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Mega-dairies

vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 02:00

*Oregon's mega-dairies produce mega-pollution. Weak rules have allowed industrial mega-dairies to push family farmers off the land, pollute Oregon's environment, and threaten animal welfare, and the data shows it is only getting worse.*

Hiding wealth

vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 02:00

South Dakota has created a special kind of trust that is ideal for hiding wealth from anyone — including tax authorities, creditors, and spouses. Any kind of cheater can take advantage of them.

HEROES Act

vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 02:00

The so-called "HEROES Act" is named for workers, but it includes lots of gush-up to big business.

It even permits use of aid to corporations for fossil fuel development.

I expect the plutocratist Democrats will present this as a "compromise" with Republicans, but they will treat it as a starting point to demand more harmful "compromise". Therefore, pre-compromise with them is a recipe getting screwed.

To deal with them, you must start from strong demands, drive a hard bargain, always be ready to walk away without a deal, and try to identify in advance how they will cheat.

Remember how the conman cheated the contractor that painted his building?

Contact-tracing

vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 02:00

Iceland reports that its contact-tracing app made little difference; human contact tracers were responsible for licking coronavirus.

Blood on hands

vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 02:00

How much blood does the murderer-in-chief have on his hands? Models suggest at least 40,000 people among those who have already died, which will ultimately mount up to over 200,000 people.