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shekinahcancook, 3 days ago to Economics

Markets - Where did all the stocks go?
Public Companies In Decline

The number of public companies has fallen fast by Matt Phillips, David Crowther 4/28/24

"...After analyzing the effects of mergers, private-equity investment, and regulatory costs, the paper suggests that M&A is the main culprit. (Though they do theorize that higher costs associated with regulation could be a less important contributing factor.)

“Mergers seem to be the biggest driver of this trend,” Ali Sanati told Sherwood. Sanati is a finance professor at the American University in Washington, DC, and a coauthor of the 2023 paper.

The authors categorized mergers according to various financial metrics, noting that mergers motivated around financing and innovation “are the ones that effectively reduce the number of U.S. listings.”

So, they got eaten.

https://sherwood.news/markets/the-number-of-public-companies-has-fallen-fast/

#Economics #PredatoryCapitalism #EatTheRich #StockMarket

shekinahcancook, 4 days ago to Jewish

From JIMENA:
Antisemitism since October.

Learn why this concerning trend isn’t just a matter of concern to the Jewish community, but a direct threat to democracy and national security. Gain insights into how the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. government in general, are addressing Jew-hatred around the world and why a comprehensive, whole-of-society approach is more critical now than ever before.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be informed, engaged, and empowered to counter antisemitism.

Join us virtually on May 24th by registering here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLEKEEOvKaxWtY9tI7Hpz94laWk27TgWMbhDtJYD6Rrbo7dg/viewform

Follow the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Instagram and X (Twitter) for updates.

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Oct7 #AntiSemitism #JIMENA #Jewish #JewishWomen

shekinahcancook, 4 days ago to workersrights

The Unions Strike Back

Apple workers are striking at a store in Maryland by Millie Giles 5/13/24

"...In the aftermath of its outrage-inducing object-crushing advert, Apple has been dealt another PR blow, as it faces its first retail employee strike in history.

...While Apple is currently in the firing line for its employee practices, with labor unions like the Communications Workers of America accusing the tech giant of union-busting, collective strike action has been gaining traction across the US more widely..."

https://sherwood.news/power/the-unions-strike-back-work-stoppages-rose-sharply-in-2023/

#WorkersRights #Labor #PredatoryCapitalism #Union #Strike #Economics

shekinahcancook, 4 days ago to Jewish

From Harif - a US event!

*Annual New York Conference to mark the departure and exile of Jews from Arab Countries, 20 May 2024, Touro University, Brooklyn. With MK May Golan, Shimon Ohayon, Ben Dror Yemini, Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Haim Saadoun, Stanley Uruman, Sarina Roffé, etc

Register Here: https://tourocollege.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a8YLdsaEFchHu5M

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Jewish #Sephardi #MENA #JewishHistory

shekinahcancook, 5 days ago to Economics

Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers

By Michael Hudson, originally published by Resilience.org May 10, 2024

"...To create such enclaves has been an objective of mercantile capital through the ages. It patronizes the world’s politically weakest areas as long as they do not do what real governments do: regulate their economies. The search for “neutral territory” expressed itself already in the chalcolithic epoch, many millennia before private enterprise developed as we know it. The result of this impetus is that neolithic towns...and the biblical cities of refuge share the following important common denominator with today’s offshore banking centers: Instead of being centers of local governing, legal, and military power, they were politically neutral sites established outside the jurisdictions of local governments..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-10/parallels-between-archaic-entrepots-and-modern-offshore-banking-centers/

#Economics #Taxes #Sustainability #Oligarchs

shekinahcancook, 10 days ago to emacstory

Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse by American Syrian Jew Lisa Sayegh May 7, 2024

"...Over the past years, I have often been frustrated when I find people do not understand the trauma of the 700,000 Jews from all over the Middle East who were violently expelled from their countries in 1948 and how it resonates today. Pro-Palestinian activists who call out Israel as a “European settler colonial project” omit a critical part of the story that calls into question their claim. They ignore the Mizrahi majority in Israel who are descendants of Jews expelled from Arab lands when Israel was declared a state..."

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/07/ideas/jews-from-arab-lands-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-israeli-palestinian-discourse

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #JewishHistory #MENA #JewishWomen

shekinahcancook, 13 days ago to humanrights

National Day of Prayer continues to advance Christian Nationalism

Apr 30, 2024 Andrew L. Seidel

From American United for Separation of church and state:

"...You heard that correctly – in a nation where the First Amendment of our Constitution demands that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” Congress established a National Day of Prayer...

The law requires the President of the United States to issue a proclamation recognizing the National Day of Prayer. Some local and state governments similarly recognize the day. Although supporters may claim NDP welcomes all people to participate, it ostracizes nonreligious people, those who don’t pray and many religious minorities. Both the history of NDP and the rhetoric of those who continue to promote it make clear that NDP is mainly for Christians..."

Read the article here:

https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/national-day-of-prayer-christian-nationalism/

#ChristoFascism #CivilRights #HumanRights #WomensRights

shekinahcancook, 13 days ago to workersrights

Nonprofits and For-Profit businesses must adhere to the new overtimes rules starting July 1, 2024.

If you read this and figure out you're being shorted on your pay, file a complaint with your state wage and labor office and/or the US Dept of Labor.

To read this article: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/evaluating-us-department-labors-overtime-final-rule

To file a complain with the US Dept of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints

#LaborLaw #WageTheft #DeptOfLabor #Overtime #Salary #WorkersRights

shekinahcancook, 13 days ago to random

Denying pregnant people emergency abortion care under EMTALA advances Christian Nationalism

By Kalyn Mizelle McDaniel May 01, 2024

"...Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state by imposing one narrow religious viewpoint on everyone. Removing EMTALA protections from pregnant women goes a step further by advancing the Christian Nationalist commitment to relegating women to second-class citizenship. According to complementarianism, which is intrinsically intertwined with Christian Nationalism, cisgender woman have a distinct role. Motherhood and submission to men are key parts of the separate role women play. The incapability of the role is evidence of its second-class nature. Complementarianism is diametrically opposed to the liberation of women, and fittingly, limiting the instances in which their wellbeing can be protected in emergency rooms aligns with that ideology..."

https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/emergency-abortion-care-emtala-christian-nationalism/

#Abortion #ReligiousFreedom #WomensRights #FreedomOfReligion #ChristoFascism

shekinahcancook, 16 days ago to Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit” By Maria Popova

"...People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years — you haven’t been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls. But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 — it’s a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children’s book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all.

A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, The Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books..."

https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/11/01/art-of-the-hobbit/

#Tolkien #Hobbit #LOTR

shekinahcancook, 16 days ago to Economics

I think there are tons of people who would love a regular car, an EV or Hybrid, without all that other electronic junk. Purposefully making transitioning to cleaner options too expensive is a stupid policy.

#PlannetObsolence #Complexity #PredatoryCapitalism #Economics #Resources #Sustainability

shekinahcancook, 16 days ago to trans

Your soul doesn’t have junk in the trunk - Or, what Catholic apologists and Richard Dawkins agree about
Avatar photo by Adam Lee Oct 10, 2023

"...Are intersex people God’s mistakes?

The heart of Graebe’s argument is his insistence that God doesn’t make mistakes. He says it’s impossible to have a “male soul” in a biologically female body, or vice versa. Therefore, he concludes, anyone who believes themselves to be transgender is self-deluded:

"To deny that essential unity is to say that God made a mistake. …Jesus says, “This is my body,” but we cannot say that of ourselves. Our body belongs not to us, but to God, and he will not be mocked."

Again, there’s an obvious reply: How does this theology account for intersex people?

As I wrote in Christians against pronouns, it’s objectively true that there are human beings who defy simplistic notions of a gender binary..."

Scientific literacy is not a strong point with fundamentalists.

https://onlysky.media/alee/your-soul-doesnt-have-junk-in-the-trunk/

#ChristoFascism #Trans #LGBTQ

shekinahcancook, 16 days ago to random

You're Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.

Some of us can hear the future.
Jessica Wildfire

"...If you have sentinel intelligence, your brain can aggregate and sift through extraordinary amounts of information in a very short period of time, especially when it comes to seeing latent or hidden dangers. You don’t get stymied by what Clarke and Eddy call the “magnitude of overload.”

In some ways, it’s a superpower.

Research on sensitive individuals confirms how sentinels and Cassandras think. Social psychologist Tsachi Ein-Dor writes that some of us "are chronically hypervigilant and constantly alert to potential threats and dangers. Other individuals, once alerted to a threat, are self-reliant and likely to take protective actions rapidly and effectively." In other words, we're hardwired alarm systems. Groups are more likely to survive when they have a mix of people who are skilled at detecting, communicating, and acting on threats to their survival..."

https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-a-fearmonger-you-have-sentinel-intelligence/

shekinahcancook, 16 days ago to sustainability

How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future

By Vasilis Kostakis, Nikiforos Tsiouris, originally published by ScienceDirect May 1, 2024

"...In a state of emergency, it is audacious to place all our hopes for tackling the ecological crisis and wealth inequality in technology –worse even, in technology that is yet to materialize... High-tech is not unsustainable in its essence, but its scale and mode of production in the capitalist realm are.

...the crux of the matter is profoundly political. The development and production of technology in the modern era are intricately interwoven with wealth inequality and environmental deterioration. Technology is not being produced in a vacuum, thus it is not neutral. On the contrary, it is highly influenced by the decisions of manufacturers, legislators, consultants, designers and everyone else involved –directly or indirectly– in the process..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-01/how-to-unite-local-initiatives-for-a-more-sustainable-global-future/

#Sustainability #Economics #Resources #DeGrowth #Climate

shekinahcancook, 17 days ago to workersrights

From the Workers Circle:
This May Day, champion workers' rights by urging your Members of Congress to support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

Ensuring the right to organize and bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions is vital for a fair and inclusive economy. But corporate-friendly laws in the United States have reduced worker power. The PRO Act fights back.

Among its provisions, the PRO Act would broaden the scope of workers covered by national fair labor standards and prohibit the replacement or discrimination of workers who participate in strikes. The PRO Act would also establish penalties and injunctive relief against entities that fail to comply with National Labor Relation Board orders. It puts real enforcement power behind workers' rights.

Join me in urging Congress to take action on the PRO Act this May Day.

https://theworkerscircle.salsalabs.org/proact2024-1/index.html

In solidarity, Noelle Damico, Director of Social Justice

#WorkersRights #Union #MayDay #Solidarity #Labor

shekinahcancook, 18 days ago to random

@Cbsnews

I have yet to see a single news story about Project 2025. Are you complicit in this plot? Why are you not reporting on it?

shekinahcancook, 19 days ago to LGBTQ

Here's hoping it sticks...

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-gender-identity-is-a

#LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights

shekinahcancook, 19 days ago to random

This is how Donald Trump would ban abortion nationally without an abortion ban - Jason Sattler Apr 26, 2024

This is what you're "voting" for if you refuse to vote, or vote third party, in November - the establishment of a white nationalist right wing christian theocracy.

You think what happened to women in Afghanistan can't happen here?

You're wrong.

And you're stupid.

#Abortion #WomensRights #ChristoFascism #GOP #Project2025

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

Now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster!
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

We forgot about our appearance generators.
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

Your people have a great commander.
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

And what you failed to realize is that my ship is dragging mines.
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

Dont forget to buy a galaxy quest tshirt on your way out!
#GalaxyQuestToots

shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

Does the rolling help?
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shekinahcancook, 20 days ago to random

Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!
#GalaxyQuestToots