The message from the Canadian government is that crime pays, and extortion works
Two lower level Volkswagen officials were convicted in the United States. Some of the most senior executives were indicted, but remain in Germany, living luxuriously, as they will not be extradited.
Lazy reporters simply parrot corporate press releases that “giga” — meaning billion, as in “gigabyte” — refers to the size of the factory. No. It refers to the units in which taxpayer cash is shovelled into the accounts of the world’s largest companies. Climate change is, for the rich, a gigabusiness.
For years now, alarms have been sounded that the push for electric vehicles would massively enrich China, which has both a lead in their production and, more ominously, something of a hammerlock on the raw minerals required.
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