I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;
The two couldn't have been more different.
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#TheLever
Under This Prez, The Bad Guys Win.
The bad guys are winning. Despite a dire first quarter on Wall Street, the worst guys you know are doing just fine. That includes defense technology company Palantir (founder: megadonor Peter Thiel and leading the charge on AI warfare), infamous tobacco firm Philip Morris (which has long lobbied to keep Americans addicted to cigarettes), and the ubiquitous discount chain store Dollar General (yuk).
(THIS FROM #theLever)
@froomkin
The Lever: Transportation Secretary and former Rep. Sean Duffy voted for airline-backed legislation to expand flight traffic at #NationalAirport, despite dire safety warnings about heavy air traffic…
Jan 29, 2025 Before D.C. Airport #Collision, Lawmakers Brushed Off Warnings, Boosted Flights
Despite midflight near-misses & dire pleas, airline-bankrolled lawmakers expanded flight traffic at Washington’s busy airport
https://www.levernews.com/before-d-c-airport-collision-lawmakers-brushed-off-warnings-and-boosted-flights/
#DOT #SeanDuffy #TheLever #Flight5342 #AA5342
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2025-01-25Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/
"In order to appease this right-wing coalition which was keeping him in power, [Netanyahu] actually strengthened Hamas. And ... he seems not to care that much about getting the hostages back, and seems to be interested in engaging in a forever war", in order to be able, once again, to stay in power and to elude the consequences of his own actions."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/
#podcasts #TheLever #LeverTime #Israel #Netanyahu #Hamas #corruption
"... Israel at the time was in the middle of a kind if identity crisis, over attempts by Netanyahu to alter the power of the judicial system. In part that was to appease his right-wing coalition, who desperately wanted to expand settlements in the West Bank, and also, this was a gambit by Netanyahu to actually influence the judiciary at a time when he was facing the judicial music, in the form of a corruption trial."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/
"The Master Plan" by #TheLever and @davidsirota is an awesomely informative #political #history #podcast. It is so relevant today, as it was 50 years ago when the plan for corrupt corporate control of #America started rolling.
I want to ask, since #ElonMusk's influence money for #Trump is not hidden, should it be called light money? That's not strong enough. Will more billionaires openly corrupt politicians in the future?
Money doesn't have to be dark anymore. The Master Plan is gleeful.
"Instead, they see exactly what you just pointed out which is; here are billionaires giving to Democrats, here are billionaires giving to Republicans, it's all a racket. Nobody's interested in me, to hell with it, let's vote for the biggest disruptor.
And that's why you end up with a charlatan criminal like Trump as .. next President."
US Senator #SheldonWhitehouse, Nov 5, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/the-master-planners-election-with-senator-sheldon-whitehouse/
"Maybe [Biden's] contradictions prove that even if people inside the system can see the corruption all around us, and lament that it's destroying our county, and really want to do something about it, maybe they still can't singlehandedly do much. If we keep swimming along, and don't force them to act."
#DavidSirota, 29 Oct, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-11-are-we-doomed-to-a-master-planned-future/
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Me:
> Even organised labour can't see enough sunlight between the candidates to express a preference
"Lever Time senior podcast producer Arjun Singh unpacks the cultural and economic trends that have turned working-class voters away from the Democratic Party and explores how the Republican Party is now working to win them over."
"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
"This is a circus. It is a national disgrace ... it is a high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks ... and it is a message that, unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you..."
US Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas, 1991
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-7-the-federalist-society-strikes-back/
A reminder that it's not new for conservatives to use accusations of racism, to deflect attention away from their corruption and hidden agendas and smear anti-corruption activists and officials.
"One of the things they need to do the implement Powell's memo, is destroy the laws that prevent them and their financial backers, from spending unlimited amounts of money to buy elections, politicians, and political power."
#DavidSirota, 2024
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
"America's corporate titans are sitting at a giant table, in a roman-columned fortress just one block from the Oval Office, where their pal Jerry is now literally the 'leader of the free world', and somehow they perceive themselves as the victims struggling for acceptance.
Imagine Darth Vader and the Emperor at the control panel of the Death Star, lamenting that they're unpopular and have no power."
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-4-the-task-force-that-took-over-america-2/
Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan
* Investigative podcast
* how political ideologues/corporations spent years orchestrating legalized corruption in USA
* narrated by David Sirota, an investigative journalist, Oscar nominee, fmr speechwriter for Bernie Sanders
#TheLever #SCOTUS #PowellMemo #USCC #capitalism #libertarianism #EnablingFascism #billionaires #conservatism #plutocracy #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #TAXtheRich #meritocracy #oligarchy #authoritarianism
« Allegations of #fraud in a recent federal lawsuit — if substantiated — could empower President #Biden’s #JusticeDepartment to rescind a controversial deferred prosecution agreement granted to Boeing by #DonaldTrump’s administration and blessed by an archconservative judge in the wake of two #737Max crashes, according to experts interviewed by #TheLever. »
https://www.levernews.com/will-biden-rescind-trumps-boeing-immunity-deal/
Less than a month before a door plug on a Boeing aircraft blew off midflight, employees at #SpiritAeroSystems, a subcontractor for #Boeing, had tried to warn corporate officials about serious safety problems with parts for 737 MAX jets. But those warnings went unheeded, and the employees were told to falsify records, according to a new investigation by #TheLever on a federal complaint filed by workers at Spirit.
Pharma Giant Delays Cancer Treatment Drug To Punish Biden
https://www.levernews.com/pharma-giant-threatens-to-delay-drugs-over-new-price-controls/
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