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Og det er uansett like lite passende i en tråd om Biden.
Hva forventer du når du skriver at "dette hører vel bedre hjemme i konspirasjonstråden?" Du ser jo selv at det ikke akkurat er en vennlig beskjed om at nå er det på tide å returnere til Biden.
Jeg foreslo den tråden fordi jeg mener mye av det du skriver hører hjemme der; og om det ble skrevet der kunne jeg lettere respondert på det.
"This is so explicit that it's astonishing Pine Island even put it on paper,” said David Segal of Demand Progress, a grassroots group pressing Biden to reject Cabinet appointments tied to corporations. “This is not an example of people who happen to work at a big company — these are partners at a firm whose stated business model is to profit from the revolving door and connections gained from time in government."
Potential Biden Officials’ Firm Is Promising Big Profits Off Those Connections
Former government officials Tony Blinken, Michele Flournoy & Lloyd Austin may run Biden’s national security agencies — their firm is telling investors it expects to profit off ties to those officials.
www.dailyposter.com
Akkurat som fryktet/forventet med andre ord.
bryt ned monopolene
Biden urged by 32 advocacy groups to reject Big Tech influence
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden was urged to reject the influence of Big Tech companies on his administration, by 32 antitrust, consumer advocacy, labor and related groups in a letter sent on Monday.www.reuters.com
33 Groups Urge Biden to Reject Big Tech Appointments to His Cabinet - Public Citizen
To President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.: Congratulations on your historic election victory. The below undersigned organizations are a broad coalition…www.citizen.org
avslutningen på denne ypperlige artikkelen aktualiserer også nødvendigheten
Harpers har et strålende essay om dette denne måneden, der grunntesen er "kan USA ta seg råd til demokrati?"
USA er uten mekanismer som kan løse utfordringen under, og denne utfordringen er "dynamitt i borehullene", for å sitere tidligere innlegg. Og all den tid denne utfordringen ikke løses i USA, blir det ønsketenkning å tro at føderasjonen skal bestå. Det er innebygd at USA skal slite seg i filler.
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healing, unity, bipartisan; og penga snakker
Lawmakers Unify To Give Corporate Donors A License To Kill You
In the holiday spirit of bipartisan unity, a group of Democratic & GOP lawmakers join together to try to shield their corporate donors from lawsuits when they kill more workers.
www.dailyposter.com
Possible HHS Pick Shielded Nursing Homes From Liability During COVID Outbreak
Gina Raimondo has presided over one of the deadliest COVID outbreaks and helped shield nursing home companies from accountability. She could get the nation's top health care job.
www.dailyposter.com
tillegg:
oh gina
The secrecy has angered Rhode Island political leaders, unions and pro-transparency groups, some of whom see it as a deliberate effort to protect the interests of Wall Street entities that pour campaign cash into state races while positioning themselves for lucrative pension management contracts.
"This is sycophancy not just to Wall Street but to the hedge fund managers themselves -- the 1 percent of the 1 percent -- at the expense of an informed citizenry and a robust democracy," said former Rhode Island State Representative David Segal (D) in response to Raimondo’s letter justifying the secrecy. "That Raimondo finds this a compelling excuse to keep the documents under wraps isn’t a surprise, but the raw admission that she’s doing so to protect the interests of her Wall Street underwriters is astounding, a Romney-esque slip that should be treated as her '47 percent' moment.”
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The intertwined relationships are perhaps easiest to see in Rhode Island, where the state treasurer’s office openly demands secrecy as a way to protect the financial industry, which in turn has spent big on Raimondo’s political campaigns.
The New York Times reported that in the few years since Raimondo assumed office, "the Rhode Island pension system has ramped up its investments in hedge funds, private equity and venture capital from zero to almost $2 billion, or more than one-quarter of its assets under management."
A 2013 Maryland Public Policy Institute report found that “state pension systems that pay the most for Wall Street money management get some of the worst investment returns” -- and Rhode Island seems a case in point. As the Times noted, Raimondo’s move has delivered below average returns for Rhode Island’s pension fund, but has been a fee jackpot for the financial industry.
Protecting Wall Street Against Transparency
In a letter obtained by IBTimes, Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo justifies pension investment secrecy to protect hedge fund managers.
www.ibtimes.com
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Longtime Biden Adviser Lobbied on Behalf of Trump's Corporate Tax Cut
Longtime Biden adviser Cynthia Hogan worked as a top lobbyist for Apple and led the NFL’s lobbying division during a high-profile domestic violence scandal.
theintercept.com
Denne perioden under ethvert amerikansk valg, når man får synliggjort hvor fullstendig amerikansk politikk er styrt av diverse bransjers økonomiske interesser, er muligens det mest deprimerende jeg kan tenke meg.
og sågar mer enn økonomi; de karakterløse vurderes for å helbrede nasjonen. far out!
en ny mann opp?
While Laquan’s family were privately grieving their loss, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was figuring out how to keep the video footage of Laquan’s shooting from seeing the light of day.
So when I got word that President-elect Biden was considering Emanuel for a Cabinet position, I was hurt. It wasn’t because Rahm and I have differing views on policy (although we do), but because Rahm saw the murder of Laquan McDonald as a political obstacle, a threat to his reelection bid. Instead of seeking justice for Laquan and the people of Chicago, he took the coward’s way out by trying to bury the story. To me, that speaks volumes about his character.
Spørsmålet er kanskje hvorvidt det i det hele tatt finnes personer i offentilige verv som er moralsk skikket til å utnevnes til Bidens nye administrasjon, inkludert Biden selv. Hele amerikas politiske system er jo designet rundt det som i andre land ville vært åpenbar korrupsjon. Man kan knapt velges til noen stilling høyere enn hundefanger i en liten småby uten å tigge til seg heftige donasjoner og i den rene kapitalismes høyborg vil de fleste selvsagt ha noe igjen for pengene sine.
ikke alle er overbevist om hvor gode bidens valg er:
It’s Joe Biden’s Swamp Now
So far, Joe Biden’s transition has hired liberally from Wall Street and corporate America, chosen appointees who have made multiple trips through the revolving door, and recruited fans of fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis. It’s little different than what we saw under Donald Trump.
jacobinmag.com
“Trump’s critics have said that the picks represent a departure from his anti-Wall Street rhetoric during the campaign, and that they are out of touch with the working-class Americans whom he vowed to champion during the campaign,” wrote the Boston Globe, in a sentence that could be, word for word, repurposed for the incoming Biden administration, except for the fact that no such critics exist in respectable circles this time around.
Valgene til Biden tilsier i større og større grad at det er lite poeng i å ha særlige forhåpninger til neste administrasjon om man gjerne vil se en forandring over there. Same procedure as every year, Joe!UUtgatt24668
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Å la John Kerry reforhandle Parisavtalen, som i utangspunktet var et dårlig håndtverk utført av samme person, er et godt eksempel på at Biden her skal gjenninnføre Obama 2.0 politikk = Nada og ingenting. Prat og ingen handling.
Det er mulig at det er dette USA trenger etter Trump - men det er liten grunn til å vente i spenning på de store resultatene. Ikke har han med noen fra de progressive heller - kjedelig!
Trump 2.0 blir derimot både svært farlig og minst like underholdene som før - spesielt når Biden nå - tilsynelatende- legger veldig opp til det. Men - mannen må få en sjanse!
Det tragiske er jo at disse folka i utgangspunktet er oppe til vurdering i det hele tatt. At Biden og Harris ikke skulle være fullt ut klar over hvilke bindinger og forhistorier de har står selvsagt ikke til troende og om de faktisk hadde som sine forsetter å jobbe for folk flest ville navnene deres aldri vært å finne på noen liste.
Det blir godt å bli kvitt Trump (for en stakket stund), men det kan virke som om Bidens primære ambisjon er å bygge videre på omstendighetene som lot ham entre scenen i første omgang.
nok et valg med bismak
bryt dem opp i tusen stykningsdeler
Will Big Tech Take Over Trade Policy?
Katherine Tai is the leading candidate to head USTR. Will she be undermined by the appointment of industry lobbyists to key jobs just below her?
prospect.org
Ikke Facebook. Den bør forbys og Suckerberg bures inne på ubestemt tid.
et lite intervjuen side viet kommentarer til utnvenelser
Presidential Cabinet Personnel
Scoops and analysis on presidential administration cabinet and agency appointments
prospect.org
Joe Biden’s Cabinet Is on Loan From Corporate America
As Joe Biden staffs his incoming administration, battle lines have been drawn between progressives and centrists. But the real winner has been corporate America, whose lobbyists and consultants have been getting the bulk of the plum jobs.
jacobinmag.com
en blir ikke lystig og forhåpningsfull av slik lesing…Sist redigert:Noe tyder på at denne tråden kommer til å bli like lang og frådene som den andre...
Det var akkurat det jeg ikke håpet på!
Er demokratene fullstendig blotta for tankegang?
Eller er motsetningene innad i partiet så store at dette er det beste vi kan håpe på?
Jeg vil for all del ikke ha Il Drumpht 2.0!UUtgatt24668
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Vi er nok mange som for tiden er over snittet opptatt av Trump og Corona-håndteringen i Sverige. Jeg synes dette er interessant.
Nå som Biden faktisk har en plan for å dra USA inn i noe mer stabilt og seriøst - så er ikke det veldig interessant å diskutere. Å diskutere alle sprellene til Trump er derimot svært underholdene, det samme med fråsteriet over hvor "ille" det går med Sverige.
Vi tiltrekkes nok mot det destruktive, selv om man skulle tro at alle trekkene til Biden nå var svært interessant - spesielt ettersom man har brukt 4 år på å klage over klovnen Trump.
Det kan vel ikke bli noe særlig verre, men det trenger ikke nødvendigvis bli noe særlig bedre...
vi utholder mer dritt
"This brings tears to my eyes": A civil rights leader reacts to Vilsack nomination with grief and fury
Lawrence Lucas, president emeritus of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees, explains why Tom Vilsack's nomination to lead USDA has stoked intense feelings of betrayal.thecounter.org
muligheter, om en VIL
Why Biden Might Not Need McConnell’s Permission
The president-elect has more tools for staffing the new administration including one that no president has ever used before.
washingtonmonthly.com
obama var jo en slik ja, vi kan, men vi kan ikke fyr. nå, hva kan de ville?!
iike lett å kvtte seg med dritten…
But BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is entering this era in a unique position: Two of President-elect Joe Biden’s senior economic advisers worked there in the years after they left the Obama administration.
Brian Deese, who until Dec. 18 led sustainable investing at BlackRock, is Biden’s pick to lead the White House National Economic Council. And Wally Adeyemo, who worked at BlackRock for just over two years, including as an interim chief of staff to founder Larry Fink, is slated to be deputy treasury secretary, with a direct hand in shaping the Biden administration’s approach to financial regulation. Adeyemo left the firm in 2019 to lead the Obama Foundation.
og mitt oppi galskapen, nesten en liten gladnyhet
litt historietime om det som er
As a result, while Obama’s administration played with economic models and showed little appetite for aggressive action on corporate power, the nation’s economy fell further under the sway of a handful of giants. In Obama’s two terms, antitrust agencies only bothered to investigate 376 out of 11,056 large merger transactions, a little over 3 percent. There were no major monopolization cases taken. Not a single merger from Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Apple was challenged, and not a single bank merger was blocked. Illegal mergers were waved through, and investigations into business giants were dropped. Sectors like agriculture, airlines, e-commerce, defense, online advertising, health care, telecom, and media publishing severely concentrated, with next to no resistance. You can read about much of this in my book Monopolized; but the report has additional details.
How Biden Can Move On From the Obama Era
The American Economic Liberties Project’s ‘Courage to Learn’ report explains Obama’s failures on competition policy, and a path forward for the new president.
prospect.org
Biden Must Close the Revolving Door Between BigLaw and Government
Representing corporate clients against the public interest isn’t the ideal training ground for Biden administration officials.
prospect.org
essensen av demokratenes maktpolitikk; ikke bruk!
Biden’s New Attempt To Reward The GOP Must Be Rejected
Despite Democrats winning Congress, the incoming president is prioritizing a budget deal with extremist Republicans, when he doesn't need their votes.
www.dailyposter.com
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Back to the Future IV: The Presidential EditionUUtgatt24668
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Here's what's in Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package
Bigger stimulus checks. More aid for the unemployed, the hungry and those facing eviction. Additional support for small businesses, states and local governments. Increased funding for vaccinations and testing.
edition.cnn.com
Redningspakke som nå sannsynligvis blir vedtatt med flertall for demokratene. Den bidrar ikke akkurat til å balansere budsjettet, men det spørs hva alternativkosten er.
Biden har fire harde og umulige år foran seg.. Tråden burde hete Joseph "Sysiphus" Biden.
Muligens hadde Sísyphos en marginalt enklere oppgave.
Er bare å ta litt av forsvarsbudsjettet som eser og eser ut.
Here's what's in Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package
Bigger stimulus checks. More aid for the unemployed, the hungry and those facing eviction. Additional support for small businesses, states and local governments. Increased funding for vaccinations and testing.
edition.cnn.com
Redningspakke som nå sannsynligvis blir vedtatt med flertall for demokratene. Den bidrar ikke akkurat til å balansere budsjettet, men det spørs hva alternativkosten er.Pparafinoksen
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Barnebokutgaven av fortellingen om Bidens presidentperiode: Joseph «Ryddegutt» Biden prøver å ordne opp -
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