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How about the “Sleazy,” with winners getting a solid gold sculpture of a middle finger? There were so many worthy contenders, but one corporation exhibited uncommon callousness, so the 2021 Sleazy goes to. . . Tyson Foods! The meatpacking giant has regularly run roughshod over workers, farmers, communities, and the environment not to mention the millions of animals it fattens and slaughters. But the coronavirus really pulled out the worst in Tyson’s corporate ethic. Last April, its billionaire chair, John Tyson, ranted that health officials who were closing down several of his slaughterhouses that had become hotbeds of contagion were creating another crisis: a national meat shortage! ....
Much good discussion via e-mail of this tweet by Clive, Colonel Smithers, vlade, and David. Key easily hoistable points. David: All previous tactics for 2022 have been based on the assumption that (1) Le Pen will get into the second round and (2) she will then lose to whoever is the other candidate…..But over the last year or so, we’ve begun to see indications that Le Pen might not, in fact, be unelectable after all. This is partly because recent events have moved the debate in her direction, over such questions as national sovereignty, Europe, industrial policy, political Islam, immigration etc. It should be stressed that these are not “right-wing” issues historically: they were issues addressed across the political spectrum until fairly recently, but which have since been abandoned by all the mainstream parties. Now (industrial sovereignty is a good example) everyone is talking of them again. But it’s partly also because of the mess that the rest of the French poli ....
PlutoniumKun: And there’s more! Wow. Wow. I’ll admit that I am a Maroon, although back during its Minoan period, when I majored in Linear B and the Art of Incisions. The Woke Meritocracy is a kind of horror show of what it means to be an undergrad now. In the middle of the essay, author Blake Smith notes two things that indicate a kind of perpetual childhood: First, the parents are the helicopter parents, smothering the child. Second, his students don’t read for pleasure. This means that they are “performing” being adults by constantly referring to manufactured identities. ....
Hillary Rush stands with her father, Bob Rush, inside their Great Barrington shop in 2015. Church Street Trading Co. will close next month, after 28 years on Railroad Street. PHOTO PROVIDED BY HILLARY RUSH GREAT BARRINGTON â There are coronavirus pandemic winners and losers, and Hillary Rush says her Railroad Street shop is one of the latter. âWith COVID, I just sat and watched for three months and applied for every loan â you name it,â said Rush, owner of Church Street Trading Co., a Berkshires clothing institution for 28 years. âWhen we reopened, we had no dressing rooms and people were deathly afraid to come.â ....
Donald Trump returns to family business; revenue at hotels, resorts hit hard by pandemic SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 09:09 AM IST Share Reuters File photo of Feburry 2017: Donald Trump at Trump International Golf club to watch the Super Bowl LI between New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons in West Palm Beach, Florida. NEW YORK: Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns and restrictions, with revenue plunging more than 40 percent at his Doral golf property, his Washington hotel and both his Scottish resorts. Trump s financial disclosure released as he left office this week was just the latest bad news for his financial empire after banks, real estate brokerages and golf organizations announced they were cutting ties with his company following the storming of the Capitol this month by his political supporters. ....