While #Trump’s demands elicited international outrage & a rebuke from #Denmark, WH ofcls have in recent weeks taken steps to determine the financial ramifications of #Greenland becoming a #US territory, including the cost of providing government services for its 58k residents, the sources said.
#Trump has White House studying cost of #Greenland takeover
The WH is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal govt to control Greenland as a territory, acc/to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump’s [#delusional, unsolicited & unwelcome] desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable #policy.
#geopolitics #Denmark #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/trump-greenland-us-territory-cost/
Fifth-generation farmers fighting to save their land
The Byrne family in western Victoria refuses to surrender their farm to a US-backed mineral sands mining company. They want to keep farming and pass their land on to future generations—but under Australian law, their options are limited.
Experts say landowners who resist approved mines face long, expensive legal battles with little chance of success. Is this what fair land rights look like?
#auspol #landrights #farmersvsminers #mining #greed #multinationals
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/donald-mineral-sands-mine-farm-acquisition/105063360
Paul Krugman | Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy. Trump’s people can be and are both.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/incompetent-or-evil-a-false-dichotomy #Trump #Musk #TrumpAdministration #Politics #Greed #Incompetence #Republicans #GOP #Resistance #PaulKrugman #Economics #USA
A pretty good overview of the significance of Amazon's #greed and #fuckery. Part of it is the usual by now #AI bullshit.
> Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/ by @pluralistic
Poverty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
-- Anonymous
#Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Greed #Poverty
#Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & Corruption
A ‘naïve’ #SupremeCourt delivered lawless #greed & #cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court
"The court’s 5–4 #CitizensUnited decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining #American reality today."
"These have been the inextricable evils of our day; we cannot address one of them apart from the two others. ...
Greed is racism's fuel. Only when this history is understood can the proper theological and ethical interventions take place.”
~ Ibid., pp. 6-7
#MartinLutherKing #capitalism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #militarism #greed
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“Notably, [Martin Luther] King, especially in the last few years of his life, drew attention to the three-headed evil that has plagued Western civilization: racism, materialism, and militarism."
#MartinLutherKing #capitalism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #militarism #greed
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~ Malcolm Foley, The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2025), p. 6
https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-anti-greed-gospel/419161
☛ "WHOA! Bernie BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN at PACKED RALLY"
Go Bernie!
" We will not accept #oligarchy ... #authoritarianism #Kleptocracy "
"This is honestly... a psychiatric issue".
✔︎ "Addiction".... ✔︎ #psychopathology
#democracy vs. #MuskVirus #plutocracy #billionaires #TrumpVirus #GQP #Project2025 #greed
#BernieSanders #truth #SocialSecurity
THIS IS THE ENERGY & FOCUS ON TRUTH AND ACTIVATING MASSES THAT WE NEED, TO EMERGE FROM THE TRAUMA & #DISINFORMATION
Just saw this cartoon posted on the enshittified, dying legacy blogging platform a few worthwhile writers still use. The article says the cartoon is banned on the enshittified, dying legacy social media platform still used by a few worthwhile people - and a lot more worthless ones. (Hint: it's now owned by the cartoon's subject, Cylon Musk.)
Good cartoon, imo.
#PortlandMaine: Weekly protests, Saturdays at 11am! #MonumentSquare (alternate site, City Hall)
#Protesters rallied at 16 #demonstrations across #Maine
by Carol Bousquet, Maine Public March 2, 2025
"Protesters rallied at 16 statewide demonstrations this weekend called #MarchEndTheMadness.
"Hundreds filled #MonumentSquare in #PortlandME Saturday to speak out about the #Trump Administration’s actions that have harmed #Mainers, including #farmers and #FederalWorkers.
"The protesters said they are calling for the restoration of checks and balances, the rule of law, and equity for all under the law.
"Steve Titcomb of Falmouth said he worries about the security of our country and that of our allies with Trump in charge.
"'The president has taken the side of #Russia and #Putin and is turning his back on decades of security for Europe and NATO,' Titcomb said.
"Susan Hanley of Orr’s Island said she’s disgusted with how President Trump treated #Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy Friday at the White House and said his administration is not working for Americans.
"'It’s not about ‘We the People’ for them. It’s about #greed and #money and #power,' Hanley said.
"The #16CountiesForCourage marches were organized by #IndivisiblePortland, #IndivisibleBangor and other advocacy groups.
"Earlier in the day about a hundred protesters gathered at Portland City Hall to speak out against the Trump Administration’s sweeping measures to downsize the federal government workforce.
"Angus Ferguson organizes a protest called 'Every Saturday at 11 am in Monument Square' that has been gathering for several weeks but met at City Hall because of multiple protests across the city. He said the Trump Administration is ignoring the U.S. Constitution and turning it upside down.
"'We’re protesting Donald Trump, #Musk and the #MAGA movement’s destruction of the U.S. Constitution, firing federal workers, decimating federal agencies,' Ferguson said.
"Ferguson, who is an attorney, said the President is literally 'executing' or destroying the law with his actions."
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/02/politics/state-politics/protesters-rallied-at-16-demonstrations-across-maine/
#MaineProtest #BadDOGE #USPol #MainePol #MaineProtests #Resist #ResistFascism #ResistDOGE
#Greed! If you vote #conservative #Republican #RightWing, you are supporting and encouraging greedy people to rob you and your children of our society wealth. Natural resources belong to all of us, and our labour is what creates most of the wealth. Stop voting right wing! #Canada #USA #Europe #World
In the coming weeks the Republicans in Congress will be bringing forward a major piece of legislation, a
“reconciliation” bill,
that encapsulates the value system of #greed and their obedience to #oligarchy.
It is the economic essence of Trumpism.
At a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality,
this legislation will provide trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the richest people in our country.
It will make the rich even richer.
At a time when the working class of this country is struggling to put food on the table and pay for housing,
this legislation will make savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition, education and other basic needs.
It will make the poor even poorer.
We cannot allow this to happen.
This legislation is enormously unpopular.
It is exactly what the American people do not want.
It must not be passed by Congress.
It must be defeated
-- and we can defeat it.
This is a perilous moment in American history.
Let us go forward together.
To Get #Trump on Board, #Kremlin Dangles a Chance to Make Big Money
The Russian government’s top investment manager, who has #Harvard & #McKinsey credentials & fluent English, brought a simple printout to Tuesday’s talks with the Trump admin in #SaudiArabia.
Its message: By pulling out of #Russia in outrage over the invasion of #Ukraine, American companies had walked away from piles of cold, hard cash.
#greed #kleptocracy #plutocracy #autocracy #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"How did a drug rooted, like many, in seed money from the US #government — that is, American taxpayers —... end up with such a price tag?
...taxpayers & private charities... subsidized much of the #science that yielded Zolgensma...
Yet that support came with no conditions — financial or otherwise — for the for-profit companies that brought the drug over the finish line, particularly when it came to pricing."
- @ProPublica
"Systematically strip every penny out of the govt.
Transfer the money to the top 0.1% in "tax reductions."
The very wealthy & corps. transfer the money to off-shore investments.
The offshore investments don't pay taxes.
is GONE from our economy."
-CC Dem club
"House Rs
released their budget blueprint
"What you need to know:
- Pg 35 cuts MDCD
- Pg 37 increases fed debt by $4T
They’re cutting benefits for kids, families & seniors to pay for billionaire tax cuts."
-Rep Amo
