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Here in the U.S., large corporate actors are generally in favor of transnational labor mobility for the 99%; immigrant workers, on the margin, are more willing to accept poor working conditions, variability in hours, and low job security, and having...
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Hadil Benu commented on
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For those who can't do dots. USDA ARS was held in Virginia, Feb 2013 (hello Langley) Ukrainian national was there as expert on African Swine Flu Based in Kharkiv, which is close to facility that all this protest is about (30km) and heads such things New centre greenlit mid 2013 St. Petersburg has deadly Swine Flu The sad thing is: took me 10 mins to craft a better conspiracy theory than 3+ years of fucking around, including several layers of "pros". ~ Disclaimer: No, I don't think this is what has happened. It's an intellectual exercise in showing just how...
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Hadil Benu commented on
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African Swine Fever* See? Totally different diseases. ~ thwaps puppy's nose...
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guthrie commented on
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guthrie commented on
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Ah, I see. The thing is, I don't expect there to be such a bounty of water in the US south west the way you apparently do, because the weather is already so weird and variable that it just won't be possible to make good use of what does fall. Then the heartland thing, I think you are underestimating the reslience and just don't care approach in the USA. I expect things to get worse for years, if not decades, and very little to be done on a state or national level. Perhaps over 50 years people will bleed out...
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Nojay commented on
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I wouldn't class the coming rainfall as a "bounty" per se since it's going to cause flooding in places, kill people, destroy property etc. It's going to require changing agricultural land layouts and usage, modifying irrigation schemes and the construction of flood prevention measures and that's going to be disruptive and expensive. My point was really that right now people are concentrating on the current lack of potable water and planning to overcome that deficit by building desalination plants which, if I'm right about the next few years, will become expensive white elephants and a waste of effort and money...
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