Explore tweets tagged as #DisasterProfiteering
🚨Breaking News🚨. This company has been pocketing MILLIONS in taxpayer $ meant to help people recover from disasters - and they’ve been doing it for years. #auditsls #disasterprofiteering #disasterrelief #hurricanehelene #Corruption #northcarolina
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STUNNING AND BRAVE—Beto O’Rourke interrupted Texas Governor Greg Abbott's press conference about the school shooting in Uvalde. #DisasterProfiteering
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Iraq seizes assets of North Bank for Finance after it defaults on $99 million in government loans to build 200 schools that it promised (and failed) to deliver under contract with Al-Soqour Trading & Contracting Resources. #disasterprofiteering.
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🚨DISTURBING NEWS🚨. A recent state audit report revealed that a Texas contractor made $619,000 a week off Hurricane Helene victims in western North Carolina. Follow me as I continue to investigate. #AuditSLS #DisasterProfiteering #HurricaneHelene #WNC #NorthCarolina
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The island is still burning and they’re still recovering bodies, but this garbage person decided it was a great opportunity to make a quick buck (or 18) #HawaiiFire #DisasterProfiteering
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CEO of TX gas company is giddy on call with shareholders over profits this week from storm. “This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.”
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This morning, the FBI arrested #JuliaKeleher, Puerto Rico’s ex-secretary of education. This is the latest chapter of a saga that showcases how greed, #disasterprofiteering and #colonialism operate together in #PuertoRico. See this thread for a summary. (1/8).
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Let it be known. the #ToryScum will never miss an opportunity for #Profiteering even if you die for it. #DisasterProfiteering .#JohnsonHasFailedTheNation #BorisResign #ToryCovidCatastrophe #ToryCorruptionCatastrophe #BorisJohnson #CapitalistBastards #TrackandTrace #PPE.
Look people, please don't share this footage of @BorisJohnson.suggesting people were making an unnecessary fuss about Covid and the UK could exploit other countries' caution . #covidbriefing
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A @Harvard professor helped design the Texas energy market, which left some customers with bills as high as $16K this month. He says the system is working as intended.
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@politico #Socialism and #DisasterProfiteering Funny how red states run by republicans are always asking the feds for more $$$ than they pay in tax $$$.
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‘At least 28 contracts, worth £4.1bn, went to those with known political connections to the Conservative party.’. It takes a phenomenal amount of cuntery to witness a deadly pandemic playing out across the country and think: “How can I benefit from this?
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I’m retweeting this piece and deleting my previous tweet to clarify: the corruption described here is not #PuertoRico’s - it is federal employees and US based companies joining in #disasterprofiteering after Maria.
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#DisasterProfiteering should be ILLEGAL.
Last month, Texas resident Royce Peirce paid $387.70 to heat his two-story house. This month, he owes $8,162.73 — and counting. Amid freezing temperatures and another looming winter storm, Texans are facing a second crisis: astronomical power bills. 02.
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@AP This is NOT a hurricane! I doubt it's even a tropical storm. #HurricaneLane #ClimateChangeScams #DisasterProfiteering #TickTock You had a good run but now you need to #KnowWhen2FoldEm! #GameOver! We will not fund your manufactured disasters anymore! #MAGA #Trump #TrumpsArmy
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil,.but those who watch them without doing anything. ~Albert Einstein. #NoWar #WarProfiteering #DisasterProfiteering
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As Sec. of Ed., she pushed an Education Reform bill that became law and that opened the door for (more) #disasterprofiteering anf for-profit education, in the form of charter schools and school vouchers. (5/8).
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Republicans see this as good for business. #DisasterProfiteering.
“Houston is facing a shortage of N95 masks and turning to the private market. After one deal fell to a higher bidder. the city placed a $2 million bid for N95 masks. Each mask is priced at $5, while it usually costs 50 cents.”. Cities and states are BIDDING AGAINST EACH OTHER.
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