Tag: Matt Stoller

Why America Is Out of Ammunition

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
This chart is from the Government Accountability Office’s recent report on the Department of Defense’s lack of strategy around corporate mergers. Bow down before Powerpoint you peasants.

Today, as the U.S. is drawn into wars in Israel and Ukraine, as well as the defense of now-peaceful Taiwan, I’m writing about war. Not the policy choices, or whether U.S. military power is a net force for good or ill, but the actual practical machinery behind the American defense base that produces the weaponry necessary to sustain the military.

Why America Is Out of Ammunition

Taxpayers ARE on hook for bank bailout – and could even fund bankers’ bonuses

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As regulators rush through emergency measures to prevent further chaos following the disastrous collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, there’s a point they’re very keen to emphasize: this is not a bailout.

Taxpayers ARE on hook for bank bailout – and could even fund bankers’ bonuses

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Joe Biden stuck around just long enough to lie about who’s on the hook for SVB bailout

GOP Stops Pretending It Ever Actually Cared About ‘Antitrust Reform’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

GOP Stops Pretending It Ever Actually Cared About ‘Antitrust Reform’

To be clear, despite the press narrative to the contrary, I don’t think either party is particularly serious about antitrust reform. Congress is simply too grotesquely corrupt, and the combined cross-industry lobbying opposition to meaningful reform too great, to currently be overcome without some sort of major policy and cultural trajectory shift and a massive upheaval in Congress.

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Big Tech Antitrust Push in Congress Is Blunted by GOP-Led House

The appointment of Massie, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained inventor who has filed dozens of patents, signals that the Judiciary Committee under Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio will shift its focus away from legislation aimed at curbing the power of the largest tech companies. Jordan has been more focused on free-speech issues, including big tech’s perceived liberal bias.

“We’re all united in wanting to stop the censorship of conservatives and the suppression of free speech,” Jordan said in an interview. “That’s going to be a focus of the full committee work.”

Funny, that’s not what Massie told Breitbert. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Breaking Points’ New “Network” Features Neo-Cons and Squad Apologists

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Indie News Network

Let’s Take a Deep Dive Into the Breaking Points and their Affiliates

After years of non-stop lies, many have moved away from the mainstream media and began going to alternative media sources. As a result, we’ve seen a lane of media emerge that positions themselves as anti-establishment or populist, but in the end are serving the same corporate interests of the mainstream media.

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Stay tuned for more updates from Indie News Network on this developing story.

Breaking Points’ New “Network” Features Neo-Cons and Squad Apologists

Video by BigMadCrab on YouTube.

H/T: Breaking Points “Network” is Full of Oligarch-Affiliates and Neo-Cons by Franc Analysis on YouTube.

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Neocons Co-Opting The Populist Movement

Matt Stoller’s dream come true!