Educational CyberPlayGround Inc. NetHappenings 4.25.19

 

Recycling isn’t about the planet. It’s about profit.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21850/is-amazon-using-predatory-pricing-in-violation-of-antitrust-laws-monopoly

Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks wiped out
The second largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica disappears, satellite images show.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48041487

‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-vast-expanse-rainforest-lost-in-2018

‘It’s a groundswell’: the farmers fighting to save the Earth’s soil
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/farmers-save-earths-soil-conservation-agriculture

Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth

The kings of capitalism are finally worried about the growing gap between rich and poor
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/24/ray-dalio-jamie-dimon-kings-of-capitalism-concerned

Will we survive the next financial crisis?
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2019/04/16/global-financial-crisis-000892
This essay has been adapted from FIREFIGHTING by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson Jr., published April 16 by Penguin Books.

Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? This Law Student Thinks He Has Evidence.
Amazon’s reports of low–or zero–profits have long raised suspicions that it’s selling below cost to build a global monopoly.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21850/is-amazon-using-predatory-pricing-in-violation-of-antitrust-laws-monopoly

Sackler family want to settle opioids lawsuits, lawyer says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/24/sackler-family-opioid-lawsuit-settle

Source code of Iranian cyber-espionage tools leaked on Telegram
APT34 hacking tools and victim data leaked on a secretive Telegram channel since last month.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/source-code-of-iranian-cyber-espionage-tools-leaked-on-telegram/

Impeachment as Political Strategy
Beyond the imperatives associated with rule of law imperatives, the process would be valuable to expose and weaken Trump and the Republicans for 2020

Corrupt UAW Official Norwood Jewell was a DNC Superdelegate who helped rig the game to keep Bernie Sanders out of the election,  who suddenly retired last year as a vice-president at the United Auto Workers, is the highest-ranking labor official charged in a scheme to tap cash from a job training centre in Detroit that was financed exclusively by Fiat Chrysler, known as FCA. He is still listed as a DNC member on the Michigan Democratic Party’s website with his term set to expire in 2020. the superdelegate process was criticized by Sanders supporters for rigging the contest in Clinton’s favor. Sanders won the Michigan primary 49.8 percent to 47.3 percent, but Clinton earned more delegates.
https://apnews.com/b7a93af32acc41ca8ac115a15ee8dc07

Warren backs plan to get rid of the Electoral College ‘My view is that every vote matters’
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/warren-backs-plan-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college

 

The 20-Year-Old Federal Education Provision You’ve Never Heard Of: For Decades, Students Have Had the Right to Transfer Out of ‘Persistently Dangerous’ Schools
https://www.the74million.org/article/the-20-year-old-federal-education-provision-youve-never-heard-of-for-decades-students-have-had-the-right-to-transfer-out-of-persistently-dangerous-schools/

Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos Was Confronted With Her Department’s Charter School Fraud
One billion awarded by the federal government’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) went to charter schools that never opened or opened for only brief periods. incidents of financial fraud, waste, and mismanagement in the charter school grant program are likely worse than our first estimate.
Federal Money Wasted on Defunct Charters Is Actually Worse.

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