France : un rapport inédit dresse l’état des lieux du cannabis médical
Alors que la France s’apprête à franchir un nouveau cap vers la légalisation du cannabis médical, un rapport inédit, fruit de plusieurs mois de travail,Aurélien BERNARD (Newsweed)
While the world’s got its eyes on the war between Israel, the US, and Iran, the Zionist death machine keeps grinding on in Gaza. Our friend Hamza just dropped a gut-wrenching piece showing the brutal desperation of Palestinians trying to grab aid while dodging bullets. Reposting the video from @dropsitenews so y’all can see what that nightmare actually looks like.
#Gaza #FreePalestine #GenocideInGaza #ZionismIsTerrorism #PalestinianLivesMatter #CeasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity #DropsiteNews #Hamza
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Would you say there's a difference between dichotomous (black-and-white) thinking, and believing that _everything must be_ dichotomous?
If yes, how would you describe that difference?
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The Stork’s Nest case continues
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-soud-potreti-zrusil-babisovo-zprosteni-kauza-capi-hnizdo-pokracuje-40527120#dop_ab_variant=0&dop_source_zone_name=novinky.sznhp.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-ar…
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Nations Are People
Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
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Billionaires have farcical, almost unimaginable resources. These let them take over whole political parties, even "left" parties, with the result that all real electoral options disappear. Voting for the other party gets you a different set of aesthetics, but the same existential threats to the human race and the planet:
theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
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Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran but warns of wider ‘escalation’ risk
PM calls on Tehran to return to negotiations and holds talks with Macron and Merz after US attack on three nuclear sitesJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
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After generations of increasingly oligarch-friendly policies and billionaire entryism into the Democratic Party, America may well be cooked, a total write-off for generations to come. The path to saving the world and our species arguably lies through strengthening other countries to resist American psychos and protect the planet from the consequences of their brainwormed leadership.
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Writing for *Jacobin*, Alex Hemingway sets out a plan for imposing a wealth-tax on Canada's oligarchs, one that incorporates lessons from previous attempts at such a tax:
jacobin.com/2025/06/wealth-tax…
Even on the left, the idea of a wealth-tax is controversial - not because leftists are sympathetic to billionaires, but because they are skeptical that a wealth tax can be carried out. It's a practical, not an ideological objection:
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Designing a Wealth Tax for Today’s Robber Barons
A proposed wealth tax on Canada’s richest 0.6% could raise hundreds of billions of dollars — enough to tackle housing, transit, and care. The sheer scale of what a tiny slice of billionaire wealth could fund is staggering.jacobin.com
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After all, under capitalism, wealth always grows faster than the economy at large, meaning that over time, the rich will get steadily richer, and inequality will widen and widen:
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Ideally, we would counter the trend of wealth piling up into dynastic fortunes with continuous redistribution and predistribution: taxing capital gains at the same rate (or a higher rate) than income, so that income from labor isn't treated worse than income from ownership; steeply graded progressive taxes, with top rates in of 70-99%, high inheritance taxes, and so on.
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So here we are, trapped in the new oligarchy. It's too late to rely on income taxes, not if we're going to euthanize enough rentiers to free out politics from their toxic influence and save the human race any of several foreseeable mass-extinction events. Making the ultra-rich poor again is going to require new tactics.
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In Canada, the 1% owns 29% of the country's wealth. The 87 richest families in Canada control as much wealth as the bottom 12 million Canadians combined. This is better than the US (where the 1% own 35% of the country), but not by much:
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Can we make a wealth tax work? Here's Hemingway's program for making it work in Canada:
* Make it apply to all wealth equally. No carve-outs for real-estate, which makes it very easy to shift wealth among asset-classes to duck the tax;
* Aim it at the super-rich alone. Avoid even the upper middle-class, who lack the liquid assets to pay the tax and could get wrecked if they have to liquidate their holdings at the same time as everyone else, which will depress asset prices;
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* Use third-party assessments of asset values. Don't take billionaires' word for how much their assets are worth! Canada's got an advantage here, thanks to the Canada Revenue Agency's requirement for financial institutions to report their account holders' income, including capital gains. Canada's also recently created "beneficial owner" registries that record the true owners of assets;
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* Use lifestyle audits: anyone caught engaging in tax-evasion will face severe penalties, as will the enablers at financial services firms that help them
One frequent objection to high taxes is that it encourages capital flight - rich people hopping to another territory to avoid taxation. That's a reasonable fear, given how pants-wettingly terrified the rich are of paying tax.
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Hemingway points out that a wealth tax is different from an income tax - income taxes are levied on the outcome of productive activities, while wealth taxes target accumulated wealth. High income taxes can starve a country of the capital it needs for a productive economy, but that's not the case with wealth taxes.
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Hemingway points to the OECD's Common Reporting Standard, through which more than 100 countries have agreed to share financial information, which will help Canada catch billionaires as they funnel their wealth offshore. Meanwhile, if the rich try to move *with* their money, we can hit them with an exit tax, like the 40% that Elizabeth Warren has proposed.
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It's an article of faith that the rich will move offshore at the first hint of a wealth tax, but the research shows that rich people often have reasons to stay that trump their taxophobia. The economic effect of rich people Going Galt is pretty darned small:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economic…
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The modern prophet of oligarchy and its origins is the French economist Thomas Piketty. In a recent *Le Monde* column, Piketty examines the failure of a French wealth tax proposal that would have shaved a modest 2% off the fortunes of the 1,800 French people with more than €100 million:
lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/0…
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Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnec…Le blog de Thomas Piketty
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The proposal passed the National Assembly, only to die in the Senate, an institution with a long history of pro-oligarchic activism (the Senate killed *every* French income tax passed by the Assembly from 1896-1914). The Assembly's wealth tax addressed the problem of tax exiles, levying the wealth tax for 5 years after an oligarch relocated.
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For Piketty, this didn't go far enough: he wants a pro-rated tax based on the years an oligarch spent in France in their lifetime: if you were educated and cared for at French expense from birth and went on to become a billionaire, then a modest share of your wealth would forever be owed to the country that made it possible. Piketty says that a wealth tax could be paid in shares instead of cash, with the stock going into a trust for workers, who would get board seats as well.
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He points out that decarbonization is going to require large sacrifices from all of us, but that these will be impossible to demand with a straight face so long as the super-rich are paying taxes that are trivial relative to their assets and income.
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
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Cory Doctorow – The Fight Against the Big Tech Oligarchy | How To Academy
Blogger, author, and activist Cory Doctorow is the most provocative, original, and widely admired thinker on the politics of Big Tech in the world today.How To Academy
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@hosford42 Sure. I like co-ops. I've been serving on co-op boards since I was 17, and I'm keynoting the UK co-op conference in Manchester in July (I also keynoted the international year of the co-op UN launch in Delhi last year).
But also: capitalism exists. Doing nothing about improving the conduct of firms until they go co-op requires that we accept untold - perhaps existential - harms to billions and possible the end of humanity.
@hosford42 sure, sounds gpkhg0h0jood.
But also we need to discipline existing firms with regulation, competition, and strong labor.
We have to talk about ending billionaire as a social economic strata. Their wealth has to be dismantled and brought back to earth, or they will kill us quite literally.
Antitrust is largely dead, but the fundamental fact remains corporations, build billionaires in corporations are built a top revenue they draw from us from our pennies.
We still have power at the community level to push the operation of these corporations out to shut them down and push them out.
Of all the difficulties of a wealth taxes, chief amongst them is their ability to hide their wealth from tax audit. (See Blair Fix on Canadian wealth networks). So chiefly, they can avoid taxation. Even with all these difficulties, taxing wealth works to bring in revenue for state golfers, which does finance the operations of state and local governments.
But net worth is the disease. Net worth is driving poverty.
It simply is not sufficient to talk about taxes…
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"If you take this marshmallow, it will hurt everyone, *including you* for the rest of your life. You understand? But since you already have so many marshmallows, surely you can wait and -"
Billionares: (already eating the marshmallow) "Sorry, I wasn't listening. Give me another marshmallow or I'll burn down this entire fucking building and everyone inside of it."
"Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us."
cr: @EpiEllie
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Here's a short story by Lord Dunsany, written in 1915, about the food of the day. It's pertinent.
THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
That's some modest, thought out proposals.
…that die in a [French] senate.
In the meantime a clock is ticking.
As someone on the stupidest places on the Internet* has nicely put it (from memory): tax is an insurance; an insurance against a revolution.
* Quora this time
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I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%.
Wohnungsverband erwartet Einbruch im Neubau
Schlechte Nachrichten von der Baufront: Der wichtige Verband GdW rechnet mit einem weiter angespannten Markt.
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Why do 2 x 0.25 l in the MCI cost less than 1 x 0.5 l?
Not only with cola, also iced tea etc.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Le Chuwi MiniBook X 2025 a, sur le papier, tout pour plaire. Compact et efficace, il embarque tout ce qu'il faut pour travailler en mobilité..
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Chuwi MiniBook X 2025 : le netbook 10.51" Intel N150 à 303€ !
Le Chuwi MiniBook X 2025 a sur le papier tout pour plaire. Compact et efficace, il embarque tout ce qu'il faut pour travailler en mobilité.Pierre Lecourt (Minimachines.net)
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in reply to Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 ✊ • • •I don't believe there is normal, just socially conditioned expectations and I don't think people should be held to those. They should be held to mutually agreed upon relational expectations.
What each person can tolerate will be different, and what is acceptable can be shaded by circumstances, but my limits are very hard.
Like it's not the other person's actions that are necessarily good or bad in all contexts, but that I have told them I can't handle that action. If they still do it around me/to me, they're out of my life for some time.
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I've described myself as having long rope with a very abrupt end.
Once something hits the end of the rope I'll take action to ensure it never happens to me again. Often that involves avoidance, shunning or relentlessly finding the root the problem to eliminate it.
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unhatched, this was me, and I was starting to blame myself, that if I would speak up and defend the first time and every time, then I might not have let it go too far and ended up losing the relationship, but I’ve stopped thinking that since hatching, that’s Allism, that life, fighting all the time and keeping those “relationships.” 💜
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in reply to Dave the Nomad 🇨🇦 ✊ • • •the difference between actively thinking and a belief?
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I can get a little black and white in spots, but I do not think of it as a rule?
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