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Link The discussion starts about 9 minutes into the talk. Great discussion by former US Atty, former Ohio PUC member, and journalists about First Energy bribing the Ohio legislature and PUC Chair in order to get high rate increases and...
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link NPR 1A podcast on need for new amendments and changes to the judicial system: stop the shadow docket, push the ERA amendment, make ethics apply to judges and the Supreme Court, mandatory retirement, term limits, make ratification depend on population,(not on...
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great list of articles about corruption partly by FL Power and light from jason garcia's substack "Seeking Rents". He uncovers misdeeds and corruption by FPL, Gov DeSantis, and other politicians. It has links to newspaper articles about these things. more good stuff...
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article It seems that they market the baby powder to appear baby- and family- friendly and to gain life-long customers for its other products. They resisted attempts to ban it. Finally, in 2020 they stopped selling it in the US. Until 2022...
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Latino USA reporter explains how bogus fake colleges impoverish students and their families. She shows how students organized to get some of the debt cancelled. This is an ongoing story. The Growing Call to Abolish Student Debt By JULIA...
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Book Review FB, Google, Amazon, etc. gather information about us , so they can predict and modify our behavior. Then companies and political campaigns pay Google, FB, and Amazon for the predictions, so that they can modify our purchases,...
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League of Women Voters People for the American Way Declaration for American Democracy Poor People's Campaign
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Autumn is coming! Here are some great links & information about what is going on in the world of environmental activism : Good News!“Each of us must experience one of two pains- the pain of discipline or the pain of...
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Link To grab billions via price increases, and payments for failed carbon capture, and nuclear plant boondoggles.
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"Controversy wins. Negative beats positive. All attention looks good to an algorithm." FB allows lies and divisiveness, as they attract more eyeballs that FB can sell to advertisers and politicians. NYT article "The company also appears willing to bend its...
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Big Oil's paid lobbyists are countering the campaigns to fight climate change. This is because they gain so much power and money thru their existing business model-sort of a bigger is better trend towards oligopoly and monopoly. This started with...
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article These secret pro-corporate judges rule in favor of bogus claims filed by polluting oil, pipeline, mining, toxic chemical, waste dump, and such companies. It was inserted into trade deals (NAFTA, TPP,...)to overrule national laws in favor of large pollution causing...
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https://www.ecowatch.com/corporations-pollution-fines-coronavirus-2646106896.html
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$ 3.4 billion was spent in 2018 on lobbying. In 2018, $1 billion was spent by SuperPacs which don't have limits on how much they take in or on how much they spend. Dark money groups don't have to say...
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The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a talk by Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy on 9-18-17 at What: Meet-up on Dark Money in Politics When: Monday, September 18 6:30-8p.m. MDT Where: Elevations Credit Union, 2960...