Iraq war veteran. USA Today Bestselling author of the COMING HOME & FALLING series. #Sociology. #Digital disruption of social processes. Researcher of #NRA, #gunrights, and civil religious narratives. #Privacy researcher. Data privacy is a national security concern. #Hairband aficionado. Recent #vinyl convert.
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"There is a rich tradition in the United States of utilizing taxes not just to raise revenue but to deliberately limit concentrated wealth. The original push to tax the rich developed toward the end of the first Gilded Age, when populists and reformers advocated the income tax as a progressive alternative to the tariff. The movement to replace the tariff viewed the income tax as an effective tool to curb inequality and corporate power. As tax law scholar Michael Graetz notes in his recent book The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America, the income tax was viewed by Gilded Age advocates as “necessary for economic justice in an industrializing nation.”
During the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt openly endorsed this egalitarian use of taxes to curb “great accumulations of wealth” and reduce the country’s towering levels of inequality. In 1936, the top marginal rate was increased to 79 percent and during the war it reached 94 percent. These rates, which Zucman and Saez have aptly described as “quasi-confiscatory,” only applied to those making the equivalent of several millions of dollars in income today and were largely designed to “reduce the inequality of pre-tax income,” which they did."
For the next 21 weeks the Tech Reclaimers are going to walk thru the #cybercleanse one week (instead of day) at a time!
join in via @TheBulletin or join our Signal or Discord groups by visiting https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech
Week 1 is GET READY: make sure you have the hardware you need. I recommend an external drive to save your stuff locally, but you may also have your eye on repurposing an old laptop or switching up your phone operating system. Make sure you have what you need to proceed.
#optout #techreclaimers #digitalresistance
https://www.optoutproject.net/cleanse-day-one/
Composer of iconic 'Lion King' chant sues comedian over 'Circle of Life' translation
https://apnews.com/article/lion-king-circle-of-life-lawsuit-2b653d3ae9337f231e6a74201f4011e8?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Grammy-award winning South African composer of the iconic chant that opens “The Lion King” is suing a comedian, saying he's denigrated the “Circle of Life” song with an intentional mistranslation. Lebohang Morake says Learnmore Jonasi devalued the composer's contribution to the song, which he performed for the 1994 Disney hit movie. Morake wants $27 million in damages. He says Jonasi described the meaning of the chant's Zulu lyrics as facts, not jokes, and so his statements aren't entitled to First Amendment protections. Jonasi said Morake’s reaction ignores his more nuanced critique of how Americans understand African identity.
Loved this blog by @hatr and Jan Strozyk reflecting 10 years on from the Panama Papers, and how nerds in the newsroom who knew (or learned!) how to script, scrape, and build tools helped to transform modern journalism. Nowadays, handling and parsing data is an indispensable skill.
https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-12-on-the-panama-papers-ten-years-later/
Your #Body Is Betraying Your #Right to #Privacy
Attachment to smart devices and #biometric #surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.
https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-your-data-will-be-used-against-you-andrew-guthrie-ferguson/
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