Democratic members of the #House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic defended Dr. Anthony #Fauci ahead of Monday's hearing about the #US’ #COVID19#pandemic response, policies & transparency.
The representatives blasted #Republicans’ claims of Fauci’s involvement in starting [for real they had to say this] or covering up the pandemic as a “dangerous” & “cartoonish” narrative.
“The Select subcmte has become an echo chamber of #extreme narratives intended to vilify our nation's #PublicHealth ofcls. Rather than tackling forward-looking reforms to strengthen public #health data collection, improve future testing & contact tracing capacity or address the inequities that we laid bare by the #pandemic, our majority colleagues have spent time & #taxpayer dollars fishing for evidence to back up their most extreme members’ claims about Dr. Fauci,” said #Democrat Rep Raul Ruiz.
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NUNO BETTENCOURT On Refusing A Gig With OZZY OSBOURNE: "I Don't Know What I Was Thinking; I Should Have Done It"
"I could have toured with Ozzy, and been on the next album."
That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades.
This is not some back-of-the-napkin approximation.
According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation,
had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady,
🔸the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion higher in the year 2018 alone.
🔸That is an amount equal to nearly 12 percent of GDP
—enough to more than double median income
—enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month.
— Every month.
— Every single year.
Price and Edwards calculate that the cumulative tab for 🔹our four-decade-long experiment in radical inequality 🔹had grown to over $47 trillion from 1975 through 2018.
At a recent pace of about $2.5 trillion a year,
that number we estimate crossed the $50 trillion mark by early 2020.
That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans had inequality held constant
—$50 trillion that would have built a far larger and more prosperous economy
—$50 trillion that would have enabled the vast majority of Americans to enter this pandemic far more healthy, resilient, and financially secure.
As the RAND report [whose research was funded by the Fair Work Center which co-author David Rolf is a board member of] demonstrates,
💥a rising tide most definitely did not lift all boats.
💥It didn’t even lift most of them,
as nearly all of the benefits of growth these past 45 years were captured by those at the very top.
“‘But that left open the question: If Miers is a classy, top-of-the-line #conservative, then why was Sen Charles Schumer, D-NY, beaming in contentment at his press conference Mon when he proclaimed that in nominating her, Bush had rebuffed “the very #extreme wing of his party”?’
“Democrats didn't belittle Bush for choosing an unqualified #SCOTUS nominee; Democrats were relieved that Miers wasn't #Alito.”
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EXTREME Guitarist NUNO BETTENCOURT Featured In Career-Spanning Interview With TWISTED SISTER Guitarist JAY JAY FRENCH (Video)
💬Elle a reçu de nombreux soutiens, y compris de la SDJ de Mediapart, qu'ils en soient remerciés ici par notre rédaction. Mais il y a aussi des silences qui pèsent lourd, venus d'une partie de la profession pourtant si prompte, habituellement, à faire barrage à la moindre attaque contre des éditorialistes plus en vue. Dans ces silences se pave la route de l'#extrême#droite désormais armée de médias prêts à tout pour complaire et dont la force de nuisance reste encore à mesurer pleinement. https://www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/la-vie-du-site/en-soutien-a-nassira-el-moaddem
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Today In Metal History 🤘 March 14th, 2024 🤘DEF LEPPARD, METALLICA, EUROPE, VOIVOD, EXTREME, POISON, BLACK SABBATH
HEAVY HISTORY 42 years ago today (1982) Metallica performed their very first live show at Radio City in Anaheim, CA and featured James Hetfield (vocals), Lars Ulrich (drums), Dave Mustaine (guitar), and Ron McGovney (bass)...
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Today In Metal History 🤘 February 7th, 2024 🤘VAN HALEN, BON JOVI, KISS, METAL CHURCH, EXTREME
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. David Jack Peverett (FOGHAT, SAVOY BROWN): 1943 – 2000 (aged 56) R.I.P. Mark St. John (Mark Leslie Norton; KISS): 1956 – 2007 (aged 51) R.I.P. Alan Charles Lancaster (STATUS QUO): 1949 - September...
After a summer of record-breaking heat, vast swaths of the United States are now grappling with extreme cold as a brutal Arctic blast brings snow squalls, deadly ice and life-threatening wind chills.
Why we still have brutal cold snaps even as the planet warms to record levels (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
After a summer of record-breaking heat, vast swaths of the United States are now grappling with extreme cold as a brutal Arctic blast brings snow squalls, deadly ice and life-threatening wind chills.