Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

🇨🇦🇺🇦Canada donates equipment for landmine removal to Ukraine worth $16 million (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3704352-canada-donates-demining-equipment-to-ukraine-worth-16-million.html #Ukraine #Canada #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

@Heimdall Gay kids read thousands of books about straight characters, yet they still grow up gay. But Republican wackos are worried if their little Billy reads just one book where a penguin has two dads that he is going to wake up the next day and ask Brad to the prom.

Or read about labor exploitation and realize what’s going on.

71% of Americans now approve of labor unions. That's the highest point since 1965.

Talk to your coworkers about unionizing your workplace.

America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush their workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing their workers.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We can build a world where workers have power.

Crypto mining consumes as much energy as all home computers combined — with massive consequences for the climate. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-tax-cryptocurrency-mining-1234728447/

@georgetakei

"It's odd the people we choose to suffer.

For they are the gentlest, most compassionate, and most powerless among us.

The greatest contributors to humanity, in place of the greatest contributors to greed."
SearingTruth

90 years ago a government attacked trade unions.

On 2 May 1933 – ninety years ago today (Tuesday) – trade union buildings across Germany were raided and seized by Nazi stormtroopers.

Free trade unions were banned. Many trade union leaders were arrested, some were tortured, and some did not survive imprisonment in concentration camps in the years that followed.

Anti-union rhetoric is fascist.

Are you a capitalist, a shareholder? Do you invest your money in blue-chip companies? Then we have excellent news for you!
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A new analysis shows that 20 of the world’s biggest food corporations – the largest in the grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy sectors – returned a total of $53.5 billion to their shareholders in the last two financial years.

To put that into perspective, the UN estimates that it needs $51.5 billion to provide life-saving support to 230 million people deemed most at risk worldwide.

What’s more, the corporations ‘earned’ these profits during a period of turmoil – a global pandemic, and a full-scale war in Ukraine – when global supply chains were disrupted and millions of people went hungry.

While readers in wealthier countries may have noticed higher prices for the weekly shop, the impact in developing countries has been devastating. Food prices rose by between 3% and 4.5% in the UK, Canada and the US in the first few months of the pandemic – but by 47% in Venezuela.

The World Food Program estimates that the number of people facing acute food insecurity more than doubled from 135 million people before the pandemic to 345 million. Countries in the Horn of Africa as well as Afghanistan and Yemen have been particularly badly hit.

So how were 20 companies able to get their hands on this amount of money amid two major crises?

By literally owning the market. The new report from Greenpeace International shows how this small group of companies are able to wield wildly disproportionate control, not only over the supply chains for food itself, but over information about those supplies.

When supply chains were disrupted and food prices rose, the profits rolled in. Cash dividends and shareholder buyback programs allowed them to transfer an astronomical amount of money to their shareholders, while further amplifying their power over the sector’s industry and governments.
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It's an outrage. 😡

But only to us. NOT to the capitalists. To them, this is business as usual, and a cause for celebration. 💵

FULL ARTICLE -- https://progressive.international/wire/2023-04-26-food-corporations-paid-shareholders-53-5bn-while-millions-went-hungry/en

#Politics #Covid #Food #Capitalism

Suspect who caused a wildfire in #Arizona firing incendiary bullets sought by the US Forest Service. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coronado/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1105004

MSNBC analyst buries the GOP: 'Dimestore front for a terrorist organization' https://www.alternet.org/dimestore-front-for-terrorist-organization/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Young cashier called me adorable today ☺️.
This sounds uncomfortably close to how little old ladies are often described, but I'll take it .
For now.

If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.

(source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejlandsman/135780556301/i-dont-feel-like-this-is-done-but-im-posting-it)

Exclusive: Special counsel probing Trump Organization's handling of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/maralago-footage-trump-special-counsel-calamari/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230503/p79#a230503p79

“The death of a man who was captured on video being placed in a stranglehold on a #NewYorkCity subway train Monday afternoon has been ruled a #homicide, officials said.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jordan-neely-subway-death-ruled-homicide-chokehold/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=212783855

@EarthOne Thanks. The camera loves Leela. And she knows it.

Raphael Warnock, whose children's schools were put on lockdown in today's Atlanta shooting, says,

“We behave as if this is normal. It is not normal. It is not right for us to live in a nation where nobody’s safe no matter where they are. I think there’s an unspoken assumption…that ‘this can’t happen to me. I shudder to say it, but the truth is, in a real sense, it’s only a matter of time that this kind of tragedy comes knocking on your door.”

#MassShooting #Atlanta

https://newrepublic.com/post/172413/raphael-warnock-warning-atlanta-shooting

Texas man repeatedly punches flight attendant, attacks pilot and opens emergency exit on United Airlines flight https://deadstate.org/texas-man-repeatedly-punches-flight-attendant-attacks-pilot-and-opens-emergency-exit-on-united-airlines-flight/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon