#capitalism — Public Fediverse posts
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#Brazil: The gigantic gold mine Belo Sun hires the sons of Brasília’s judicial big shots ahead of crucial rulings
"The son of the federal attorney general and the son of a judge on the Superior Court of Justice are now legal representatives for the canadian mining company, laying bare the power imbalance with the Indigenous peoples of Volta Grande do Xingu.
#Indigenous #mining #Xingu #Amazon #BeloSun #gold #capitalism #corruption #HumanRights #climate #climatecrisis
https://sumauma.com/en/belo-sun-contrata-filhos-de-figuroes-de-brasilia-para-sua-defesa-as-vesperas-de-julgamentos-cruciais/ -
Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.
Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.
After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.
Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).
http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?
https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/
Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.
In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.
250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,
1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.
Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied justice in the courts of the occupiers ( USA ).
All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).
Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.
Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.
In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. Biden ; December 14, 2022 )Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.
#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism -
@DelilahTech You may be discounting the cumulative effects, too far removed from the core equation.
The root infrastructure buy out, from the #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy, includes systematic removal of humans, that leads to more energy consumed, requiring more energy produced, that they profit more and more from.
This is SOP for more and more #Capitalism, where there's no such thing as 'too much'. So during destabilizing patterns, cornering more root infrastructure = more profits.
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Via Rail charging $7 fee if I want to face forward. Seems like I'm paying a penalty for suffering from (occasional) motion sickness?
No charge for the backwards facing seats...
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"Given that the book as an artefact had provided an early vehicle for perfecting the commodity form, Alan often doubted the advisability of using literature to criticise capitalism."
—Stewart Home, “69 things to do with a dead princess” (p.40).
As someone who has criticized capitalism in my books, I feel seen.
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Live Lecture + Q&A in #LA: The "End of the World" US Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GFDDZtGQY
#business #capitalism #economics #education #government #infrastructure #law #philosophy #politics #psychology #religion #sociology #warfare #Iran #Ukraine #Russia #USpol
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And the Grenfell disaster still has the power to shock:
The cladding company Arconic paid more to shareholders for the financial damage caused by their role in the fire than they paid to the actual victims....
Given that the insurers paid out most of the money, it makes it all the clearer that investors' economic welfare is regarded as more costly than the loss of real lives.
This is capitalism at its sociopathic worse!
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When you see an invite on the public calendar about a meeting that will decide the fate of your own and many others employment
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Hey... are you on your lunch break? Feeling a little frustrated? Aren't we all these days.
Enjoy a little catharsis.
Get a little satisfaction.
DICK PUNCH EVERY SUIT
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/452281/DICK-PUNCH-EVERY-SUIT--Corporate-Revenge-TTRPG?affiliate_id=741284 -
#agriculture #capitalism #Indigenous #SupplyChains #WWII #history
"The Flour That Never Needed a Farm, The $200B Reason You've Never Heard of
What if the most productive flour plant on Earth has been growing for free in marshes this whole time?
In this episode from *Curious Cultivars*, we trace the astonishing history of cattail flour—from Paleolithic grinding stones and Indigenous food traditions to WWII research that found cattails could outproduce potatoes, rice, and grain crops in edible starch per acre. Then the story takes an even stranger turn: the same plant can also clean polluted water, provide industrial fiber, and even help produce biofuel.
Why did a plant this useful vanish from the modern food system?"
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How Capitalism Undermines Democracy https://jacobin.com/2026/08/capitalism-democracy-friedman-class-power
We should start with how capitalism laid the foundations for democracy and then go on to why, nevertheless, there are significant tensions between the capitalist economy and democratic politics.
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@wood5y Why is there such an obvious, self-evident disconnect in the thinking of so-called "left-wing" leaders like Lula between #fossilfuels & short-term #economics, on the one hand, & the dire #consequences of the #climate #emergency, on the other? There seems to be no escape from hydrocarbon-fuelled #capitalism.
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Getting into developing a new Racket Theory putting Horkheimer and Pollock alongside Béatrice Hibou, Verónica Gago, Elmar Altvater and Brigitte Mahnkopf.
None of the latter use that term (Horkheimers plans remained unfinished and unpublished until a few years ago) but what they describe fits all too well. Torsten Fuchshuber, saying that rackets were all too often projected onto "the periphery", tries to revive it for new forms of capitalism. I try to combine it with how Kenyans use the term "cartel" to describe their economy, in particular the informal economy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/aug/18/economists-andy-burnham-uk-un-initiative-global-international-panel-inequality. How can anyone be opposed to #global #inequality & in favour of #capitalism? That's like believing that 2 + 2 = 5 or that you can have round squares, @ZackPolanski.
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David Pakman's misunderstanding of socialism reflects a broader lack clarity around #socialism both as an ideology and an economic system. Modern democratic #socialists advocate something quite different from Marxist-Leninists in the 20th century, but people's understanding hasn't caught up.
#economics #capitalism #anticapitalism #leftism #DemocraticSocialism #leftist
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Remember the rich corps that accused you of stealing #knowledge, in the name of #piracy? This is what those hypocrites are doing to rare old #books en masse in the name of training #AI. Cut off their spine, scan the pages, and then shred them!
Imagine the value of our hereditary #knowledge they destroy for #profit! We need to rip out these #corporate #predators from our supply chain before they destroy #humanity for profit!
Credit: 404 media
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I'm reading a book about how the witch hunt policies helped give rise to capitalism and one thing strikes me, as do lots of books about the past:
While life in past times is talked about I get little sense of what it would have been like for people living then. You get phrases like Serfdom and Vagabondage and Closing of the Commons, but I don't really get a sense of what those things would mean for ordinary people.
I guess there are authors out there who have written about daily life and whatnot, but lots of books leave me puzzled to how policies of the church and state would influence everyday life for people.
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The West chose paper. China chose production.
Economist Steve Keen lays it out:
• 40% lower US per capita income vs pre-neoliberal trends
• 60% of China's leaders are engineers—they build 50-year plans, not 4-year election cycles
• US infrastructure: C-minus. China: breaking bridge records in 2026The 21st century won't be won by rhetoric. It'll be won by competence.
#Economy #China #Infrastructure #SteveKeen #WorldOrder #USA #Capitalism #IndustrialPolicy
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#AI Billionaire plutocrats = 21st century #RobberBarons
(The few have yachts and the many nots) ?
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RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/117111225982253256
I'll say it again. And again. And again.
Delete your fucking #Amazon account. Delete that shit today. Don't give that bald fucker another dime.
Then delete or stop using all the other shit #fascist accounts you still have.
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I went to University in the UK just as student grants were being replaced by student loans and nobody (except possibly overseas students) had even heard of tuition fees.
For my daughter's undergraduate journey we have, since we moved to Canada nearly 20 years ago, been putting money into an education savings plan (RESP). It won't come close to covering the entirety of her educational costs, but it helps.
Quite understandably, in order to dip into the RESP each year, we require an official enrolment letter from her University, but as a very special cherry-on-the-top shaped insult, the university charges us a fee for this electronic document!
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3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans.
#Capitalism
#Pfas
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/3m-knew-for-more-than-50-years-that-its-products-could-harm-humans-australian-government-alleges-in-court-documents