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Chloe Swarbrick on Gary’s Economics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_LgDjpzxE
Turns out that the ‘scientist’ behind Trump’s anti-paracetemol scam got called out by a judge for giving ‘unreliable’, ‘biased’ testimony in a case where he was an expert witness.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/autism-scientist-tesitify-andrea-baccarelli-havard-aceraminophen-paracetamol-wvvzznhsf
https://archive.is/ePwqk
Some background to Trump and his officious officials on immigration to USA. Another overturning of one of the pillars of value that society had adopted.
How the USA Statue of Liberty poem provides a lesson in immigration …
PBS https://www.pbs.org › classroom › daily-videos › 2019/08
21 Aug 2019
In an interview with National Public Radio last week , Cuccinelli said that the famous words on the Statue of Liberty which implore the world to “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” was an invitation to only those immigrants “who can stand on their own two feet and who will not …
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-official-says-statue-of-liberty-poem-is-about-europeans Aug.14/2019
…The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli’s defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa….
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(Africans are interested in the USA attitudes to immigration as can be expected owing to their long history of travel to that country.)
Pulse Ghana August 2024 (Much of this seems to be from the 2019 PBS News.)
https://www.pulse.com.gh/articles/statue-of-liberty-poem-refers-to-europeans-ken-cuccinelli-says-2024080710103830486
But on Tuesday morning, [Kenneth] Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, added a caveat.
“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge,” he said. That evening, he said the poem referred to “people coming from Europe.”
Cuccinelli had been speaking to news outlets about the Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule targeting legal immigrants who want to remain in the United States but are deemed likely to use government benefit programs….
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RNZ (Radio New Zealand) brings this important news in their headlines today.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/574412/two-dead-children-among-injured-after-michigan-church-shooting-and-fire
This is an example of the sick society we live in which is being added to and recreated every day by our sick political system!
Out of all the happenings in the world that we could be told about, and even from the USA, we get tragedy, drama with death of children. Ugly isn’t it, that this type of connection with our emotions is activated. We are weakened in our humanity by the choice of viciousness and pathetic sadness dished out to us purposely by the media, and is behind a creeping numbness and despair that freezes our intelligent responses over our supposed primitive traits. Note The Selfish Capitalist Oliver James book points out that western countries show twice the emotional distress of mainland European and also Japan. We are being mentally bludgeoned where it does the most harm.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/574411/what-sectors-are-barely-paying-more-than-minimum-wage
To those who would have expected Labour to be honestly concerned about this, take note. Its sisters and brothers doing it for themselves these days.
One form of expressing that: Aretha Franklin older?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FUgR1NqVwY