Today, on Social Security's 89th birthday, let us redouble our efforts to expand Social Security benefits by at least $2,400 a year and to extend Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years by lifting the cap so that the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
Bayer-Monsanto's #GMO Bt corn is by no means substantially equivalent to natural corn. Bt proteins expressed in the GMO plants were significantly more toxic than natural Bt toxins.
https://t.co/HSXzWXM0x3
(In hindsight, wasn't everything about Monsanto significantly more toxic?)
Monsanto introduced #GMO#BtCotton illegally in India in 1998.I filed a case in the Supreme Court. It was known then that the bollworm would evolve resistance to the Bt Toxin engineered into cotton & become a #superpest
Crop failure ,farmers debt & suicides are a corporate crime
Beverly Hills is now effectively a ghost town.
What once was a thriving shopping mecca of LA is now a desolate wasteland as high end shops, banks and restaurants shutter their doors.
You can travel the world and stand in the ruins of once great cultures. You can go to the Coliseum, or go to Egypt and see the pyramids. When you visit these places it makes you wonder, “How can a culture be so great to have built this at one point?”
Now you can see the bones of the decay in California, and see what was once great that is now destroyed.
It’s painful to watch.
A group of religious sculptors near Lviv, Ukraine, were retrained to build anti-tank obstacles. A short documentary by @D_Sobchuk shows how their lives have been reshaped by the war and the national-defense effort. Watch here: https://t.co/Xiy6fYVbOz
The Airport is the closest experience to living in a fascist state anyone of us will get.
State security and checkpoints are everywhere. You would be crazy to break the law inside of it.
The place is always clean. No homeless or poor people.
Shops everywhere.
@elonmusk Verified humans can be “programmed” by an AGI or anyone/anything else, something worth noting. Not a bad solution as long as it’s realistic about what it’s accomplishing and highlights its shortcomings
In 1940, the Fair Labor Standards Act reduced the workweek to 40 hours. Today, as a result of huge advances in technology and productivity, now is the time to lower the workweek to 32 hours – with no loss in pay. Workers must benefit from advanced technology, not just the 1%.