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Usually, I don't like adverts, but I applaud this one (Found on Instagram, the ad is located in Brixton, London)
Usually, I don't like adverts, but I applaud this one (Found on Instagram, the ad is located in Brixton, London)
#MarkZuckerberg has bought #BurntJacketMountain near #MooseheadLake and has cordoned it off (folks have been able to hike on it since forever).
Mystery Fuels Unease in #Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain
An anonymous new owner fenced off beloved trails and put up surveillance cameras in a region with a long tradition of allowing public access on private land.
By Jenna Russell and Heather Knight
Visuals by Sophie Park
Jenna Russell reported from Beaver Cove, Maine, and Heather Knight from San Francisco.
Nov. 15, 2025
Excerpt: "Soon enough, though, a woman who used to work in Greenville’s town office said she had the answer and posted it on Facebook: The new owner of the mountain was Mark Zuckerberg.
The billionaire founder of Facebook had spent time in the Maine woods before. In 2017, for their fifth wedding anniversary, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had traveled not to Aspen or Cabo, but to #BangorME and #MillinocketME, where they hiked on the Appalachian Trail and met with workers who had lost their jobs when local paper mills shut down."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/mystery-maine-burnt-jacket-mountain.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VWJNn
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please!🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/12/fossil-fuel-projects-health-research?CMP=greenlight_email
#BernieSanders Lays Out Plan to Fight #Oligarchy as Wealth of Top #Billionaires Passes $10 Trillion
"If there was ever a moment when #progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time," wrote Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Despair is not an option."
Jake Johnson
Dec 31, 2024
"A Bloomberg analysis of billionaire wealth published Tuesday found that the combined fortunes of the 500 richest people on the planet surpassed $10 trillion this year, a finding that came shortly after U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued an urgent call to action to prevent the emergence of 'an oligarchic and authoritarian society.'
"The new analysis notes that the world's top 500 billionaires 'got vastly richer' this year with the help of "an indomitable rally in U.S. technology stocks."
"Just eight billionaires— #ElonMusk, #MarkZuckerberg, #JensenHuang, #LarryEllison, #JeffBezos, #MichaelDell, #LarryPage, and #SergeyBrin—added more than $600 billion to their collective wealth in 2024 and accounted for 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase in net worth among the world's 500 richest people, according to Bloomberg.
"'But it was Musk—the so-called 'first buddy' of President-elect Donald Trump after unprecedented support for his reelection campaign—who dominated the world's wealthiest in 2024,' Bloomberg observed, adding that Trump himself also saw his fortune surge to a record high this year, 'boosted by the performance of his majority stake in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.'
"Musk's use of his enormous fortune to influence the U.S. political system—including via his purchase of one of the world's largest social media platforms and donations to Trump's 2024 campaign—amplified existing concerns about the corrosive impact of massive wealth concentration on democracy.
"And #WealthInequality in the U.S. could soon get worse, with Trump and the incoming Republican-controlled Congress set to pursue another round of tax cuts for the #UltraRich and large #corporations."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-billionaire-wealth
#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #Authoritarianism #TechBros #CapitalismMustDie
#MarkZuckerberg has bought #BurntJacketMountain near #MooseheadLake and has cordoned it off (folks have been able to hike on it since forever).
Mystery Fuels Unease in #Maine Woods: Who Bought Burnt Jacket Mountain
An anonymous new owner fenced off beloved trails and put up surveillance cameras in a region with a long tradition of allowing public access on private land.
By Jenna Russell and Heather Knight
Visuals by Sophie Park
Jenna Russell reported from Beaver Cove, Maine, and Heather Knight from San Francisco.
Nov. 15, 2025
Excerpt: "Soon enough, though, a woman who used to work in Greenville’s town office said she had the answer and posted it on Facebook: The new owner of the mountain was Mark Zuckerberg.
The billionaire founder of Facebook had spent time in the Maine woods before. In 2017, for their fifth wedding anniversary, Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had traveled not to Aspen or Cabo, but to #BangorME and #MillinocketME, where they hiked on the Appalachian Trail and met with workers who had lost their jobs when local paper mills shut down."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/mystery-maine-burnt-jacket-mountain.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VWJNn
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please!🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/12/fossil-fuel-projects-health-research?CMP=greenlight_email
Extinction Rebellion activists in Turin held a protest in Turin at the weekend, wrapping the monument to Count Cavour in thermal blankets to protest the use of fossil fuels and social inequality.
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Activists from Climate Resistance targeted the superyacht of former Tory peer Irvine Laidlaw while it was docked in London yesterday.
Laidlaw has donated more than £3 million to the Conservative party.
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Activist group Tax Millionaires took their bus to Edinburgh yesterday, calling on the government to implement a wealth tax in the upcoming budget.
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»Millionär Josef Rick kritisiert Steuerrecht und legt Privilegien offen«
https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/offen-millionaer-josef-rick-kritisiert-steuerrecht-und-legt-privilegien-94030724.html
»Mein Steuerberater hat früher immer gesagt:
„Herr Rick, es ist ganz einfach. Kaufen Sie alte Häuser, warten Sie drei Jahre, renovieren Sie die und verkaufen Sie nach zehn Jahren und einem Tag.
Und das machen Sie immer so weiter. Dann haben Sie mit dem Finanzamt nie wieder etwas zu tun“.«
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»Millionär Josef Rick kritisiert Steuerrecht und legt Privilegien offen«
https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/offen-millionaer-josef-rick-kritisiert-steuerrecht-und-legt-privilegien-94030724.html
»Mein Steuerberater hat früher immer gesagt:
„Herr Rick, es ist ganz einfach. Kaufen Sie alte Häuser, warten Sie drei Jahre, renovieren Sie die und verkaufen Sie nach zehn Jahren und einem Tag.
Und das machen Sie immer so weiter. Dann haben Sie mit dem Finanzamt nie wieder etwas zu tun“.«
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"Being very rich seemed to drive people mad. Seemed to make them leave normality behind. As if the only possible reason for their vast amount of money was that they were born with powers above mortal beings."
—from "The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery" by Richard Osman
Timely and accurate.
"Being very rich seemed to drive people mad. Seemed to make them leave normality behind. As if the only possible reason for their vast amount of money was that they were born with powers above mortal beings."
—from "The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery" by Richard Osman
Timely and accurate.
The biggest heist in human history. And all in plain sight.
How big is $1 trillion?
Imagine $1 is 1 nm of distance:
$2,250 - average annual SNAP benefit per person
$7000 is about the diameter of a red blood cell (7 μm)
$15,080 - annual salary at US federal minimum wage, 40 hrs/wk, no overtime
$100,000 is a hair's breadth (100 μm)
$190,000 - US median net worth
$1 million is a pencil line (1 mm)
$1 billion is a single biggish step (1 m)
$1 trillion is two and a half laps around an Olympic track (1000 m)
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