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Road through Amazonia

mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Bolsonaro plans to build a road through a national park in Amazonia.

This will inevitably speed deforestation — and there is only a small way to go before the entire Amazon forest dies and becomes grasslands.

Pressure to undermine the CDC's Covid-19 information

mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Rep. Clyburn says his investigation has found evidence of a pressure campaign to undermine the CDC's public information about Covid-19.

This would have been part of the wrecker's effort to spread the sickness as much as possible.

Crisis after crisis

mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 01:00

*Throughout history Britain’s ruling class has created crisis after crisis – just like now.*

*The Guardian view on Britain out of the EU: a treasure island for rentiers.*

Profit Facebook kept in Ireland

mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Facebook will move to the US a large amount of profit that it has kept in Ireland(and paid hardly any tax on).

It will pay insufficient tax on these profits in the US, too, but more than in Ireland.

The article uses the bogus term "intellectual property", which is always confusing and vague. The concrete referent in this case is not very concrete. It refers to artificial excuses that Facebook has created to make various parts of Facebook pay royalties to the part in Iceland. This is how Facebook moves its profits to Iceland where they are not taxed much if at all.

Photos of hospitals overfull

mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 01:00

How the wrecker prevented photos showing what US hospitals look like when they are overfull.