US billionaires vs most Americans financial difficulties
samedi 23 mai 2020 à 02:00While most Americans are in financial difficulties, US billionaires have gained 434 more billions since mid-March.
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While most Americans are in financial difficulties, US billionaires have gained 434 more billions since mid-March.
The American Hospital Association funds lobbying against single-payer universal medical care (Medicare for All), through a hypocritically named lobbying group, the "Partnership for America's Health Care Future", for which a more accurate name would be the "Partnership for Unaffordable Health Care and Future Patient Bankruptcies."
Doctors have organized to demand that the AHA stop supporting that lobbying.
Climate defense activist RL Miller has been elected to the Democratic National Committee and plans to use her position to push the party towards real climate defense.
I wonder how members of the DNC are elected. I have never seen any campaign about who will be a member.
A new scheme to bypass conflict of interest rules: the head of the US Covid-19 vaccine program was appointed with 10 million in stock in GlaxoSmithKline, one of the companies whose activity the program is involved with. (He got the stock as an employee.)
The cheater appointed him as a contractor rather than an employee and claims that this makes conflict of interest rules irrelevant — but that doesn't prevent conflicts of interest.