Interesting Links for 18-12-2018
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andrewducker- Workers get new rights in the UK
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- How "The Tinkerbell Theory of History" is carrying us down the road to ruin.
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- The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
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- How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New
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- This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.
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- Gently stroking babies reduces pain felt during medical procedures
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- People with extreme political views cannot tell when they are wrong
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- NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday, December 18
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- Hull hotel cancels Christmas bookings for homeless people
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- America uses corn for nearly everything
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- A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory in Many States — so She Lost Her Job
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- Deer poacher sentenced to watch Bambi in prison - BBC News
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- Banks to be banned from charging higher fees for unarranged overdrafts
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- 'Overactive Immune System' May Be The Cause Of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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- Labour will wait until Brexit deal defeated for government no-confidence vote
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- Packaging producers to pay full recycling costs under waste scheme
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Date: 2018-12-18 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 02:18 pm (UTC)As a Quaker, I do not swear or sign oaths as they suggest a double standard of truth. Courts and such get round this in England and Scotland by allowing us to affirm.
Such a sacking would be illegal here as you'll be aware (asking people to swear such an oath would be illegal in the first place).
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Date: 2018-12-18 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-19 12:37 am (UTC)The University of California requires all employees to sign a loyalty oath, if they are US citizens. There was a court case where a Quaker professor refused to sign...she was a pacifist, and would not "defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic" if that required taking up arms. Every article about it, every single one I saw, referred to the thing as a "loyalty oath." It's only when I saw a scan of it that I knew it said "I, __________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will...." The whole disagreement was about what they are making people promise, not the form of the promise.
One problem here that Texas is making their employees promise something about a foreign country. That's a huge overreach. Another problem is the idea of promising "not to take any action that is intended to inflict economic harm." Untangling the negatives there has scary implications. Are people required to support Israel economically? It's one thing for the state government of Texas to do business with Israeli corporations, as a political or economic matter; it's different for them to require private citizens to do so. Most people who work for the state are private citizens when they go home from work.
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Date: 2018-12-19 01:20 pm (UTC)As a pacifist, there are things I would not even affirm.
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Date: 2018-12-18 03:27 pm (UTC)