Budi
Budi's Journal11/15/1969 "500,000+ protesters march in DC, Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium"
Curious if we have any DUers who were at that massive protest.
I see 100,000 Belarusians marching again on the 50th day of protesting their govt, & thought of the size of the one in 1969 on Penns Ave in DC.
More 60's protests against the direction our gov't was leading our country:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/second-antiwar-moratorium/
100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests
https://apnews.com/article/alexander-lukashenko-belarus-europe-elections-presidential-elections-45c02f3395eba143059f1e65a7b4cb24
Slide show. Pics of the 50th day of protests
https://apnews.com/article/alexander-lukashenko-belarus-europe-elections-presidential-elections-45c02f3395eba143059f1e65a7b4cb24/gallery/7066930ff5fc435bbff52e97e03bc47a
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — About 100,000 demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital calling for the authoritarian president’s ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him, on Sunday as the protests that have rocked the country marked their 50th consecutive day.
Protests also took place in nine other cities, underlining the wide extent of dismay and anger with President Alexander Lukashenko, who has stifled opposition and independent news media during 26 years in power.
The protest wave began after the Aug. 9 presidential election that officials said gave Lukashenko a sixth term in office with a crushing 80% of the vote. The opposition and some poll workers say the results were manipulated.
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From The Rick Wilson / "Ann Richards describing Rush Limbaugh" 😅
https://twitter.com/jallen1985/status/1309344147522883584EDIT: FINAL SCORE Double OT: Dallas Stars--3 / TBay-- 2
Stanley Cup
Dallas Stars player Perry scores 1st goal of the night.
This game is intense!
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Edit for final score
RECAP:
Perry’s double OT Game 5 goal keeps Stars alive vs. Lightning in Stanley Cup Final
After Corey Perry and Tyler Seguin narrowly avoided an offside, Perry cashed in for his second goal of Game 5, and the double-OT-winner. The Stars live to see another day in large part thanks to veterans like Perry and Pavelski.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/09/27/stars-avoid-elimination-beat-lightning-in-game-5-2020-stanley-cup-final/amp/
Nevada Latinos for Biden/Harris / Horseback Parade
https://twitter.com/_ErikaHerrera/status/1309949423078617089https://twitter.com/quirkynoname/status/1309967593709559809
*Beats a sinking boat!
Kudos CA & Gov Newsom! "California passes first-in-nation plastics recycling law"
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/25/california-passes-first-in-nation-plastics-recycling-law/amp/California passes first-in-nation plastics recycling law
In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.
Under it, companies that produce everything from sports drinks to soda to bottled water must use 15% recycled plastic in their bottles by 2022, 25% recycled plastic by 2025, and 50% recycled plastic by 2030.
Supporters of the new law say it will help increase demand for recycled plastic, curb litter in waterways and along roads, and reduce consumption of oil and gas, which are used to manufacture new plastics.
“This is the most ambitious, aggressive recycled plastics content law in the world,” said Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, a Sacramento-based environmental group.
SNIP
Half the plastic that has ever existed on Earth was made in the last 13 years. Only 9% of the plastic sold every year in the United States is recycled.
Up to 13 million metric tons of it ends up in the world’s oceans each year — the equivalent of a garbage truck-full being dumped into the sea every minute — where it kills fish, birds, sea turtles, whales and dolphins that eat it or become entangled by it.
Plastic lasts for hundreds of years. Making it consumes large amounts of petroleum products, which contributes to climate change. And at the current rate, one recent study found there will be more plastic by weight in the ocean in 2050 than fish, most of it broken into trillions of tiny pieces of toxic confetti.
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President Obama names his 2nd wave of endorsements. 💙 Thank You Mr (still-my) President
https://twitter.com/BlessedMonk_/status/1309480343917924352
The endorsements of the Most Admired Man in the World.
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Progressive Tim Canova won't vote for Biden, supports President Trump's policies
https://floridianpress.com/2020/09/progressive-tim-canova-wont-vote-for-biden-supports-president-trump-video/SNIP
Canova, who ran for congress twice against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), told us that there was no chance that he would support Biden’s candidacy while praising President Donald Trump for putting forth a foreign policy that has lead to two historic Middle East peace deals, and for his trade deals like the renegotiating of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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https://twitter.com/shrnkngsly/status/1309474215825936385
@JayWeixelbaum
It is journalistic malpractice to call individuals like this progressive. They aren't.
They're populists. It's grievance politics above all else.
With Deutsche Bank's help, an oligarch's buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland
Unbelievable. A Must Read..
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https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/with-deutsche-banks-help-an-oligarchs-buying-spree-trails-ruin-across-the-us-heartland/
With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland
Secret transactions, lost jobs, worker injuries, gutted buildings, unpaid bills: Ihor Kolomoisky’s untold American legacy.
Investigations
FinCEN Files
MONEY LAUNDERING
Deutsche Bank moved more than $750 million allegedly siphoned from a Ukrainian bank and into the United States — more than half the money spent on real estate.
Notorious Ukraine oligarch and billionaire business partner directed the buying spree with the help of Miami investors.
Millions moved through a maze of shell companies set up in Cyprus and the Caribbean that concealed the source of the money, internal bank records show
In a fiery ball, the explosion in a massive furnace at Warren Steel in Ohio blew out bricks and windows and sent workers hurtling to the ground, including three who were airlifted to burn units and two others rushed to local hospitals.
“I was like a ping pong ball,” said Michael Buckner, 34, who was taken by helicopter to an Akron hospital with severe burns on his head and arms. “I got thrown down steps. You couldn’t see anything.”
In the aftermath, federal inspectors turned up serious safety violations at the plant, while workers railed about dangerous and decrepit conditions they said had been ignored.
The 2011 blast was one of the first calamities to strike an American business owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch with a reputation for heavy-handed tactics — he once sent a team of armed men to occupy an oil company — and for corruption on a grand scale.
For more than a decade, Kolomoisky siphoned billions of dollars from PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest financial institution, which he co-owned, in an audacious laundering scheme, cleaning the money through a web of companies around the world, U.S. federal prosecutors allege.
An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shows that Deutsche Bank, the troubled global lender, played a pivotal role, transferring more than $750 million to Kolomoisky’s business interests in the United States.
Criminals and others seeking to hide illicit money in the U.S. often plow it into glittering high-rises in New York, or use it to buy billionaire playthings, like yachts and expensive jewelry. Kolomoisky, who played a peripheral role in the Donald Trump impeachment drama, had a different prize in mind: real estate in the American heartland.
Over a decade, he and his associates secretly amassed a real estate empire, buying at least 22 properties, including a skyscraper in Cleveland...
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https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/with-deutsche-banks-help-an-oligarchs-buying-spree-trails-ruin-across-the-us-heartland/
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