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I'll just leave this here
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Israeli prime minister making a fool of himself again in the UN with paranoid delusions and thinly veiled threats of unjustified wars
Nothing new or special
Edit: Also, Obama administration is petty about the shutdown
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Essentially, they're shutting down public open air monuments to cause as much discomfort for the people in what appears to be a political strategy to get people to blame the republicans.
Basically, putting fences around places to 'shut them down' when they're just eyecandy and don't need attendants.
WW2 veterans plan to go in anyway because this is all very silly and childish
Can't America just lock both sides in a room together with nobody allowed to leave until they agree or something? This is all so very very silly
This seems to be a very right wing site, and I can find absolutely nothing resembling an about section or FAQs or sources. The point of the article seems to be that since the memorials were barricaded the president must have set the order, which is an assertion I find laughable.
That being said, this whole thing is horseshit.
Left, right, like it matters when they're both acting like a bunch of spoiled brats. They really are trying hard to blame the other side instead of actually trying to fix the problem
And on those memorials
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People are getting paid to protest against/in favour of whatever(Note: not protesting the WW2 vets actually going in). According to the comments, it's also 15$ an hour and not a flat fee of 15$
I still think this entire situation is best watched with circus music in the background. So I'll leave everyone with this
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The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official guidance from the government.
A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can't "Save As..." an image; where the "allowed" uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs; and maybe even where we can no longer effectively "View Source" on some sites, is a very different Web from the one we have today. It's a Web where user agents—browsers—must navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page.
Switzerland may just decide to give every adult living there an unconditional income of 2500 Francs/month, if the vote passes. Rumours of this have been floating around for a while now.
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(Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis.
A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population.
Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million five-rappen coins outside the parliament building in Berne, one for each person living in Switzerland.
Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The country usually holds several referenda a year.
In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation.
A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.
The initiative's organizing committee said the basic income could partly be financed through money from social insurance systems in Switzerland.
The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official guidance from the government.
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It's on Fox News. It's false. People have been saying the same thing for decades, and it hasn't happened yet. People who believe the government is out to get them are just like people who believe in the apocalypse, they need it to feel like they aren't irrelevant.