#corporate
The United States of Go Figure
The #United #States of #Go #Figure #James #Kunstler
"You realize, don’t you, that everything going on around the #Ukraine fiasco on the #NATO side is completely insane? The folks running the #US government — Barack #Obama and his witches’ coven — started the whole thing over there in concert with a #gang of #corporate players (BlackRock, sundry oil-and-gas companies, Haliburton types, arms-makers, bunch of big banks), plus the dastardly #WEF for “guidance” (ha!), looking to grab the mineral wealth of Ukraine and, ultimately, of #Russia itself. Nice try. Didn’t work out. Tons of money pounded down a rat hole."
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Au travail, toujours savoir dire non non et non à Gogolito ou à Gogolita... #tripalium #faineantsheureux #detravail #travail #economie #entreprise #corporate #flexeurs #politique
MIRLO 🐦 une alternative à Bandcamp libre et collective 🎶
Mirlo: a free and collective alternative to Bandcamp
🇫🇷 Un magasin de musique en ligne libre et collectif fait son apparition ! ✊🎶 Leur objectif: proposer un outil simple, efficace et adapté aux artistes qui veulent vendre leur musique en ligne. Le site fonctionne déjà et les futures mises à jour risquent de vous plaire: 🤝 fédération, 👕 vente de merch et CD, 💸 rémunération récurrente ou ponctuelle, 👔 gestion d'artistes et labels... le tout porté par des valeurs anticapitaliste et anarchistes ! Ses 3 fondateurs, vétérans dans ce domaine (Ampled, FunMusicPlace) sont actuellement à la recherche de financements *pour l'année 2024... *Donnez-leur un coup de main !
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo
🇺🇸 An opensource and collective music storefront appears ! ✊🎶 Their objective: build a simple efficient and adapted tool for the artists selling their music online. The website is already up and running but future updates might interest you even more: 🤝 federation, 👕 disc & merch store, 💸 recurring patronage or one-off payments, 👔 artists and label management... all brought together by anticapitalistic and anarchistic values ! Its 3 veteran founders (Ampled, FunMusicPlace) are currently seeking infrastructure funding for the rest of 2024... Help them out !
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo
#mirlo #bandcamp #layoff #layoffs #musician #musicien #collective #collectif #music #musique #musica #distribution #distributionplatform #corporate #startup #jeunepousse #bigtech #share #support #kickstarter #crowdfunding #crowdfunder #financementparticipatif #opensource #libre #anarchist #anarchiste #anarchy #anarchie #anticapitaliste #anticapitalisme #anticapitalist #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqiap+ #lgbtqiap #lgbtq #lgbtqia #community #communauté #network #label #e2c #exit2community #exittocommunity #solidarity #solidarité #economy #economie #économie #ampled #new-york #newyork #funding #label #musiclabel #productivity #partage #entraide #social #internet #online #travail #work #cooperation #collaboration #ethique #ethics #culture #storefront #magasin #federated #fédéré #federation #2024 #patronage #mécénat #remuneration #funmusicplace
Many #American #Conservatives might like to critique the #UK as being too #Socialist, many of those critiques may be valid, however, the #USA is not a #Capitalist economic system any more than the UK is, with the #GDP of both nations being comprised of around 40% #government spending.
The USA has been for decades a mixed Capitalist/Socialist economic system. What's most sad about both the UK and #US is that the kind of #Socialism being deployed is actually #corporate Socialism, wherein #taxes are forcibly redistributed to #corporations and the most wealthy. The worst aspects of both systems.
#corporatesocialism #redistribution #angloamerican #economics
Among the many false claims made by various #government media, #corporate media and social #media commentators, such as the UK being a "Liberal Democracy," we are also told how terrible the #capitalist #system in the #UK is and how we need more #Socialism to save us.
While I do agree that crony capitalism and #monopoly capitalism are indeed terrible, we don't actually live in a capitalist economic system, we live in a mixed Capitalist/Socialist #economy, where for the last two sociological generations or more, government spending has comprised more than 40% of all economic activity in the UK.
#cronycapitalism #monopolycapitalism #economics #economicactivity #gdp
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5326/economics/government-spending
Fellows, this is worse than we thought.
#Dystopian #corporate #surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers follow us around the web to create personalized user profiles so they can (maybe) show us ads we'll actually click. Now #marketers have been experimenting with combining those web-based and audio approaches to #track #consumers in another disturbingly science fictional way: with #audio #signals your phone can hear, but you can't. And though you probably have no idea that #dog #whistle #marketing is going on, researchers are already offering ways to protect yourself.
How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You
Time's nearly up for Thames Water. So let's bring it into public ownership - permanently
#ThamesWater, Britain's largest water monopoly, has been lobbying Ofwat to increase your bills, pay more dividends to its overseas investors, and try to squirm out of its way of paying fines for dumping #sewage illegally.
https://weownit.org.uk/blog/times-nearly-thames-water so-lets-bring-it-public-ownership-permanently
#water #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #London #Corporate #Corruption
... immune to being cited for moving violations
Per #corporate policy in each of these #murderbot companies, every #vehicle has a responsible party at all times. Every car in so-called "self"-driving mode has a some human meat-sack in a #callCenter who is nominally in charge of that vehicle, and if something goes wrong, they are #responsible.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/driverless-cars-always-have-a-driver/ - #JWZ
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-profits-inflation
Analysis Shows How #Corporate #Profits Drive #Inflation—Even as Business Costs Go Down
JULIA CONLEY
Jan 18, 2024
..."Groundwork found that corporate profits—not labor and other business costs—drove 53% of price increases in the second and third quarters of 2023. In the four decades preceding the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.
Business costs have risen by about 1% since early 2023—and in some sectors, input costs have gone down due to drops in prices for transportation, warehousing, and fuel. Yet prices for consumers have gone up by 3.4% in the same time period.
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Families are paying an average of 30% more for diapers than they were in 2019—and from 2021-23, high prices were partially linked to the soaring cost of wholesale wood pulp, a component of diapers.
Wood pulp prices went up by 87% over those two years, but over the past year, prices have dropped by 25%.
Still, reported Groundwork, "using their pricing power, P&G and Kimberly-Clark have kept diaper prices high for American families, allowing their profit margins to expand considerably."
In earnings calls with shareholders, executives at the two companies said their skyrocketing profits—an $800 million windfall in P&G's case—were attributed to declining input costs and high prices.
Mike Hsu, CEO of Kimberly-Clark, told investors the company has "a lot of opportunity to [expand margins over time] between what we're doing on the revenue side and also on the cost side."
Other companies have also been clear in recent months about their plans to keep prices high to pad their profits, with PepsiCo chief financial officer Hugh Johnson telling shareholders the company may "increase margins during the course of the year" as its costs decrease, after the company raised consumer prices by about 15%."...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-profiteering-inflation
JAKE JOHNSON
Dec 07, 2023
Study Shows #Corporate #Profiteering 'Amplified' Global #Inflation
The new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Common Wealth argues that while corporate profiteering was not the "sole driver of inflation," the market dominance of a few powerful companies "amplified" economywide price increases.
Examining the profits of major firms listed on the stock exchanges of five countries, the analysis shows that many large corporations were able to keep their margins stable or even boost them—as in the case of major oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil—during pandemic-related turmoil and global energy market disruptions caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine.
The researchers estimated that the profits of major corporations, bolstered by a relatively small number of companies, were at least 30% higher at the end of last year than they were at the end of 2019, prior to the coronavirus crisis.
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Jung argued that economists have focused "too much on the labor market" as a source of inflationary pressure. The U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks have explicitly targeted job markets by jacking up interest rates in a bid to rein in inflation, which has cooled substantially from its peak.
"In fact, most wage earners have taken real losses while many businesses protected their profit margins or even raised them," Jung noted. "We should be scrutinizing the role profits have played in amplifying inflation."
To prevent corporations from exploiting future inflation shocks, Jung and Hayes called for a "new international approach to taxing excess profits," which they said would help "reduce inefficient behavior by dominant corporations." The Economistestimated in July that excess corporate profits globally hit around $4 trillion over the past year.
Other interventions, such as price caps, could "help stabilize markets during economic emergencies," Jung and Hayes added.
"Such fiscal measures have been applied by about half of European economies in the last two years, and were found to be effective in helping to lower inflation," they wrote."...
#Greedflation: #corporate #profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global #prices, study shows | #Inflation | The Guardian
Translate corporate babble in emails
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s522acAS3G1a5a8gz.mp4
53 sec #video w/sound by #Loubobang
#corporate #email #decipher
The problem with the news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FojvxCmI_o
12:37 min video
Probably recall this cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-4HOgULcd8
3 min video
#news #corporate #manipulation #brainwashing
Meanwhile in big tech messaging/influence news...
Apple gets touchy over Stewart's focus on China and A.I
Apple under fire over cancellation of Jon Stewart show amid China concerns
US lawmakers write to Apple CEO Tim Cook over worries that ‘coercive tactics of a foreign power’ led to political TV show’s end
#media #censorship #corporate #Apple #JonStewart #GQP #messaging
The West's governments have access to excellent #intel, #demography, national #statistics, #anthropology & other #info describing the people-groups, cultures & #societies of the #people they have imported into #Western nations.
The West's #governments used #NATO, #UN, #paramilitary & intel agencies to kick proverbial wasp nests in the Middle East, #Africa & South-West #Asia & then opened the West's borders to hostile peoples from antithetical #cultures.
None of the #political, #corporate, #academic, #plutocratic or #aristocratic #elites have been harmed. The #victims have been the peoples of the #West who had little to no say in #geopolitical affairs. The West’s elites are at #war with Western peoples.
#theelite #westerncivilization #thewest #middleeast #islam #uk