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BudgetDuurzaam@karelbrits Goeie samenvatting van wat er momenteel mis is in de politieke (!) economie. Iedere ‘pro kapitalisme’ kiezer zou dit moeten zien. Maar zelf kan je er ook wat mee: steun kleine (MKB) ondernemingen, zowel door niet te kopen bij #bigTech #bigAgro #bigFood #bigPharma en #bigFinance, als er niet voor te gaan werken.
KevinOnEarthYou won't get any Progress from the current status quo. Ever. Look back & measure it:
#Inequality? Worse than in the 1950s!
Adjusted middle-class #incomes? Flatlining for 20 years+!
Personal #Healthcare costs? Bankrupting individuals & families more than ever.
Political #Corruption? Endemic. They're ALL at it! (To the point now that they can't get to Congress without it!)
#CitizensUnited? Pure #Plutocracy.
#BigOil, #MilitaryIndustrial, #BigFinance, #MSM Oligarchy, etc. etc. etc.
Etc.
#Inequality? Worse than in the 1950s!
Adjusted middle-class #incomes? Flatlining for 20 years+!
Personal #Healthcare costs? Bankrupting individuals & families more than ever.
Political #Corruption? Endemic. They're ALL at it! (To the point now that they can't get to Congress without it!)
#CitizensUnited? Pure #Plutocracy.
#BigOil, #MilitaryIndustrial, #BigFinance, #MSM Oligarchy, etc. etc. etc.
Etc.
@Luuk_Aalders Wat een bak vooroordelen over laagopgeleiden weer. Hou daar toch eens mee op. De ‘overwinning’ van bruinrechts is vooral te danken aan verwende middenklasse die zich vastgedraaid hebben in hun eigen economisch welvaarts paradigma en denken dat vluchtelingen het land uithouden en klimaatmaatregelen ontlopen hen meer welvaart zal bieden en hen in staat zal stellen hun verwoestende leefstijl voort te zetten. (En dat allemaal ten gunste van kredietverstrekkers #bigFinance en #bigSales}
J de Brabander#ClimatePolitics
#COP28 #NowTheyHoldTheGavvel
#BigOil #BigFinance @AlGore @IMF
#ClimateWeekNYC @SimonSteill @EmilyShuckburgh @RoseMutiso @NaomiOreskes
#FossilFuelSubsidies #A12
SHELL IS NOT EVEN #GreenWashing ANYMORE !
"Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al..." (16 min)
by Just Have a Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2ETuroink
Quotes (loosely)
Just Have a Think:
"if we stopped giving that money (subsidies) to the fossil fuel companies, we could cover the ENTIRE COST of suppporting our friends in the GLOBAL SOUTH and have enough left over to COMPLETELY fund the global expansion of RENEWABLES required by 2030 to actally achieve NET ZERO in 2050"
Naomi Oreskes:
"By 2100 economic damage will be so great that it essentially matches global GDP"
the cost of fixing climate change becomes so great that we have no money left for anything else"
Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al...
Erik JonkerAls je ziet hoe #BigTech maar ook #BigFinance in beweging komen op het gebied van digitale identeit en digitale wallets, dan zou je eigenlijk heel erg voor een democratisch gecontroleerde europese digitale identeit en wallet moeten zijn, ipv daar weerstand tegen bieden zoals sommigen doen. #EU #wallet #eIDAS #politiek
https://www.ft.com/content/d6322590-0520-459b-93d8-1387f4c0f147
https://www.ft.com/content/d6322590-0520-459b-93d8-1387f4c0f147
The YT subscription of this #TEDtalk starts with:
"In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and..."
and you may guess what they are: #BigOil and #BigFinance .
While many necessary changes are gathering steam, there's a heavy push to keep making money of destroying civilization. #MAPA #FFF
"What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZC6da4mco
Al Gore (who should have been US president in 2000) (who made a groundbreaking movie on #ClimateChange 'An Inconvenient Truth')
gives a well informed talk about the
* disruptive forces of Big oil and Big Finance
* corruptive effects of #GreenWashing
Be prepared for 25 min rapid data in the English language.
(The transcript is too large to publish here, but is highly recommended)
So, take a cup of coffee or thee, and learn.
What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED
In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and gives his view of how we might actually solve the envir...
Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersInsightful article about the #bankingCollapse.
What seems to be the consensus is (a) mid-sized banks that cater to small-medium sized businesses, and that were (b) #bitcoin friendly, were specifically targetted. Targetted by a congressperson in an open letter, we might add.
The bitcoin side is not covered in this specific article, which takes a somewhat broad historic lens on #bigFinance and the effects of #shortTermism.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/03/29/changing-the-rules-of-the-banking-game/
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴@AlexanderJulius @Bergluftliebe
(6/7)
"...in the #technological, #financial, and #pharmaceutical industries."
Quelle:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922175117
Wie schon Baron #Montesquieu in seinem 8. Buch ausführte:
"The corruption of each government generally begins with that of the principles."
"When..."
Enrique Barcelli@blacklight Agree. And you can say the same of #BigPharma, #BigOil, #BigFinance and #BigDefense too
The #RevolvingDoor