The Great Imbecilic Traitor Round-Up continues:
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Looks like a judge might force the hand of the LA city government on their homeless crisis. Just put them in housing! Just do it!
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Ah, now, itâs interesting local quirk, but you can get the top-line tax info of anyone in Switzerland 
by filling in a request form and paying a nominal fee (IIRC about CHF 5). This is also a country where a 3% to 4% wealth tax is paid on net assets over a few million, but where the income tax is low, usually below 12% of your paycheque, combined city, county and federal.
If you think of tax as a disclosure of how much of the collective economy you control, and of using taxation to encourage what you want (people working hard to earn money) and to discourage what you donât want (large amounts of cash idling doing nothing), then this all makes perfect sense.
Iâm a huge fan of the Swiss, in general⌠
(but I do like to stir the s**t a bit and call a canton a âcountyâ in English⌠âbut those are federal states!â replies the indignant Switzer)
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The tax administration had for years published a list of Finnish citizens earning more than 100,000 euros per year, until 2019 when 231 people requested that their data be removed from the list, citing the EUâs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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And Sen. Josh Hawley was the only member to vote against it, because heâs a racist turd.
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Yep. And as to all the other GOP racists, the Dems barely beat their move to allow âdiscrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions.â
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Fantasizing right now that the entire country follows suit: Better people could be attracted to the profession⌠and help keep any âstraysâ on the straight and narrow.
(excerpts) Biden is the first American president in decades to announce that view while in office, after predecessors including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush walked back promises for fear of angering a NATO ally. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has furiously opposed declarations recognizing the Armenian genocide, which could have major ramifications for U.S.-Turkey relations.
Bidenâs announcement is the second such declaration by his administration, which announced in March that it had determined Chinaâs forced relocation, sterilization and torture of more than a million Uyghur Muslims amounted to genocide.
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Women Photograph has partnered with Getty Images to award a $10,000 scholarship to a student focused on photojournalism. The scholarship funds can be used for tuition, camera equipment or other education costs during the 2020-2021 school year.
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He held the line.
Respect and thanks to Sig. Morandi.
Caretaking is a supremely underrecognized profession and calling.
I canât imagine any upcoming fate of welfare of the island and its biota to be a bright one, but I hope I am wrong.
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For those of you living in the US and willing to take action:
The labor movement is engaging in a national week of action to pass the PRO Act, April 26-May 1, encompassing Workers Memorial Day and May Day
https://sites.google.com/aflcio.org/proact-toolkit/week-of-action?authuser=0
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Alexandre Terra passed away from Covid last month. His sister-in-law, Karyne LeĂŁo, took his belongings to his mother, who cried when she saw her sonâs favorite perfume bottle almost empty. Moved, as she learnt that her late brother-in-law used the perfume every time he visited his mother, Karine tried to buy a few more units and found that unfortunately this perfume was no longer manufactured.
Ms. Karine sent several emails to the cosmetics company, asking if by chance there was a bottle lost in a warehouse or factory for sale. To her surprise, the owner answered her pleas with a letter written in his own hand and sent a small stock for the poor mother to remember about her son.
It could be a PR stunt, but I am also moved by this story. My sense of smell is not so strong, but I know that several things like music, movies or even a special dish of food can awaken the memories of loved ones who are no longer here.
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Instead of setting out a clear alternative agenda, the party has spent much of the past three months wading into issues that animate the Trump base, such as the rights of transgender athletes and the withdrawal of six Dr Seuss books due to racist content. In this policy vacuum âcancel cultureâ and âwokenessâ are the rallying cries while the loudest voices, such as Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, are also the most extreme.
Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said: âWhen you donât have a plan you go to what you think youâre good at and that is creating tensions and divisions that move people emotionally rather than practically. So the reality is, youâre going to talk about Dr Seuss when you have nothing to say about Covid-19. Youâre going to talk about transgender issues when you have nothing to say on infrastructure .â
He added: âItâs a lot easier to grift on peopleâs fears of other people and prey on their concerns about culture wars that really donât exist. But at the end of the day, when youâre watching family members get sick and die, when youâve lost your business, when youâve been fired from your job in the midst of a global pandemic, you donât give a damn about Dr Seuss.â
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