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Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to the authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds

Ex-Honduran president convicted of trafficking 360 TONNES of cocaine out of prison after Trump pardon 💩
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-honduras-hernandez-pardon-9.7000112

Pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández criticized in both Honduras and U.S.

360 TONNES of cocaine ... m/w propagandizing Argentinian drug-running 🤔 as enormous threat / violating international law / murdering civilians w/o due process / preparing for invasion (resource plundering)

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The Lord of the Rings movie that depicts the trilogy's real honest-to-goodness actual book ending, where the working class hero Sam and his pals organize a violent democratic revolution to drive the evil big people out of the Shire. It's just lying there, waiting to make billions for somebody. And it wouldn't even have to be 3 hours long or anything! Someday. Sigh.

“European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, it fed on the blood of slaves, and owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world. Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Today in Labor History November 28, 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned in tears after a mass non-payment of her hated poll tax forced her out of office. The tax was a flat tax, hugely unfair, charging all adults, regardless of their wealth or income, the same amount. At the height of the campaign, nearly half of all British adults, 17 million people, had refused to pay the tax. The Labour Party refused to back any protest of the tax. But Anti-Poll Tax Unions formed across the country, and there were thousands of demonstrations, many of which became riots after mounted police charged the protesters. Over 100 were injured and more than 330 were arrested in the protests.

Poll Tax Riot 31st Mar 1990 - Horse Charge. By James Bourne - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40395295

“The United States won. Here in Indonesia, you got what you wanted, and around the world, you got what you wanted.
How did we win, I asked.
You killed us.”
― Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World