#oligopoly — Public Fediverse posts

#Terrorism / #Terrorist definition

= "a level of #pain and #frustration and a level of #lack of #agency that they have to #feel to do something so #insane and #absurd".

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=BzioOJLuiZE&t=12m07s

or

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=BzioOJLuiZE&t=12m07s

I don't agree with the rest of the video - it's confusing that slice of the clip I am pointing to, which is more clear about pain and lack of agency.

#State control #Totalitarianism #Oligopoly #Plutocracy etc #Protest

https://www.ft.com/content/c3b70fde-3e8a-4661-a4cb-7dc1564f43b1?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Now the horrible zombies of #WallStreet #SiliconValley #billionaires will start buying up all these #bankrupt #farmers leading to even more consolidation and profits while condemning the rest to more pain.

#agriculture #food #land #water #farming #hunger #starvation #inflation #fertilizer #oligopoly

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly