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A Modest Change To The Coronavirus Stimulus

Submitted by edg on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 6:05pm

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Many Americans are understandably outraged that corporations are being awarded $500 billion directly plus up to four trillion more in backchannel funding in the coronavirus stimulus plan. As a way to improve the bill and protect the American people, the U.S. Senate (aka "we work for them, not you") should add my modest change to the bailout plan.

Here is the bailout brick congress just laid

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 2:48pm

Some of this might not be true or things will change, but let's look at what we are getting:

Julian Assange to apply for bail amid coronavirus dangers in British prisons

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 03/25/2020 - 11:26am

From Oscar Grenfell at wsws.org March24, 2020:

“WikiLeaks announced this morning that Julian Assange’s lawyers will file a bail application at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow. The attempt to secure Assange’s release from the maximum-security Belmarsh Prison comes amid warnings that the British penitentiary system is at risk of an eruption of coronavirus infections.

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