Long but good:
Puerto Ricans are standing up for themselves, but they’re facing monstrous odds. As they always have.
The related interviews are worthwhile:
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Invasion of the blood-sucking Randites.
Among the speakers was Yaron Brook, chair of the Ayn Rand Institute, who presented on “How Deregulation and Blockchain Can Make Puerto Rico the Hong Kong of the Caribbean.”
And why, exactly, does the Ayn Rand Institute get charity status?
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Robert William Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is the U.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district, and former Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Bishop was born in Kaysville, Utah and graduated from Davis High School. He served as a Mormon missionary in Germany from 1970 until 1972. Bishop received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974. He taught civics c...
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“… an increasingly unstable power grid …” Bloody hell.
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Puerto Rico Teacher’s strike:
In the spirit of May Day, International Workers Day, the unionized educators of Puerto Rico went out on strike against mass school closures, layoffs, and the school privatization. These members of …
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This never made it to mainland nightly news. Treating educators and kids with brutality is shameful bordering on evil.
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Puerto Rico, testbed for American authoritarianism:
Note how CBS is trying to blame “the Puerto Rican government” instead of the Feds.
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On Friday, the 2018 hurricane season opens.
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I was under the impression it was already here with that tropical storm the other day
The official start is June the 1st, and the first storm that even brushes Puerto Rico is going to take everything down again.
The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season was the third in a consecutive series of above-average and damaging Atlantic hurricane seasons, featuring 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes and a total of $33.3 billion (2018 USD) in damages. The season officially began on June 1, 2018, and ended on November 30, 2018. These dates historically describe the period each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin and are adopted by convention. However, tropical cyclogenesis is ...
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https://twitter.com/igd_news/status/1002007739181088770?s=21
Thus we have a situation in which wealthy crypto-investors are flooding into Puerto Rico and buying up whatever they can. Meanwhile, the State is privatizing massive amounts of infrastructure in an attack on the “administrative State,” to quote Bannon. Meanwhile, thousands have fled the island, while a new study has found that upwards of 5,000 have died since the hurricanes hit. Those that are left on the ground; those that physically cannot afford to leave, or are too sick, elderly, or disabled, will be forced to toil in yet another colonial system, where the minimum wage is $7.25, and less for those under 25.
It’s in this context that the actions of the Centers for Mutual Aid and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief are so important, not only because they are meeting the needs of the people, but also because they are presenting an anarchist and autonomist alternative in the face of both free-market libertarianism and the collapse of the neoliberal State.
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