Wow: Some of the biggest and most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. stemmed from the meatpacking industry. But Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) was reluctant to call for accountability, including when it came to a Colorado-based plant Gardner received donations from, Business Insider reports. Early in the pandemic, meatpacking factories' close quarters became home to…
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US ethanol industry collapse, due to COVID, results in a lack of refrigerants for meat industry.
Yet another blow to our food supply delivery system. From Reuters: NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) – A slew of U.S. ethanol plants have shut down as fuel demand has collapsed during the coronavirus outbreak, and meatpackers have been hit by a worrying side-effect: less carbon dioxide is now available to chill beef, poultry and pork. “We’re…
MA-Sen: Sen. Ed Markey (D) Refuses To Let Trump's Corporate Socialism Bail Out The Oil Industry
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: The Washington Post just reported that Donald Trump is considering a bailout for oil companies. Let’s be absolutely clear on this: Oil and gas companies don’t need a bailout. The millions of Americans who can't afford medical treatment or sick leave do….
Trump's not even watching his own COVID-19 briefing as he's trying to prop up oil industry profit
Daily WH COVID-19 briefing has questions from the press that are mainly about the incompetence issues. Payroll tax holiday stunt proposed “take two taxcuts…etc.” from Larry Kudlow (remember that middle-class taxcut from November 2018). which will cost the economy a trillion dollars. Kudlow demurs and says he needs to “stay in his lane”. VP Pence…
Defense Secretary Mark Esper was a defense industry lobbyist; guess whose stock just jumped
With his nomination of former Raytheon vice president and lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of defense, Donald Trump essentially chummed the swamp with alligator feed. Of course, it was kind of a joke for Trump to put a defense contractor in charge of the DoD while at the same time insisting he was “draining the swamp.”…
Losing the American Dream, Real Estate Agents expose the industry
Several real estate professionals expose in detail some dirty big secrets in the real estate business that is causing the loss of the American Dream. Our home used to be the American Dream Many Americans are oblivious to the shenanigans and “legal fraud” that occurs in real estate. Robby L. Caban ( #NotyouraverageAgent ), owner/operator of Robby…
Republican Senators Owned By Pharmaceutical Industry Balk At Lowering Drug Prices.
There is an old saying about politicians. “If you can’t take someone’s money, screw their women, and drink their whiskey and still vote against them, you should not be in politics.” Too bad the first part of that saying is not true. Seems that several Republican Senators who took political contributions from the pharmaceutical industry are…
