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Billionaires’ ‘pandemic profits’ alone could pay for $3K stimulus checks to EVERY American – report

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

RT | December 9, 2020

American billionaires made so much money during the Covid-19 pandemic that their profits since March are enough to give every US resident a $3,000 check without cutting into their pre-virus wealth, a new report shows.

Billionaires’ ‘pandemic profits’ alone could pay for $3K stimulus checks to EVERY American – report

Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages Paid by Corporate Giants

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages Paid by Corporate Giants

Upon the study’s release Wednesday, Warren Gunnels, staff director and policy adviser for Sanders, tweeted: “The real looting in America is the Walton family becoming $63 billion richer during a pandemic, while paying wages so low that 14,541 of their workers in 9 states need food stamps — all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. Yes. The Walton family is the real welfare queen in America.”

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Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, new study shows

Amazon Bans Sale of Foreign Seeds in the U.S.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Amazon Bans Sale of Foreign Seeds in the U.S.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said the unsolicited packages appeared to be a part of a “brushing scam,” in which an online seller ships an inexpensive product to an unwitting receiver and then submits positive reviews on the recipient’s behalf with a goal of boosting the seller’s ratings and visibility online. The agency said there was no reason to suspect agroterrorism, in which biological agents are used to harm the nation’s food supply.

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Amazon Bans Foreign Plant Sales to U.S. Amid Global Seed Mystery

U.S. agriculture officials have said they are working with officials in China to determine who is sending the seed packages and to stop future shipments. China’s Foreign Ministry said in July that mailing labels on the seed packages were forged and that China had asked the U.S. to send packages for investigation.

It’s just the beginning.

Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with ‘Free’ CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to ‘Protect Kids’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with ‘Free’ CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to ‘Protect Kids’

Yet, further investigation into Thorn casts even greater doubt on its professed altruistic objectives, given the organization’s ties to CIA cut-outs, Wall Street banks and another “anti-child trafficking” organization that was launched by Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair, the wife of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.