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Sweeping changes buried in housing bill called ‘doomsday scenario’ for Ontario’s endangered species | The Star

The Ford government buried 20 pages of sweeping changes to Ontario’s Endangered Species Act in Thursday’s omnibus housing bill, amendments that wildlife experts say would gut protections for the province’s at-risk animals and plants.

Bill 108, the “More Homes, More Choice Act,” would weaken classification criteria, allow the environment minister to delay protections for up to three years, and provide developers, industry and others who impact the habitat of endangered species with a suite of options to continue their activities, including a fee-in-lieu fund derided by critics as “pay to slay.”

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY

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WHO IS CHARLIE MUNGER, NO ONE REALLY IMPORTANT LIKE HIS MENTOR WARREN BUFFET THEY ARE MASTERS OF THE RENTIER CLASS 

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY BUYS UP PRIVATIZED SERVICES LIKE K-BRO LINEN SERVICES IN CANADA

He questioned the severity of income and wealth inequality, belittling the intelligence of politicians like AOC who have drawn attention to the issue.

“The people screaming about it are idiots. It’s going to go away by itself,” he said.

It’s “a problem if enough politicians are screaming about it. That makes it a problem.”

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AOC is 'likable' but doesn’t know who Adam Smith was, says Charlie Munger

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger criticized the competence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, saying that politicians focused on income inequality are “idiots.”

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Scott Pedersen Adam Smith: the free hand guides the motivations behind capitalism. The free hand works best with competition. However, without proper regulation to maintain fairness and competition the free hand will backhand smack the crap out of you. Elizabeth Warren knows this stuff the best.

Capitalism is by far the best system around for almost every industry. However, for many reasons we prove that for healthcare it’s not the greatest. We need profit incentives for developing new medicines. However, the avg single payer country that quality covers everyone spends 8-10% of GDP. We spend 17% GDP and not everyone is covered. That works out to over a trillion year of waste and inefficiency in our system. 
That money can be better used keeping deficits low and in the pockets of consumers and investors putting money to work in the rest of our exceptional efficient capitalist system.

There is your conservative argument for single payer.

He said the administration's equating of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism "certainly breaks new ground..."

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NEW: Trump admin may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel, says special envoy

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to Israel's existence as a homeland for the Jewish people - was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would "fight it relentlessly".

A BETTER ENDORSEMENT THAN EVEN BARACK OBAMA

At Carter's invitation, Buttigieg stood and read from the Bible as part of the lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.

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Buttigieg and his husband attend Jimmy Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, joined the large crowd at former President Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class in rural South Georgia.

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Pete Buttigieg says if 'God belonged to a political party' it wouldn't be the Republican party

"Even colleagues who would be reasonably collegial inside The Post if they saw me on the street they would pretend they didn't know me.

I knew I couldn't come back and complain about the problems I faced because that would be a perfect excuse not to hire other black women."

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The inspiring story of the 1st black female reporter for The Washington Post

Herstory Lessons shares the lives of women who have made an impact in history. Dorothy Butler Gilliam made history by becoming the first black female reporter for The Washington Post in 1961 at the age of 23. "I knew I couldn't come back and complain about the problems I faced because that

Banks that serve U.S. farmers are increasingly restructuring existing loans and boosting the collateral needed for new ones as the numbers of late and missed payments have risen.

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NEW: Soaring bankruptcies in the farm belt force banks to boost defenses

While regional banks are healthy, they’re clearly boosting their defenses against the risks they face. In March, a report by First Midwest Bank in Chicago showed past-due agricultural loans up 287 percent in 2018 over the previous year. Meanwhile, cases handled by the Iowa Mediation Service involv...

AND IN 1% CELEBRITY NEWS JUST ANOTHER SICK F**K

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"...seriously, to go and beat the little defenseless puppy and shoot it with a f**king shotgun, are you kidding me? Seriously? Why is he not arrested? Why is he walking around?”

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Former ‘Baywatch’ star slams Jenelle Evans’ husband over dog killing: ‘What kind of a sick f**k does that?’

Donna D’Errico is sick to her stomach over the allegations that David Eason, husband of “Teen Mom” star Jenelle Evans, beat and shot her dog Nugget last week. “I’m just beside myself,” the former Playboy Playmate and animal advocate told the paparazzi over the weekend. “What kind of a ...

"It’s time we had a president who’s not scared to call neo-Nazi violence what it is: domestic terrorism.”

“He’s trying to make America hate. So it is critical to our security, our dignity and our unity as a nation when I say we need a new president.”

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Kamala Harris says getting Trump out of office 'is critical to our security'

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) delivered a scathing rebuke of President DonaldTrump's discriminatory rhetoric on Sunday, blaming him for adding "new fuel"to the nation's

Dogs well positioned in 2020 US presidential race.

It's impossible to say who will take on Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, but if he is defeated by a Democrat, it's likely that a dog will return to the White House after a multi-year absence.

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