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By Laboured Go To PostI know I've said some bad things about the Swedes before but can I come with?

In a landmark ruling in the fight for human rights, a jury has found banana giant Chiquita Brands International liable for financing the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a brutal paramilitary death squad. After 17 years of legal proceedings, the first set of victims and their families have finally obtained justice.

The jury’s decision reaffirms what we have long asserted: Chiquita knowingly financed the AUC, a designated terrorist organization, in pursuit of profit, despite the AUC’s egregious human rights abuses. By providing over $1.7 million in illegal funding to the AUC from 1997 to 2004, Chiquita contributed to untold suffering and loss in the Colombian regions of Urabá and Magdalena, including the brutal murders of innocent civilians. This historic verdict also means some of the victims and families who suffered as a direct result of Chiquita’s actions will finally be compensated.

By Laboured Go To PostThis is good. They also need to now set everyone involved on fire. Btw this is the same Chiquita from the 1954 coup in Guatemala that ended land reform.

https://x.com/EarthRightsIntl/status/1800265652155847121

In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans' ability to own a home or buy a car, the Biden administration on Tuesday proposed a rule to ban medical debt from credit reports.
The rule, announced by Vice President Kamala Harris and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, comes as President Joe Biden beefs up his efforts to persuade Americans his administration is lowering costs, a chief concern for voters in the upcoming election.

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The new CFPB rule also seeks to address the issue of incorrect, confusing and complicated medical bills, which often lead to long, drawn-out disputes between patients and billing departments — a complaint that the CFPB, as the agency tasked with consumer empowerment, receives in droves, Chopra said.

By Perfect Blue Go To Post

https://youtu.be/6dKiEY0UOtA?si=MTTCPTABmN4qhxU_

Just an unreal place

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Good stuff

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Good stuff

By blackace Go To PostI mean they still in debt. That ain't good anything 😂

By Fenderputty Go To PostA bad credit score is never helpful and BS medical debt should not be accounted for

By blackace Go To Postbut they still broke and adding mortgage or a car note doesn't fix the problem that our trash ass health care system causes.

By Fenderputty Go To PostCan’t do some presidential order to fix healthcare mane u know this

That said Ace … yes we r fucked

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/healthcare-spending-account-almost-20-232746519.html

By blackace Go To Posthttps://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/

Biden horrible. Sorry just not being Trump ain't good enough

By reilo Go To Post

https://www.threads.net/@nytimes/post/C8KNeZ4uV6n

Shocked it was unanimous

By blackace Go To Posthttps://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/

Biden horrible. Sorry just not being Trump ain't good enough

By reilo Go To Post

https://www.threads.net/@nytimes/post/C8KNeZ4uV6n

Shocked it was unanimous

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

By Pedja Go To PostPentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

A Vermont lawmaker was compelled to apologize publicly after being caught on video pouring water into her colleague’s work bag multiple times across several months.

The bizarre behavior is allegedly a part of a campaign of harassment that one legislator aimed at another who represents the same district in the Green Mountain state, independent outlet Seven Days first reported.

The Republican representative, Mary Morrissey, 67, confessed to dumping water in the bag of the Democratic legislator Jim Carroll, 62. She later apologized during a Vermont state house session on Monday, Boston.com reported.