So they made the call: “#JimmyKimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision—the product of a spider’s web of interlocking #political & #financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest #corporations —quickly morphed into a flashpoint for #FreeSpeech in the #US. Many #Democrats, actors & comedians cried foul as #FarRight activists celebrated.On a diplomatic trip in Britain, #Trump knocked #Kimmel for “bad ratings” & proclaimed that #ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”
Keeping with the documentary theme, I'm watching the 2020 sequel to the excellent 2003 film The Corporation. Entitled The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, it explores the "corporation social responsibility" gambit and the normalisation of disaster capitalism.
If you can afford to pay to see it, please help the filmmakers fund future work. If you can't, magnet links for downloading it with BitTorrent can be found here;
https://yts.mx/movies/the-new-corporation-the-unfortunately-necessary-sequel-2020
If you haven't seen the 2003 original, made in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals and only 5 years before the corpogenic Global Financial Crisis, get thee to the archives;
https://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_/
#film #documentary#TheCorporation #corporations #capitalism#GFC
Kevin Carson
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Remember, #capitalism is not defined by “ #markets & #businesses & #trade”. It is a system where #production is controlled overwhelmingly by #capital: the big #banks, large #corporations, & the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive
Tristan Nitot✓
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Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
@EUCommission Does this mean we can expect a unifying tax on obscenely #rich and exploitative #corporations in order to boost our economies and wallets, not just prices? Yes? No? Maybe?
BREAKING: This new report by the #UN Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese identifies the main #corporations that are profiting from #occupation & #genocide in Palestine.
#Israel#Palestine#MiddleEast#Genocide#EthnicCleansing#Palestinians#Palestinian#Israeli#Politics#Gaza#Egypt#Lebanon#Syria#Iraq#Iran#SaudiArabia#Qatar#Yemen#USA#Zionism#BDS#Ceasefire#CeasefireNow#ArmsEmbargo#ArmsEmbargoNow#Netanyahu#BenjaminNetanyahu#FreeGaza#FreePalestine
Doug Belshaw
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One simple metric of inequality in the UK:
in 1980 the ration of median FTSE100 CEO pay to median UK wages was: £1 - £11;
In 2022 it had become £1 - £118.
I think it's safe to say that is not commensurate with the improvement in the conduct & success of the top management of UK corporations; nor, should it be said, a fall in the contribution to the UK economy of the work of the general population.
The rentiers (as we know) have stolen our wages.
One simple metric of inequality in the UK:
in 1980 the ration of median FTSE100 CEO pay to median UK wages was: £1 - £11;
In 2022 it had become £1 - £118.
I think it's safe to say that is not commensurate with the improvement in the conduct & success of the top management of UK corporations; nor, should it be said, a fall in the contribution to the UK economy of the work of the general population.
The rentiers (as we know) have stolen our wages.