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gotsnowgotslush said:
Snopes knows fake news, and fake news sites.

*reads unreal statements, that were made in the real, live, flesh world.*


Maurizio Cattelan, America, 2016. Gold. Photo: Kristopher McKay. Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.


http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/armchair-traveler-11042016/#_


https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/gold-toilet-selfies-656615


http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/gold-toilet

September 14, 2016

This week, in a small rest room about two-thirds of the way up the spiral, the Guggenheim installed the first work of his un-retirement: a celestially glowing, fully functional, eighteen-karat solid-gold toilet. When the work goes public on Friday, a uniformed guard will be standing by the door to answer questions, and also, shall we say, to discourage souvenir takers. A discreet label on the wall outside provides the title, “America.”
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Obviously fake. A toilet can't be solid metal and fully functional. It needs rubber parts for the flapper and valve.
 
Considering,how the simple snowball rolled, and resulted in the avalanche that America is buried under...


It might be appropriate to watch Richard III from 1995, starring Ian McKellen.
 
President Obama Signs Water Bill With Big Ag ‘Poison Pill’ Rider

Obama and DiFi fuck California, again!

In a slap in the face to fishermen, Tribes, environmental justice advocates, conservationists and family farmers, President Obama on December 16 signed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act into law with its environmentally destructive Big Ag rider sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

The controversial rider in the bill, opposed by retiring Senator Barbara Boxer, taints an otherwise good bill that sponsors water projects across the nation. The last minute rider, requested by corporate agribusiness interests, allows San Joaquin Valley growers and Southern California water agencies to pump more water out of the Delta, driving Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish species closer and closer to extinction, according to Delta advocates.

The addition of the Big Ag rider to the bill caused a bitter rift between Boxer, one of the bill’s original sponsors, and Feinstein. The U.S. Senate approved the water bill by a vote of 78 to 21 on Friday, December 9.
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But is the rider a shield against worse legislation action or a blueprint to gut the Environmental Species Act? McCarthy described the rider as a modest package of provisions to ameliorate the effects of California’s drought, now in its sixth year.

Feinstein said the rider allows maximum diversions within the legal protections of the Environmental Species Act and the biological opinions (scientific findings) that guide federal water policy. The environmental community and Boxer see it as the first and immediate step of a larger plan to divert more water to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Los Angeles area water users.

Drought and warming temperatures, one of the effects of climate change, are tipping off mass extinction of the species in the San Francisco Bay and its estuary. We have to work to share water among people, farms and the environment of California — not try to benefit one interest with a midnight rider.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Stop-Feinstein-s-water-bill-rider-10781601.php

Monday, the two had a rare public rift after Feinstein blindsided Boxer by teaming with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, to insert a rider into a major water infrastructure bill that Boxer co-authored. Boxer denounced the rider as an assault on the Endangered Species Act because its objective is to loosen pumping restrictions on California rivers as a way to send more water to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. Feinstein’s incursion into Boxer’s legislative turf forced Boxer into opposition to her own bill.


http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...how-as-Boxer-says-goodbye-to-the-10781221.php
 
We lost the dependable and reputable American vendors for our own American industries, more than twenty years, ago. For the past twenty years, each producer fights competitors over a penny's worth of difference.

The Wall Street Crash of 2007- 2008 crushed what hopes these industries had of keeping their heads above water. They either were absorbed by behemoth corporations that basically had their own banks built into the system, or they withered.

The banks were not lending to anyone, for a long period.

The reality is that companies can hire workers for $3 an hour with no benefits, in Mexico.

They do not have to conform to any American requirements, in Mexico.

They can build new, modern, upgraded plants in Mexico, with no oversight and cheap Mexican labor.

Look to Japan, to see how few people are needed in a mostly computerized, mechanized system.

In America, there is the matter of inflation.

The wages of American service workers is due to climb to $15.00 an hour, and those higher labor costs will be passed along to the American consumer.
 
Could never understand the American practice of bill riders. Either poison pill or just sneaking something through on the back of something important. Hardly an example of good government.
 
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