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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Meanwhile... I've been drilling down on the Kerfuffle over "Morning Joe" and sidekick house-calling on Sir...

Not privy to what actually went on down in the swamps of Mar-a-lago, nor the context of whose idea it was, the goal, the "fear" or "service" or $$ - (or stay out of jail cards?) justifying the effort, etc. etc....

Right now there are many big discussions - reactions, & reflections - about #MSNBC, &/or its management or individual journalist/reporters - and same for CNN, NBC, Fox, et al - plus the nonstop #disinformation from the bubbles of #Truth #X , and the sacred podcasts of #doublespeak spew from the Ministry of " #Truth ". Plus occasional #BrainSpur - induced #WordSalad" proclamations.

And of course - widening the lens - "the press" writ large is now anticipating the incoming dynasty of Lord #TrumpVirus and his Senators of #insanity and #nihilism, our new arbiters of #reality as sold on their own media platforms in #GQP world &or #Muskville

‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Hit Back at Critics After Jon Stewart Mocks Them on ‘Daily Show’

So I'll let Jon Stewart tie it all up.
I ended up following the wormhole of #media bias and #corporate #propaganda, etc... and ended "here".
With some context and a video, along with a much-needed smile. Enjoy!

#ContextAndPerspective

'Morning Joe' Hosts Hit Back at Critics After Jon Stewart Mocks Them on 'Daily Show'

Fallout continues after Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with Donald Trump over the weekend.

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch
brainwavelost

I can't believe all that it is written in that article, but I will need to think about some of it and will try to find some evidence for those claims:

One of the primary faults in the way our societies function is that the systems in place have all been designed to operate under the assumption that the essential cogs behave both morally and ethically. This is true for both the micro and macro levels, and is a consequence of the general illusion—or self-deluded wishful thinking—that we all live in a relatively ‘high trust’ society.

When it comes to analyzing the actions of government, political, and bureaucratic figures, one must always prudently start from the position that they are acting in an unethical, conspiratorial way against the best interests of the populace. It is a kind of tautology: corporate and governmental figures are corrupt because their goals and objectives conflict with those of the people, forcing them to pursue those goals in underhanded fashion; and they invariably counterpose the people in such a way because they are corrupt.

We see time and time again a kind of ‘theater’ when corporate or governmental officials are called to task. Whether it’s a Congressional grilling of Dr. Fauci, where soft balls are pitched and his answers taken to record at face value, or like recently, Visa and Mastercard execs being raked by a ‘fiery’ Josh Hawley:

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#moral #trust #ethics #illusion, #narratives and #theater #government #corporate #officials

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One of the primary faults in the way our societies function is that the systems in place have all been designed to operate under the assumption that the essential cogs behave both morally and ethically.

sol_o_o_l@diaspora.psyco.fr
sol_o_o_l

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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The United States of Go Figure - Kunstler

“Forced obedience to obvious lies is the essence of totalitarianism. It’s the ultimate flex for psychopaths.” — Dr. Toby Rogers

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vertruc@diaspora-fr.org
vertruc

MIRLO 🐦 une alternative à Bandcamp libre et collective 🎶

Mirlo: a free and collective alternative to Bandcamp

https://mirlo.space/

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🇫🇷 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 !
⏩ Partagez ce post, faites un tour sur leur site et sur leur kickstarter, et voyez par vous-même ;)
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 !
⏩ Share this post, have a look around on their website and kickstarter page, and see for yourself ;)
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

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_United_States#State_and_local_government_spending

Government spending in the United States - Wikipedia

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

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

UK Government spending - real and as % of GDP - Economics Help

Data and charts to show trends in government spending - real spending, as a % of GDP and how government spending is distributed throughout different areas of public spending. (health/education,benefits/pensions)

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mc@iviv.hu
mc

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

How to block the ultrasonic signals you didn't know were tracking you

An emerging tracking technique uses inaudible sounds to communicate with apps on your phone and track you. Here's how to stop it.

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mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

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.

#Petition:

https://weownit.org.uk/blog/times-nearly-thames-water so-lets-bring-it-public-ownership-permanently

#water #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism #London #Corporate #Corruption

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

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%."...

Analysis Shows How Corporate Profits Drive Inflation—Even as Business Costs Go Down

"It's one thing for corporations to pass reasonable increased costs to consumers," said one analyst. "It's another for them to line their coffers by exploiting Americans who are just trying to get by."

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

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."...

Study Shows Corporate Profiteering 'Amplified' Global Inflation

"Many large firms, beyond just the commodities sector, are using their power to preserve their profit margins," said the co-author of a new report.

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