Profiting off public education means denigrating them. https://tultican.com/2026/01/22/bellwether-and-k12-coalition-published-misleading-report/ #Profiteering
#profiteering
Trump Pocketed At Least $1.4 Billion in First Year Back in Office in Unprecedented 'Exploitation of the Presidency'
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.commondreams.org/trump-profit-from-the-presidency
It’s blatantly obvious that #Trump is unfit for office.
Failures to #prosecute him & a #corrupt #SCOTUS, has enabled his unfettered #profiteering & illegality.
#TwentyFifthAmendment #TrumpRegime #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Venezuela #Greenland #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfit #NoKings #PutinsPuppet #NATO #USPol #auspol #TrumpCrimeFamily #traitor #RogueNation
The #Greens defence spokesperson, #DavidShoebridge, was scathing of #Trump #BoardOfPeace plan, writing on social media:
“Trump is trying to sell #Palestinian sovereignty for $1 billion per seat while Palestinians are still being bombed and starved under the so-called “ceasefire.”
This isn’t #diplomacy, it’s #profiteering off #genocide. #Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.”
If this isn't actually fraud, it certainly looks like fraud.
Stop this sponging off customers NOW.
Choose Life? Protect Life? Nah, profit is everything
National Infrastructure?
We haven't got a national infrastructure.
What we have is a chaotic muddled mess of mixed up outsourced #profiteering citizen defrauding bloodsucker systems.
This will be another source of corruption and back pocket stuffing. Someone has clearly seen a new profit making opportunity they will guard from conscientious protesters.
Sick and sad
#starmer #ukgovernment evil must stop
No more #corruption
Time appears to be racing past, but the next election always seems so far away.
#starmer must go
#ukgovernment #lobbying is #corruption
#fairtaxation not just for the overprivileged few
#privatisation is #profiteering
End #racism against all race and religion, not just the chosen
Fight against #genocide in #gaza and #ukraine and #sudan
Vote #green for a change
'A dysfunctional market', is how residential care is described.
It shouldn't be a 'market'. There should be no private profit in caring for children who need this type of support.
Surge in children in care in Swindon drove huge budget overspend
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25706418.surge-children-care-swindon-drove-huge-budget-overspend/
Good Morning #Canada
Like most Canadians I suspect our grocery bill this week will be over budget as we prepare for a family #Christmas dinner and a week of holiday goodies. But help is on the way in January with the implementation of the Grocery Code of Conduct. Colour me skeptical but I'm not sure this is going to solve the issue of high grocery bills. I understand the attempt to eliminate unnecessary costs in the supply food chain. As a former manager in logistics, the fines and charges for missed delivery windows, fulfillment shortages or even the wrong pallets used, are real. But any reduction in supply chain costs will likely be absorbed as profit, not passed on to consumers. A far more effective solution would be an Excess Profits Tax where companies are charged a penalty tax when they earn profit that is unreasonable or above expectations, such as during COVID or a period of inflation.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Profiteering
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/what-canadians-need-to-know-about-the-grocery-code-of-conduct/
Chicagoans Grill AT&T for Facilitating ICE Terror
https://prospect.org/2025/11/17/chicago-ice-att-protest-department-homeland-security/ #ATT #ICE #DHS #Chicago #Protest #Immigration #Profiteering
"No president in American history has profited off the presidency the way Donald Trump has—and it’s not close. ...
That’s why we’ve had a hard time picking the worst instances of his corrupt self-enrichment, not to mention that of his cronies and family. So if you don’t see your favorite scheme on this list, don’t worry—there are too many! Here’s our latest Top 10 Worst list…."
~ Norman Eisen and Gabriel Lezra
#Trump #corruption #grift #profiteering
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-and-cronies-top-10-worstpresidential
With all the #Gaza #Donation stuff, and now the #GazaVerified program putting forward people who have, from what I understand, had some level of vetting (though I don't know enough to say it's enough), I'm still not feeling like these personal, #MutualAid style #donations can really be effective.
The #Genocide campaign the #Israeli government is waging against the #Palestinian people is not going to be deterred by donations to the families they are starving and depriving of healthcare, nor does this do anything to hold merchants and smugglers accountable for #profiteering on the violent actions of the #Netanyahu regime, nor does it do anything to support the #charity organizations where people are risking their lives to run supplies through blockades and render aid to people in an active #EthnicCleansing zone where #AidWorkers and #journalists are a target of military violence.
I just don't see the point, pragmatically, of giving a handful of people a few dollars...
(continued)
Will #starmer start FAKING #terrorist incidents? Has he already begun? #Putin has been suspected of this. Is #ukgovernment decided to become like #moscow ?
Has #Britain become a police state?
The #gaza affair was a fabrication from the beginning.
A #corrupt Lord
A #profiteering foreign company
Fabricated evidence
Collusion with British #Police
Illegal transfer of evidence
Lies in #court
Do we #trust the government ?
Why are they supporting #genocide ?
@obrien_kat "#crime for #Russians without #punishment, and punishment for others without crime"
"a document that obviously has other purposes than peace: namely, #imperialism and #profiteering"
"Russia signing one more agreement not to invade Ukraine in the middle of its invasion of Ukraine seems empty and cynical, at best"
"It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries" and "overlook the bald reality that ... Russia is in fact invading a neighboring country right now "
Autocracy Inc Shows How the West Is Using the Autocrats’ Playbook
We’ll do something a bit different next month…no specific book. I’ll be looking back at all the books I’ve read this year and building out some common themes over the course of the month. If you’re not part of book club then join to get all the posts.
After reading Autocracy Inc and looking at Anne Applebaum’s current thoughts on the American Political Climate, I can’t help but be just a bit more shocked at how far the US has fallen in it’s leadership for democracy. But maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, proponents of democracy have preached a better game than they’ve played abroad.
Democracies have always been willing to inflict violence on others if it meant profit for home grown companies. In late 2023 I read The Bill Gates Problem and was struck by the statement that the ability of billionaires to turn their personal wealth into political power is a sign of a failing democracy1 and rising oligarchy.
Around the same time I came across a browser extension that turned the word billionaire into oligarch and did some preliminary work with the working title “In America we call them Billionaires not Oligarchs” because it felt like a novel idea at the time. Today Cory Doctorow talks about the shitty tech adoption curve, at the same time Applebaum highlights how democracies use the same surveillance tools of autocrats in the name of “keeping people safe”2. All it’s taken is a shift in who sits in power and the safety technology is easily transformed into a social credit monitoring system stripping people of their rights.
My once novel idea connecting oligarchy and billionaires seems more like common knowledge that kleptocracy and oligarchy has captured many political institutions across the West.
In Canada we have the Roger’s Family, who control most of our telecom structure and are led by a whiny child3 of the founder who pushes others around to get his way while claiming he’s saving the legacy of his father.
Three companies own almost the entire grocery economy in Canada. They were already caught fixing the price of bread and while everyday Canadians struggle to get by many claim grocery giants are profiting on inflation as their profit growth exceeds that of inflation. This price fixing is only possible because of consolidation.
Cory Doctorow argues, militantly but well, in Enshittification that when we have few companies competing it’s easy for them to all get on the same page and engage in price fixing. The consolidated power also means that employees of the powerful companies cycle in and out of regulators where they’re hesitant to build strong regulations to reign in the companies they want to work at again in the future4.
Just like the US, Canada is following the neoliberal economic playbook which has a key tactic, destroying the normal person’s ability to organize5. If regular people carry lots of debt, work lots of hours, or have lots of unpaid labour at home, they are experiencing scarcity which means they don’t have the time to organize. While this isn’t a direct comparison, it maps closely in theme with Applebaum’s idea that autocrats flood us with a fire hose of falsehoods. Both concepts rely on overloaded citizens, from one end it’s a barrage of information that leaves you no usable bandwidth to dig into all the corruption going on. From the other end, financial precarity means you’re more concerned about food on the table and can’t focus on anything outside of that goal.
Essentially we get pushed so much into scarcity of attention6, or finances, that we can’t spare a second to protest. We’re too busy and our circle of moral concern contracts so we view others as less like ourselves.
Should You Read Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum?
Yes, but it’s not an easy read because it highlights so much that’s going wrong with the world around us. I finished the book better equipped to recognize the autocrats playbook, and a bit demoralized at how far many countries have fallen from their democratic roots. The US is no longer the beacon of democracy in once was and it doesn’t seem to me that we have another country jumping into the leadership void left by the US.
If you want to recognize the tools of the autocrats so that you can combat their encroachment in your life, read this book.
- The Bill Gates Problem Pg 15 ↩︎
- Autocracy Inc Pg 70, 71 ↩︎
- Rogers v Rogers Pg 224 ↩︎
- Corporate Control Pg 188, 189 ↩︎
- Corporate Control Pg 72 ↩︎
- As shown in Scarcity ↩︎
Autocracy Inc Shows How the West Is Using the Autocrats’ Playbook
We'll do something a bit different next month...no specific book. I'll be looking back at all the books I've read this year and building out some common themes over the course of the month. If you're not part of book club then join to get all the posts.
After r
https://curtismchale.ca/2025/11/23/autocracy-inc-shows-how-the-west-is-using-the-autocrats-playbook/
#BookClub #democracy #kleptocracy #oligarch #profiteering
@PoliceStateUK
#nhs #ukgovernment
About time somebody woke up.
Government computing at one time, at least ten years ago, was actually good.
#outsourcing is the biggest form of #corruption it is
#profiteering over #service
As the US govt #shutdown continues🚨 -civilian employees of the #DOD — many: veterans & military family members -are questioning how the agency is treating their fed service as some struggle to make ends meet amid missed paychecks.
Morale is low & falling fast🚨-several said they/others: know are actively looking to leave fed svc.
(Trump's goal: dismantle the USG for #privatization, #profiteering...)
As of 2021, nearly 1/2 of the DOD’s civilian employees were vets.
#USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/politics/pentagon-civilians-pay-stress
The blank in dates of emails (Valerie Plame time frame) reminds me of the missing minutes from Nixon tapes.
Eventually Cheney's emails would disappear to the tune of 5M, 22 million, clear violations of the Presidential Records Act. But, tell me more about locking up Hillary -
#war #criminal #DickCheney #shot a #man in the #face too #IraqWar #weapons of #mass #destruction #torture #waterboarding #email #scandal #GWB43 #dot #com #profiteering #corruption
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23367672
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