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Nice job butthurt eurocuck the editing looks great!
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>>148381
Be sure to post everytime a white guy kills someone
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>>148386
that would be all day erryday
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Woman who 'sent boyfriend texts goading him into suicide' goes on trial for manslaughter 2017-06-06 03:02:44 Post No.147254
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>Michelle Carter, 20, facing manslaughter charges over 2014 death by carbon monoxide poisoning of Conrad Roy III in Fairhaven, Massachusetts
She's definitely gonna get off, right bros? she did not a single thing wrong.
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DEATH PENALTY
Rip conrad roy
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so basically she's getting charged with manslaughter for saying "kys weeaboo faggot"
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>>147266
If I remember correctly she went out of her way to send messages which caused him to feel alienated from the rest of the world. She knew he was vulnerable and positioned herself as being the only one he felt he could trust. Several times she sent messages telling him to commit suicide and berated him when he stopped himself. On the final day he was almost pleading with her for some kind of encouragement that life was worth living and she just called him a coward for being scared.
The only motive I ever heard for this was to get sympathy for having her boyfriend commit suicide. She is sadistic and deserves far more then just a manslaughter charge.
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white trash anger kills again 2017-06-14 04:26:43 Post No.149030
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>>He is suspected in the triple homicide deaths of Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters, Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18, who were found dead Sunday night by Taylor Pifer’s boyfriend.
Brinkman is also a suspect in the killings of a couple in Stark County, Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Rogell Eugene John, 71, and his wife Roberta Ray John, 64, were found dead
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dam they ugly, I'd have killed them too
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Is it really fair to put that picture of him out to the general public ahead of a trial?
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Nope, but character assassination is SOP for many law enforcement agencies and the press and public eat that shit up. Demonize the guy in the press so that even if he's aquitted his life is still fucked; the Law wins either way.
It's a great system isn't it?
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meanwhile Uakies enforcing the ban on russian social medias 2017-06-18 03:13:37 Post No.150036
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Special services detained a man, who administered a ukraine critic group in VKontakte. The last message received from russian federation, was the active ignore of news about the blocking of certain Russian Internet resources and instructions how to avoid the ban through the use of VPN services.
SBU officials published that cooperation between ukrainian user and russian admin began in 2016. He was offered to supervise and admin local news and social groups of Ukrainian threads and groups on the Internet. At the same time, the Ukrainian himself was a supporter of the sociall movement "Russian world", so he agreed to follow the offers to admin.
In the materials distributed by the Ukrainian, it was alleged that Ukraine is part of Russia, the Ukrainian army is not competent.
Ukrainian ban of social medias is against ukrainian constitution and human right declarations. still the fate of this man is to be tortured and loosing everything when the SBU will keep him illigally in prison until his friends and relatives paid the bribe to release him. (today its around 20 thousand dollars)
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here another person who is now roting in ukrainian prison from trying to earn a bit money as an admin. her crime was to supervise the travel groups for russian tourists. innoicially he was put into prison because the SBU boss of her town demanded roketering money from her nd she earned so low that she wasnt capable to pay him off.
https://youtu.be/hmaZheHtP1o
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A Reverse-Trump Tax Plan Delivers an Economic Miracle in Sweden 2017-05-20 12:39:32 Post No.141418
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- Sweden sees high taxes as answer to globalization threats
- Income redistribution is key to economy success, minister says
High taxes, strong unions and an equal distribution of wealth.
That’s the recipe for success in a globalized world, according to Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democratic economist who’s also Sweden’s finance minister.
The 50-year-old has been raising taxes and spending more on welfare since winning power in 2014. She’s also overseen an economic boom, with Swedish growth rates topping 4 percent early last year, that has turned budget deficits into surpluses.
>In a world still flinching from the financial crisis that hit a decade ago and the populist wave that followed, Sweden’s economic stewardship holds lessons that challenge the conventional wisdom in the U.S. on how taxes work, according to the Harvard-educated minister. Speaking in an interview in Stockholm, Andersson says success comes down to “three things: It’s the jobs, it’s our welfare and it’s our redistribution.”
It’s the polar opposite of the policy being developed across the Atlantic, where U.S. President Donald Trump is hoping tax cuts, less regulation and new trade deals will produce 3 percent growth within two years. Meanwhile, in Europe, the Nordic model is attracting attention. Emmanuel Macron, who on Sunday defeated Front National’s Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, has urged his country to look north for ideas on how to organize a society.
>Andersson, who lists health care and education, “regardless of how much you earn,” as key to running a successful economy, points to income redistribution as the shield that can keep populist shocks at bay.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-07/a-reverse-trump-tax-plan-delivers-an-economic-miracle-in-sweden
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Swedish Equality
>The income of most Swedes has nearly doubled while that of most Americans has fallen:
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>The numbers are compelling. Sweden has one of the world’s highest tax burdens, with tax revenue about 43 percent of GDP, according to OECD data. The equivalent figure for the U.S. is about 26 percent. Sweden’s economy has grown almost twice as fast as America’s, expanding 3.1 percent last year, compared with 1.6 percent in the U.S.
Read more on Swedish budget:
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-18/sweden-predicts-wider-surpluses-as-spending-raised-on-police
>Sweden has the highest labor force participation in the European Union. Andersson attributes this to tax-funded parental leave and affordable daycare, which make it easier for both parents to work.
>In contrast to most of its European peers, Sweden has budget surpluses. The EU average will be a shortfall of 1.6 percent in 2018, while the estimated deficit in the U.S. of 5.7 percent of GDP, EU Commission data published in February show.
Debt Heaven
>Sweden boasts one of the world's lowest public debt burdens:
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>The country also takes a pragmatic view of capitalism, which includes allowing businesses to fail if they can’t compete. Part of this includes providing a safety net and training for workers, features that Andersson says are crucial to keeping a dangerous anti-globalization sentiment at bay.
>“In Sweden, it’s accepted that society changes and that some companies expand while others shrink, but that’s based on the fact that there are bridges from the old to the new jobs,” she said. “It’s important to have security during that change, both in the form a well-functioning unemployment insurance, but also active labor market policies.”
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>But not all Swedes are persuaded that more tax increases will help. Andersson faces a vote of no confidence from the opposition if she presents further hikes. Meanwhile, parts of corporate Sweden are rebelling. There are also numerical signs that the tipping point may have been reached, as GDP slows.
>Sweden’s government has started tapping its surpluses to raise spending on everything from health care to education to defense and a stronger police presence. With an election looming next year, the Social Democratic-led administration is contending with its own right-wing nationalists, who have gained followers in the wake of record refugee inflows.
>The center-right coalition that preceded the current government spent most of its eight years in power cutting taxes. They argue that Andersson and her boss, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, are now putting economic gains at risk, and warn that generous benefits discourage people from working. The opposition also notes that Sweden has fallen behind in wealth per capita since taxes were raised in the 1970s, culminating in an economic crisis in the early 1990s when taxes as a share of GDP exceeded 50 percent.
>According to the website Ekonomifakta, which is run by Sweden’s largest employer organization, the highest marginal tax rate has again crept up, reaching about 70 percent, including payroll taxes. With that in mind, the opposition is threatening a vote of no confidence against Andersson this autumn unless she withdraws her tax plan.
>Banks and Sweden’s private equity industry have railed against the tax environment, with Scandinavia’s biggest financial group, Nordea Bank AB, threatening to leave. And a vibrant startup scene, led by music-streaming service Spotify Ltd., is calling for changes in how options-based income is taxed in an effort to attract more talent.
>Andersson acknowledges there are limits, saying there’s no need for “big” tax increases in the coming years.
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>“They of course have negative effects,” she said. “All taxes do, but what you use the money for can have positive effects and that’s exactly what the Swedish model shows. You can have high taxes and high employment and growth.”
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Madrid officially bans 'manspreading' on public transit 2017-06-08 10:01:18 Post No.147973
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>The city of Madrid, Spain has officially banned the phenomenon known as "manspreading" on all public transit.
>According to Spain's The Local, The Municipal Transportation Company (EMT) announced it will create new signage across all trains, metros and buses to warn against the pose.
>"The new information icon indicates the prohibition of taking a seating position that bothers other people," said the EMT in a statement. "It's to remind transport users to maintain civic responsibility and respect the personal space of everyone on board."
>New York City ran a poster campaign in 2014 with the slogan, "Dude, stop the spread please."
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seriously wtf you guys. I thought you told me "manspreading" was just something tumblr SJWs cared about, now it's a thing in the real world? When the fuck is feminism going to die?
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>>147974
Nobody told you manspreading was a Tumblr thing. It was already banned in a couple Swedish provinces and a few metropolitan transport networks across the world.
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>to warn against the pose.
It's not a "pose", it the normal way that men all over the planet sit.
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MEN FORCE CHICKENS TO COMMIT SEXUAL ACTS 2017-06-17 11:35:34 Post No.149964
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WORKERS MAKE CHICKENS GET INTO A BUKKAKE SKAT FETISH ORGY, UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF PEOPLE FUCKING CHICKENS
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So, an ordinary day for Congress. Right.
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Betsy DeVos rolls back Obama-era regulations preventing for-profit schools from defrauding students 2017-06-15 05:57:21 Post No.149445
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The Obama-era rule was meant to speedily cancel the student-loan debts of people defrauded by for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc and others.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department announced Wednesday that it will change two key Obama-era rules governing student loan forgiveness in cases involving fraud and misconduct by universities.
>The department said it will convene special committees to rewrite Borrower Defense to Repayment and Gainful Employment regulations.
>The rules were introduced last year as the department was processing claims from thousands of students who say there were defrauded by for-profit colleges.
>Under the borrower defense rules, students could have their loans erased if their college misrepresented the quality of its programs or broke a "contractual promise" with its students. The gainful employment rule was designed to ensure that graduates would be able to earn enough money to pay off their student loan debt.
>Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in a statement Wednesday that the regulations were "overly burdensome and confusing" and need to be streamlined.
>"The result is a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools, and puts taxpayers on the hook for significant costs," DeVos said.
>She said many colleges have complained that the definition of misrepresentation and breach of contract is too broad and that institutions lacked meaningful due process. The Education Department will conduct hearings on the regulations in July.
>"It is the department's aim, and this administration's commitment, to protect students from predatory practices while also providing clear, fair and balanced rules for colleges and universities to follow," DeVos said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/betsy-devos-is-rolling-back-2-rules-aimed-at-for-profit-colleges-2017-6
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>She added that nearly 16,000 defense claims that are currently being processed by the department will be fulfilled. "Promises made to students under the current rule will be promises kept," she stressed.
>Eight states and the District of Columbia filed a motion in federal court Tuesday seeking to retain the rules.
>"The borrower defense regulations provide critical protections for borrowers who were subjected to misleading and predatory practices by their postsecondary institutions," the motion says. It was filed in the case California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools v. Betsy DeVos.
>The Obama administration had led a crackdown on for-profit colleges accused of misconduct. The Corinthian Colleges chain was under heavy pressure from the Education Department when it shut down in 2015. In that case, more than 15,000 student claims for loan discharge because of fraud have been approved, totaling $247 million in loans.
>Last year, the ITT Technical Institute, one of the nation's largest chains of for-profit colleges, shut down, saying it couldn't survive sanctions by the department. The chain had been accused of misleading students about the success of its graduates and was at risk of losing its academic accreditation.
>Rohit Chopra, a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America, lamented DeVos' decision to revise the rules.
>"This will lead to more students saddled with debt they cannot afford with taxpayers left on the hook," Chopra said. "The current rules require schools that cheat their students to pony up funds for refunds. This helps to ensure that lawbreakers pay, not taxpayers."
>Betsy Mayotte, director of consumer outreach and compliance for American Student Assistance's Center for Consumer Advocacy, said the current regulations protect students who are misled into over-borrowing for underperforming programs.
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>"Students shouldn't have the pause button hit on their consumer protections, and this isn't the time for the Department of Education to step back from their responsibility to protect federal loan borrowers," she said.
>But Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the industry lobbying group Career Education Colleges and Universities, said in a statement that DeVos' actions would both protect students from academic fraud and "their schools from ideological efforts geared to destroy postsecondary career education."
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>The Education Department announced Wednesday that it will change two key Obama-era rules governing student loan forgiveness in cases involving fraud and misconduct by universities.
Don't need to read the rest, know that this will be a good thing. In any case, what happened to customer responsibility. It is your responsibility to research different products (loans) and determine which is best. It's nobody but your fault if you get scammed because you didn't do the homework.
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South Africa has "alarming" Murder Rate 2017-06-10 07:49:27 Post No.148384
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Almost half a million people have been murdered in South African since the dawn of democracy‚ a report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) revealed.
In its 2017 South Africa Survey‚ the IRR said around 445 835 murders had been recorded in the country between April 1994 and March 2016.
This is almost equivalent to the number of people who were killed in the Rwandan genocide between April and July 1994.
Despite the alarming figures‚ fewer assassinations are happening now in comparison to the early days of democracy.
A total of 25 965 murders were recorded in the 1994/1995 financial year‚ with an average of 71 killings per day.
The country’s murder rate is almost 10 times higher than that of the United States‚ 30 times higher than the United Kingdom and 45 times higher than Germany.
“South Africans live with horrific levels of violent crime. While the murder rate has fallen since 1994‚ at 31.9 per 100 000 people‚ it remains one of the highest in the world‚” said Lebone.
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And almost exclusively whites I hear
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>give niggers control over a country
>it goes to shit in a couple of years
I am shocked.
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>>148393
Same with U.S. have you been to Starbucks lately? REAL BAD
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no bond set for 16yr old girl who killed uber driver 2017-06-01 02:56:25 Post No.145584
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how the fuck does a grown ass man get killed by a 16yr old gir? with a machete? she had to catch him so off guard he couldnt defend himself after the first blow or was he just a cuck?
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Well, she had a machete. How often do you see 16 year old girls and feel prepared in case of being attacked with a machete? Even if he wasn't caught off guard and it was a direct attack, that shit would hurt bad enough to stagger anybody if it connected.
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>>145584
One good swing and you are going to bleed out. Probably in the neck. No matter what the second swing is, bleed bleed bleed die. End of story.
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Pretty sure it was the machete.
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Japanese company creates scratch and sniff cards that smell like the bellies of cats and dogs 2017-06-17 07:17:42 Post No.149927
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Hours of testing went into replicating the unusual scent.
For years, Japanese retailer Felissimo has been giving us weird and wonderful cat-themed products we could never even dream of, including hand cream that smells like a cat’s paw, lip gloss that makes you feel like you’ve just kissed a cat’s nose, and fabric water filled with the fragrance of fluffy cat foreheads.
Now the creative team at Felissimo is continuing on their plight to capture the scent of an animal with a brand new item from their humorous You+More brand, which features the smell of a pet’s belly.
The two animals appearing in the range are cats and Shiba Inu, a breed of dog the company is known for having a soft spot for. The smell of the popular pets will be delighting the olfactory senses of animal lovers by way of scratch and sniff technology, with the special fragrance embedded in small sheets of note paper.
Each palm-sized note card comes with an image of a cute cat or dog happily exposing their bellies for a good belly rub. Rubbing their stomachs will release the special “belly scent”, which gradually decreases in intensity over time.
In order to help create the perfect scent, the company surveyed pet owners on social media, asking them what they thought the bellies smelled like. For cats, responses included “burnt caramel popcorn”, “freshly made pancakes covered in maple syrup” and “burnt milk”. Taking these responses into account, the company president then worked in collaboration with a fragrance manufacturer to fine-tune the scent, resulting in the final aroma, which resembles a mix of pancakes and burnt butter.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/06/16/japanese-company-creates-scratch-and-sniff-cards-that-smell-like-the-bellies-of-cats-and-dogs/
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The survey for the Shiba Inu aroma received a more poetic response from those surveyed, with responses likening the dog’s belly to the scent of “broad beans and grass growing in the sun”, “a sweet smell that can’t be put into words”, and “slightly overdone toast”. The final fragrance is said to be similar to the moreish aroma of roasted beans.
Each variety comes in a pack of seven sheets for 432 yen (US$3.90). While they’re perfect to play with on your own, you can also write small notes on the papers, to create a unique gift for friends.
The papers can currently be ordered from the Felissimo website, with local deliveries scheduled for mid-August to mid-September. The scratch and sniff sheets will also be appearing on the company’s international website shortly, so you can enjoy the smell of an animal’s belly wherever you are in the world.
To sweeten the deal, and send an actual belly rub to cats and dogs in need, a portion of the sales price goes to the Felissimo cat fund, which works to care for animals without owners and provide assistance to foster pet programs.
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SURPRISE!! Trump's recent 1T$ infrastructure "plan" is also a paper-thin scam of taxpayers 2017-06-17 04:41:17 Post No.149887
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Trump's infrastructure plan specifies few details regarding where and how money will be spent. One of the details provided indicated that this isn't a plan to build public infrastructure by federal government employees or through contractors. It's merely a subsidy for private developers. Taxpayers will subsidize most of the cost of private developers to work on projects their investors decide are worth investing in. And the resulting infrastructure still won't be publicly owned. It'll be owned by the private developers.
>America is in dire need of huge investments in infrastructure. The nation suffers from overflowing sewage drains, crumbling bridges, rusting railroad tracks, outworn roads and public transportation systems rivaling those of Third World nations.
>The American Society of Civil Engineers, giving America’s overall infrastructure a grade of D-plus, says we would need to spend $3.6 trillion by 2020 to bring it up to par.
>The problem isn’t that we’re being laughed at. It’s that we’re spending hours in traffic jams, on disrupted flights and in slow-moving trains. And we’re sacrificing billions in lost productivity, avoidable public health problems and increased carbon emissions.
>But what Trump is proposing won’t help. It’s nothing but a huge and unnecessary tax giveaway to the rich.
>His “$1 trillion infrastructure plan,” unveiled in early June, doesn’t amount to $1 trillion of new federal investment in infrastructure. It would commit $200 billion of federal dollars over 10 years, combined with about $800 billion of assorted tax breaks to get developers to build things instead of the federal government doing it.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Trump-s-infrastructure-scam-a-tax-giveaway-to-11223352.php
the 6-page infrastructure plan:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/fact_sheets/2018%20Budget%20Fact%20Sheet_Infrastructure%20Initiative.pdf
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>And it’s hardly a plan. It’s not much more than a page of talking points.
>Worse, its underlying principle is deeply flawed. It boils down to a giant public subsidy to developers and investors, who would receive generous tax credits in return for taking on the job. Which means the rest of us would have to pay higher taxes or get fewer services to make up for the taxes the developers and investors would no longer pay.
>For example, in one version I’ve seen, for every $1 developers put into a project, they’d actually pay only 18 cents (after tax credits), and taxpayers would contribute the other 82 cents through their tax dollars.
>No one should be surprised at this scheme. It’s what Trump knows best. After all, he was a developer who made billions, often off sweeteners like generous tax credits and other subsidies.
>The public would also pay a second time. The developers would own the roads and bridges and other pieces of infrastructure they finance. They’d then charge members of the public tolls and fees to use them.
>In place of public roads and bridges, we’d have private roads and bridges. Think of America turning into a giant, horizontal-like Trump Tower wherever you looked.
>These tolls and fees won’t come cheap. They’d have to be set high to satisfy the profit margins demanded by the developers and the investors who back them.
>Worst of all, we’d get the wrong kind of infrastructure. Projects that will be most attractive to developers and investors are those with tolls and fees that bring in the biggest bucks — giant mega-projects like major new throughways and new bridges.
>Developers and investors won’t be interested in the thousands of smaller bridges, airports, pipes and water treatment facilities across the country that are most in need of repair.
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>They’re not likely to respond to the needs of rural communities and smaller cities and towns that are too small to generate the tolls and other user fees that equity developers and investors seek.
>They won’t be attracted to the most important first priority for our nation’s infrastructure: better maintenance of what we already have. With improved maintenance, it wouldn’t be necessary to completely rebuild.
>But investors and developers want to build anew. They can’t reap big rewards from maintenance.
>Nor will they want to put their efforts and money into projects that don’t have proven financial track records, like many clean-energy innovations — which, not incidentally, might have enabled us to meet our targets under the Paris climate accords, were we still part of the Paris accords.
>We shouldn’t have to pay twice over for the wrong infrastructure.
>To really make America great again, we need the correct infrastructure in the right places — infrastructure that’s for the public, not for big developers and investors.
>Sorry, Donald. The only way we get this is if big corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes to support it.
>© 2017 Robert Reich
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waaaah
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Aides describe Trump yelling at TV sets over Russia probe: report 2017-06-17 02:49:32 Post No.149785
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/338228-aides-describe-trump-yelling-at-tv-sets-over-russia-probe-report
>President Trump has been described by advisers and confidents as angry over the probe into possible ties between his campaign and Russia, yelling at television sets at the White House with coverage of the probe, according to an Associated Press report Friday.
>Trump has been insisting that he is the target of a conspiracy to discredit and possibly end his presidency, according to the report.
>The president has publicly lamented the Russia probe in recent tweets, calling it a "witch hunt" in various tweets.
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Again?
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wew lad that's some clickbait.
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>>149785
>FAAA
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>NEWS
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Study finds 1/15 American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows 2017-06-16 06:29:16 Post No.149679
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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - A survey conducted by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy found that some American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
The survey resulted in 7 percent of its 1,000 participants having that belief, a spokesperson confirmed to the Huffington Post. The survey was conducted by the market research group Edelman Intelligence.
As the majority of the survey participants know, chocolate milk is actually the result of regular milk mixed with chocolate syrup or cocoa powder.
It is difficult to confirm the accuracy of the survey. The survey results were collected online, making it unknown whether participants were providing serious answers or if they were trying to be funny.
However the Washington Post reports that many Americans are “agriculturally illiterate”, not knowing where the sources of many processed and pre-packaged foods come from. In one study at an urban California school, more than half of the fourth, fifth and sixth graders did not know pickles came from cucumbers or that onions and lettuce were vegetables.
http://www.fox32chicago.com/health/261896501-story
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Buncha cheeky Yanks
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>>149679
>Study finds 1/15 American adults SURVEYED think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Fixed.
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Who the fuck they were polling?
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'We aren't stupid': Senate GOP keeping contents of AHCA secret and with no hearings until vote 2017-06-13 01:44:13 Post No.148811
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Senate GOP members are close to finishing the legislative text of their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the public won't get to see it anytime soon, Axios' Caitlin Owens reported Monday.
The bill will be sent to the Congressional Budget Office to receive a score some time in the next few days, according to Axios, but the text will not be posted publicly.
A GOP aide told Axios that not releasing the text of the bill is because "we aren't stupid."
The American Health Care Act, House Republican leaders' legislation aimed at repealing and replacing Obamacare, received low marks from the public upon its release in March. According to a poll by Quinnipiac University, the AHCA as drafted by the House received a 21% approval rating and 56% disapproval.
The secrecy is a marked contrast to years of Republican attacks on the process surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the law colloquially known as Obamacare, for what they called "backroom deals" out of the public eye.
GOP Senate leaders have suggested they plan to vote on the bill before the week-long July 4 recess.
http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-republican-healthcare-bill-cbo-score-2017-6
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I'd say this shows that they are in fact very stupid.
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It's nice that they're not even going to pretend anymore that people will like what they'll try to pass.
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Not stupid in a sense that they know obfuscation, misdirection, and backroom deals are the only way to pass corrupt policies that will harm millions of Americans while giving tax cuts to the rich, perhaps.