Government selects 15 non-metropolitan Greenbelt areas for release as national and regional strategic projects, aiming to boost local economies and promote balanced development
#YonhapInfomax #GreenbeltRelease #RegionalDevelopment #IndustrialComplexes #UrbanPlanning #EconomicRevitalization #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=51990

Mark Rutte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte

* Dutch politician; October 2024+ 14th secretary-general of NATO

Mark Rutte’s March to War
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/mark-rutte-nato-secretary-speech

* maiden speech as NATO secretary-general
* Rutte ominously warned peacetime is over
* delivered cocktail of half-truths to demand ever-increased military spending

Trump2 DOGE’s Ties to Military-Industrial Complex
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113705068952852128

#NATO #MarkRutte #Trump2 #fascism
#IndustrialComplexes #MIC #billionaires #libertarianism #militarism

Trump Picks Mehmet Oz, Champion of Medicare Privatization
https://www.levernews.com/dr-oz-can-now-pull-off-his-medicare-privatization-scheme-2

* Oz paid to push Medicare privatization while investing in health care giants
*video: Oz attacks Dem. opponent John Fetterman for supporting “free health care for everyone”
#USpol #MehmetOz #misogyny #antiAbortion #AnimalAbuse
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025 #Medicare #Medicaid
#ConspiracyTheorists #pseudoscience #quackery
#capitalism #corporations #privatization #MedicalIndustrialComplex #IndustrialComplexes

Destruction of Gaza Will Be Joe Biden’s Enduring Legacy
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/biden-gaza-saudi-arabia-trump

* Biden talked about wanting a cease-fire
* h/e cont. sending weapons to Israel & refused to apply any pressure to end attack on Gaza
* that refusal, cosigned by Kamala Harris, an integral part of both their legacies

#JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #MIC #IndustrialComplexes #capitalism #libertarianism #WarProfiteering
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #WarCrimes #Netanyahu #ICC #ICJ #DefundIsrael #HumanRights

The Thin Purple Line: Dubious rise of the private-security industry
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/the-thin-purple-line-jasper-craven-private-security-guard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41364715

Private security industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Private_security_industry

HN comments interesting; mentions various nations ...

Private security industry in South Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_security_industry_in_South_Africa

#ThinBlueLine #PrivateSecurtity #capitalism #IndustrialComplexes #policing

Pentagon to Pour Billions Into New Generation of Devastating Weapons
Instead of canceling nuclear program 81% over budget Pentagon doubles down
https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-is-poised-to-pour-billions-into-new-generation-of-devastating-weapons

* $2 trillion multiyear plan to build nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, submarines
* funding to nuclear weapons contractors

#MIC #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #IndustrialComplexes #billionaires #corporations #militarism #NuclearWeapons #capitalism #Bechtel #GeneralDynamics #Honeywell #LockheedMartin #NorthropGrumman

U.S. Keeps Pouring Money Into Nuclear Weapons
Pentagon carrying out $2 trillion/multiyear plan to build new nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, submarines

* increases risk of disastrous exchange of nuclear attacks
* great business for major weapons contractors

Doomsday Clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

#MIC #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #IndustrialComplexes #billionaires #corporations #militarism #GlobalSecurity #NuclearWeapons #capitalism #ExistentialRisks #DoomsdayClock

Atlanta’s Cop City Funded by Billionaires Backing American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
Underwriting thin blue line betw. Israel & Cop City
https://truthout.org/articles/atlantas-cop-city-is-funded-by-some-of-the-same-billionaires-who-back-aipac

* backers: Georgia Power Foundation; Home Depot; Bank of America; Chick-fil-A; Coca-Cola; Cox Foundation/Enterprises

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC

#IndustrialComplexes #capitalism #billionaires #CopCity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Palestine #MilitarizedPolice #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #AIPAC #corporations