The world is getting very unstable. People have lost faith in politicians, democracy and are flocking to right wing parties. This video outlines an alternative politics and an economics “as if people mattered”. youtu.be/n-xlZuih2rE?si=9VL1… via @YouTube

The Australien Government has made an ad about its latest Bullshit™, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 #auspol

We have been told by politicians for the last 50 Years that governments spend our tax dollars. But Federal governments do not spend “taxpayers money”. They issue the currency, whether printed, minted or keystroked:

We need to apply antitrust laws to big ag

We have to put meat processing back into the hands of regional producers. These huge operations are way over hedged in our economic stake as a Nation. On the pork side Smithfield and JBS account for around 37% of our slaughter capacity as a Nation. Both companies have foreign ownership concerns.

“A pound of ground beef costs 70% more today than it did six years ago.” To solve this problem, we need much deeper structural reform than just importing foreign beef. Read our full seven-point plan, backed by ranchers, not corporations, below: farmaction.us/lowering-beef-…

Tyson closed a beef manufacturing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, this year. “6% of the nation’s beef came out of that plant.” “And Tyson just closed it.” “Putting 3,500 Nebraskans out of jobs.” Bookmark this. Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn just sounded the alarm. Tyson’s plant closure in Lexington reveals the damage that corporate monopolization in our food industry can do to rural America. “There are four meatpackers that have formed a monopoly.” “They work with the other ones.” “They target plants that are going to close down to manipulate… what they pay, from the producers all the way to what we pay at the grocery store.” “And this beef deal adds to the already problematic crisis of a thinning herd.” “We got to break up the meatpackers to create an environment that has competition.” We have been warning that President Trump’s beef import policy is a bad deal for both American ranchers and consumers. Flooding our market with imported beef undercuts domestic ranchers, many of whom are already struggling to keep their operations alive. And it is not meaningfully reducing prices for consumers. The only ones who benefit from this policy are multinational corporations, like JBS, who pocket all of the profits. We published a seven-point plan backed by ranchers, not corporations, to meaningfully reduce beef prices, restore our domestic cattle herd, and save ranchers. Read it below and send it to your members of Congress:🧵 @osbornforne @briantylercohen

Gas cartel still making out like bandits on latest ATO Tax data. Jason Ward @CICTAR_Tax (see 12 year numbers at MWM #TAXDATA ) taxdata.michaelwest.com.au/d… michaelwest.com.au/passing-t…

What if austerity was never necessary? Where would we be now? Without rioting in France, for a start. And in a country with hope, and not despair, as we have here in the UK. It is time to consign austerity to history for good. youtu.be/0c61E0MKCF8?si=Lfd-…

Private companies exploiting the welfare system, providing poor services and trousering £ millions? No kidding? I love the way the media present this as an aberration rather than a predictable norm. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm62…

When egg prices skyrocketed, major egg companies blamed bird flu, and most economists and the media went along with it. Farm Action's President Angela Huffman didn't buy it. "We said we should look at this, because we've seen this before, and there might be something here." Once we looked, the math didn't add up. The egg-laying flock shrank only modestly, but prices jumped 138%. In January 2023, Farm Action called on federal enforcers to find the real culprit behind the price spike. Critics called it a conspiracy theory. Now the DOJ and 17 states allege three of the biggest egg companies coordinated for nearly three years to drive prices up. When a few giant corporations control a market, families at the grocery store and farmers on the ground pay the price. @AngelaSHuffman @politico

90% of England’s water industry is foreign owned. The result has been low investment, high customer bills, raw sewage in rivers, over 1,200 criminal convictions, and harms to nature, health and national security. Public ownership is needed. Watch the Minister's reply.

Colombian judge halts government aerial spraying plan in Putumayo—province in the Andean-Amazonian foothills—citing concerns over its effects on farming communities and the environment. The plan was to spray glufosinate, a herbicide banned in Europe. telesurenglish.net/colombiaj…

The court ruling has brought renewed attention to Colombia’s long-running debate over aerial eradication. Aerial spraying with #glyphosate was 🧑‍⚖️suspended in 2015 and definitively 🧑‍⚖️barred in 2017. But the Trump administration has been pressing Colombia to resume spraying 🛩️☠️☠️

Colombia’s far-right President is on the verge of dousing the Amazon in glufosinate—linked to serious reproductive harm/banned in the EU. Local people have won a temporary court order to stop the govt. Support them via @Eko_Movement action.eko.org/a/save-the-am… action.eko.org/a/save-the-am…

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Today in dystopia, the military-industrial complex is reassuring investors that the wars will indeed be endless.

All they did was rob the country blind and make us look like fools around the world.

Russian spooks fueled the French riots. And God knows how many idiots will think "aha, I bet he's right, you know". We might be heading for the first extinction by stupidity.