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Moyers: "[2016] Bill Clinton's legacy in empowering the consolidation of corporate media is right up there with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).. [T]he Telecommunications Act of 1996.. signed into law on February 8, 1996, was 'essentially bought and paid for by corporate media lobbies,' as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) described it, and radically 'opened the floodgates on mergers.'"

BHJ: "In 1983, the US media was controlled by 50 companies.. by 2020 the number shrank to six... Not only are there six conglomerates alone that mainly own the media, but these six are so interconnected that they are practically one."

Robert Reich: "[9/24] The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?"

Mortgage demand, their use can cause house price increases, which in turn raise demand for mortgages more, raising house prices again, and on and on.. A snowball effect. But if you rewind it all back, why did people start to need bigger mortgages to begin with? The culprit: rising inequality. The snowball naturally will make that worse too, only the top 1% will have the money to lend to struggling home owners, and middle class' monthly payments will generate a massive passive income for the rich which they can use to buy even more assets.

Why isn't Canadian healthcare financing become problematic when their conservatives are in power? Well because they haven't done a half assed job like the US, their system has proper funding from get-go.

Trust the corporatist guy (former chairman of Blackrock DE) to do the right thing

"@signalapp@mastodon.world

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe."

#Ukraine 09/27 - 10/05

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"Bush was pivoting to a War on Drugs as a new frontier for defense contracts".. Them defense contracts

Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism: "Noriega rose through the ranks of the National Guard of Panama, a force created during the Cold War along the lines of the Somozas’ militia in Nicaragua. While being paid by the U.S. government to spy on leftist movements in Panama in the early 1960s, he enrolled at the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas training center, then based in the Canal Zone. (Noriega’s fellow alumni included the future heads of death squads and secret police across Latin America.) In 1970, Noriega was made Panama’s chief of military intelligence. A year after, he was formally put on the payroll of the CIA..

In January 1989, a former director of the CIA, George Herbert Walker Bush, became president of the United States. Noriega, who had started working with Bush in 1976, must have thought he had won the lottery. But with the Cold War coming to an end, Bush was pivoting to a War on Drugs as a new frontier for defense contracts, surveillance, and a pretext for military control. Once in office, Bush turned on his erstwhile employee, calling for Noriega to step down and imposing crippling sanctions on Panama. On December 15, 1989, the Panamanian national assembly named Noriega the country’s 'maximum leader of national liberation' and symbolically declared war on the United States. The next day, a group of U.S. troops got into an argument with PDF soldiers at a roadblock in El Chorrillo. A Marine lieutenant named Robert Paz was shot. He died soon after at Gorgas Hospital in the former Canal Zone. On December 20, citing the Colombian-born U.S. Marine’s death as a justification, the United States invaded Panama for the second time."

The National Interest: "Why Did America Just Send a Dozen Aerial Tankers to Qatar?"

Calm down, the word just means "the leader" in Italian.

#USNavy There is still some concentration around Iran, less than last time I checked, and of course, there is massive focus around Venezuella. What is Il Duce up to?

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