ST has degraded horribly over the years, where 90% of the of your so-called long threads almost totally inane pissing matches, free of content, info, news. nothing but floods of stinky urine.
This is a good description of you and what you bring to the board. You have absolutely no value to ST and it's fair to assume the same applies to the real world.
Either way, trying to prop this place up as legit and saying "it's degraded over the years" is like saying the sky is blue. It's been this way for an extremely long time, we're talking over a decade, so the "this is a discussion board" talking point is either a facetious or naive take.
Adelson plows $30 million of his $670 million tax windfall back into keeping Congress in GOP hands
Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corporation got a $670 million windfall in the first quarter of 2018 due to the GOP's tax giveaway to the rich. The Business Times writes:
LAS Vegas Sands Corp, the world's largest casino company, said first-quarter sales and profit rose to new records in all its three markets, with results in Singapore soaring.
Sands reported net income shot up 179.1 percent to US $1.62 billion in the first quarter of 2018, compared to US $579 million in the year-ago period,
inclusive of a US $670 million non-cash income tax benefit.
Revenue for the three months to March 31 grew 16.7 per cent to US $3.58 billion, exceeding projections of US$3.36 billion.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1763398
Koch Brothers-Backed Effort to Sabotage Unions Uses Secret "Tool Kit" to Encourage Members to Quit
Internal do ents obtained by The Guardian show how
a network of right-wing think tanks have launched a nationwide effort to convince members of public sector unions to stop paying dues.
The effort is backed by $80 million in funding from billionaires like the Koch brothers,
who expect a favorable decision from the Supreme Court this month in
a case that could let workers who benefit from union-negotiated contracts avoid paying union dues if they opt not to join the union.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4...embers-to-quit
Far-right Freedom Koch-us schemes to block House DACA vote with parliamentary shenanigans
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) may use farm policy as a bargaining chip to prevent a vote on bipartisan legislation.
https://thinkprogress.org/far-right-...-3eb95252dd02/
Gorsuch and Thomas prove that if Trump gets another SCOTUS seat, they'll rewrite the law
The doctrine of stare decisis, meaning “to stand by things decided,” dictates that the Court should follow its own precedent in all but extreme cir stances. But
upholding precedent only seems to matter to Roberts Court conservatives when that precedent is favorable to their positions.
Case in point: The Brookings Ins ute called
Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission,
which declared the ban on corporate donations to political campaigns uncons utional despite decades of precedent,
“one of the Supreme Court’s most egregious exercises of judicial activism.” Like, ever.
For some reason, Justice Thomas decided that Byrd was a good vehicle for announcing that, in fact, that
last 50-plus years of Fourth Amendment law should be scrapped.
Instead, he proposes,
the test ought to be whether “police interfered with a property interest.”
As that term’s defined now, that could be the end of privacy, essentially.
Then there’s the policy consideration, the fact that changing the entire framework for Fourth Amendment rights with respect to search and seizure would, as Millhiser notes, result in mass confusion—at a minimum—among law enforcement and in courts throughout the country.
We’d be right back to where the Court was in 1967, starting from scratch to work out the applications of this new theory of the Fourth Amendment.
Byrd is yet more concerning: While their concurrence could presage change to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence; it definitely signals that
Thomas and Gorsuch are ready to set fire
to even the clearest and most established tenets of cons utional law.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Capital, and Capitals SCOTUS stooges, continues to crush Labor
Supreme Court Rules for Businesses Over Workers
The Supreme Court says
employers can prohibit their workers from banding together to dispute their pay and conditions in the workplace,
an important victory for business interests.
The justices ruled 5-4 Monday, with the court’s conservative members in the majority, that
businesses can force employees to individually use arbitration, not the courts, to resolve disputes.
The outcome does not affect people represented by labor unions, but an estimated 25 million employees work under contracts that prohibit collective action by employees who want to raise claims about some aspect of their employment.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the decision “egregiously wrong” and
likely to lead to “huge underenforcement of federal and state stautes designed to advance the well-being of vulnerable workers.”
Ginsburg said that the individual complaints can be very small in dollar terms, “scarcely of a size warranting the expense of seeking redress alone.”
Ginsburg read a summary of her dissent aloud.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/su...-over-workers/
and of course, arbitration in secret Korporate Kangaroo Kourts 99% of time favors Employers.
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Oligarachy's Tech Division
Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative
a new proposal in California offers a potential solution:
the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies
to disclose the types of information they collect, like data used to target ads, and
allow the public to opt out of having their information sold.
Now, some of tech’s most prominent companies are pouring millions of dollars into an effort to to kill the proposal.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have all made substantial contributions to a group campaigning against the initiative, according to state disclosure records.
The $195,000 contributions from Amazon and Microsoft, as well as $50,000 from Uber, are only the latest:
Facebook, Google, AT&T, and Verizon have each contributed $200,000 to block the measure, while other telecom and advertising groups have also poured money into the opposition group.
After Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on privacy during congressional hearings, Facebook said it would no longer support the group.
Google did not back down, and the more recent contributions suggest other companies will continue fighting the measure.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/1...er-privacy-act
In the C-U era of dark money, FB's "show" of no longer supporting the group, means FB has probably sent it support money through dark channels.
Dem CA once again takes the lead
but will the tech oligarchy's BigMoney make, or block, CA's laws, regs?
oligarchy making / buyig govt policy for the oligarchy's enrichment
The alcohol industry gave the government money to prove moderate drinking is safe
This practice is more common than you think.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...e-drinking-nih
the oligarchy fully intends to destroy the planet to protect its profits
Money talks when trying to influence climate change legislation
A new analysis shows that between 2000 and 2016,
lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars on influencing relevant legislation in the US Congress.
Unsurprisingly, sectors that could be negatively affected by bills limiting carbon emissions, such as the
electrical utilities sector,
fossil fuel companies and
transportation corporations
had the deepest pockets.
Their lobbying efforts dwarfed those of environmental organizations, the renewable energy industry and volunteer groups
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-money-...ation.html#jCp
the corrupt oligarchy always wins while the non-oligarchy always loses
A Trump Tax Break To Help The Poor Went To a Rich GOP Donor’s Superyacht Marina
Wealthy donors Wayne Huizenga Jr. and Jeff Vinik lobbied then-Gov. Rick Scott
for the lucrative tax break — and won it. Poorer communities lost out.
The Rybovich superyacht marina lies on the West Palm Beach, Florida, waterfront, a short drive north from Mar-a-Lago. Superyachts, floating mansions
Rybovich owner Wayne Huizenga Jr., son of the Waste Management and Blockbuster video billionaire Wayne Huizenga Sr., has long planned to build luxury apartment towers on the site, part of a development dubbed Marina Village.
Those planned towers, and the superyacht marina itself, are now in an area designated as an opportunity zone
under President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax code overhaul,
qualifying them for a tax break program that is supposed to help the poor.
It’s unclear how valuable the tax break could be, and
the public may never know because
the Trump law included no public reporting requirements.of course not, oligarchy secrecy
https://www.propublica.org/article/superyacht-marina-west-palm-beach-opportunity-zone-trump-tax-break-to-help-the-poor-went-to-a-rich-gop-donor?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campa ign=majorinvestigations
This "opportunity zones" tax scam has been, will be repeated all across the country as fraudulent "opportunity zones" end up as luxury developments with huge tax breaks enriching the oligarchy, who paid for the Repug/Trash 2017 Great Tax Scam.
‘Boy did we screw up!’
Right-wing megadonor admits he made the GOP toxic —
and wrecked the country
Charles Koch is admitting that he has some regrets about the hyper-partisan atmosphere he helped foster with his help in creating the Tea Party movement last decade.
the Tea Party was highly successful in electing Republicans,
but a massive failure in achieving its aim of restraining the growth of the federal government.
he regrets contributing to the poisonous polarization that led to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
“Boy, did we screw up!” he writes. “What a mess!”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/boy..._campaign=5880
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