penpencilbrush🇨🇦A very bad idea - privatizing airports
Canadians really need to make a strong blowback on this idea. It is a recipe for disaster.
They may be running it up the flagpole to see how it goes over. It needs a strong response.
No way!
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M.@silentexception who could have thought #privatizing everything is not the best idea
Nonilex#Privatizing #weather agencies has long been an aim of #Republicans. During #Trump’s first presidency, he signed a bill that utilized more private weather data. And #Project2025, a proposed blueprint for Trump’s 2nd presidency that was co-authored by #OMB director #RussVought, calls for #NOAA to be broken up & for the weather service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations.”
#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #climate #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather
#Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from #privatizing #weather forecasts
As #commerce secy, #HowardLutnick oversees the US govt’s vast efforts to monitor & predict the weather.
#law #broligarchy #profiteering #BudgetCuts #MassLayoffs #NWS #NOAA #climate #NaturalDisasters #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #flooding #Texas
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96
Trump aides tied to firms that may benefit from privatized weather forecasts
Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies. In some cases, companies poised to step into the void have ties to those tapped by President Donald Trump to run agencies that collect weather data and publish forecasts. The firm Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ran has an interest in a government contractor that's a satellite company. The Commerce Department says Lutnick has complied with his ethics agreement. Other officials served as lobbyists and consultants for private weather and space companies. Deadly flooding in Texas has drawn a spotlight to staff reductions at the National Weather Service, which provides the public with free weather data.
Kent PitmanThe US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.
«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»
Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.
I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.
A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.
Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.
Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.
It leaves me flabbergasted.
https://www.themarysue.com/utah-releases-first-list-of-books-to-be-banned-statewide/
#FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech
john verdonPatients are paying for surgeries covered by the province
@fordnation stop #privatizing #healthcare
https://youtu.be/WNXaVYkl2Kg?si=el1VGyuUkuYd2Dbd via @YouTube
Patients are paying for surgeries covered by the province
Skip Lacaze@LeftistLawyer #Capitalists make billions off children, education, the elderly, and the disabled. They are trying to make even more by #privatizing all their services and then cutting their expenditures while taking an even larger share of public funds.
Kevin Karhan 
LilMikeSFJust shy of 100 yr anniversary, troubled #logistics network firm #Yellow #trucking declares #Chapter11 #bankruptcy and to sell assets, end all operations, #layoff 30k employees and blames #InternationalBrotherhood of #Teamsters instead of own #mismanagement. Corporation has teetered at least since 2009, taking $700 million in #COVID #GovtAid during pandemic, socializing its failures while #privatizing profits.
@housepanther @DamienMarieAtHope
The reason why #rent hasn't skyrocketed in my hometown compared to the average is because instead of "just #privatizing" by selling off public-owned assets like city-built #housing for cheap to #HedgeFunds and #BigRealEstate corporations, the city spun off said holdings into a #cooperative that has non-profit status, at least reducing any gentrification against seniors and low-income households.
https://www.leverkusen.de/verzeichnisse/adressverzeichnis/Gemeinnuetziger_Bauverein_Opladen_eG.php
