Here are some excerpts from the September Harper’s Index:
- Amount that Carrier promised to invest in an Indiana plant in a deal with Donald Trump to save domestic jobs: $16,000,000
- Percentage of that money that will be used for automation: 100
- Ratio of the revenue of Detroit’s three largest carmakers in 1990 to that of Apple, Google, and Facebook in 2014: 1:1
- Of the number of people they employed: 9:1
- Percentage of the U.S. population that lives within ten miles of a Walmart: 90
- Amount taxpayers spent in 2013 on food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance for Walmart employees: $6,200,000,000
- Estimated portion of total food stamps that are spent at Walmart: 1/5
- Factor by which carbon emissions from Norway’s oil exports exceed its domestic emissions: 10
- Percentage of Iranian college students who are women: 46
- Of Iranian workers: 17
- Number of states that do not have inheritance or estate taxes: 32
- Estimated number of additional congressional seats Republicans won last year because of gerrymandering: 22
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“The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
~Henry A. Wallace, 33rd U.S. vice president (April 9, 1944)
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Pres. Obama mocks Mitt Romney’s windmill-on-car comment: ‘I know he’s had other things on his car’:
“And at a moment when homegrown energy is creating new jobs in states like Iowa, my opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers. He's said new sources of energy like these are ‘imaginary.’ His running mate calls them a ‘fad.’"
“During a speech a few months ago, Governor Romney even explained his energy policy this way: ‘You can't drive a car with a windmill on it.’
“That's what he said about wind power: ‘You can't drive a car with a windmill on it.’
“Now, I don't know if he's actually tried that. I know he's had other things on his car.”
Apparently, Mitt Romney would rather strap the family dog to the roof of his car than take the time to learn about how wind and other renewable sources can generate the energy we need to fuel a new generation of vehicles that run on electricity.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Quick: What do you think of Nazis? Oh, and how was your weekend? Two very important questions, for very different reasons. Greg Dworkin and Armando joined in to help address them, and acknowledge this weekend’s (hopefully) key inflection point.
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