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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is a Gift to Wall Street, at the Planet’s Expense NATO

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is a Gift to Wall Street, at the Planet’s Expense

The financial crisis that began in 2008 wasn’t great for Wall Street titans: Regulators cracked down on them, protesters occupied them, and public opinion soured against them. They managed to make out pretty well in the pandemic a little over a decade later, with Blackrock being brought in to oversee…
bubmag
June 23, 2021
Top White House officials heading to Senate for bipartisan infrastructure talks NATO

Top White House officials heading to Senate for bipartisan infrastructure talks

White House officials are heading to Capitol Hill Tuesday for a briefing on the status and details of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal — another sign that President Biden is serious about finding a compromise with Republican senators. Driving the news: Biden's core negotiating team — including Louisa Terrell,…
bubmag
June 22, 2021
The Liberal Party’s rising star and her new-found fixation on trans women in sport NATO

The Liberal Party’s rising star and her new-found fixation on trans women in sport

Last night, the government’s youngest MP appeared at an online event alongside an international anti-transgender activist who has called gender reassignment surgery a “modern-day frontal lobotomy”. Tasmanian Liberal Senator Claire Chandler was one of the headline guests of conservative Christian group FamilyVoice Australia’s “Gender Politics: Transgenderism” event on Monday night.…
bubmag
June 22, 2021
Community leaders say Montreal Chinatown plan a good first step, but lacks specifics NATO

Community leaders say Montreal Chinatown plan a good first step, but lacks specifics

Montreal’s new development blueprint for Chinatown marks a step in the right direction but lacks the concrete measures needed to ensure neighbourhood preservation, community leaders said Sunday. The response comes after Mayor Valérie Plante outlined a plan last week that laid out key priorities including heritage protection, revitalizing business and…
bubmag
June 21, 2021
UEFA Investigating ‘Potential Discriminatory Incidents’ in Budapest amid Euro 2020 NATO

UEFA Investigating ‘Potential Discriminatory Incidents’ in Budapest amid Euro 2020

AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh UEFA is in the process of investigating "potential discriminatory incidents" that took place over the weekend during Hungary's Euro 2020 matches. According to the European football governing body, there were banners stating "Anti-LMBTQ"—the Hungarian abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer—at matches against Portugal and France. …
bubmag
June 20, 2021
U.S. senators haggle over funding of $1 trillion infrastructure compromise NATO

U.S. senators haggle over funding of $1 trillion infrastructure compromise

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the administration's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the vaccination program during brief remarks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - A bipartisan infrastructure plan costing a little over…
bubmag
June 20, 2021
‘No Sudden Move’ Film Review: Steven Soderbergh Very Stylishly Overplays His Hand NATO

‘No Sudden Move’ Film Review: Steven Soderbergh Very Stylishly Overplays His Hand

Forget it, Jake — it’s late-stage capitalism. Director Steven Soderbergh has been following the money throughout his career, going at least as far back as the “Ocean’s” movies, where financial institutions take a hit at the hands of the strivers and scrabblers. Since returning from his “retirement” from movies, he’s…
bubmag
June 19, 2021