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(90) Trump und der Staatsstreich der Konzerne | Kurzgefasst | ARTE - YouTube
no longer 1 person 1 vote
book - John Ralston Saul - der markt frist seine Kinder.
DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  lobby  revolving  door  Washington  BarackObama  transparency  vested  interest  democracy  No  Representation  kleptocracy  greed  self-regulation  bailout  book  PAC  SuperPAC  poverty  inequality  social  mobility  American  Dream  Brexit  Macron  France  Germany  tax  evasion  avoidance  1%  Rentier  working  poor  trap  Austerity  GFC  oligarchy  aristocracy  Elite  taxation  short-termism 
9 days ago by asterisk2a
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows – Rolling Stone
With its silly swipes at AOC, the American political establishment is once again revealing its blindness to its own unpopularity [...] The mortification on the Republican side has come more from media figures than actual elected officials. Still, there are plenty of people like Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) doing things like denouncing “this girl, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whatever she is” for preaching “socialism wrapped in ignorance.” A group of GOP House members booed her on the floor, to which she replied, “Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me, fellas.” [...] The latter issue, of course, is the real problem most of Washington has with “AOC”: her self-generated popularity and large social media presence means she doesn’t need to ask anyone’s permission to say anything. [...] She doesn’t have to run things by donors and she doesn’t need the assent of thinkfluencers like Cillizza or Max Boot (who similarly compared her to both Trump and Sarah Palin), because she almost certainly gains popularity every time one of those nitwits takes a swipe at her.
AOC  Alexandria  Ocasio-Cortez  Washington  bubble  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  USA  1% 
26 days ago by asterisk2a
Top US student loans official resigns over 'open hostility' from White House | US news | The Guardian
“You have used the bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America,” Frotman wrote, addressing his letter to Mulvaney. “The damage you have done to the bureau betrays these families and sacrifices the financial futures of millions of Americans in communities across the country.” [...] The student loan office is not alone. Under Mulvaney, the bureau has scaled back its enforcement work and has proposed revising or rescinding all of the rules and regulations it put into place under the Obama administration.
DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  swamp  Brexit  self-regulation  regulation  deregulation  regulators  oversight  corruption  revolving  door 
august 2018 by asterisk2a
(11142) Klimawandel und Sommerhitze: Die Gegner machen mobil | Monitor | Das Erste | WDR - YouTube
Klimakatastrophe  climate  denier  lobby  profit  maximisation  vested  interests  exploitation  capitalism  neoliberalism  neoliberal  neoconservatism  neoconservatives  revolving  door  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  fracking  Gas  coal 
august 2018 by asterisk2a
Revealed: Tory donors who paid £7m to socialise with May | Politics | The Guardian
The party of for by big (financial) business. // The party spent £18.5m on last year’s snap election, when the Conservatives lost their working majority. Labour spent £11m. Sources told the Guardian the Tories were aiming for a 40% annual increase in the party’s budget – money that would be spent on up to 100 local campaign coordinators.
Lobby  revolving  door  UK  Brexit  election  Tories  Conservative  Party  nasty  donations  donors  Theresa  May  hypocrisy  JAM  Lobbying  lobbyist 
july 2018 by asterisk2a
(5695) Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums? - YouTube
Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums? // see most egregious newest example: Amazon HQ2
subsidies  subsidizing  Amazon  tax  evasion  avoidance  1%  Capital  Capitalism  neoliberal  neoliberalism  underinvestment  UK  USA  infrastructure  economic  history  corruption  bribery  lobby  revolving  door  profit  maximisation  corporatism  Corporate  shareholder  CEO  pay  dividend 
february 2018 by asterisk2a
Donald Trump's success reveals a frightening weakness in American democracy - YouTube
liquid times by Zygmunt, globalization - accelerated times, inequality, 1%, poverty trap, weak institutions being fleeced (latest and biggest - GFC, one rule for the one TBTF and other for the many, many have to suffer what they must (varoufakis)), same w broken promise of globalisation benefits everyone, same w failed military interventions ... STRUCTURAL REASONS - DEMOCRACY ELECTED REPRESENTATION does no more exist! its lobbied $$$ vested interest pork barrels corruption abuse get rich quick schemes. Longing for past greatness eg case Brexit. //&! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YU9djt_CQM - Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump &! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Skala_(Autorit%C3%A4re_Pers%C3%B6nlichkeit) &! Democratic Backsliding (salami tactic) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF-Tdsvk0tI - The decline of American democracy won't be televised
DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  Brexit  UKIP  Authoritarianism  GOP  LGBT  Transgender  gay  marriage  immigration  Culture  Identity  politics  inequality  unknown  foreign  different  AfD  uncertainty  No  Representation  book  globalisation  Super  Rich  1%  tax  evasion  avoidance  globalization  Institutions  revolving  door  lobby  vested  interest  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  Technocracy  Monopoly  poverty  trap  working  poor  post-racial  America  UK  Germany  American  Dream  democracy  history  neoliberal  neoliberalism  economic  Austerity  GFC  trust  trustagent  Sociology  Psychology  Philosophy  gini  Coefficient  corruption  White-collar  crime  war  on  drugs  Military–industrial  Privatisation  profit  maximisation  food–industrial  big  Pharma  TBTF  bailout  recovery  China  Russia 
january 2018 by asterisk2a
Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ | Film | The Guardian
(washington, westminster, berlin aka hauptstadt) bubble = “the Blob”, can be interpreted as lazy fat slow, nasty, disgusting, unhealthy, // reaktionary hyperventilating
BarackObama  Journalism  journalismus  Westminister  Whitehall  Washington  revolving  door  PR  Michael  Wolff  book  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  Brexit  No  Representation  24/7  bubble 
january 2018 by asterisk2a
Tory members 'a breed apart' from other main parties, study finds | Politics | The Guardian
Poll shows Conservative grassroots more supportive of the death penalty, obedience to authority and a hard Brexit &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YU9djt_CQM - Authoritarianism: The political science that explains Trump & Trump Brexit Putin AfD = Tyrant - https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/1814546858557902/ //// 30 years thrid way technocracy produced autocracy plutocracy pure unashamedly in your face.
DonaldTrump  Brexit  Donald  Trump  authoritarianism  Psychology  Sociology  Political  Science  Tories  Conservative  Party  nasty  alt-right  right-wing  far-right  neoNazi  Nazi  neo-Nazi  Germany  AfD  immigration  tyrant  history  autocracy  technocracy  technocrat  neoliberal  neoliberalism  globalisation  globalization  Austerity  economic  GFC  recovery  working  poor  Precariat  demagogue  No  Representation  plutocracy  oligarchy  Super  Rich  1%  democracy  lobby  revolving  door 
january 2018 by asterisk2a
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity - The Washington Post
The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.
DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  public  health  Religion  abortion  birthcontrol  contraception  HIV  AIDS  war  on  drugs  CDC  USA  GOP  Republicans  Republican  BAME  post-racial  inequality  discrimination  big  pharma  pharmaceutical  post-antibiotic  antibiotic  antibiotics  lobby  revolving  door  No  Representation  LGBT  Transgender  minority  Opioid  abuse  addiction 
december 2017 by asterisk2a
Globalisation: time to look at the past to plot the future | Joseph Stiglitz | Business | The Guardian
all along the line - save capitalism. or roubini globalisation dented but not doomes. /// vs little bit of socialism for the many not the few (bank and corp bailouts).
globalisation  globalization  Socialism  neoliberal  neoliberalism  Capitalism  GFC  recovery  economic  history  Brexit  AfD  Agenda2010  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  Austerity  bailout  short-term  shorttermism  profit  maximisation  pollution  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  lobby  revolving  door  vested  interest  Trickle-down  taxation  tax  evasion  avoidance  Super  Rich  1%  Oligarchy  Plutocracy  Monopoly  anti-competitive  Union  workers  trade  Precariat  working  poor  trap  poverty  social  income  mobility  downward  welfare  state  safety  net  gini  Coefficient  inequality  meritocracy  meritocratic  American  Dream  Class  No  Representation  exploitation  secular  stagnation  ZIRP  NIRP  QE  wage  growth  GDP 
december 2017 by asterisk2a
Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims | Science | The Guardian
http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/ernaehrung/zuckerlobby-und-wissenschaft-die-bittere-geschichte-von-projekt-259-a-1179551.html // See the Vegan Cardiologist Kim Williams arguing that it is fats meat beef and processed starches food sugar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4TMsRKOe8Q // and the problem w evidence-based medicine and statistics and research manipulation // and see the new guidelines when to prescribe statins (now earlier) re chronic sick population v side effects v benefits // The problem could be much bigger than the two ISRF studies the researchers have scrutinised. The researchers conclude that the debates we now have on sugar’s effects on our health are potentially rooted in six decades of the sugar industry’s manipulation of scientific evidence.
CVD  Cancer  obesity  diabetes  overweight  Sugar  Tax  taxation  meat  public  health  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  conflict  microbiome  Stroke  Statins  Statin  S.A.D.  processed  food  food–industrial  diet  lifestyle  sedentary  inactive  WHO  prevention  whole-food  plant-based  Fat  Salt  book  NHS  sickcare  healthcare  demand  chronic  sick  population  GP 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
Cancer tests in supermarket car parks to be launched by NHS | The Independent
- see the caveat of boosing your survival, measured by 5 years only from diagnoses, to diagnose earlier ... patient will still die from mostly majority of lung cancers anyway after the 5 year mark. but statistically counted as survivor. it is farcical. unethical moral especially considering anyways deadly diseases. does not help mental and well being. especially normal folk don't understand medical statistics cancer and evidence-based medicine. and ct scan(s) are NOT harmless, duh. Sure you identified a risk group smokers and ex smokers. but you don't do active screening for tgct for undescended testicle patients. see also the debate and conclusive evidence about breast cancer self-examination and mammography (nil benefit for the patient, over treatment over mis diagnoses, unneccesary interventions). &! https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4968781/early-cancer-detection-survival-rate/
NHS  prevention  public  health  screening  evidence-based  medicine  Cancer  crisis  big  pharma  pharmaceutical  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  conflict  medical  research  profit  maximisation 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
Finance trumps patients at every level – UK healthcare needs an inquiry | Aseem Malhotra | Healthcare Professionals Network | The Guardian
tl;dr Diet & Lifestyle changes of the nation in the short-, medium- and long-term term can help (substantially) save the NHS. // A full public inquiry on the scale of Chilcot into the Iraq war may ultimately be required to overhaul a system where at every level financial interest continues to trump what’s best for patients – not only to improve the quality of care, but to restore trust in medical research. Until then, NHS England, the BMA and the Department of Health must make it a national priority to emphasise to patients that less medicine and healthier lifestyles are the most important solutions to sustaining the NHS. // statistics use in medical research and patient selection and reporting issue. absolute risk v % of all patients. // Such statistical and health illiteracy, far from being the exception, is actually the norm. The majority of healthcare professionals seem unable to understand medical literature. One study revealed 70% of those on a training programme failed a simple test on their understanding of evidence-based medicine.
NHS  crisis  big  pharma  BMA  pharmaceutical  lobby  vested  interest  profit  maximisation  rationing  treatment  delay  waiting  times  GP  A&E  prevention  public  health  sickcare  healthcare  demand  chronic  sick  population  demographic  bubble  obesity  diabetes  economic  damage  OECD  S.A.D.  diet  western  lifestyle  sedentary  inactive  revolving  door  conflict  research  Statins  Statin  CVD  Cancer  overweight  disabled  medical  statistics  risk  patient  safety  literacy 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
More than 24,000 Scots hospitalised because of drinking
50p minimum price per one unit of alcohol, to come into effect March 2018, after years of legal fight against the alc lobby vested interest. (Sugar Tax, ) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-42066394 - Minimum pricing has been broadly welcomed by health bodies and alcohol awareness groups, who say it will target the kind of drinking that leads to the greatest harm. //
People from the most deprived areas are nearly eight times more likely to need help, according to the NHS. There were 36,235 alcohol-related hospital admissions last year - the equivalent of more than 100 a day. They involved 24,060 individual patients - up from the 35,376 admissions involving 23,656 patients the previous year. Alcohol-related admissions had been falling for almost a decade but the latest figures show there were 685.2 hospital admissions per 100,000 people last year - an annual increase of almost 2%. //&! http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/drink-related-hospital-stays-on-the-rise-1-4619230
NHS  Scotland  Alcohol  minimum  pricing  alcoholism  deprivation  addiction  coping  mechanism  maladaptive  Austerity  poverty  trap  Precariat  binge  drinking  Society  class  Gesellschaft  Sociology  working  poor  Council  childhood  care  Policy  public  health  prevention  sickcare  demand  chronic  sick  population  mental  psychology  psychiatry  depression  aus­sichts­los  hoffnungslos  hopelessness  hopeless  Aussichtslosigkeit  human  condition  humanity  homeless  homelessness  abuse  substance  Opioid  war  on  drugs  tobacco  food–industrial  complex  Sugar  processed  food  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  profit  maximisation  obesity  liver  overweight 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
(4602) How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture w/ Maryn McKenna - MR Live - 11/15/17 - YouTube
antibiotic  antibiotics  post-antibiotic  food–industrial  aggag  public  health  crisis  agriculture  Superbug  WHO  mcr-1  big  pharma  pharmaceutical  lobby  Revolving  door  Politics  profit  maximisation 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
(4440) Paradise Papers - Zocker, Trickser, Milliardäre - YouTube
ParadisePapers  tax  evasion  avoidance  UK  Germany  Steuerhinterziehung  Steuerbetrug  Steuertricks  taxation  PanamaPapers  lobby  vested  interest  neoliberal  neoliberalism  Capitalism  revolving  door  No  Representation  Politics 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
(4440) Milliarden aus der Staatskasse: Die Steuerräuber | Panorama | NDR - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEUok276phM - ARD: Die Story im Ersten - Milliarden für Millionäre 15.02.2016 &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjfoNLaE1Hc - Steuern sparen wie Großkonzerne - ein Experiment | 45 Min | NDR
ParadisePapers  PanamaPapers  Cum-Ex  tax  evasion  avoidance  White-collar  crime  UK  Germany  European  Union  lobby  revolving  door  neoliberal  capitalism  neoliberalism  Steuerbetrug  Steuerhinterziehung  Steuertricks  Steuer 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
Why George Orwell is returning to the BBC - BBC News
Schirrmacher - fukuyama - putins Putins Waidal-Rede https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCZBL5T-tYU&t=1186s - capitalismus exploited people like any other regiems. and enriched the few. same w technochracy
Orwell  Orwellian  Nationalism  far-right  right-wing  alt-right  Fascism  Faschịsmus  Brexit  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  post-truth  Austerity  Capitalism  neoliberalism  GFC  bank  bailout  Consumerism  Consumer  Materialism  Chomsky  Anarchism  book  Anarchismus  economic  history  Xenophobia  Homophobia  refugee  war  Super  Rich  democracy  1%  Oligarchy  Plutocracy  BBC  Journalism  Journalismus  investigative  totalitarianism  Facebook  filter  bubble  Corporate  corporatism  Cult  Start-up  Technology  Ego  totalitarian  Society  Gesellschaft  Zivilgesellschaft  Zivilcourage  PEGIDA  AfD  btw17  Philosophy  Sociology  socialism  Soziale  Marktwirtschaft  UK  USA  Germany  technocracy  lobby  revolving  door  vested  interest  globalisation  globalization  workers  trade  union  rights  exploitation  Platform  tax  evasion  avoidance  offshore  transparency  No  Representation  Marx  Precariat  working  poor  poverty  trap 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
(4387) How the opioid crisis decimated the American workforce - YouTube
direct link between out of work (injury) and opioid addiction and dropping out of workforce. // &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKXWelf-ZvA - Neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart: People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance - needle exchange and free drug purity checks is a step to reducing overdose deaths and first foot in door for rehab (liberal) //&! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNj89ohoYQ0 - American Epidemic: The Nation's Struggle With Opioid Addiction WSJ &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfe8pol6OG4 - The Opioid Effect: An Ohio Family Rebuilds After Addiction VICE //&! AMERICA ADDICTED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67IDMY2tn8 - A community overwhelmed by opioids &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGITecuBEHQ - Who Profits from the Opioid Crisis? Meet the Secretive Sackler Family Making Billions from OxyContin - watering down regulation and oversight. &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPk6VinYG-k - How Big Pharma & Cartels Got America Addicted to Heroin with Jason Smith &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnviuDOvhlg - US Addiction Epidemic Fuelled By Pharma Corporations (2015) "pill mill" &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJEY1CTgKg - Why Portsmouth, Ohio Became The Epicentre of America's Opioid Crisis &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lof9_iPAWAY - Opioid Crisis in Maine &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQtCTxO2hTM - Narcan On The Rise &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNWU6XSjb-c - Heroin's Children: Inside the US opioid crisis - Fault Lines
addiction  coping  chronic  stress  abuse  opioid  dopamine  crisis  epidemic  narcotics  war  on  drugs  USA  painkillers  economic  damage  workforce  Precariat  working  poor  structural  unemployment  food  S.A.D.  western  diet  lifestyle  insecurity  trap  poverty  inequality  American  Dream  secular  stagnation  wage  income  growth  Productivity  output  gap  GFC  history  Super  Rich  1%  trickle-down  Sociology  socioeconomic  Society  Gesellschaft  Xanax  fentanyl  alcohol  heroin  overdose  Consumerism  mental  health  well-being  wellbeing  Capitalism  Consumer  Selbstdarstellung  consumption  Austerity  welfare  state  neoliberalism  OxyContin  lobby  pharma  pharmaceutical  BigPharma  revolving  door  vested  interest  Regulation  regulators  self-regulation  substance 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
The biggest names in tax havens are PWC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/paradisepapers &! https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/paradise-papers &! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41877932 &! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41877924 - Paradise Papers: Are we taming offshore finance? //&! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41876942 - Paradise Papers: Tax haven secrets of ultra-rich exposed &! https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/this-is-the-leak-e866529/ &! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/paradise-papers-leak-reveals-secrets-of-world-elites-hidden-wealth &! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/what-are-the-paradise-papers-and-what-do-they-tell-us &! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/why-shining-light-world-tax-havens-again-paradise-papers
PanamaPapers  ParadisePapers  tax  evasion  avoidance  taxation  offshore  loophole  UK  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  HMRC  haven  oligarchy  Super  Rich  1%  Plutocracy  Aristocracy  Elite  inequality  Austerity  economic  history  neoliberalism  Capitalism  Exploitation  globalisation  globalization 
november 2017 by asterisk2a
How big pharma's money – and its politicians – feed the US opioid crisis | US news | The Guardian
pharma  pharmaceutical  big  lobby  revolving  door  war  on  drugs 
october 2017 by asterisk2a
(3910) Noam Chomsky (2017) "The History of Neo-Liberalism" [NEW] - YouTube
naomi klein shock doctrine // 'free markets engine of growth' see mays defense of capitalism.
Chomsky  neoliberalism  neoliberal  Capitalism  Individualism  Consumerism  Centrist  economic  history  IMF  World  Bank  Chicago  School  Milton  Friedman  Shock  Doctrine  Chile  book  Anarchism  Privatisation  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  workers  trade  worker  union  rights  GFC  bailout  double  standard  tax  evasion  avoidance  lobby  subsidies  subsidizing  revolving  door 
october 2017 by asterisk2a
Catalonia: Spain issues deadline to separatists - BBC News
who blinks first. high noon pistol fight. &! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41582469 - Catalonia: Spain takes step towards direct rule //&! alt view to 'counter revolution' movement left populist outward looking welcoming immigrants welcome nationalism: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/katalonien-brexit-trump-geistige-kleinstaaterei-a-1171814.html https://twitter.com/henrikmllr/status/917289882061598726 - neonationalism (global village no accountability) neoliberal kapitalism teilte die leute auf gegen sich auf. nicht vereint. siehe fb there is no global village connection to all (fb zuck dream PR talk), alles kleine identitaeten und grueppchen. isoliert. eigener blase. schaun nicht ausm fenster, wie mittlerweile in der realitaet. wer kennt schon alles seine nachbarn im etagen house wie sein bruder oder schwester? Scotland and Catalonia indy are majority led by left socialist populous. Brexit is led by far-right conservative neoliberalism on steroids populous.
Catalonia  Spain  Gesellschaft  Society  neoliberalism  Capitalism  Individualism  Consumerism  Consumer  Selbstdarstellung  Facebook  Twitter  mental  health  globalisation  bank  bailout  double  standard  indyref  indyref2  Scotland  Brexit  immigration  Identity  Culture  Politics  LGBT  far-right  right-wing  alt-right  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  left-wing  Jeremy  Corbyn  SPD  btw17  GE2017  workers  union  rights  trade  Community  segregation  GFC  Austerity  vulnerable  working  poor  Precariat  No  Representation  poverty  trap  Deprivation  income  inequality  Super  Rich  1%  Oligarchy  revolving  door  Corruption  social  mobility  redistribution  welfare  state  Privatisation  profit  maximisation  ZIRP  NIRP  QE  IMF  democracy 
october 2017 by asterisk2a
Monarch: MP urges change in law to protect pension schemes | Business | The Guardian
yet another case of not paying into the pension pot! its systemic! reports every now and then come up that billions underfunded pension schemes
pension  retirement  bailout  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  fiduciary  responsibility  accountability  Capitalism  tax  evasion  avoidance  neoliberalism  Regulation  self-regulation  regulators  oversight  lobby  revolving  door  babyboomers 
october 2017 by asterisk2a
Should the Government Bring Back Trust-Busting? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
A de-concentration of economic power would lift up the middle class. Antitrust law was formerly used to reduce inequality, fight corruption and create a politically stable social contract all at once. [...] “Monopoly constitutes the death of capitalism and the genesis of authoritarian government.”
anti-trust  trust-busting  monopoly  oligarchy  oligopol  oligopoly  Super  Rich  bank  bailout  TBTF  lobby  self-regulation  Regulation  regulators  revolving  door  vested  interest  groups  Workers  Rights  Union  Trade  globalisation  globalization  Exploitation  accountability  tax  evasion  avoidance  middle  class  Amazon  Google  Microsoft  Capitalism  neoliberal  neoliberalism  Facebook 
september 2017 by asterisk2a
Millennials spend three times more of income on housing than grandparents | Society | The Guardian
Millennials are spending three times more of their income on housing than their grandparents yet are often living in worse accommodation, says a study launched by former Conservative minister David Willetts that warns of a “housing catastrophe”. [....] They are four times as likely to rent privately than two generations ago, a sector which has the worst record for housing quality, the report claims.
Millennials  UK  housing  crisis  affordable  social  Generation  Rent  Generationengerechtigkeit  babyboomers  baby  boomers  disposable  discretionary  income  Spending  Generationy  GenY  oligopol  oligopoly  Corruption  lobby  vested  interest  bubble  underinvestment  Austerity  debt  revolving  door  asset  distortion  London  Productivity  output  gap  skills  student  loan  GFC  mortgage  risk  recovery  secular  stagnation  lost  lostdecade  decade  history  Margaret  Thatcher 
september 2017 by asterisk2a
Obama Goes Full Clinton Foundation With Series Of $400,000 Wall Street Speeches | Zero Hedge
BarackObama  Barack  Obama  revolving  door  lobby  corruption  Bernie  Sanders  BernieSanders  2020  credibility  HRC  Hillary  Clinton  HillaryClinton  Democrats  presidential  election  2016  vested  interest  WallStreet 
september 2017 by asterisk2a
Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW unter Kartellverdacht: Einmal Schrottpresse - SPIEGEL ONLINE
das Wort der Industrie kein Verlass ist. [...] Problem für die Branche, von der in Deutschland fast jeder siebte Arbeitsplatz abhängt. //&! http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/volkswagen-audi-porsche-bmw-und-daimler-unter-kartellverdacht-a-1159052.html - Die deutsche Autoindustrie hat sich seit den Neunzigerjahren in geheimen Arbeitskreisen über die Technik, Kosten, Zulieferer und sogar über die Abgasreinigung ihrer Dieselfahrzeuge abgesprochen. Das belegt eine Art Selbstanzeige, die der VW-Konzern nach Informationen des SPIEGEL bei den Wettbewerbsbehörden eingereicht hat. Es könnte einer der größten Kartellfälle der deutschen Wirtschaftsgeschichte werden. &! http://www.politico.eu/article/daimler-volkswagen-bmw-porsche-audi-siemens-the-dishonest-germans/
Abgasskandal  VW  BMW  Audi  Mercedes  Diesel  CO2  carbonfootprint  carbonemission  European  Union  cartel  collusion  bribery  lobby  revolving  door  neoliberal  neoliberalism  capitalism  profit  maximisation  climate  change  global  warming  climatechange  globalwarming  public  health  air  noise  pollution  Trust  governance  corporate  welfare  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  science  big  pharma  tobacco  pharmaceutical  vested  interest  Military–industrial  food–industrial  conglomerate  tax  evasion  avoidance  Glaubwürdigkeit  Journalism  journalismus  Absprache  Bundeskartellamt  Diesel-Gate  Abgas-Affäre  Porsche  Daimler  Dieselskandal 
july 2017 by asterisk2a
Tax evaders exposed: why the super-rich are even richer than we thought | Inequality | The Guardian
The higher one moves up the wealth distribution, the higher the probability ​​of hiding​ assets [...] More broadly, the key to successfully fighting tax evasion is to change the incentives for the providers of wealth concealment services. Over the last few years, a number of banks have pleaded guilty in the US to criminal conspiracies to defraud the Internal Revenue Service – yet they were able to keep their banking licences, and the fines they had to pay paled in comparison to their profits. A more ambitious approach would put criminal organisations out of business. If tax evasion ceases to pay, it will disappear.
UK  tax  evasion  avoidance  taxation  corporate  welfare  asset  capital  Thomas  Piketty  lobby  Delaware  USA  Luxembourg  Ireland  offshore  banking  money  laundering  Super  Rich  1%  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  revolving  door  KPMG  PanamaPapers  Switzerland  moral  ethics  crime  White-collar  HMRC  Austerity  gini  coefficient  inequality  social  mobility  income  poverty  trap  state  Meritocracy  Meritocratic 
june 2017 by asterisk2a
(1487) Shane Smith Investigates The True Cost of Climate Denial (VICE on HBO: Season 5, Episode 1) - YouTube
same tactics in tobacco, meat, climate = seeding doubt & creating a debate about scientific consensus. "doc merchants of doubt" // climate change cost will be astronomical! // public attitude //
climatechange  globalwarming  climate  change  global  warming  FEMA  economic  damage  denial  science  doubt  PR  language  communication  public  health  economics  lobby  lobbying  revolving  door  Career  Politicians  Tobacco  Debate  big  pharma  pharmaceutical  medical–industrial  agriculture  industry  cost  fossil  fuel  shareholder  fiduciary  responsibility  profit  maximisation  drought  flood  flash  flooding  national  security  vested  interest 
june 2017 by asterisk2a
Netflix is stepping back from the fight for net neutrality - CNET
"We're big enough to get the deals we want," - winner takes all capitalism
netneutrality  net  neutrality  Netflix  Google  Start-up  barrierofentry  zerorating  anti-competititve  USA  UK  monopoly  oligopol  oligopoly  Facebook  Snapchat  capitalism  profit  maximisation  lobby  revolving  door  regulation  self-regulation  regulators  deregulation  neoliberalism  exploitation  competition  consumer  protection 
june 2017 by asterisk2a
Why don't we elect MPs by proportional representation? - BBC News
FPTP is no more fit for purpose in a diverse country like UK! two-party system is out-dated /// "Millions of voters feel they are unrepresented in parliament - whether it is because they live in one of hundreds of 'safe seats' across the country, or because they feel forced to 'hold their nose' and opt for a 'lesser evil' rather than the party they truly support." // rule by majority is not democratic! especially in environment where corporate lobby w vested interest can water down anything at will! see sugar tax, climate change, air pollution etc. // and not to forget the right win media lobby landscape - owning 70% of newspapers.
GE2017  FPTP  electoral  reform  UK  No  Representation  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  Capitalism  media  landscape  Generationengerechtigkeit  sustainability 
may 2017 by asterisk2a
Internationaler Währungsfonds: IWF fordert höhere Vermögensabgaben in Deutschland - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Überraschende Wahlkampfhilfe für SPD-Kanzlerkandidat Schulz: Der IWF will von Deutschland laut einem Zeitungsbericht höhere Steuern auf Eigentum fordern. Untere Einkommen würden dagegen zu stark belastet. // System is Rigged in UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jujJ-QoBiFY
IMF  GE2017  Super  Rich  1%  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  lobby  revolving  door  Germany  UK  USA  inequality  social  mobility  income  gini  Coefficient  tax  evasion  avoidance  Capital  Picketty  Kapital  no  representation  Brexit  GFC  bank  bailout  recovery  trickle-down 
may 2017 by asterisk2a
How Donald Trump Could Build an Autocracy in the U.S. - The Atlantic
https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/how-to-build-an-autocracy-david-frum-the-atlantic-march-2017 &! http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/gerechtigkeit-in-deutschland-der-stolz-ist-weg-a-1146671.html - Gerechtigkeit in Deutschland "Der Stolz ist weg" &! New study shows that the greater the societal inequality and instability, the more the groups on top of society tend to support a hierarchy between groups, protecting their own privileged status. (pnas.org) - https://redd.it/6a4agb
DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  authoritarian  authoritarianism  Autocracy  Populism  demagogue  inequality  USA  UK  Turkey  France  Germany  Super  Rich  1%  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  American  Dream  social  income  mobility  gini  Coefficient  lobby  vested  interest  revolving  door  structural  unemployment  long-term  underemployed  squeezed  Middle  Class  Abstiegsangst  Armutsbedroht  Angst  BarackObama  GFC  recovery  Austerity  Precariat  working  poor  poverty  trap 
may 2017 by asterisk2a
Loads of Britain's 100 richest people have donated more than £19 million to the Tories and nobody's at all surprised - Mirror Online
More than a third of Britain's 100 richest people have donated to the Conservatives since 2001
Tories  Conservative  Party  nasty  David  Cameron  George  Osborne  Theresa  May  lobby  revolving  door  UK  vested  interest 
may 2017 by asterisk2a
Oxfam-Studie: Konzerne in den USA schaffen Billionen Dollar in Steueroasen - SPIEGEL ONLINE
US-Unternehmen schleusen immer größere Summen am Fiskus vorbei. Einer Studie zufolge haben die 50 größten Konzerne im Jahr 2015 1,6 Billionen Dollar in Steueroasen geparkt - und mehr in Lobbyarbeit investiert.
UK  tax  evasion  avoidance  HMRC  crony  neoliberal  neoliberalism  capitalism  Lobby  WallStreet  revolving  door 
april 2017 by asterisk2a
The Dark Side of Fast Food: Why Does It Make You Sick / Fat / Tired / Taste So Good (2001) - YouTube
manufactured industrial commodity / Eric Schlosser // food-industrial complex is focused on profit and margin. not sustainability. public health. individual health. climate change // fast food is americas highest spending item! // start w 1970's ... 80s in UK!
Processed  Food  Food–industrial  complex  Lobby  public  health  Standard  American  Diet  western  Urbanisation  USA  chronic  sick  population  Cowspiracy  climatechange  globalwarming  climate  change  global  warming  Fast  McDonalds  sustainability  pollution  obesity  overweight  CVD  Diabetes  care  demands  Consumerism  Consumer  Pop  Culture  Kultur  Advertising  PR  NHS  taxation  premature  death  Cancer  antibiotic  antibiotics  antitrust  Katel  poisoning  Cartel  GOP  Republicans  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  E.coli  revolving  door  Oligopoly  Oligopol  Duopoly 
april 2017 by asterisk2a
Labour to oppose 'Henry VIII powers' being used to rewrite EU laws | Politics | The Guardian
[ no moderation, moderation is gone. Global Britain is here. 'indyref2 wil happen one way or another. no opposition and no say will infuriate Scots even more eventually ] It is expected that this will involve extensive use of “Henry VIII powers” – laws allowing ministers to change primary legislation (government bills) using secondary legislation (orders that go through parliament with little or no scrutiny). [...] Corbyn said Labour would oppose handing ministers such extensive powers when the House of Commons votes on the great repeal bill. [ less accountability, transparency, democracy, representation ... more technical! technocracy! that was voted actually against as it is practiced in EU ... the irony ] //&! The Observer view on triggering article 50. As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short supply - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/26/observer-editorial-triggering-of-article-50-jeopardises-60-years-of-unparalleled-peace
Brexit  Theresa  May  far-right  alt-right  right-wing  nasty  party  Conservative  Tories  House  of  Commons  Opposition  Labour  Jeremy  Corbyn  JAM  neoliberalism  democracy  No  Representation  workers  trade  Union  rights  Whitehall  Westminster  Parliament  lobby  revolving  door  interest  groups  UK  FPP  Populism  Nationalism  DailyMail  Daily  Mail  Oligarchy  Plutocracy  Super  Rich  Austerity  NHS  1%  10%  Privatisation  Prison  Police  Surveillance-Industrial  complex  Military–industrial  crony  capitalism  tax  evasion  avoidance  HMRC  corporatism  technocrat  technocracy  accountability  debate  Transparency  Article50  Article  50 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
George Osborne is a failure of a politician who is laughing in our faces | Owen Jones talks... - YouTube
that Theresa May let's this slide, is telltale sign! Not even the rumor of May asking him to resign. // Terror Attack aside. If in the next week or so there isn't even a rumour Maybot asking George to resign as MP, = telltale. "JAM" = just PR.
Westminster  Whitehall  Austerity  George  Osborne  Tories  nasty  party  Conservative  Theresa  May  revolving  door  lobby  No  Representation  Expense  Scandal  neoliberalism  crony  Capitalism  welfare  state  BlackRock  tax  evasion  avoidance  neoliberal  lost  generation  Brexit  David  Cameron  Rupert  Murdoch  backbench  gini  Coefficient  social  mobility  inequality  poverty  trap  UK  rigged  JAM 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
Trump Care - Your Cancer, Your Problem: Russell Brand The Trews (E415) - YouTube
Ryan talks about they want hospitals and insurerer to compete against each other. but the McCarran–Ferguson Act 1945 prevents that. Hypocrisy!
ACA  Paul  Ryan  Republicans  GOP  Obamacare  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  AHCA  USA  insurance  cartel  medical–industrial  complex  bribery  Preisabsprache  corruption  crony  neoliberal  capitalism  neoliberalism  oligopol  oligopoly  lobby  revolving  door 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
USA: 14 Millionen Menschen droht Verlust der Krankenversicherung - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Die geplante Gesundheitsreform der Republikaner würde schon 2018 rund 14 Millionen US-Bürgern die Krankenversicherung kosten. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt das unabhängige Budgetbüro des Kongresses. // &! McCarran–Ferguson Act 1945 will not be repealed. //&! HBO This week Tonight about AHCA - https://www.facebook.com/HBO/videos/1152263071569367/ &! CBO estimate 24m will lose out - https://t.co/gfLoQH78mo &! http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/obamacare-uninsured-white-house-236019
ACA  ObamaCare  DonaldTrump  AHCA  Donald  Trump  Republicans  Paul  Ryan  USA  healthcare  health  care  demand  babyboomers  ageing  chronic  sick  population  discretionary  disposable  spending  income  Demographic  bubble  insurance  collusion  cartel  lobby  Preisabsprache  bribery  revolving  door 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
"The Untouchables (2013)" PBS documentary - YouTube
BarackObama  HRC  Hillary  Clinton  bank  bailout  GFC  Democrats  lobby  revolving  door  Washington  Bill  NAFTA  globalisation  globalization  Globalist  self-regulation  Regulation  regulators  Fed  Eric  Holder 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
How Democrats Are Already Planning To Lose In 2018 - YouTube
Matt  Taibbi  Democrats  HRC  Hillary  Clinton  Centrist  BarackObama  BillClinton  Bill  USA  economic  history  welfare  Trickle-down  presidential  election  2016  Bernie  Sanders  book  Thomas  Frank  lobby  revolving  door  GFC  corporatism  crony  capitalism  neoliberalism  1%  10%  Super  Rich  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  antitrust  ACA  bank  bailout 
february 2017 by asterisk2a
How The Democratic Party BETRAYED Workers & Its Base - THOMAS FRANK Interview Part 1 - YouTube
Dems doubled down on betrayal of labour - https://youtu.be/0TnS_P4JGDc // chimes w Mark Blyth and Matt Taibbi assessment. - propaganda game for HRC! - professional class could not accept Bernie. DNC adopted professional class, abandoned working class (left behind, picked up by Trump at the ballot box after Sanders was gone). [...] Dems wiped out! Now counting on Trump to screw it up. That is their strategy! [...] also the draining the swamp, no accountability in the big league game - see nassim talebs skin in the game. see bank bailouts nobody went to jail. sank economy, sank the world, the working poor and middle class have to pay for it. and 1-10% ask for tax cut and get it (trickle-down) ... Austerity. There is no deterrent from white and blue collar crime - financial crime, fraud, like accounting. GFC after-math is precedent, not deterrent from greed. //
DNC  Democrats  Bill  Clinton  Hillary  HRC  BarackObama  NAFTA  TTIP  TPP  TISA  neoliberalism  deregulation  book  corporatism  Journalism  journalismus  bank  bailout  recovery  GFC  USA  working  poor  taxation  Trickle-down  1%  10%  Super  Rich  Oligarchy  Plutocracy  lobby  squeezed  middle  class  Bernie  Sanders  revolving  door  Drone  Warfare  Mark  Blyth  Thomas  Frank  wage  growth  income  inequality  Poverty  gig  Economy  1099  social  mobility  gini  Coefficient  WallStreet 
february 2017 by asterisk2a
Naomi Klein on Trump Election: "This is a Corporate Coup d’État" - YouTube
Hillary's low voter turn-out. compared to Obama enthusiasm, gave it Trump. // Trump not republican, not ideolog, trump testing what will keep him in office (things might escalate). But Cabinet is Trump and Republican conspiracy. // "This is a Corporate Coup d’État" Cabinet picks are panic picks in part, to hold back progressive policy in west (regulating banks, pollution etc etc) ... next 100 days in favour of the SWAMP //&! ie shredding Net Neutrality - Meet The Man Who Might Kill The Internet - https://youtu.be/0DUM-7h1AlY - FCC appointment Ajit Pai. - if you are a corporatists, you want to limit competition, the small players coming up from down there ...
USA  presidential  election  2016  DonaldTrump  Donald  Trump  Cabinet  GOP  Republican  neoliberalism  crony  Capitalism  Net  Neutrality  Climate  Change  Global  Warming  military–industrial  complex  self-regulation  deregulation  Washington  pollution  Labour  Union  Workers  minimum  wage  lobby  fracking  revolving  door 
january 2017 by asterisk2a
Osborne met investment firm FIVE times while Chancellor | Daily Mail Online
we are all in this together.
UK  revolving  door  George  Osborne  Austerity  Whitehall  Westminster  self-regulation  Establishment  Elite  1%  10%  Super  Rich  Plutocracy  Oligarchy  Tories  nasty  party  Conservative 
january 2017 by asterisk2a
Mark Blyth on the Brexit vote - YouTube
the start of Trumpism. Every country has a version of it. 80% of the bottom got a shit deal (trickle down) for the last 30 years. &! https://youtu.be/czE7dkSSFB0 - Economic Anger Of Working Class &! ppl left out of the econ growth prosperity, not participated. Osborne saying econ grows. But that has nothing to do w working ppl in xyz who seen living standard deteriorate further. ..&! https://youtu.be/waXfqPt_ip8
Trumpism  Brexit  UKIP  Centrists  Donald  Trump  AfD  Front  National  Italy  Germany  France  UK  USA  economic  history  gini  Coefficient  tax  avoidance  evasion  income  inequality  growth  working  poor  Elite  Plutocracy  SNP  indyref  indyref2  Nationalism  austerity  wage  Productivity  technocrat  Greece  PIGS  democracy  1%  10%  20%  lobby  revolving  door  output  gap  skills  Mark  Blyth  crony  capitalism  neoliberal  neoliberalism  insecurity 
october 2016 by asterisk2a
Theresa May’s first test is to stand up to the lobbyists | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian
No 10 to proceed with ‘national living wage’ despite pressure
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/08/no-10-resists-pressure-to-hold-off-launching-national-living-wage
Theresa  May  Lobby  Westminster  Whitehall  Political  Class  no  Representation  David  Cameron  Revolving  Door  nepotism  Establishment  Toff  Privileged  social  mobility  crony  capitalism  gini  Coefficient  inequality  spin  doctor  minimum  wage  Brexit  GFC  austerity  bank  bailout 
august 2016 by asterisk2a
Mitsubishi admits cheating fuel efficiency tests
via https://redd.it/4fmzst
Abgas-Affäre  Consumer  Protection  lobby  revolving  door  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  automotive  industry  Car  Greed  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  Wall  Street  False  Advertising  False  and  Misleading  Advertising 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Question Time (2/4): Can we have a just society when only the little people pay tax?
6:25
Panama  Papers  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  Super  Rich  1%  plutocracy  oligarchy  No  Representation  Career  Politicians  constituency  Party  Funding  revolving  door  offshore  banking  UK  tax  loopholes  Greed  shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  Wall  Street  income  tax  receipts 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Revolutionary politics in the UK
// yanis is liberal marxist // &! Will John McDonnell's fiscal rules work for Labour? Paul Mason Vs John Rentoul - youtu.be/0EISho5eSUc - OBR econometrics dictated by Treasury, George Osborne w wonky multipliers that don't fit w IMF models. IMF calls for fiscal stimulus! since late 2015 because China's credit bubble popped and global economy started to head south.
Yanis  Varoufakis  Paul  Mason  Labour  Party  Jeremy  Corbyn  Bernie  Sanders  Marxism  democracy  No  Representation  Super  Rich  1%  oligarchy  plutocracy  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  Soziale  Marktwirtschaft  fairness  Social  Justice  economic  bank  bailout  GFC  austerity  Generationengerechtigkeit  revolving  door  lobby  Greed  crony  capitalism  shareholder  capitalism  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  shareholder  value  Wall  Street  Main  Street  squeezed  middle  class  working  poor  Precariat  poverty  trap  economic  history  UK  globalisation  globalization  global  economy  self-regulation  deregulation  regulation  regulators  secular  stagnation  trickle-down  economics  free  market  exploitation  liberal  economic  reform  self-employment  job  security  job  insecurity  Zero  Hour  Contract  antitrust  winner  take  all  gini  coefficient  inequality  deprivation  poverty  John  McDonnell  austerity  aggregate  demand  Richard  Koo  Joseph  Stiglitz  Schuldenbremse  Fiscal  Pact  economic  history  neoliberal  neoliberalism  OBR  Chicago  School  neoclassical  economics  infrastructure  investment  liquidity  trap 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Superbugs are on track to kill 10 million people by 2050 if things don’t change—fast
[under reported ] Today, 23,000 Americans die each year from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Across the world, the estimated annual mortality rate is 700,000. If these trends continue, by 2050, 10 million people globally will die each year, as the potent diseases of previous centuries return to their old force, according to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an estimated 450,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The emergence of multiple drug-resistant pneumonia and E. coli bacteria strains are predicted to contribute significantly to increased mortalities due to their ability to spread rapidly through populations.
post-antibiotic  era  antibiotic  resistance  antibiotics  economic  damage  health  care  cost  Food  Politics  industry  Industrial  Farming  Industrial  Meat  Production  Meat  Poultry  livestock  livestock  industry  agriculture  self-regulation  MCR-1  E.  coli  C.  diff  pneumonia  tuberculosis  ESBL  MRSA  Hospital-acquired  infection  born  pathogen  borne  illness  poisining  poisoning  sepsis  septicaemia  gut  bacteria  Flora  microbiome  public  perception  public  awareness  public  opinion  public  debate  Zoonotic  Diseases  zoonosis  regulation  regulators  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  shareholder  capitalism  shareholder  value  Wall  Street  Lobbying  lobby  lobbyist  revolving  door  Career  Politicians  No  Representation  democracy  Super  Rich  1%  plutocracy  oligarchy  pharma  pharmaceutical  industry  big  pharma 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Mossack Fonseca: The Nazi, CIA And Nevada Connections... And Why It's Now Rothschild's Turn
What the story is about is the nebulous world of offshore tax evasion and tax havens, which based on data from the World Bank, IMF, UN, and central banks, hide between $21 and $32 trillion, where registered incorporation agents and law firms in small Caribbean countries (and not so small US states) make the laundering of money and the "disappearance" of the super wealthy, into untracable numbers hidden behind shell companies, possible. [...] Why is Nevada important? Because recall that according to a recent investigation by Bloomberg, "The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States" ... [...] Rothschild’s Penney wrote that the U.S. “is effectively the biggest tax haven in the world.”
Panama  Papers  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  money  laundering  bribery  corruption  Schwarze  Kassen  Schwarzgeld  Schwarzkasse  USA  lobby  Lobbying  lobbyist  revolving  door  Career  Politicians  tax  loopholes  Washington  Super  Rich  1%  plutocracy  oligarchy  trust  democracy  No  Representation  economic  history  crony  capitalism  shareholder  capitalism  budget  deficit 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
Director: Alex Gibney / Writer: Alex Gibney //&! https://youtu.be/zY5UuWkVq8g //&! all the bad fish got away! only the shark got caught // party and campaign financiers; wall street: fossil fuel followed by the emergence of silicon valley firms. // congress does not serve american people. average citizen does not have a voice. ... congress need of money exploited, fighting each other with more and more money! getting a leg up on your opponent. who they get the money to be elected or re-elected? those who have already money! [...] public finance would end it!
USA  corruption  Greed  bribery  revolving  door  PAC  Super  PAC  presidential  election  2016  shareholder  capitalism  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  exploitation  Washington  Lobbying  lobby  lobbyist  Career  Politicians  Jack  Abramoff  campaign  donation  campaign  finance  Party  Funding  constituency  trust  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  global  warming  environmental  damage  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  ecological  damage  GFC  Enron  Worldcom  bank  bailout  TBTF  too  big  to  fail  too  big  to  bail  too  big  to  jail  conglomerate  multinational  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  money  laundering  influence  peddling  Special  Interest  Group  groups  vested  Fossil  fuel  industry  Silicon  Valley  subprime  No  Representation  post-racial  America  American  Dream  plutocracy  oligarchy  Super  Rich  1%  democracy  meritocracy  meritocratic  Gini  coefficient 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn David Cameron on tax figures
gov claims - closed loopholes 2010 12bn and this parliament 2015 16bn, ... and putting back 1bn into HMRC after raiding it in 2010. // PMQs: Kuenssberg, Paterson and Benn on Cameron v Corbyn - bbc.in/1Yui4OZ &! 'Panama Papers' dominate PMQs clashes - bbc.in/1YtK7OF //&!
budget2010  HMRC  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  Google  Inc.  David  Cameron  George  Osborne  budget2015  Tories  nasty  party  Conservative  legal  loopholes  lobby  revolving  door  Career  Politicians  No  Representation  DWP  JSA  sanctions  spin  doctor  Panama  Papers  Positioning  PR  shareholder  capitalism  squeezed  middle  class  austerity  fairness  bank  bailout  GFC  Greed  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  white-collar  crime  white-collar  fraud  corporate  crime  corporate  scandal  corporate  social  responsibility  CSR  accounting  scandal  Wall  Street  Main  Street  working  poor  tax  credit  ESA  Disabled  vulnerable  Soziale  Marktwirtschaft  crony  capitalism  capitalism  capitalism  in  crisis  Jeremy  Corbyn  Donald  Trump  Bernie  Sanders  money  laundering 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Grill: EU-Richtline ist eine "Bedrohung für journalistische Arbeit"
Ploetzlich braucht der journalist teure Anwaelte. Und unter der Richtline kann man nur berichten was strafbar ist. // http://www.tt.com/home/11366165-91/gegner-von-eu-gesch%C3%A4ftsgeheimnis-richtlinie-richteten-hotline-ein.csp &! http://verbaende.com/news.php/Geschaeftsgeheimnisse-geringer-Schutz-fuer-Whistleblower?m=109456
Abgas-Affäre  Consumer  Protection  Whistleblower  investigative  journalism  lobby  Betriebsgeheimnis  Geschäftsgeheimnis  accounting  scandal  corporate  scandal  shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  Pressefreiheit  freedom  of  press  freedom  of  speech  injunction  Informationsfreiheit  revolving  door  Lobbying  lobbyist  plutocracy  Super  Rich  1%  inequality  democracy  multinational  conglomerate  oligarchy  Schmiergeld  Schwarze  Kassen  Schwarzgeld  Schwarzkasse  bribery  corruption  Career  Politicians  No  Representation  Brussels  TTIP  TTP  Abacus  GFC  subprime 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Is Stephen Crabb the man to tackle this age of extreme inequality?
The Panama Papers will lead to the dynamiting of Tory credibility, but new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, is unlikely to prove the saviour of his party’s reputation. [...] Last autumn’s U-turn over cuts to working tax credits was a smoke screen. The axe will fall, only not everywhere, not just yet. From this week, existing universal credit claimants will lose up to £220 a month as the work allowance is pared back faster than the national living wage increases to replace it. [...] Short of taking a vow of poverty and retreating like Charles V to a monastery, there is nothing he can say now that will change the perception that he is at the head of a party that has a fundamental personal interest in preserving the advantages of the 1%.
Stephen  Crabb  nasty  party  tax  credit  Universal  Iain  Duncan  Smith  welfare  reform  welfare  state  poverty  trap  poverty  child  poverty  social  safety  net  sanctions  JSA  ESA  PIP  Disabled  vulnerable  mental  health  austerity  George  Osborne  David  Cameron  Tories  Conservative  Positioning  PR  spin  doctor  manufactured  consent  snap  judgement  prejudice  triple-lock  pension  Generationengerechtigkeit  fairness  bank  bailout  budget  deficit  aggregate  demand  Budget2016  budget2015  general  election  2015  election  campaign  promises  Funding  constituency  Super  Rich  oligarchy  plutocracy  Confidence  Fairy  1%  democracy  food  poverty  fuel  poverty  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  Panama  Papers  offshore  banking  tax  loopoles  lobby  No  Representation  Career  Politicians  Gini  coefficient  inequality  social  mobility  income  mobility  deprivation  crony  capitalism  shareholder  capitalism  corporate  welfare  HMRC  revolving  door  corporate  tax  rate  capital  gains  tax  DLA  Independent  Living  Fund  Holyrood 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
yanis is a self-proclaimed liberal marxist. //
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits
An entertaining, provocative film in which Ian explores the colourful history behind one of the most explosive issues of our times - welfare: who deserves to be helped, and who doesn't. [... ] all hate, no heart. just spreadsheets. at Whitehall, no 11. [...] Benefit Street = victorian freak show/circus of curiosities [...] writing about others, "othering" them. demonising them or putting them on pedestals, making them saints. [...] IDS "a single mother wo aspiration is a product of the system" would correct that, a product of her environment (society) [ie gentrification - poor living w poor door to door. and everyone is looking down on them.].
Universal  Basic  Income  class  warfare  poverty  trap  child  poverty  tax  credit  tax  free  austerity  DWP  Iain  Duncan  Smith  ESA  JSA  WCA  Disabled  vulnerable  mental  health  civil  society  Gesellschaft  Gesellschaftswerte  substance  abuse  self-medication  deprivation  structural  unemployment  poverty  drug  addiction  drug  abuse  Public  Services  Social  Services  NHS  sick  population  capitalism  Soziale  Marktwirtschaft  Soziale  Gerechtigkeit  society  moral  beliefs  ethics  philosophy  Universal  working  poor  low  pay  low  Precariat  precarious  work  mobility  mobility  education  policy  Gini  coefficient  economic  history  Super  Rich  1%  Establishment  Privileged  Toff  No  Representation  Career  Politicians  squeezed  middle  class  class-warfare  Sozialpolitik  Integrationspolitik  immigration  migration  UK  microeconomic  policy  macroeconomic  policy  meritocracy  meritocratic  stigma  Food  Bank  crony  capitalism  bailout  corporate  welfare  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  shareholder  capitalism  lobby  revolving  door  ladder  Service  Sector  Jobs  aggregate  demand  fairness  Zero  Hour  Contract  part-time  incentive  self-employment  Contractor  working  class  Trade  Union  neoliberal  neoliberalism  Workers  Rights  Workers  Union  economic  justice  economic  tax  welfare  welfare  poverty  education  oppo 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Yanis Varoufakis Candid Interview - Shocking Disfunction and The Power Of Oligarchs
Europe will not survive next crisis. [...] end of interview - China looked after the rest of the world and especially Germany after 2009 (credit bubble) as USA looked after Germany in the 50's - Wirtschaftswunder. Now China is trying its best not to implode and fall below 5% of growth per annum. And now USA is trying to contest Asia (excluding China) economically and militarily through TPP and military increase in that region. //&! Yanis Varoufakis - Guardian Live - youtu.be/md6_WfF9Ky0
Grexit  Troika  IMF  oligarchy  plutocracy  Greece  corruption  bribery  Yanis  Varoufakis  Tsipras  referendum  Wolfgang  Schäuble  Angela  Merkel  Brussels  European  Union  Gold  Standard  economic  history  liberal  economic  reform  antitrust  cartel  tax  evasion  tax  avoidance  Schwarzgeld  Schwarze  Kassen  Schwarzkasse  ChristineLagarde  Panama  Papers  revolving  door  lobby  No  Representation  Career  Politicians  trust  far-right  right-wing  sovereign  debt  crisis  ECB  MarioDraghi  banking  crisis  bank  bailout  GFC  democracy  neoliberal  neoliberalism  shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  Chicago  School  China  credit  bubble  BRIC  USA  Hegemony  TTIP  TPP  geopolitics 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
[ conditions are permanent, more and more people live life in those conditions ]
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Achselzucken schadet
Panama Papers Warum der Zynismus, mit dem die Leaks vielfach aufgenommen wurden, die falsche Reaktion auf die Enthüllungen ist [...] So wie es keine Neuigkeit ist, dass die globale Finanzelite sich eine juridisch-ökonomische Parallelwelt geschaffen hat. [...] Dennoch ist der fatalistische Zynismus, mit dem die Leaks vielerorts aufgenommen wurden, nicht nur falsch, sondern sogar gefährlich. Aus zwei Gründen: zum einen, weil der Zynismus eine Sprache ist, die der Neoliberalismus perfekt beherrscht. „Der Zyniker“, so schreibt etwa der Philosoph Franco Berardi, „ist ein leichter Schläfer: Er schläft traumlos und wacht auf, sobald die Macht ihn ruft.“ Wer sich in solcher Abgeklärtheit einrichtet, muss sich nicht wundern, wenn am Ende alles so bleibt, wie es ist.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Im Zweifel links: Nimm, was du kriegen kannst!
Der globale Kapitalismus macht die ganze Welt zum Spielplatz der Reichen. Die Panama Papers erinnern daran: Nicht die Flüchtlinge sind unser Problem - sondern die Steuerflüchtlinge. //&! Die Mensch-Maschine: Leak ist Pop! Die Inszenierung übertrumpft die Inhalte: Die Panama Papers zeigen, wie sich die Bedeutung von Leaks verändert hat. Jeder liest darin, was er eh schon immer geglaubt hat. - bit.ly/25MV0AF //&! Briefkastenfirmen zerstören die Marktwirtschaft - bit.ly/1q2Vt0S //&! taz.de/!5289286/ //&! Die Panama Papers und das „Lügenpresse“-Dilemma - bit.ly/1VbfejK //&! bit.ly/1N6I1ya - kapitalistische Medienlogik //&! bit.ly/1SGNSfA - NO NYT //&! bit.ly/1PQor9j //&! cynycism wrong reaction - bit.ly/1SnKVjC
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Tyler Cowen: "The Great Stagnation", Michael Vassar & Cowen Debate at Singularity Summit 2011
gains are harder to come by! low hanging fruit gone. [...] VISION IS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
The Guardian view on the Panama Papers: secret riches and public rage Editorial
Resentment of a financial elite has been simmering for years. Now the biggest-ever leak moves the focus to politicians. Tackling tax avoidance is the only way to restore trust.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Obama calls for international tax reform amid Panama Papers revelations
"a lot of it is legal" ... they are not poorly designed the laws have been designed by the revolving door of corporate lawyers and lobbyists. // We are not all in this together.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Noam Chomsky, BBC Newsnight: poorest 70% have zero impact on policy in West's 'democracy'
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Hillary Clinton Goes Off On Greenpeace Activist (VIDEO)
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Panama Papers (BBC)
links to 72 current or former heads of state [...] dictators looting their own countries [...] helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions & evade tax. [...] never been accused or charged with criminal wrong-doing [...] company is a corporate screen established principally to protect the identity and confidentiality of the ultimate beneficial owner of the company. [...] + Icelandic Prime Minister //&! bbc.in/232EEVN &! How To Insight - bbc.in/1M8Xi6N &! The Guardian - bit.ly/232F3Hz &! Reddit - redd.it/4d8rta &! panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de & live ticker tuesday - bbc.in/23cAl6M &! bbc.in/1TyCuXT - Panama is British Territory as is Cayman Islands et al. //&! Change the rules and close the loopholes! Duh. No need to ask others to stop doing business or change their rules!
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Discussing the IMF’s research on inequality - an interview with Andrew Berg
Inequality and Unsustainable Growth (2011) - imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2011/sdn1108.pdf - what are the determinants of sustained growth (answer a middle class). phases of growth. institutional governance (tax evasion and tax avoidance). lobby, revolving door, no representation, career politicians. [...] redistribution should have win-win effect. //&! Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies - youtu.be/cZ7LzE3u7Bw - national income per head (average) is not reflective (correlates) for health and child well-being measures, social capital (volunteering, Tories Big Society), mental health, prison population, social mobility. that is why Tories redefined fuel poverty & child poverty! That is why nominal GDP targeting is double edge sword (tax evasion and average national income per head, and being dependent on a industry for GDP (ie Brazil and resources, or south UK and banking - 80% of 2015 growth was consumtion). Leads to status anxiety & materialism/
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Uber’s Policy Boss Is Cutting Team to Make Way for Googlers
pando got a lenghty insight expose on Rachel Whetstone from UK. connected w Tories. - https://pando.com/search/?q=Rachel+Whetstone
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Gefahr durch Fracking: Das Dreckwasser von Wyoming
Das umstrittene Fracking kann das Trinkwasser belasten. Ein beharrlicher US-Forscher hat das jetzt für ein Dorf exemplarisch nachgewiesen - gegen viele Widerstände. [...] Fallstudie zu Pavillion. Sie legt nahe, dass das Grundwasser dort tatsächlich mit Fracking-Schadstoffen belastet ist. Und dass diese im Boden nach oben wandern. In Tiefen, die auch von Trinkwasserbrunnen erreicht werden. [...] Was den Forscher zusätzlich empört, ist einfach erklärt: Die US-Gesetzgebung erlaubt es, dass zur Öl- und Gasförderung Chemikalien notfalls auch in Grundwasserreservoire eingeleitet werden. "Ich kenne keine westliche Demokratie, wo so etwas möglich ist", klagt DiGiulio. Man könne doch nicht ernsthaft annehmen, das so etwas ohne Folgen für das Trinkwasser bleibe.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
The Privatising Industry in Europe
Do you wonder why the 'Troika' persists in its privatisation agenda despite the evidence of its failures and the growing economic and social costs?
The report “The Privatising Industry in Europe”, written by Sol Trumbo Vila and Matthijs Peters for the Transnational Institute, TNI, suggests two possible motives and shows who the ‪#‎BigWinners‬ of those privatisations are. - https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-privatising-industry-in-europe - The rationale put forward by advocates of privatisation does not stand up to the evidence. Privatisation has failed to provide promised revenue as only profitable firms are being sold and consistently at undervalued prices. Meanwhile the latest research by the IMF and by European universities show that there is no evidence that the privatised firms are more efficient than state-owned firms. [...] Privatisation in Europe has encouraged a growth in corruption,
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Schluss mit der Solidarität - sollten Raucher und Sportmuffel mehr zahlen?
penalty tax; tobacco, alcohol, sugar drinks, meat, milk, dairy, fish, processed, engineered, junk food, - to fund true health care and not sick care! // via http://bit.ly/21ED8De
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Robert Reich on recent development - Tax Amnesty
[ shareholder capitalism ] 2.1trn $$$ parked in offshore banking for USA alone. ... USA x times bigger. ... UK estimate of up to 20bn a year of tax evasion and avoidance. // special deal of 10% tax on repatriation of offshore funds. // this is extortion // no Principles. you either pay your taxes or you are not allowed to do business in this country. // and it is not only cash it is also property and other assets ... companies will undervalue/price their value. not to market rate. see india's tax amnesty and that loophole people and companies exploited - bit.ly/1LjzHjk // >> tax is the price you pay for civilised and modern, western society! << //
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Kommunalwahl in Hessen: Nichtwähler machen AfD stark - SPIEGEL ONLINE
[ symptom ] // Die Rechten sind auf dem Vormarsch. Ihr Erfolg ist auch eine Antwort der Gesellschaft auf eine Krankheit des Kapitalismus, die von den etablierten Parteien ignoriert wird. Und die hat mit den Flüchtlingen nichts zu tun. - bit.ly/1QBo7Ad //&! Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" - youtu.be/CKCvf8E7V1g - nobody can afford to buy new stuff. circle of life. customers and businesses. consumer needs to have disposable income //&! Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming - youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Lettuce: Worse For The Environment Than Bacon! - YouTube
- youtu.be/muMRxdi2b40 &! youtu.be/JjAI-vJTXjM
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Pando: Nothing to see here: Eric Schmidt is taking a second job, as an advisor to the Pentagon
&! reut.rs/1RocqJx &! bit.ly/1oUCSDE &! bit.ly/24D8oH6 //&! bit.ly/1oUD8Ct - Netzpolitik //&! US defense chief tells Silicon Valley: 'encryption is essential' Ashton Carter has been courting tech firms in San Francisco, trying to heal the rift between the Pentagon and the industry in the ongoing Apple and FBI clash - bit.ly/1T9a3QB //&! Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset. Human development is too important, too complex, and too culturally diverse to be left to profit-driven companies acting in their own interests - bit.ly/1QXtPhV
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Oscars 2016: Live coverage - BBC News
The Big Short director speaks out on US election - 01:56 - If you don't want big money to control government, don't vote for candidates that take money from big banks, oil or weirdo billionaires. Director Adam Mckay
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
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nytimes ⊕  OAP ⊕  Obama ⊕  Obamacare ⊕  ObamaCare ⊕  obesity ⊕  objective ⊕  obligation ⊕  OBR ⊕  Ocasio-Cortez ⊕  Occupy ⊕  occupywallstreet ⊕  ocean ⊕  OECD ⊕  Oettinger ⊕  of ⊕  offshore ⊕  oil ⊕  old ⊕  oligarchy ⊕  oligopol ⊕  oligopoly ⊕  Oliver ⊕  Olympics ⊕  omnivore ⊕  OMT ⊕  on ⊕  on-demand ⊕  Open ⊕  Opfer ⊕  opinion ⊕  opioid ⊕  Opportunism ⊕  opportunist ⊕  opportunity ⊕  Opposition ⊕  Orange ⊕  order ⊕  organic ⊕  organised ⊕  Organization ⊕  Ornish ⊕  Orwell ⊕  Orwellian ⊕  Osborne ⊕  osteoporosis ⊕  OTC ⊕  outlook ⊕  output ⊕  outsourcing ⊕  Ovary ⊕  overdose ⊕  overdraft ⊕  Overfishing ⊕  oversight ⊕  overweight ⊕  Owen ⊕  ownership ⊕  Oxidative ⊕  OxyContin ⊕  P&G ⊕  PAC ⊕  Pacific ⊕  package ⊕  Pact ⊕  pageviews ⊕  painkillers ⊕  Paleo ⊕  Palm ⊕  Panama ⊕  PanamaPapers ⊕  pandemic ⊕  Pando.com ⊕  PandoDaily ⊕  Panel ⊕  Papers ⊕  ParadisePapers ⊕  paradox ⊕  parasitic ⊕  parenthood ⊕  parenting ⊕  parents ⊕  Parliament ⊕  part-time ⊕  Partei ⊕  participation ⊕  party ⊕  passive ⊕  Patch ⊕  patent ⊕  patents ⊕  pathogen ⊕  patient ⊕  Patriarchy ⊕  Patriot ⊕  pattern ⊕  Paul ⊕  pay ⊕  Payday ⊕  payer ⊕  Payment ⊕  PayPal ⊕  PCB ⊕  PED ⊕  peddling ⊕  peer ⊕  PEGIDA ⊕  pension ⊕  Pentagon ⊕  perception ⊕  personal ⊕  Perspective ⊕  Perspektivlosigkeit ⊕  pesticide ⊕  Peter ⊕  petrodollar ⊕  petrodollars ⊕  Petrol ⊕  Petroleum ⊕  PFC ⊕  pharma ⊕  pharmaceutical ⊕  philanthropy ⊕  philosophy ⊕  Picketty ⊕  PIGS ⊕  Piketty ⊕  PIMCO ⊕  PIP ⊕  Plant ⊕  plant-based ⊕  plastic ⊕  Platfom ⊕  Platform ⊕  Play ⊕  Plouffe ⊕  pluralism ⊕  pluralistic ⊕  plurality ⊕  Plus ⊕  plutocracy ⊕  pneumonia ⊕  Point ⊕  poisining ⊕  poisoning ⊕  Polarisation ⊕  Police ⊕  policy ⊕  policy-makers ⊕  political ⊕  Politicians ⊕  politics ⊕  pollution ⊕  Polycystic ⊕  POMO ⊕  poor ⊕  Pop ⊕  population ⊕  populism ⊕  pork ⊕  porn ⊕  Porsche ⊕  Positioning ⊕  post ⊕  post-antibiotic ⊕  post-capitalism ⊕  post-racial ⊕  post-truth ⊕  Postmates ⊕  Poultry ⊕  poverty ⊕  power ⊕  powers ⊕  PPI ⊕  PR ⊕  practical ⊕  practices ⊕  pre-diabetic ⊕  Precariat ⊕  precarious ⊕  predation ⊕  predatory ⊕  Preisabsprache ⊕  prejudice ⊕  premature ⊕  premium ⊕  presidency ⊕  presidential ⊕  press ⊕  Pressefreiheit ⊕  pressure ⊕  prevention ⊕  price ⊕  prices ⊕  pricing ⊕  Principle ⊕  Prison ⊕  prison–industrial ⊕  Privacy ⊕  private ⊕  Privatisation ⊕  privilege ⊕  Privileged ⊕  Process ⊕  processed ⊕  product ⊕  Production ⊕  productive ⊕  productivity ⊕  profession ⊕  professional ⊕  profiling ⊕  profit ⊕  profiteer ⊕  Programmatic ⊕  progress ⊕  Progression ⊕  progressive ⊕  Proletariat ⊕  promises ⊕  propaganda ⊕  propensity ⊕  property ⊕  prostate ⊕  protection ⊕  protectionism ⊕  protein ⊕  Protest ⊕  Protestkultur ⊕  provider ⊕  psychiatry ⊕  psychology ⊕  public ⊕  QE ⊕  QT ⊕  Qualification ⊕  quo ⊕  R&D ⊕  race ⊕  Rachel ⊕  racial ⊕  racism ⊕  racketeer ⊕  Radiation ⊕  radicalism ⊕  radiotherapy ⊕  Rand ⊕  rat ⊕  rate ⊕  Rating ⊕  rationing ⊕  re-targeting ⊕  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