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On May 20 2021 01:47 KwarK wrote:

A million would probably collapse the dollar and require the creation of a new currency. People’s savings would be wiped out but tangibles such as stocks and real estate would retain value. A lot of general chaos as everyone started bartering and then everything got reestablished in the new currency, no real change for the poor who would get worthless dollars that nobody would accept. Middle class would have their dollar savings wiped out. No real change for upper class. Dollar denominated debts would be preserved and converted to the new currency because the banks make the rules.

On May 20 2021 02:31 KwarK wrote:

It’d be backed by the faith and credit of the US government. This wouldn’t be worth what it used to be because of the stunt they pulled by giving everyone a million dollars. People would probably start using euros and other currencies more.

The poor would most likely get fucked because, as a rule, they always do. Their paper would be toilet paper while their student loans would get converted.

This is all hypothetical though, it’d never actually happen so my answer is pure speculation.

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas entered its 10th day, President Biden pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to de-escalate Israeli military action in a push to end the hostilities, the White House said.

"The President conveyed to the Prime Minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire," it said in a statement.

The White House said Biden and Netanyahu "had a detailed discussion on the state of events in Gaza, Israel's progress in degrading the capabilities of Hamas and other terrorist elements, and ongoing diplomatic efforts by regional governments and the United States."

After a later visit to military headquarters, Netanyahu said he is "determined to continue this operation until its aim is met."

There's been no letup in fighting, despite growing international calls for a cease-fire.

In one attack overnight, more than 50 Israeli warplanes pounded the southern part of the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli military. The target was a vast network of tunnels, which Israel says is used by Hamas to shuttle weapons and people.

Israel says more than 50 cross-border rocket attacks launched from Gaza set off sirens in some southern Israeli communities and killed two workers from Thailand. The Israeli military says more than 3,450 rockets have been launched from Gaza since the fighting began, more than in any previous conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The day that a white mob came to Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Okla., Viola Fletcher was just 7 years old.

During emotional testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Fletcher, who is now 107, recalled her memories of the two-day massacre that left hundreds of Black people dead.

"I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams," Fletcher told lawmakers. "I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot."

Fletcher and two other survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, her younger brother Hughes Van Ellis and Lessie Benningfield Randle, testified before a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Wednesday nearly 100 years to the date of the massacre. Some historians say as many as 300 Black people were killed and another 10,000 were left homeless. Greenwood was destroyed by the attack that was launched on May 31, 1921.

The country is currently grappling with systemic racism laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic and the killings of George Floyd and other Black people in encounters with law enforcement. The same committee that heard from the survivors has also been studying reparations for the descendants of millions of enslaved Americans and recently advanced a bill that would create a commission to study the lingering effects of slavery.

On May 20 2021 04:47 KwarK wrote:

A private donation of $300,000,000,000,000 from where? There isn’t that amount of money. Remember most value isn’t money, money is just the lubrication in the machine that lets you trade one kind of value (Amazon stock) for another (real estate). It’s used to facilitate trade. If that amount of additional money existed and was circulated used then it would already have devalued the US dollar.

On May 20 2021 11:05 JimmiC wrote:
The bill to establish an independent commission to investigate the violent insurrection has passed the house. All the Dems voted for it and 35 republicans. That seems like a lot these days. Now we wait to see what happens in the senate.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998223288/sen-mcconnell-opposes-bipartisan-commission-to-investigate-insurrection

In 1987, there were more than 18,000 homeless people there. The latest figures from the end of 2017 show there were about 6,600 people classified as without a home.

The vast majority are living with friends or family, or are housed in temporary accommodation. Only a very small number are actually sleeping on the streets.

So how have the Finns managed it?

Since 2007, their government has built homeless policies on the foundations of the "Housing First" principle.

Put simply, it gives rough sleepers or people who become homeless a stable and permanent home of their own as soon as possible.

It then provides them with the help and support they need. That may be supporting someone trying to tackle an addiction, assisting them to learn new skills, or helping them get into training, education or work.