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The Town of Silent Poison (Documentary) - How Picher, OK Became the Most...
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INHOF< KILLED LOTS OF QUAPA< AND MANY POOR MISSOURIANS LIKE ME< I worked here and sandblasted watertowers and building (limestone) all over Kansas and Missouri and texas with this toxic sand, i will disclose the places soon. testing should be done their too. and see if those people are sick there at a higher rate than other towns.
STOP TAX SHELTERING PROFITS FOR THE RICH
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Not only are agricultural tax breaks allowing wealthy landowners to shift their tax burden onto other less-affluent taxpayers but they are also helping bankrupt public schools, which derive the bulk of their funding from local property taxes. Agricultural tax breaks got their start in the ’50s and ’60s, as a response to the explosive growth of suburban development, which was encroaching on farmland and raising agricultural property values to the point where farmers were having paying their tax bills. Fearing that this would pressure farmers into selling out to developers, states began granting exemptions that allowed agricultural land to be assessed at rates well below market value. The practice, called use-value assessment, is today used by all but one of the fifty states to artificially deflate the value of farmland, frequently by 90 percent or more. The plan looked good on paper, but in the real world it was quickly manipulated to steer money to the rich.
The corrupt, criminal Supreme Court of Theives
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This criminal, Thomas would suckle Harlan Crows Butt hole , then lick up his turds with his leporous syphlis toungue ProPublica has an explosive story out this morning on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Based on ProPublica’s reporting, Thomas has accepted many luxury trips from GOP megadonor and Dallas businessman Harlan Crow without disclosing the travel freebies.
Bernard Kerik
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Kerik was close friends with Lawrence V. "Larry" Ray, who was later accused of running a sex cult at Sarah Lawrence College.[50] In 2022, Ray was convicted of extortion, forced prostitution and forced labor.[51] Ray was the best man at Kerik's wedding before the two had a falling out in 2000 when Ray cooperated with the prosecution against his former friend. Kerik has since called Ray "a psychotic con man Kerik's first child, a girl, was born in October 1975 when he was 20 and serving in South Korea as a military policeman. In February 1976, Kerik completed his tour of duty in South Korea and abandoned his daughter and her mother. Her mother emigrated to the U.S. and married an American. She learned of Kerik's life decades later when she saw him on television and notified their daughter of his location. On November 8, 2007, Kerik was indicted by a federal grand jury in White Plains, New York on charges of tax fraud, and making false statements to the federa
Big Cargill corn plant feeds green economy By Christine Stebbins
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biorefinery-cargill/big-cargill-corn-plant-feeds-green-economy-idUSTRE68S4Y020100929 Big Cargill corn plant feeds green economy By Christine Stebbins 7 MIN READ BLAIR, Nebraska (Reuters) - From the road, an hour north of Omaha, the giant industrial plant looks like a typical oil refinery, sprawling over more than 600 acres with massive storage drums, miles of piping, clouds of steam and exhaust. But this refinery is tied more to corn oil than crude oil. It also presents visitors with an intriguing glimpse into what boosters like President Barack Obama call “the green economy,” an industrial base centered on renewable resources like crops and on products like ethanol and biofuels. With U.S. farmers now enjoying the best corn prices in two years amid worries about world crop failures, the plant is also a prime example of how demand for crops to replace petroleum-based products is not just enticing Wall Street but benefiting hard-hit rural ec
The GOP’s Deregulation Obsession The Chamber of Commerce and its Republican allies have launched “the Contract With America on steroids.
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By Robert WeissmanOCTOBER 12, 2011 In conjunction with Train Derailment in Ohio. t’s hard to imagine a worse time for big business to conduct a full-blown attack on regulatory protections. The country continues to suffer from a deep recession caused in large part by financial deregulation and underenforcement of existing rules. A string of corporate disasters—the BP oil gusher, the Massey coal mine explosion, unintended acceleration in Toyota cars, leaded toys, killer cantaloupes—all tied directly to inadequate regulatory protections, are fresh in the public mind. For the US Chamber of Commerce, however, the facts shouldn’t get in the way of a stupendous power grab. The Chamber and its allies on Capitol Hill have launched an unprecedented antiregulation campaign, with the goal of blocking new safeguards against corporate wrongdoing and rolling back environmental, health, financial and other regulatory protections. Reagan Officials Say They Want Total Deregulation of Trucking, H