Science always Wins

Gilbert Gottfried once said: Trump Is ‘Hitler Without The Warmth’.

Over $7 Billion Of Russian Oligarch’s Assets Frozen As Walls Close In. Seize it and buy Ukraine some weapons with it.

Elon Musk is just like Tony Stark, minus any charm, wit, style, manners or ethics.

Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit alleging that the colorful billionaire illegally delayed disclosing his stake in the social media company so he could buy more shares at lower prices.

Mark Meadows has been removed from North Carolina’s voter rolls, after he’s caught voting in Virginia, a move made as the State Bureau of Investigation continues a probe into allegations the former White House chief of staff committed election fraud.

Two Republicans from The Villages confessed to VOTER FRAUD after casting multiple ballots for Trump in the 2020 election. The felony could have led to five years in prison, but a lenient judge sentenced them to 50 hours of community service and a 12-week adult civics class.

Jewish Law allows a woman to terminate a pregnancy if the mother’s physical or emotional health is jeopardized. Does Freedom of Religion apply in states that have banned abortion or does the religious freedom law only apply to Christians?

Democrats Are Doing Basically Nothing to Counter the GOP’s ‘Pedophile’ Attacks
Democrats are rolling their eyes at GOP attacks that they’re, as Marjorie Taylor Greene put it, the “party of pedophiles.” Should they be?

If Trump regains the presidency in 2024, Democracy will end. Democrats can’t address pocketbook issues without canceling student debt.

Democrats can still sell stocks with insider knowledge they didn’t vote to stop it so fuck them.

If Democrats don’t start screaming about Tyson’s Sales Jump 12% Despite Considerable Volume Declines. ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP earned more than $75 billion in profit last year. Those record profits have continued this year. Maybe this has something to do with gas prices.

Tyson’s Sales Jump 12% Despite Considerable Volume Declines

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How Zuckerberg Facebook got Trump Elected

“8 months ago, Theresa Hong, who wrote Trump’s campaign Facebook posts, spoke to the BBC about working alongside Cambridge Analytica using their data. “Without Facebook we wouldn’t have won,” she said.
Netflix was one of only three whitelisted developers that were allowed to “read,” “write,” and “delete” users’ messages and view all participants on a message thread.” “[via Thiel] Zynga, Lyft, and Spotify … received special access to Facebook user
“!!! Friday Night Surprise. Plaintiffs just filed their response to Facebook in my favorite case – what I call the mother of all lawsuits – in Delaware where it’s incorporated. It’s a tight but absolutely delicious 120 pages so I’ll break down the allegations here for you.

These 8 Men Control Half the Wealth on Earth
They hold the equivalent of the wealth of 3.6 billion people. Can you guess who they are?

Oxfam presented its findings on the eve of the World Economic Forum, the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) gathering in Davos, Switzerland, of the most powerful political and business minds from around the world. Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima had this to say about the findings:

“It is obscene for so much wealth to be held in the hands of so few when one in 10 people survive on less than $2 a day…. Inequality is trapping hundreds of millions in poverty; it is fracturing our societies and undermining democracy.”

According to Oxfam, the wealthiest individuals in the world are:

1. Bill Gates
2. Amancio Ortega (Spanish founder of Inditex)
3. Warren Buffett
4. Carlos Slim (Mexican businessman)
5. Jeff Bezos
6. Mark Zuckerberg
7. Larry Ellison
8. Michael Bloomberg

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html

8 thoughts on “Science always Wins”

  1. The CEO of the German chemicals giant BASF, Michael Heinz: “Cheap Russian energy has been the basis of our industry’s competitiveness.” — Today it’s the basis of your moral repugnance.

  3. ABN Amro apologises for historical links to slavery
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/13/abn-amro-apologises-for-historical-links-to-slavery
    Dutch bank says sorry for ‘pain and suffering’ caused by past actions and activities of its predecessor firms
    The investigation, by academics at the International Institute of Social History (IISH), an Amsterdam archive, found that two of ABN Amro’s predecessor companies were involved in either financing the operation of slave plantations directly, or underwriting the trade in products produced by slaves.
    The Netherlands and other global imperial powers including the UK were deeply involved in the enslavement of millions of people over centuries, and the profits derived from their labour helped to finance the construction of some of Europe’s grandest cities.

    In the UK the Bank of England, Barclays, HSBC and Lloyd’s of London were among the still extant companies with direct or indirect links to the trade. ABN Amro was itself formerly owned by Royal Bank of Scotland (now NatWest Group), which has also found separate links to slavery.

    The slave trade was abolished in the Netherlands in 1863. Slavery in Britain became illegal in 1772 and the slave trade in the British empire was abolished in 1807.

    The two predecessor companies to ABN Amro with links to slavery were Hope & Co, which was “actively involved in the day-to-day business of plantations”, and Mees en Zoonen, which brokered insurance for slave ships and shipments of goods harvested by enslaved people. Both became part of ABN Amro in 2010 after a series of mergers and acquisitions.

  4. Kleptocrization of America – pay to play
    Kushner gets $2,000,000,000 in cash from the Saudi Crown Prince deposited into his “Investment Fund.” This is evidence of staggering corruption by Kushner and staggering treachery by the Saudis. There is no comparable act by an American Official.
    Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner had access to the most sensitive secrets of the United States. He had access to the PDB. it has been reported that he was obsessed with receiving classified information. Saudi Arabia gave him $ 2 BILLION in cash for his “investment fund”.
    Ivanka™️ (and her relationship with Wendi Deng Murdoch) barely got a nod.
    https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-trademarks-voting-ivanka-trump-0a3283036d2f4e699da4aa3c6dd01727

  6. Peeing in the Economists’ Pool
    https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/peeing-in-the-economists-pool
    Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter told a roomful of fancy lawyers and economists that their day of controlling the law through tricky language is over.
    Antitrust Prom
    Last week, the guardians of monopoly power, the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, had its spring conference, where thousands of lawyers and economists get together to network and keep up to date on the latest trends in antitrust.
    Typically, the ABA tries to ignore anti-monopoly fervor, but this year, they couldn’t.

    1. Kanter’s goal, to make antitrust law belong to the people once again.

      “We are also expanding the scope of the people we’re talking to, and this is something that is getting overlooked and it certainly may not be a welcome development by certain folks in the antitrust bar. But we’re not providing special access for only folks who can afford it, folks who can hire expensive lawyers. We’re out there talking to the public, to affected stakeholders. The FTC is holding open public meetings and inviting anybody to show up to offer their concerns. We’re soliciting public comments on the merger guidelines… We are out there having that conversation, but it’s extremely important to have that conversation in a way that provides access to justice for everyone.”

      That’s what the debate over consumer welfare is really about. Does the public get the protection of the law?

  7. “Inflation is a quiet but effective way for the government to transfer resources from the people to itself, without raising taxes.” – @ThomasSowell

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