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Some background on Bernie Sanders and what he has achieved in Burlington Vermont.
” One of his main goals was to rein in real estate speculation and gentrification, to keep the tenants in their homes. In 1984, he established the Burlington Community Land Trust, which started buying and renovating rundown rental properties on the Old North End. The model was to rent them at fixed rates or sell them at low prices, while retaining ownership of the land and sharing in any value appreciation. Now called the Champlain Housing Trust, it is the largest such nonprofit in the nation and has 8% of the city’s housing units ”
Not afraid too confront the issues in his home town.
“While he brought free public concerts to Battery Park on the bluff, Sanders also went on a campaign to stop noisy late-night college parties, even accompanying police to dress down the revelers ”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-26/presidential-candidate-bernie-sa
Bernie in Vermont – also covered here:
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On the heels of a survey showing the Vermont senator with a commanding lead in Iowa, a new poll out Sunday shows Sen. Bernie Sanders with a nine-point lead in early primary state New Hampshire.
According to the CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire, Sanders captured the support of 25 percent of likely primary-goers, up four points since October. Former Vice President Joe Biden came in second with 16 percent, a point up from October. The poll’s margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.3 percent.
Some of this disturbs me far more than the virus outbreak itself:
Chinese scientists say the latest coronavirus outbreak appears to have spread from the Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan.
Despite its name, the market was selling a huge variety of wild animals for consumption, including live cats and dogs, turtles, snakes, rats, hedgehogs and marmots. Menus and signboards posted online showed a huge variety of wild animals available to eat, including foxes, wolf cubs, monkeys and masked palm civets. That from Stuff china-bans-wild-animal-trade-until-coronavirus-epidemic-eliminated
More here:
Centipedes, camels, peacocks, scorpions, rats, rodents, snakes, deers, crocodiles, wolf pups and even koalas were allegedly sold at the Huanan Seafood Market where the outbreak originated. In December when the market was still open, snakes, porcupines and koalas in tiny cages were sold by traders to local buyers. Many netizens were appalled by the variety of protected wildlife which were sold rampantly by traders at the seafood market. – From Hong Kong’s Dimsum Daily
This from Daily Mail:
The Chinese food market at the centre of the deadly SARS-like virus outbreak claimed they were selling live koalas, snakes, rats and wolf pups for locals to cook and eat.
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A list of prices for one of the businesses operating at the market showed a menagerie of animals available for sale including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, koalas and game meats, according to the South China Morning Post.
The food menu shows a price of 70 RMB for koala meat.
Even Chinese social media users were surprised at at the wildlife being sold at the market
‘Just took a closer look at the viral wild animal menu – they even eat Koalas’, one wrote on Chinese language site, Weibo. ‘There’s nothing Chinese people won’t eat’.
There are 112 live animals and animal products on the list.
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