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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor”*…
We’ve become a nation of credit and debit card users. As of this year, Pew reports, 42% of Americans don’t use cash for purchases in a typical week (up from 24% in 2015); another 46% use a mix of cash and plastic; only 12% use mostly (or entirely) cash. The Federal Reserve reports, unsuprisingly, that cash remains the dominant mode for the elderly and the poor; debit cards, for lower-to-middle-income households.
NBER unpacks one little-understood consequence of this shift…
Every time a consumer swipes a credit card, the merchant pays an interchange fee—typically around 1.9 percent of the transaction value—most of which funds the rewards that cardholders receive. Because merchants generally charge the same prices regardless of how customers pay, consumers who use cash or debit cards effectively help finance the rewards enjoyed by credit card users. In Who Pays for Payments? (NBER Working Paper 35067), Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru, Lulu Wang, and Vincent Yao use novel merchant-level data from Fiserv—one of the largest US merchant acquirers—to measure how the payment system redistributes resources.
The primary dataset contains establishment-level payment data from 2006 to 2022, including total payment values, transaction counts, and interchange fees paid for different card types…
… The researchers’ analysis using these datasets suggests that interchange fees transfer approximately $30 billion annually from cash and debit card users to credit card users. Cash users lose about 96 basis points of purchasing power, and regulated debit card users lose roughly 47 basis points, while basic and premium credit card users gain approximately 48 and 59 basis points, respectively. Because credit card use rises with income, the system generates an estimated $9.2 billion annual transfer from households earning less than $150,000 to those earning more.
Two forces moderate this redistribution. First, the tendency for cash, debit, and credit card users to shop at different merchants limits the overlap necessary for cross-subsidization. Second, where overlap does occur, such as at large grocery stores and gas stations, interchange fees tend to be lower due to sector discounts and negotiated rates. Together, these forces reduce the transfer by approximately 25 percent relative to the transfer that would occur with homogeneous consumers and merchants.
The researchers also examine the redistributive consequences of two specific developments in the payment system. The first is the Durbin Amendment, which capped interchange fees on debit cards issued by large banks. The authors show that one perhaps unintended consequence of the amendment was that it primarily benefited credit card users through lower retail prices at the expense of regulated debit card users, who lost approximately $9.6 billion in rewards and free checking benefits. This was a net transfer from middle-income to higher-income households. The second development is the rise of premium credit cards, which grew from 15 percent of credit card volume in 2006 to 60 percent by 2022. This has also been a regressive development. While premium cardholders gained about $7.9 billion, debit card users—not cash users—bore the largest dollar losses because they shop most frequently alongside premium card users…
The rich getting richer: “Who Ultimately Pays Credit Card Interchange Fees?” from @nber.org.
Pair with Annie Lowrey on another burden– a “time tax”– that falls disportionately on the neediest: “How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life“:
Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year. If Washington were to create a Department of Bureaucracy to take on the paperwork it shunts to citizens, the agency would require 5.9 million employees, making it four times the size of the active-duty military. The DOB’s payroll would be larger than that of every other federal department combined.
The nation’s paperwork regime frustrates every resident, and particularly lower-income residents who use more government programs and interact more frequently with public officials. The political scientist Elizabeth Cohen has done seminal work exploring time as a potent, if obscure, form of political currency. “The devaluation of a person or group’s political time is a structural obstacle to equality,” she writes. Yet we can’t measure time and effort as easily as we measure dollars, and we don’t even try. The 12-billion-hour estimate is an undercount, and an egregious one…
* James Baldwin (see also Terry Pratchett’s “Boots theory“)
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As we second-guess secreted subventions, we might spare a thought for Jean-Baptiste Colbert; he died on this date in 1683. A French statesman who served as First Minister of State under the rule of King Louis XIV from 1661 until his death. His lasting impact on the organization of the country’s politics and markets, known as Colbertism, a form of the mercantilism so popular in the Trump Administration today. Colbert also helped craft the Code Noir, a legal instrument that sanctioned an intentionally brutal system of torture and repression to enforce institutional slavery in the French colonial empire and restrict the enterprise of free Black people.
Though Colbert was more competent and less crony-ish than the crew at “work” in D.C. over the last couple of years, his goal of a healthy economy was frustrated by a King whose spending out-ran (and whose favoritism undermined) Colbert’s efforts. In the longer run, many economists suggest that “Colbertism” has contributed to contributed to a lack of adaptability in French industry and a hostility to technological innovation.
#bureaucracy #business #cash #Colbert #Colbertism #creditCardFees #creditCards #culture #debitCards #economics #France #history #JeanBaptisteColbert #mercantilism #politics #redTape #time #timeTax #trade -
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor”*…
We’ve become a nation of credit and debit card users. As of this year, Pew reports, 42% of Americans don’t use cash for purchases in a typical week (up from 24% in 2015); another 46% use a mix of cash and plastic; only 12% use mostly (or entirely) cash. The Federal Reserve reports, unsuprisingly, that cash remains the dominant mode for the elderly and the poor; debit cards, for lower-to-middle-income households.
NBER unpacks one little-understood consequence of this shift…
Every time a consumer swipes a credit card, the merchant pays an interchange fee—typically around 1.9 percent of the transaction value—most of which funds the rewards that cardholders receive. Because merchants generally charge the same prices regardless of how customers pay, consumers who use cash or debit cards effectively help finance the rewards enjoyed by credit card users. In Who Pays for Payments? (NBER Working Paper 35067), Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru, Lulu Wang, and Vincent Yao use novel merchant-level data from Fiserv—one of the largest US merchant acquirers—to measure how the payment system redistributes resources.
The primary dataset contains establishment-level payment data from 2006 to 2022, including total payment values, transaction counts, and interchange fees paid for different card types…
… The researchers’ analysis using these datasets suggests that interchange fees transfer approximately $30 billion annually from cash and debit card users to credit card users. Cash users lose about 96 basis points of purchasing power, and regulated debit card users lose roughly 47 basis points, while basic and premium credit card users gain approximately 48 and 59 basis points, respectively. Because credit card use rises with income, the system generates an estimated $9.2 billion annual transfer from households earning less than $150,000 to those earning more.
Two forces moderate this redistribution. First, the tendency for cash, debit, and credit card users to shop at different merchants limits the overlap necessary for cross-subsidization. Second, where overlap does occur, such as at large grocery stores and gas stations, interchange fees tend to be lower due to sector discounts and negotiated rates. Together, these forces reduce the transfer by approximately 25 percent relative to the transfer that would occur with homogeneous consumers and merchants.
The researchers also examine the redistributive consequences of two specific developments in the payment system. The first is the Durbin Amendment, which capped interchange fees on debit cards issued by large banks. The authors show that one perhaps unintended consequence of the amendment was that it primarily benefited credit card users through lower retail prices at the expense of regulated debit card users, who lost approximately $9.6 billion in rewards and free checking benefits. This was a net transfer from middle-income to higher-income households. The second development is the rise of premium credit cards, which grew from 15 percent of credit card volume in 2006 to 60 percent by 2022. This has also been a regressive development. While premium cardholders gained about $7.9 billion, debit card users—not cash users—bore the largest dollar losses because they shop most frequently alongside premium card users…
The rich getting richer: “Who Ultimately Pays Credit Card Interchange Fees?” from @nber.org.
Pair with Annie Lowrey on another burden– a “time tax”– that falls disportionately on the neediest: “How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life“:
Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year. If Washington were to create a Department of Bureaucracy to take on the paperwork it shunts to citizens, the agency would require 5.9 million employees, making it four times the size of the active-duty military. The DOB’s payroll would be larger than that of every other federal department combined.
The nation’s paperwork regime frustrates every resident, and particularly lower-income residents who use more government programs and interact more frequently with public officials. The political scientist Elizabeth Cohen has done seminal work exploring time as a potent, if obscure, form of political currency. “The devaluation of a person or group’s political time is a structural obstacle to equality,” she writes. Yet we can’t measure time and effort as easily as we measure dollars, and we don’t even try. The 12-billion-hour estimate is an undercount, and an egregious one…
* James Baldwin (see also Terry Pratchett’s “Boots theory“)
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As we second-guess secreted subventions, we might spare a thought for Jean-Baptiste Colbert; he died on this date in 1683. A French statesman who served as First Minister of State under the rule of King Louis XIV from 1661 until his death. His lasting impact on the organization of the country’s politics and markets, known as Colbertism, a form of the mercantilism so popular in the Trump Administration today. Colbert also helped craft the Code Noir, a legal instrument that sanctioned an intentionally brutal system of torture and repression to enforce institutional slavery in the French colonial empire and restrict the enterprise of free Black people.
Though Colbert was more competent and less crony-ish than the crew at “work” in D.C. over the last couple of years, his goal of a healthy economy was frustrated by a King whose spending out-ran (and whose favoritism undermined) Colbert’s efforts. In the longer run, many economists suggest that “Colbertism” has contributed to contributed to a lack of adaptability in French industry and a hostility to technological innovation.
#bureaucracy #business #cash #Colbert #Colbertism #creditCardFees #creditCards #culture #debitCards #economics #France #history #JeanBaptisteColbert #mercantilism #politics #redTape #time #timeTax #trade -
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor”*…
We’ve become a nation of credit and debit card users. As of this year, Pew reports, 42% of Americans don’t use cash for purchases in a typical week (up from 24% in 2015); another 46% use a mix of cash and plastic; only 12% use mostly (or entirely) cash. The Federal Reserve reports, unsuprisingly, that cash remains the dominant mode for the elderly and the poor; debit cards, for lower-to-middle-income households.
NBER unpacks one little-understood consequence of this shift…
Every time a consumer swipes a credit card, the merchant pays an interchange fee—typically around 1.9 percent of the transaction value—most of which funds the rewards that cardholders receive. Because merchants generally charge the same prices regardless of how customers pay, consumers who use cash or debit cards effectively help finance the rewards enjoyed by credit card users. In Who Pays for Payments? (NBER Working Paper 35067), Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru, Lulu Wang, and Vincent Yao use novel merchant-level data from Fiserv—one of the largest US merchant acquirers—to measure how the payment system redistributes resources.
The primary dataset contains establishment-level payment data from 2006 to 2022, including total payment values, transaction counts, and interchange fees paid for different card types…
… The researchers’ analysis using these datasets suggests that interchange fees transfer approximately $30 billion annually from cash and debit card users to credit card users. Cash users lose about 96 basis points of purchasing power, and regulated debit card users lose roughly 47 basis points, while basic and premium credit card users gain approximately 48 and 59 basis points, respectively. Because credit card use rises with income, the system generates an estimated $9.2 billion annual transfer from households earning less than $150,000 to those earning more.
Two forces moderate this redistribution. First, the tendency for cash, debit, and credit card users to shop at different merchants limits the overlap necessary for cross-subsidization. Second, where overlap does occur, such as at large grocery stores and gas stations, interchange fees tend to be lower due to sector discounts and negotiated rates. Together, these forces reduce the transfer by approximately 25 percent relative to the transfer that would occur with homogeneous consumers and merchants.
The researchers also examine the redistributive consequences of two specific developments in the payment system. The first is the Durbin Amendment, which capped interchange fees on debit cards issued by large banks. The authors show that one perhaps unintended consequence of the amendment was that it primarily benefited credit card users through lower retail prices at the expense of regulated debit card users, who lost approximately $9.6 billion in rewards and free checking benefits. This was a net transfer from middle-income to higher-income households. The second development is the rise of premium credit cards, which grew from 15 percent of credit card volume in 2006 to 60 percent by 2022. This has also been a regressive development. While premium cardholders gained about $7.9 billion, debit card users—not cash users—bore the largest dollar losses because they shop most frequently alongside premium card users…
The rich getting richer: “Who Ultimately Pays Credit Card Interchange Fees?” from @nber.org.
Pair with Annie Lowrey on another burden– a “time tax”– that falls disportionately on the neediest: “How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life“:
Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year. If Washington were to create a Department of Bureaucracy to take on the paperwork it shunts to citizens, the agency would require 5.9 million employees, making it four times the size of the active-duty military. The DOB’s payroll would be larger than that of every other federal department combined.
The nation’s paperwork regime frustrates every resident, and particularly lower-income residents who use more government programs and interact more frequently with public officials. The political scientist Elizabeth Cohen has done seminal work exploring time as a potent, if obscure, form of political currency. “The devaluation of a person or group’s political time is a structural obstacle to equality,” she writes. Yet we can’t measure time and effort as easily as we measure dollars, and we don’t even try. The 12-billion-hour estimate is an undercount, and an egregious one…
* James Baldwin (see also Terry Pratchett’s “Boots theory“)
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As we second-guess secreted subventions, we might spare a thought for Jean-Baptiste Colbert; he died on this date in 1683. A French statesman who served as First Minister of State under the rule of King Louis XIV from 1661 until his death. His lasting impact on the organization of the country’s politics and markets, known as Colbertism, a form of the mercantilism so popular in the Trump Administration today. Colbert also helped craft the Code Noir, a legal instrument that sanctioned an intentionally brutal system of torture and repression to enforce institutional slavery in the French colonial empire and restrict the enterprise of free Black people.
Though Colbert was more competent and less crony-ish than the crew at “work” in D.C. over the last couple of years, his goal of a healthy economy was frustrated by a King whose spending out-ran (and whose favoritism undermined) Colbert’s efforts. In the longer run, many economists suggest that “Colbertism” has contributed to contributed to a lack of adaptability in French industry and a hostility to technological innovation.
#bureaucracy #business #cash #Colbert #Colbertism #creditCardFees #creditCards #culture #debitCards #economics #France #history #JeanBaptisteColbert #mercantilism #politics #redTape #time #timeTax #trade -
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor”*…
We’ve become a nation of credit and debit card users. As of this year, Pew reports, 42% of Americans don’t use cash for purchases in a typical week (up from 24% in 2015); another 46% use a mix of cash and plastic; only 12% use mostly (or entirely) cash. The Federal Reserve reports, unsuprisingly, that cash remains the dominant mode for the elderly and the poor; debit cards, for lower-to-middle-income households.
NBER unpacks one little-understood consequence of this shift…
Every time a consumer swipes a credit card, the merchant pays an interchange fee—typically around 1.9 percent of the transaction value—most of which funds the rewards that cardholders receive. Because merchants generally charge the same prices regardless of how customers pay, consumers who use cash or debit cards effectively help finance the rewards enjoyed by credit card users. In Who Pays for Payments? (NBER Working Paper 35067), Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos, Amit Seru, Lulu Wang, and Vincent Yao use novel merchant-level data from Fiserv—one of the largest US merchant acquirers—to measure how the payment system redistributes resources.
The primary dataset contains establishment-level payment data from 2006 to 2022, including total payment values, transaction counts, and interchange fees paid for different card types…
… The researchers’ analysis using these datasets suggests that interchange fees transfer approximately $30 billion annually from cash and debit card users to credit card users. Cash users lose about 96 basis points of purchasing power, and regulated debit card users lose roughly 47 basis points, while basic and premium credit card users gain approximately 48 and 59 basis points, respectively. Because credit card use rises with income, the system generates an estimated $9.2 billion annual transfer from households earning less than $150,000 to those earning more.
Two forces moderate this redistribution. First, the tendency for cash, debit, and credit card users to shop at different merchants limits the overlap necessary for cross-subsidization. Second, where overlap does occur, such as at large grocery stores and gas stations, interchange fees tend to be lower due to sector discounts and negotiated rates. Together, these forces reduce the transfer by approximately 25 percent relative to the transfer that would occur with homogeneous consumers and merchants.
The researchers also examine the redistributive consequences of two specific developments in the payment system. The first is the Durbin Amendment, which capped interchange fees on debit cards issued by large banks. The authors show that one perhaps unintended consequence of the amendment was that it primarily benefited credit card users through lower retail prices at the expense of regulated debit card users, who lost approximately $9.6 billion in rewards and free checking benefits. This was a net transfer from middle-income to higher-income households. The second development is the rise of premium credit cards, which grew from 15 percent of credit card volume in 2006 to 60 percent by 2022. This has also been a regressive development. While premium cardholders gained about $7.9 billion, debit card users—not cash users—bore the largest dollar losses because they shop most frequently alongside premium card users…
The rich getting richer: “Who Ultimately Pays Credit Card Interchange Fees?” from @nber.org.
Pair with Annie Lowrey on another burden– a “time tax”– that falls disportionately on the neediest: “How American Bureaucracy (Literally) Steals Years From Your Life“:
Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year. If Washington were to create a Department of Bureaucracy to take on the paperwork it shunts to citizens, the agency would require 5.9 million employees, making it four times the size of the active-duty military. The DOB’s payroll would be larger than that of every other federal department combined.
The nation’s paperwork regime frustrates every resident, and particularly lower-income residents who use more government programs and interact more frequently with public officials. The political scientist Elizabeth Cohen has done seminal work exploring time as a potent, if obscure, form of political currency. “The devaluation of a person or group’s political time is a structural obstacle to equality,” she writes. Yet we can’t measure time and effort as easily as we measure dollars, and we don’t even try. The 12-billion-hour estimate is an undercount, and an egregious one…
* James Baldwin (see also Terry Pratchett’s “Boots theory“)
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As we second-guess secreted subventions, we might spare a thought for Jean-Baptiste Colbert; he died on this date in 1683. A French statesman who served as First Minister of State under the rule of King Louis XIV from 1661 until his death. His lasting impact on the organization of the country’s politics and markets, known as Colbertism, a form of the mercantilism so popular in the Trump Administration today. Colbert also helped craft the Code Noir, a legal instrument that sanctioned an intentionally brutal system of torture and repression to enforce institutional slavery in the French colonial empire and restrict the enterprise of free Black people.
Though Colbert was more competent and less crony-ish than the crew at “work” in D.C. over the last couple of years, his goal of a healthy economy was frustrated by a King whose spending out-ran (and whose favoritism undermined) Colbert’s efforts. In the longer run, many economists suggest that “Colbertism” has contributed to contributed to a lack of adaptability in French industry and a hostility to technological innovation.
#bureaucracy #business #cash #Colbert #Colbertism #creditCardFees #creditCards #culture #debitCards #economics #France #history #JeanBaptisteColbert #mercantilism #politics #redTape #time #timeTax #trade -
Bureau of Land Management introduced two new proposals would allow logging up to 5,000 acres at a time to move forward without environmental review and without public input.
Sign the petition to tell BLM to reject these proposals and keep public lands decisions transparent, science-based, and accountable to the public.
#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
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Bureau of Land Management introduced two new proposals would allow logging up to 5,000 acres at a time to move forward without environmental review and without public input.
Sign the petition to tell BLM to reject these proposals and keep public lands decisions transparent, science-based, and accountable to the public.
#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
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Bureau of Land Management introduced two new proposals would allow logging up to 5,000 acres at a time to move forward without environmental review and without public input.
Sign the petition to tell BLM to reject these proposals and keep public lands decisions transparent, science-based, and accountable to the public.
#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
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Bureau of Land Management introduced two new proposals would allow logging up to 5,000 acres at a time to move forward without environmental review and without public input.
Sign the petition to tell BLM to reject these proposals and keep public lands decisions transparent, science-based, and accountable to the public.
#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
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Bureau of Land Management introduced two new proposals would allow logging up to 5,000 acres at a time to move forward without environmental review and without public input.
Sign the petition to tell BLM to reject these proposals and keep public lands decisions transparent, science-based, and accountable to the public.
#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
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Former bureaucrats& #environmentalists opposed the #AssamGovt order of deployment of 1600 #forest personnel for election duty. They argue the decision contravenes directive of #SupremeCourt& administrative rules of #Election Commission of #India. They expressed concerns over increasing #poaching incidents, which further get aggravate by absence of large no. Of #forest personnel endanger India’s iconic species, #Rhinoceros, which only found in Assam’s #KazirangaPark.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/assam/2026/Mar/30/former-bureaucrats-oppose-order-to-deploy-1600-forest-staff-for-assam-poll-duty -
Le Bureau des affaires occultes
🔸 Double enquête de Valentin Venne, jeune inspecteur à la brigade des mœurs : éclaircir le suicide du fils unique d’un député; la traque d’un tueur en série qui s’en prend à des enfants
https://cltr.blogspot.com/2026/01/le-bureau-des-affaires-occultes.html
#livre #littérature #policier #roman #polar #France #Paris #enquête #meurtre #suicide #enfants #occultisme -
Le bureau d'études ÉVEHA recrute des archéologues fouilleurs (f/h) pour des opérations archéologiques dans la région Toulousaine.
http://archeojob.canalblog.com/archives/2023/10/30/40090832.html
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case and initiated an investigation in 2011.
#BabaRamdev #AideBalkrishna #OldForgedDocumentsCase #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/baba-ramdevs-aide-balkrishna-acquitted-in-15-year-old-forged-documents-case-12015306#publisher=newsstand -
Ansar Allah Political Bureau: We call on organizations and media outlets to expose the Saudi aggression and hold the perpetrators of crimes accountable.
The 2 Arab zionists of UAE and KSA have put their differences aside and fighting together to destroy the last remaining Axis of resistance on behalf of Israel and the US.
Just like earlier, Yemen standing alone under blockade and sanctions now with Iran unable to do anything to help them.
#Yemen #KSA #WarOnYemen #WarForIsrael #UAE #Iran #US #WestAsia
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Ansar Allah Political Bureau: We call on organizations and media outlets to expose the Saudi aggression and hold the perpetrators of crimes accountable.
The 2 Arab zionists of UAE and KSA have put their differences aside and fighting together to destroy the last remaining Axis of resistance on behalf of Israel and the US.
Just like earlier, Yemen standing alone under blockade and sanctions now with Iran unable to do anything to help them.
#Yemen #KSA #WarOnYemen #WarForIsrael #UAE #Iran #US #WestAsia
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’ | Australian politics
The nation’s top bureaucrats want the Albanese government to ban video footage from parliamentary hearings being edited and…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
By Sarah Basford Canales and Tom McIlroySecretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency
#Australianpolitics #Australianews #AnthonyAlbanese #Socialmedia #TheGuardian #SarahBasfordCanales #TomMcIlroy
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/07/australias-top-bureaucrats-want-to-block-sharing-of-clips-from-parliament-on-social-media-to-save-them-from-ridicule #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #AnthonyAlbanese #SocialMedia
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Film Review: THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (2011): George Nolfi, Matt Damon
Link: https://film-book.com/film-review-the-adjustment-bureau-2011-george-nolfi-matt-damon/?fsp_sid=200844
#AnthonyMackie #dramamovie #EmilyBlunt #filmreview #GeorgeNolfi #JohnSlattery #MattDamon #MichaelKelly #MovieReview #ScifiMovie #TerenceStamp #TheAdjustmentBureau #TheAdjustmentBureau2011 #TheAdjustmentBureauFilmReview #TheAdjustmentBureauMovieReview #UniversalPictures
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"Moustache Academy 2 : Le Bureau des Vacances", les 23 et 24 février au Théâtre Roger Louret de Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Plus d'infos ici 👉 https://www.sortir47.fr/evenement/moustache-academy-2-le-bureau-des-vacances
#sortir47 #sortirdansle47 #sortiren47 #lotetgaronne #nouvelleaquitaine #nouvelleaquitainetourisme #agenda #agendaculturel #agendadessorties #ideessorties #ideesortie #ideedesortie #culture #loisirs #agitateurcultureldepuis2007 #moustacheacademy #lebureaudesvacances #rap #hiphop #jeunepublic #théâtrerogerlouret #villeneuvesurlot
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From our DC bureau, #Ashley__Murray sits in on a hearing headed by #RepGrothman about US Gov't and Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena, what we used to call #UFOs...
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Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591620
#HackerNews #PoliticalMeddling #CensusBureau #StatisticalSystem #USPolitics #DataIntegrity
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🚀 In a stunning display of bureaucratic brilliance, the US government has managed to partner with #Wakanda, a nation that exists solely in the Marvel Universe. 🤦♂️ Next, they'll probably sign a trade deal with #Narnia and appoint Aslan as Secretary of Magic. 🦁✨
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559 #HackerNews #MarvelPolitics #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated -
Momentum is growing for creating a bureau in the Defense Ministry focused explicitly on boosting international cooperation, with defense chief Shinjiro Koizumi saying the burden his ministry is facing has hit its limit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/15/japan/politics/koizumi-defense-ministry-international-bureau/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #defense #defenseministry #shinjirokoizumi #sdf
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Via #ArianaLFigueroa in our DC bureau, a Congressional panel including #RepGrothman attack Biden administration for granting #DACA recipients access to Medicaid and the #AffordableCareAct.
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CW: Move over, Streisand: Bureaucrat pushes Defence’s hatred of accountability to new heights - Full article
Move over, Streisand: Bureaucrat pushes Defence’s hatred of accountability to new heights
Defence’s attempt to prevent senators from publishing videos of bureaucrats giving evidence to public hearings is yet another example of the department’s war on transparency.
Bernard Keane
7 Sep 2026Congratulations to Celia Perkins, the Department of Defence’s deputy secretary of security and estate. For years, many of us have been trying and generally failing to get the public interested in her department’s pathological hatred of democratic accountability. But in one laughable Streisand Effect moment at a Senate committee hearing on Friday, Perkins put that hatred up in lights.
Reading with a robotic monotone from her prepared notes, Perkins kicked off the hearing examining the Albanese government’s plan to divest 67 Defence sites with an attempt to pre-emptively prohibit, from senators, the “reposting of our evidence to social media sites or the reproduction of our likeness for the purposes outside the frame of the parliament and the transparent public proceedings of this committee”.
A bureaucrat attempting to dictate what senators can and can’t do in a committee hearing was never likely to end well. The Greens’ David Shoebridge instantly fired back that it was a public hearing by public officials paid for by taxpayers, and that Defence did not get to censor what the public sees. After an adjournment to consult the clerks, committee chair Jess Collins told Perkins that senators and the public could disseminate evidence as they saw fit.
Perkins’ directive was doubly stupid because senators posting clips online of what they believe are wins over either ministers or bureaucrats in committee hearings is now one of their primary KPIs. Dumber still, Perkins attempted this stunt in a references committee — the committee examining Defence’s fire sale of properties to fund the AUKUS debacle — which is controlled by a non-government senator, not a legislation committee controlled by the government. She at least might have received some rhetorical support from the committee chair in the latter.
After Perkins was told that senators could in fact do what they liked, she doubled down, justifying her demand — while still droning from her notes — on the basis that her bureaucrats might be mocked on social media as a result of the clips, and that posting videos increased the security threat from “malign online actors, including cyber and foreign intelligence threats”. Presumably Perkins believes China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army only access Australian parliamentary proceedings through David Shoebridge and James Paterson’s social feeds, having not yet worked out how to navigate the torturous task of watching committee proceedings at the APH site.
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