Sovereignty within an imperialist system that imposes de-development requires disciplining capital. China does this. Capitalist countries in the Global South do not. #sovereignty #socialism #MacroNCheese
Macro N Cheese | MMT PodcastAn MMT podcast for the working class, not the billionaires.realprogressives.orgWhy hasn't the Global South achieved energy sovereignty? Capitalists there want to integrate into imperialism and sell out their people. China disciplines capital. That's the difference. 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗮 @ 𝗦𝗮𝘁 𝟴/𝟭 @ 𝟴 𝗮𝗺 𝗘𝗧. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸👇 #GlobalSouth #China #imperialism
“Everyone is of the opinion that, whether they find anything or not, they are going to continue” to pursue this, one source said about the political pressure to find fraud in the seized mail-in ballots.
FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In BallotsAs part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...www.propublica.orgInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading ThemInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.www.propublica.org
This is a very scary development, what happens when AI starts telling you the battle of Hastings was in 1068, and there is nothing left to refer back to. See the problem. AI is causing as many problems as it solves. 1984 has truly arrived.
Sheady OmahrtIt’s easy to rewrite history when you destroy all the original records.
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Trump's former top food official: Cyclospora outbreak ‘approaching catastrophic’ levelFormer FDA Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas called for an independent after-the-fact review of how the federal government has handled the record-breaking outbreak.www.yahoo.com#Inflation is a fever of a sick system; one where private monopolies control resources & refuse to invest in human need. The ruling class blames the state's currency to distract from the real culprit: capitalist scarcity amidst potential abundance. Austerity is their death rattle against #socialism
"When the federal govt spends, it authorizes payments that result in bank accts being credited. New state 💰 enters the economy. When federal taxes are paid, 💰 is removed from pvt. accts & extinguished as pt. of the settlement process. Spending adds $s to the nongovt sector; taxation subtracts them."
The Truth About "Printing Money"The ruling class does not require every worker to understand banking operations. It only requires workers to believe that their suffering is financially unavoidable.realprogressives.org
Excellent article about Bears Ears & Grand Staircase/Escalante. 'For Native nations, the sacred is not a shrine that can be fenced off while the land around it is opened to mining. It is the whole living landscape. These are sacred places, not sacred sites.' theconversation.com/the-us-has-a...
The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protectionsNative religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.theconversation.com
