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4·5 days agoI didn’t film it. The source is Nantucket Current.
29·9 days agoIf you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.
I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.
- His father owns an oil company in Canada.
- He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
- He attended Harvard University and Princeton
- His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs
This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.
90·9 days agoNow that this has come to light, surely the law will be followed and the will be consequences!
The issue is that many american prosecutors are absolute cowards.
In other countries, some prosecutors actually do their job. The headquarters of the ruling Spanish Political party was just raided by prosecutors and the police.
Why do US prosecutors simply refuse to do their job? You break the law. You get criminally prosecuted. It’s not that hard.
13·12 days agoI’m a strong believer in non-profit news. I regularly donate money to The Guardian because it’s a great non-profit newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/about
Many for profit news organizations are absolute garbage.
But please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Not all for-profit news organizations are clickbait propaganda. It ultimately depends on their business model and their owner.
The New Yorker depends on subscriptions. They employ some of the best writers in the english speaking world. The Information depends on subscriptions. It’s (very) expensive but they have the best coverage of Silicon Valley and the Tech Industry.
Rupert Murdoch owns the New York Post, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. In Britain, he owns The Sun. In Australia, he owns 90% of newspapers and Sky News Australia.
He uses his media empire to push his own political views. He encouraged Tony Blair to invade Irak. His newspaper The Sun encouraged British people to leave the European Union by claiming the Queen supported Brexit:
Rupert Murdoch has been publically accused by several world leaders of attempting to blackmail them.
John Major, former British Prime Minister:
https://www.channel4.com/news/major-denies-sun-editor-abused-him-after-black-wednesday
Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister:
Malcom Turnbull, former Australia Prime Minister:
Kevin Rudd, former Australia Prime Minister:
Rupert Murdoch is a real bastard. He was regularly invited by Ronald Reagan to the White House. He came with his lawyer, Roy Cohn.
He is so powerful because there are millions of people who swallow the crap from his media.
Donald Trump praises him.
“Rupert Murdoch is in a class by himself, he’s an amazing guy” President Trump said of the conservative media magnate, who sat smiling in the Oval Office this week
https://thehill.com/media/5133600-trump-murdoch-relation/
Portland is facing a major housing crisis that was decades in the making.
Thanks to this recent reform, more people can now afford a roof over their head.
The woman in the video said she was very happy. She didn’t complain about parking. Parking is a luxury when people want a roof over their head. Some of these comments are just insane.
Adding parking was previously mandatory.
If you tried to build a Childcare Center or an Affordable Housing building without parking, the city of Lynnwood refused to deliver the building permit.
Of course Donald Trump hates Juneteenth.
In 2021, Joe Biden signed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday:
US President Joe Biden signed The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the White House on Thursday 17 June to formally recognise Juneteenth as a national holiday.
Mr Biden said: “Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments. We come to terms with the mistakes we made. And remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger.”
This story is maddening. Bessemer city officials are signing NDAs about a proposed hyperscale data center that will require destroying 100 acres of forest, use 90x as much energy as all homes of the city, & threaten a newly discovered species with extinction.
This is a great article from Dalhousie University. It especially applies to Canada.
Justin Trudeau, the leader of the centrist Liberal Party, tried to pass a ban on single use plastics.
He faced brutal political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, populist leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037
Poilievre made television ads claiming the federal Plastics ban was inflicting pain on Canadian families :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bri5-IqHqw