WEEK IN REVIEW: 'One of the Corporate Scandals of Our Times,' Kings, and Other Corruptions

 

The Week in Review May 06, 2023 'Incredibly Alarming': Peaceful Protests Not Fit For a King 'We're now living in a dystopian nightmare' May 05, 2023 EPA Report on Neonics Proves US Has 'Five-Alarm Fire' on Its Hands, Green Groups Say "There's now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis," said one advocate. The EPA must "ban these pesticides so future generations don't live in a world without bees and butterflies and the plants that depend on them." May 05, 2023 'Corruption. Plain and Simple': Ginni Thomas Took Secret Payments Ahead of Landmark Voting Rights Case "When you're saying things like 'No mention of Ginni, of course' when talking about paperwork for the wife of a Supreme Court Justice—you're probably doing a crime." May 04, 2023 'One of the Corporate Scandals of Our Times': Shell Posts Record $10 Billion in Profits "We have a choice: protect fossil fuel profits or protect the future of our planet," said British MP Jeremy Corbyn. May 02, 2023 US House Members Unveil Stock Trading Ban: Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act "When members have access to classified information, we should not be trading in the stock market on it," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "It's really that simple." May 02, 2023 House Dems Unveil Hail Mary Plan to Defuse GOP's Debt Ceiling 'Ticking Time Bomb' "House Democrats are taking action to bring a clean bill raising the debt ceiling to the floor and end this game of high-stakes political chicken," said Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

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