May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government. Trump appointed him anyway.
Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..
Report
Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.
They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.
The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.
The same people who bought a coup attempt, a corrupt Supreme Court, and 147 members of Congress to deny election results, are funding violence at campus protests.
At Justice #Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
An upside-down flag, adopted by #Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. #SCOTUS
Britain's record on homelessness is world beating, just not in a good way.
We've the highest recorded levels of homelessness in the developed world; while other counties have seen (albeit slow) declines in homelessness, since 2010 the UK's rate has been accelerating away.
The housing crisis has many dimensions, but here there's a direct correlation between the arrival of the current Tory govt. & massive increases!
The party of landlords is working for them & doing nothing for us!
An organization led by a wealthy Republican donor helped write a controversial new state law meant to force homeless people across Florida into state-sanctioned camps:
Sixty days in jail and forced psychiatric treatment: What Florida could do next to homeless people https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/sixty-days-in-jail-and-forced-psychiatric
Enormous vehicles used to be used by people who needed them. Electricians. Plumbers. Carpenters. Delivery truck drivers.
Suddenly rich people wanted to use huge vehicles to publicize their inner insecurities & paranoid beliefs.
Fears about becoming poor. Fears about thieves & car accidents. Fears about not being masculine.
Fears about the end of the world & fake fears about things like a zombie apocalypses (ie hidden fears about race wars). Fantasies about mountain trails.
I gotta say.. it’s fucking scary to see the far right rise so fast in so many countries with such extremes
We have had 2 world wars with so many deaths that also started with such ‘ideas’ and ‘thoughts’, we cannot and may not let that happen ever again
Unfortunately I don’t have the answers but I really much wish we could find some common ground and cool down things before it gets even further out of hand
As George Monbiot says, the answer to thwarting a fascist movement & its inevitable wars, is using tax dollars to benefit the citizens & voters of a nation, all of them, not just the 1% at the top.
Also, ensuring that the top pays their taxes.
It was the Post WW2 answer that worked for 75 years. It created trade not brinksmanship. It created diplomacy and mutual aid treaties like NATO.
That's the solution.
Tax the rich.
Good government geared towards the needs of the nation.