Ecology Is the New Theology – Rev. Michael Dowd (Dec 2016)

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Michael Dowd delivered this sermon on 4 December 2016, just a month after the USA presidential election and on the weekend when events at Standing Rock (indigenous “Water Protectors”) came to a head. (Dowd makes reference to both.) Location: Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Tacoma WA.

Three stances are foundational for a sustainable culture, and they all indicate that “ecology is theology”: nothing is more important: (1) Reverent Humility, (2) Reciprocal Gratitude, and (3) A Fierce Commitment to Future Generations.

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00:04 “Ecology Is the New Theology” (title, location, date)
00:22 “If ecology is not your theology, you are on an unsustainable path.”
00:52 Ecology is the science of living in right relationship to Reality
01:16 Wrong path: trivial understandings of God and otherworldly focus
03:11 Every sustainable culture shares “3 fundamental stances to reality”
03:35 STANCE 1: Reverent Humility (re relationship to Reality)
04:11 Ecological understandings of Good and Evil
04:43 Necessity of having a personal relationship to Reality (I-Thou)
06:24 Argument bt theism and atheism is a sideshow
07:27 Systems are primary; individuals within systems are secondary.
07:43 Theists & atheists share “techno-fetish religion of growth everlasting”
08:54 It is evil to pursue gain in ways that diminish or destroy the future.
09:25 The system itself is unsustainable (Titanic metaphor of chairs on deck)
09:48 STANCE 2: Reciprocal Gratitude
11:28 Thomas Berry Q: “Glory of human has become the desolation of Earth”
12:42 Core standard: Is it pro-future or anti-future?
13:33 Both political parties have been “throwing the working class under the bus”
14:14 Most important theological concept is “Grace limits” (carrying capacity)
15:11 Grace limits translated into “the sacred principle of enoughness”
15:33 Key role (and brief opportunity of) fossil fuels to power civilization
16:42 STANCE 3: A Fierce Commitment to the Future
17:17 Energy is primary; conversion to renewables cannot support industrial
18:18 Importance of finding your “tribe”
18:47 Peace & justice work will not transform this system, but carry into future
19:06 We are in “catabolic collapse” — cannot afford to maintain infrastructure
20:50 “We are looking at a future of less.”
21:01 Myth of perpetual progress v. Myth of Apocalypse: both are unhelpful
21:56 We are in this civilization’s dying phases; American Empire will end.
23:26 Facing a future of “LESS”: Less Energy/Stuff/Stimulation
24:11 Act not to transform the system but to plant seeds for a healthy future
24:54 Love something, Learn something, Let something go, Carry something forward
26:58 Mentor a young person; have legacy consciousness
27:20 SUMMARY: 3 STANCES
28:22 10 books used as ecological, economic, and historical references

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Reparations Comparisons

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I’m going to be honest. There is something a bit odd about the comparison between #reparations for slavery and reparations for Holocaust victims.

Besides the fact that almost every German reparation to Jewish victims were only to those who had survived the Holocaust, one has to look to the specificities of the Reparations Agreement between West Germany and Israel and how the reparations were calculated in the 1950s.

The primary reparation was not for the slave labor of Jewish Holocaust victims, but for the cost of resettlement of over 500,000 survivors in Israel. The Israeli government, which at the time was in a deep economic crisis following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, calculated that absorption of at least 500,000 survivors had cost 3,000 dollars per person ($28,958 in today dollars), so they were owed 1.5 billion dollars ($14,500,000,000 in today’s dollars) by (then-West) Germany. The question of a potential 6 billion dollars of property stolen from Jewish citizens of Germany and other states was placed on the backburner. The negotiation was carried out between Israel, West Germany and the Claims Conference, a non-profit which has worked for decades to secure property stolen from Jewish victims by Nazis.

Reparations have since been secured by the Claims Conference for actual slave labor victims: the Article 2 Fund, which is an income-limited lifetime pension to survivors of Nazi slave camps or those who fled into hiding from Nazi persecution; and the Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers, which is a one-time payment whose application deadline has since expired.

But I wonder which reparations method we are talking about when German reparations to Jewish Holocaust victims are invoked for reparations for American slavery.

Because if we’re comparing to the Israel-West Germany Reparations Agreement of 1951, this would be almost equivalent to the United States having deported all African-American formerly-enslaved people to Liberia after 1865, and decades (or over a century?) later agreeing to pay reimbursement to Liberia of $3,000 for every person deported. Reasonably, Liberia, like Israel, would have successfully righted its economy (and maybe did better by Native Liberian citizens rather than treating them as second-class citizens prior to the 1980 coup).

By comparison, our ancestors who survived slavery lost their chance for “40 acres and a mule” as recompense when General Sherman’s order was overruled.

Even Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Case for Reparations” rests more on compensating the survivors of Jim Crow and redlining rather than slavery.

So even after reading NCOBRA.org, I feel that if we’re going to specify the expanse of reparations for slavery, we will have to collect the family-tree receipts of those blood ancestors who were imported to this continent and their children who lived for 249 years under this regime (numbering over 4 million emancipated by 1865), and specify a price tag for their lifelong labor and for their familial losses.

Thanks to DNA and the few extant historical records we can obtain about historic plantation and slave market records, we may be closer to that goal, but as of this moment very few of us, like Aamir “Questlove” Jones’ family from the Clotilde in Alabama, the Quander family of Virginia-Maryland and the South Carolina descendants of Scipio Vaughn, can claim to know the name of an ancestor who was imported to this continent through a port of call like Charleston, Savannah, Baltimore or New Orleans, who may be the first to possess indelible receipts for reparations from this government.

But we definitely have millions of living, named ancestors who were victimized by white mob violence, Jim Crow, redlining and general American segregation in the last century, and reparations must happen for them.

If I’m in error, I’m open to comments.

Microsoft shows off HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset at MWC

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Microsoft says the new and improved HoloLens 2 makes manipulating holograms feel like interacting with objects in the real world.

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Zedd, Alessia Cara – Stay (Lyrics) 🎤

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» Lyrics for Stay – Alessia Cara and Zedd :
Waiting for the time to pass you by
Hope the winds of change will change your mind
I could give a thousand reasons why
And I know you, and you’ve got to

Make it on your own, but we don’t have to grow up
We can stay forever young
Living on my sofa, drinking rum and cola
Underneath the rising sun
I could give a thousand reasons why
But you’re going, and you know that

All you have to do is stay a minute
Just take your time
The clock is ticking, so stay
All you have to do is wait a second
Your hands on mine
The clock is ticking, so stay

All you have to do is
All you have to do is stay

Won’t admit what I already know
I’ve never been the best at letting go
I don’t wanna spend the night alone
Guess I need you, and I need to

Make it on my own, but I don’t wanna grow up
We can stay forever young
Living on my sofa, drinking rum and cola
Underneath the rising sun
I could give a million reasons why
But you’re going, and you know that

All you have to do is stay a minute
Just take your time
The clock is ticking, so stay
All you have to do is wait a second
Your hands on mine
The clock is ticking, so stay

All you have to do is
All you have to do is stay

All you have to do is stay
So stay, yeah

All you have to do is stay a minute
Just take your time
The clock is ticking, so stay
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Your hands on mine
The clock is ticking, so stay
All you have to do is stay

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【新住人インタビュー13】池添俊亮編「気になる男性がいれば自分から…」

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「TERRACE HOUSE OPENING NEW DOORS」
新メンバーによる、最新のインタビューを公開！

上村翔平が卒業し、13人目となる入居者、ヘアメイク志望の池添俊亮が入居。

21歳にして自身が男性も女性も好きになるバイセクシャルではないかと疑問に思ったため、
それをはっきりさせるためテラスハウスへの入居を決意した彼。

今までは女性としかお付き合いをしたことがないと語るが、男性ともデートをしてみたいと語る。
彼がテラスハウスで恋をするのは果たして男性なのか…？女性なのか…？

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How Zoning Laws Are Holding Back America’s Cities

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Early city planners dreamt up elaborate ideas for America’s cities. But in their dreaming, they had forgotten the people their plans were drawn for.
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What Happened to All the Black Farmers? | NBC Left Field

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Black farmers once made up 14 percent of America’s farmers. Today, black farmers account for less than 2 percent. One of them, fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus ‘June’ Provost Jr., is fighting to maintain his family’s farming legacy. June and his family were once part of the 1999 Pigford lawsuit, a massive class-action suit brought against the USDA alleging discriminatory practices. The case resulted in the largest settlement in U.S. government history and an admission of wrongdoing by the USDA. But June and his wife Angie say discrimination based on race still permeates the industry today, and allege continued discriminatory practices by their lender has pushed them out of farming and have cost them their home.

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