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The tl-dr For the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes) already costing us dearly, just when we have...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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In what is a breaking story, David Sirota from The Lever appeared on Democracy Now on January 9 to report to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez that the major subcontractor building 737 MAX bodies for Boeing was facing whistleblower complaints and...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 08:15 PM PST
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There’s a lot of bigger things to worry about (like Trump confessing to using the FBI to interfere with the vote count in Florida in 2018, and implicating DeSantis and Scott as he does so) but I wanted to post this here because since I put this story...
by Keith Olbermann
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on Thu Nov 10, 2022 at 07:46 PM PST
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The last few days are looking rather interesting for renewable energy and climate. Crashing Vor picked up on research out of Stanford that can boost the energy capture of current solar panel technology with some optical ingenuity. Anything thing that...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Jul 25, 2022 at 08:47 AM PDT
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‘Why would I put my kids in a place where there is no future?’
By� Jessica Goodheart, for Capital and Main
Kathleen DeSisto has a good job, a house, four kids and, as she affectionately puts ...
by Capital and Main
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on Sun Jun 27, 2021 at 06:29 AM PDT
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Because the General Electric Appliance Park was classified as “life sustaining” by the state of Kentucky, GE was able to force its employees to return to work this Monday after a one week hiatus. GE claims that they have taken every precaution to...
by Merlin1963
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on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 08:46 PM PDT
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General Electric announced Monday it would be freezing its pension plan for around 20,000 current employees, while offering to buy out around 100,000 former employees from their pension. USA Today reports that GE has said it will offer up “lump-sum...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 08:57 AM PDT
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The New York Times has an editorial today on the fight between Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over who gets the blame for New York City’s deteriorating subway system. The editorial concludes with this:
...Ultimately, it is the...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Feb 05, 2018 at 11:01 AM PST
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Timeless Galbraith on Wall Street's latest bubble-blowing, tax-cutting farce A few days ago, in a role reversal, I was being lectured to by a Luddite teenager for the hundredth time about how my parenting would improve if I stopped using my phone all the time. That caused ...
by Galtisalie
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on Sun Nov 19, 2017 at 03:01 PM PST
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The Saturday issue of The Wall Street Journal described how the “weakness in its oil and gas” business has adversely affect General Electric Co. (GE) sales and profits. Revenues are down 6% while profits are down 5% this quarter (presumably with...
by False equivalency
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on Sun Oct 23, 2016 at 08:28 PM PDT
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Off the coast of Block Island, in Rhode Island, the first offshore wind farm is being completed. It has taken just about 10 years to complete but the hopes are that the final touches will be in place in the next month or two.
The five-turbine,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Aug 19, 2016 at 09:15 AM PDT
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The idea of Donald Trump being POTUS is ludicrous. A bad joke. A dangerous joke.
Here is a man who claims to know how to deal with Russia because he had the Miss Universe pageant there.
We all laughed at Sarah Palin when she claimed that she...
by manrico1967
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on Sun May 22, 2016 at 03:31 PM PDT
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It was bad enough when Bernie Sanders dared to criticize GE earlier this week for not paying its taxes. What audacity for stupid Bernie to say that GE’s massive tax avoidance schemes are, you know, wrong.
GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt was quick to step...
by InteGritty
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on Wed Apr 13, 2016 at 02:37 PM PDT
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Dear Jeff Immelt,
I got the letter you sent. I read over it a few times. And then a few more. I was captivated. I really read the words, allowed them to pour slowly over my mind like warm maple syrup.
I just can’t get over your dedication...
by Katie McEntire
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on Mon Apr 11, 2016 at 08:00 AM PDT
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“GE has been in business for 124 years and we’ve never been a big hit with Socialists. We create wealth and jobs, instead of just calling for them in speeches.”
We at GE were interested to read comments Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.),...
by JohnQ Dem
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on Thu Apr 07, 2016 at 06:02 AM PDT
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The welcome final resolution of the fake “Iranian nuke” saga means billions in frozen Iranian assets will be released. Sanctions will be lifted — but not completely by the USA because of the non-nucle
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Sat Jan 16, 2016 at 03:35 PM PST
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Instead of working to create jobs and help American manufacturers compete in the international market place, short-sighted, bone-headed members of Congress conspired to shut down America's 81-year ...
by FaithChatham
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on Sun Sep 06, 2015 at 08:17 AM PDT
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Loves welfare, hates paying taxes
General Electric and Andrew Cuomo have been sitting in a tree for quite some time (
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Aug 27, 2015 at 11:29 AM PDT
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by hungeski
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on Tue Jul 28, 2015 at 10:44 PM PDT
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If you heard the news about GE getting out of finance to go back to 'making things', Paul Krugman has a take on it you may find interesting. From his blog...
There are two big lessons from ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Apr 12, 2015 at 09:03 AM PDT
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