Showing posts with label profits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label profits. Show all posts
Saturday, May 09, 2026

HOW TO MAKE THE RICH EVEN RICHER

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an American Senryu by William Aarnes The companies making billions from the Iran war. — BBC , May 8, 2026 Declare war (well, don’t).   Decla...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL

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by Anne Herrick AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for   The New Verse News .   I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've infor...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

AI SHANTY

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by Joel Glover LA Wildfires and AI’s Data Center Water Drain: The explosion of data center demand for AI use is draining water resources. Ev...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

KRONOS EATS HIS CHILDREN

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by Susan McLean Kronos rules a golden age. A.I. fulfills his every whim. He fracks to fuel his leverage. He won't let regulations trim h...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DESTROYER

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by  Steven Kent "'Hamas has created additional demand': Wall Street eyes big profits from war" — The Guardian , October 30...
Friday, September 15, 2023

CAR PARTS

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by Matt Witt U.A.W. Halts Work at 3 Plants in Contract Fight With Automakers  Ford, General Motors and Stellantis have all raised their pay ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

REGIME CHANGE

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by Bonnie Naradzay Remember when Muntadhar al-Zaidi,  an Iraqi journalist, hurled his shoes  at Mission Accomplished Bush,  the man incapabl...
Friday, September 16, 2022

SPEAKING OF LEGACIES

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by Devon Balwit King Charles III built his own empire long before he inherited his mother’s. Charles, who formally acceded to the British th...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Haiku

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Photo: A seagull rests as workers clean the contaminated beach Wednesday after an oil spill in Newport Beach, Calif. Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associa...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

WHAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT AMERICA

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by George Salamon "In the Great Recession more than a decade ago, big tech companies hit rough patches just like everyone else. Now the...
Monday, May 11, 2020

THE HUNGER

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by Donna Katzin Smithfield Foods, a US unit of China’s biggest pork company, has reopened its [Sioux Falls, South Dakota] processing pl...
Friday, February 08, 2019

TIC TAC TOE

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by Matt Witt The Oregon Senate’s Housing Committee advanced a bill that would enact a statewide rent control policy and restrict evicti...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

A SYSTEM

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by Gary Beck “In the United States of America there are companies that profit if you go to jail. These corporations spent over $45 milli...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

IFFY FUTURE FORECAST

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Poem by Charles Frederickson Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote  Topsy-turvy third planet from Sun Upside-down silk lining turned ins...