Americas New Party
Friendly reminder that the US needs to replace its fundamentally broken first-past-the-post voting system.
Woman charged with unintentional arson after cigarette allegedly started fire on Greek Island
unintentional arson
It seems somebody is using words without knowing what they mean.
Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging
That’s internal US politics that I have no interest in starting my day with.
The exposition that you've latched onto is typical of news articles everywhere. As with countless others, the article conveys more than that. You don't have to value the exposition. The headline conveniently gives you all you need in order to decide whether to skip it.
The news here is that a significant portion of the world's trees, upon which we all depend, are being put on the chopping block. I consider that world news, just as I do when Brazil does it.
We're discussing things purchased at retail, as stated in the first sentence of the article and indicated in my comment by the word scalping. Not wholesale markets.
How about we make scalping of anything illegal everywhere, with a mandatory punishment of community service hours, valued at minimum wage, until the scalper pays back double their cumulative scalping profits?
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Pussy Riot: 5 Russian Words You'll Need to Know in Trump's America (2017)
(Thanks to archiveorg for saving this video, which was recently removed from YouTube.)
Singapore's health ministry released its first update on infection numbers in almost a year this month, as the estimated number of cases jumped 28% to 14,200 in the week through May 3.
