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New Fuel Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More

samedi 25 décembre 2021 à 02:38

*Biden's New Fuel Economy Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More If They're Not Called Cars.*

The different categories once had a rationale, but changes in vehicle production have erased that, leaving nothing but an excuse to pollute more.

One simple solution is to put a big tax on the categories that are allowed to pollute more.

Police bought tech with money hidden from public

samedi 25 décembre 2021 à 02:38

*Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from the public.*

The thug department got the money via "civil forfeiture", which is a legal excuse to take people's money --

punishment without a trial.

That's not their only source of funds for thumbing their noses at the law: many thug departments have foundations set up to give them money they can use in unaccountable ways.

In Cambridge, the thug department cannot evade the surveillance tech ordinance by using outside funds. Boston should do likewise. More generally, laws should forbid thug departments from buying arms or spy devices without city authorization, regardless of what money they use, and from accepting them as gifts.

As for civil forfeiture, that must be abolished.

Punishment without trial is tyranny.

How Koch network hijacked resistance against Covid-19

samedi 25 décembre 2021 à 02:38

How the Koch Network built up the movement against resisting Covid-19.

Sanders calls on Democrats to fight for relief bill

samedi 25 décembre 2021 à 02:38

Sanders calls on the Democratic Party to show courage and fight for the Build Back Better relief bill.

To make Manchin and Sinema visibly take a side for it or against it.

Biden must move faster to end pandemic

samedi 25 décembre 2021 à 02:38

Biden should invoke the Defense Production Act to compel vaccine companies to cooperate with generic production.