Stephan: Read this and ask yourself, what do I think will happen? That's right, more rightwing terrorism, maybe some murders. This is the 2nd Amendment, as it is interpreted today, in action.
Romana Didulo’s remarks were first reported by AntiHate.ca after being posted on Telegram, a social media platform where she has 70,000 followers.
In her post, Didulo said that so-called “Duck Hunters” should arm themselves against “everyone and anyone assisting in the injecting of coronavirus bioweapon into children.” She also called on Americans to cross the border to participate in “hunting season.”
“Please, use airports, hospitals, schools, stadiums, and other public venues to hold and detain all traitors,” Didulo wrote. “They will stay there until Military Tribunal is held for each one of them until the day they are executed via firing squad or hanging.”
She authorized her “military” to “[s]hoot to kill anyone who tries to inject children under the age of 19 years old with Coronavirus19 vaccines/ bioweapons or any other vaccines.”
“This order is effective immediately,” the statement said.
According to Vice, the words “shoot to kill” had been modified to say “arrest” […]
Stephan: As Republicans whine about the Democrats tax changes in the Biden-Pelosi bills, here is the reality of what they did. Imagine what that unpaid tax money could have done to pay for just child care and elder care.
Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Revenue from the U.S. estate tax has been cut in half in two years, new data from the Internal Revenue Service shows, even as dynastic wealth soars.
Just 1,275 wealthy families paid $9.3 billion in estate tax to the U.S. Treasury in 2020. As recently as 2018, the IRS collected more than $20 billion from nearly 5,500 families.
The dramatic decline — to the point where the tax is paid by 0.04% of dying Americans — is largely the result of the tax overhaul enacted by Republicans in 2017, which doubled the amount the wealthy can pass to heirs without triggering the levy.
Married couples can now transfer $23.4 million over their lifetimes tax-free, but families with vastly greater sums can hire sophisticated advisers to get around the tax. Nike Inc. founder Phil Knight used a variety of techniques to transfer billions of dollars to his family tax-free, according to a Bloomberg investigation last month.
Stephan: Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it is the only one in American culture not driven by the semi-obligatory need to buy presents, and holiday accoutrements. It is just about getting together with family and friends usually over a lovely meal.
I want to wish all of my America readers a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I give you this request. as you sit around the table, talking about your lives and what is going on in the U.S.. Make this commitment to one another. In the coming year I commit myself in every choice I make, from what I buy, to how I treat others, to how I vote, to always make my choice of the options available to me the one that is the most compassionate, life-affirming, and fostering of wellbeing. And tell each other that next Thanksgiving you will share your choices, and why you made them.
-- Stephan
Eric Lipton and Dionne Searcey, Investigative Reporter | Pulitzer Prize Reporter - The New York Times
Stephan: China is going to dominate the post-carbon era because while recent American administrations, Democrat and Republican, slumbered in incompetence and lack of foresight, driven by short-term greed, the Chinese have diligently pursued dominance of the raw materials essential to the new age. Here is the story, and it is a sad and stupid one.
WASHINGTON — Tom Perriello saw it coming but could do nothing to stop it. André Kapanga too. Despite urgent emails, phone calls and personal pleas, they watched helplessly as a company backed by the Chinese government took ownership from the Americans of one of the world’s largest cobalt mines.
It was 2016, and a deal had been struck by the Arizona-based mining giant Freeport-McMoRan to sell the site, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which now figures prominently in China’s grip on the global cobalt supply. The metal has been among several essential raw materials needed for the production of electric car batteries — and is now critical to retiring the combustion engine and weaning the world off climate-changing fossil fuels.
Mr. Perriello, a top U.S. diplomat in Africa at the time, sounded alarms in the State Department. Mr. Kapanga, then the mine’s Congolese general manager, all but begged the American ambassador in Congo to intercede.
“This is a mistake,” Mr. Kapanga recalled warning him, suggesting the Americans were squandering generations of relationship building in Congo, […]
Stephan: America's illness profit system has worldwide tentacles, and no where has that been made clearer than in the story of the Covid vaccines. Here is an accurate recounting of what has happened. It should outrage you.
Ahead of a key World Trade Organization meeting at which ministers are being urged to finally back a temporary intellectual protection waiver proposal on coronavirus-related technologies, a new report highlights ongoing vaccine inequity and a situation in which global health has been “left hostage” to Big Pharma.
A woman tapes protest signs to the Pfizer logo during a demonstration at the company’sheadquarters on July 14, 2021 in Manhattan. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty
Released Monday and entitled Losing Time: End this pandemic and secure the future, the publication comes from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, a body established by the World Health Organization (WHO).
“The idea that a poor health worker is unprotected while the healthy and wealthy receive booster doses should present a deep moral quandary. To this there is only one solution—vaccine equity.”
The report addresses progress on a suite of reforms the panel recommended six months ago regarding the current pandemic as well as future ones.
“There is progress, but it is not fast or cohesive enough to bring this pandemic to […]
