Join us online on 31 May 2024 for our Impact event on #AMR! Discover how the COMBACTE projects leveraged #PPP to combat antimicrobial resistance which causes more than 35K deaths/year.
🗓️31 May
⏰ 14:00-15:30 CET
👉Register: https://europa.eu/!V6mTBY #EUResearch#EUInnovation
Federal government's international students crackdown a threat to some Ontario colleges:
“Northern college presidents warned that a coming restriction on post-graduation work permits will endanger their public-private partnerships”
🤔 Perhaps the real threat to colleges is a provincial govt that saw a way to subsidize domestic education on the backs of int’l students, with handsome profits as an added bonus?
Estamos muito preocupados com a ausência de discussões em torno do Trem Intercidades (TIC) para Campinas. É mais um "não assunto", embora o tema seja de elevada importância para quem vive em São Paulo. Ninguém vê problemas no projeto, é isso mesmo? | 🏷️ Etiquetas: #cptm#campinas#sãopaulo#trem#tarcísio#ppp#privatização#rmsp#rmc#rmcampinas#interiorsp
Last Nov, publishing got excellent news: the planned merger of #PenguinRandomHouse (the largest publisher in the history of human civilization) with its immediate competitor #SimonAndSchuster would not be permitted, thanks to the #FTC's deftly argued case against the deal:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
94.5% of the #PaycheckProtectionProgram - designed to help small businesses keep their workers payrolled during lockdown - went to giant businesses, fraudulently siphoned off by companies like Longview Power, 40% owned by KKR:
KKR also helped engineer a loophole in the Trump tax cuts, convincing #JustinMuzinich to carve out taxes for #CCorporations, which let KKR save billions in taxes:
...with prices of 2011 and currency conversions being done (correctly) using #PurchasingPowerParities (#PPP,) 👉only $109k of annual income was necessary to make it into the top 1% bracket of top global earners.
That sounds strange👈 at first glance, b/c quite a few people in the West and some other countries make more than 100k before taxes (my assumption, as this data is not available after taxes in most countries, I'd say.)
@MariahL@queenslight Fun Fact: Celestia's voice was made with voice files from the #PPP (Pony Preservation Project). Used around 30 voice lines, got two uploaded audio samples out of it, lasting for around 2 minutes or so of speaking lines.
The Shadowy Financial Empire Built Around Liberty HealthShare Is Showing Signs of Strain
Beers family members built a “conglomerate” — including an airline, a bank in the #Ozarks, carpet stores, a #marijuana farm, and more than $20M in #RealEstate — by selling a #Christian alternative to traditional #health#insurance.
They’re now scrambling for cash, even though they received millions in #PPP loans that were later forgiven.