Yearly Archives: 2020

Obama’s Promised Land: Obama Wept (Two Episodes from Campaign 2008)

Obama on the trail in 2008….

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2020

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t

Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.

Links 11/30/2020

Can’t Do America: Kick the Can Approach to Public Pension Fund Crisis, Even Though Canada Cleaned Up Its Mess

Why the US is certain to ignore the Canadian roadmap out of its public pension fund mess….and it’s not just because exceptionalism.

Obama’s Promised Land: Come for the Droning, Stay for the Erasures

Cracking open Obama third autobiography

Links 11/29/2020

When Can Pipelines Take Private Land? Jordan Cove LNG Project a Test for Eminent Domain

In the U.S., companies can use eminent domain to take private land for a project that has some public benefit, such as a school, a highway, or a hospital. Under the Natural Gas Act, FERC gets to make that determination when it concerns a natural gas pipeline, and the commission weighs pros and cons of the project when deciding.

Links 11/28/2020

Covid Profits of Pharmaceutical Monopolies vs Peoples’ Lives

The WTO is set to consider a proposal supported by 99 countries to waive intellectual property protection for Covid treatments.

Spreading Like Wildfire: Luther’s Network and the Early Reformation

How did Martin Luther’s message spread so quickly?

Links 11/27/2020

Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.