The Daily Shaarli
November 11, 2019
We spend $1 billion on medical research, but have no ownership of the products. That wasn’t always the case.
Will the US and the Organization of American States once again be able to overturn election results?
"“The election results are a repudiation of the billionaire class, corporate real estate, and the establishment,” Sawant said at a press conference on Saturday, flanked by supporters holding a “Tax Amazon” banner.
Sawant led the council in May 2018 in approving a new per-employee “head tax” on 500 of the city’s largest companies, aimed at combating a housing crisis attributed in part to a local economic boom that has driven up real estate costs.
The tax was designed to raise at least $45 million a year to build more affordable housing and help support a homeless population that is the third-largest of any U.S. metropolitan area."
"Democratic congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alleged that the events in Bolivia amounted to a coup. “The people of Bolivia deserve free, fair, and peaceful elections – not violent seizures of power,” she tweeted."