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‘Greed’: John Deere rolls out hundreds of US layoffs and sends work to Mexico

Michael Sainato, © The Guardian
June 7, 2024

S workers at John Deere plants have accused the company of acting on “greed” as America’s most famous agricultural equipment company plans to shift more production to Mexico.

The company – famous for its green tractors and leaping deer logo – has announced layoffs of several hundred workers over the last several months with more layoffs planned for later this year.

“We get wind of more layoffs daily, it seems, and it’s causing uncertainty all over,” said a longtime John Deere worker at the Harvester Works plant in East Moline, Illinois, who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “The only reason for Deere to do this is greed.”

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Un turista garabatea su firma con rotulador en una pared con frescos en la antigua ciudad de Herculano

© El País
June 3, 2024

Un turista neerlandés ha garabateado su firma con rotulador indeleble en una pared con frescos de una casa de época romana en el parque arqueológico de la antigua ciudad de Herculano, en Italia, sepultada por el volcán Vesubio junto a Pompeya en el año 79. El autor tiene 27 años y estaba de vacaciones en la Campania, región suroeste del país conocida por sus ruinas y sitios arqueológicos. Garabateó un muro revestido en estuco y con restos de un fresco que adornaban una de las viejas domus de la ciudad milenaria.

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Heedlessness is the cause of all our misfortunes.

-Said Nursî

Trump told Fox News he never said ‘lock her up.’ See video of him saying it

© CNN
June 3, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, who faces the possibility of a prison sentence after he was convicted last week on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, falsely claimed in a new interview on Fox News that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.

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