2020.07.21 Good Trouble

There are no bigger crooks than the banks. - Lucio Urtubia


Show Notes

Quote

"My philosophy is very simple: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to stand up and just say something. You have to do something. I got into good trouble, necessary trouble. Even today, I tell people, 'We need to get in good trouble.'" - John Lewis

RIPs and The Infected

Australia: 12,000 cases ... now rising faster than Singapore

Failed States of America: Nearly 4 million cases ... and 145,000 deaths and rising

Federal executions underway in that shithole country - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewis_Lee - Wesley Ira Purkey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Lee_Honken

John Lewis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(civil_rights_leader)

C. T. Vivian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._T._Vivian

Milan Šašik, 67, Slovak-born Ukrainian Ruthenian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Mukachevo (since 2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Šašik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenian_Greek_Catholic_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Mukachevo

Panania and Pannonia http://pananiadiggers.com.au/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonia

Alex A. McCool Jr. (10 December 1923 – 14 July 2020) was manager of the Space Shuttle Projects Office at the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. During his career, McCool contributed to several space developments including Skylab and the Space Shuttle program. He died 14 July 2020 in Huntsville, Alabama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_McCool

Neo Nazis are arseholes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noël_Martin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_Alexandrovskaya Auto-defenestration?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Tezikov 42 year old professional Russian athlete ... heart attack?

Lucio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Urtubia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Federation_(France) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Hashim_Ahmad_al-Tai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Tuck

Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53470950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_Reims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armée_Juive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polad_Hashimov https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/shelling-azerbaijan-armenia-ends-ceasefire-200716184550121.html

Ganja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja,_Azerbaijan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustapha_Karkouti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

Toke Talagi of Niue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toke_Talagi

Barry Jarman https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/barry-jarman-dies-former-cricketer-australian-wicketkeeper/73bb0b78-6f68-444d-a38a-5ebd2beadfa7

Follow-Up

Greta https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/21/greta-thunberg-gives-1m-award-money-to-climate-groups

Things

Brain eating amoeba https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/04/us/naegleria-fowleri-case-florida-trnd/index.html https://www.webmd.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribriform_plate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

Jobkeeper was not a keeper https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jobkeeper-reduced-to-1200-a-fortnight-split-into-two-tiers-20200721-p55dz8.html

Acute heart disease incoming https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-protests/hundreds-protest-in-moscow-against-reforms-that-could-keep-putin-in-power-idUSKCN24G2SF https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-s-far-east-rare-anti-putin-protests-gain-momentum-n1233866 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/europe/russia-protests-putin.html https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/thousands-rally-in-russia-for-8th-day-of-anti-putin-protests/

Tax breaks https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/malware-found-in-chinese-tax-software.html

Stacks

Apple wriggles out of those taxes ... again https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/govt-should-hang-heads-in-shame-as-apple-wins-13-billion-euro-tax-appeal/15/07/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/01/google-says-it-will-no-longer-use-double-irish-dutch-sandwich-tax-loophole

July is cancelled https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/18/21329810/disney-facebook-ad-spending-instagram-hulu-boycott-hate-speech

Something about Twitter https://us.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html

894GB of VPN logs that don't exist https://www.hackread.com/vpn-firm-zero-logs-policy-leaks-20-million-user-logs/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Twitch tells US Army to GTFO https://kotaku.com/twitch-forces-u-s-army-to-stop-tricking-viewers-with-f-1844405124

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