March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010
August 2010
September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 February 2012 March 2012 April 2012 May 2012 June 2012 July 2012 August 2012 September 2012 October 2012 November 2012 December 2012 January 2013 February 2013 March 2013 April 2013 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 September 2013 October 2013 November 2013 December 2013 January 2014 February 2014 March 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 July 2014 August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 December 2014 January 2015 February 2015 March 2015 April 2015 May 2015 June 2015 July 2015 August 2015 September 2015 October 2015 November 2015 December 2015 January 2016 February 2016 March 2016 April 2016 May 2016 June 2016 July 2016 August 2016 September 2016 October 2016 November 2016 December 2016 January 2017 February 2017 March 2017 April 2017 May 2017 June 2017 July 2017 August 2017 September 2017 October 2017 November 2017 December 2017 January 2018 February 2018 March 2018 April 2018 May 2018 June 2018 July 2018 August 2018 September 2018 October 2018 November 2018 December 2018 January 2019 February 2019 March 2019 April 2019 May 2019 June 2019 July 2019 August 2019 September 2019 October 2019 November 2019 December 2019 January 2020 February 2020 March 2020 April 2020 May 2020 June 2020 July 2020 August 2020 September 2020 October 2020 November 2020 December 2020 January 2021 February 2021 March 2021 April 2021 May 2021 June 2021 July 2021 August 2021 September 2021 October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 January 2022 February 2022 March 2022 April 2022 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 September 2022 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022 January 2023 February 2023 March 2023 April 2023 May 2023 June 2023 July 2023 August 2023 September 2023 October 2023 November 2023 December 2023 January 2024 February 2024 March 2024 April 2024 May 2024 June 2024 July 2024 August 2024 September 2024 October 2024 November 2024 December 2024
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
News Every Day |

'Man of the Year' or man of their wallets?

— Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar Bargain: Buying the White House, One Regulation at a Time. Elon Musk’s purchase of the government is already starting to pay returns. The largest part of the Muskrat’s fortune comes from Tesla, which he bought from its inventors years ago and was turned into a major enterprise by Barack Obama. (You may remember the headline from 2009: “The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric sedan and the battery packs needed to propel it. It’s one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy awarded today to spur the development of fuel-efficient vehicles, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today.”)

And, since 40 of the 45 fatal crashes that have happend in cars with autopilot systems have involved Teslas, Musk has been on a crusade against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which compiles and publishes those statistics. Now it appears that Musk’s $277 million investment in purchasing the White House for Donald Trump is about to pay off big, as Reuters reports: “The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.”

This, of course, is only one of many early indicators that we’re about to experience the most corrupt administration in the history of America and, perhaps, the most corrupt administration in the history of all functional democracies (if you could still call the US that) anywhere in the world.

Man of the Year or Man of Their Wallets? Speaking of investments paying off, remember when the Koch brothers put up $650 million to help an allegedly rightwing tech billionaire buy TIME magazine? Yeah, that happened in 2017, and here comes Donald Trump on the magazine’s cover as Man of the Year. It seems that rightwing billionaires are buying everything in America that’s not nailed down, particularly if it can be used to bribe and fluff public officials or influence public opinion and elections…

The Billionaire Death Grip on America’s Healthcare System. Even after years of anti-single-payer propaganda from libertarian billionaires and the health insurance industry murderers, fully 62% of Americans think it’s the government’s responsibility to make sure everybody has health coverage. The poll was conducted by Gallup after the execution of United HealthCare’s CEO and represents a huge leap in public sentiment since the last time this issue was broached in 2013.

Surveys back then showed only 43% of Americans wanted a government system, that being during the Obamacare era when the country was drenched in Tea Party money and agitprop. But just hang on for a few months; the insurance companies’ ad agencies and front men are waiting for things to cool out before they roll out their feelgood ads and PR, but it’ll be coming as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow.

It’s a safe bet Trump will do nothing about this and America will continue to be, for at least the next four years, the only developed country in the world that spends 17% of GDP on healthcare (the average of developed countries is 9.2%). After all, as Lever News reports, just since the introduction of the Obamacare corporate welfare program the health insurance industry has seized over $371 billion in profits.

Americans suffer some of the worst health outcomes and shortest lifespans in the developed world, at the same time insurance and hospital CEOs and executives live in massive mansions with live-in chefs and butlers, travel on private jets, and sip champagne while laughing about the Republican base’s rubes and suckers.

— The Corporate Death Toll? When will America begin to hold corporations and their executives and shareholders accountable for murders they intentionally commit, often on a mass scale? Qasim Rashid Esq., in his excellent Let’s Address This Substack newsletter, wonders out loud how much longer Americans will tolerate corporations intentionally killing us for profit. From the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma killing, literally, hundreds of thousands of Americans with Oxycontin, to United HealthCare letting unknown tens or hundreds of thousands die or suffer in sickness and pain, to Johnson & Johnson knowingly causing cancer deaths among women and babies by selling asbestos-contaminated talcum powder, corporate executives have made knowing and intentional decisions to put their own profits and lifestyle above the lives of average Americans. And that doesn’t even begin to get at the tobacco industry or the asbestos industry that killed my father. Corporations have killed millions of us and our friends and relatives over the past century, yet not a single CEO, senior executive, or shareholder has ever gone to prison for it.

And, of course, the “corporate persons,” as Republicans on our Supreme Court so hilariously refer to companies, are never given the corporate death penalty. This has been a big story in America all the way back to the 1970s when we learned that Ford executives decided it was cheaper to pay off death claims than to fix their Pinto gas-tanks that turned the cars into fireballs. When will Americans have had enough? Will it take more corporate CEOs suffering at the hands of vigilantes? Will our billionaire-owned corporate media ever cover these stories in this frame?

It feels like we may be close to some sort of turning point, in large part thanks to Luigi Mangione, but ever since 1976 when five Republicans on the Supreme Court first ruled that corporate money given to politicians was merely “free speech,” every time this conversation comes up it gets immediately shut down. Now might be a good time to raise the issue with your members of Congress: the switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

Big Brother Trump. Trump secretly spied on House Democrats and journalists and got away with it. Will he do it again? You betcha! It took him four long years and he doesn’t plan to prosecute anybody over it (of course), but our fearless Attorney General Merrick Garland just released a Department of Justice watchdog report showing that Trump’s FBI under Barr and Wray illegally obtained phone and email records of two House Democrats and dozens of congressional staffers, as well as several reporters. Given that they’ve now gotten off scott-free, expect Trump’s next DOJ to start snooping on Democrats and outspoken journalists (like me) on steroids. This is what routinely happens, after all, in authoritarian nations like Trump’s role models, Hungary and Russia. What’s next? Will his enemies start falling out of 10th story windows?

The final betrayal of disgusting traitors Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema. Good riddance to these two scumballs who put money and their own political advancement above the good of our nation and its working people. President Biden reappointed a Democrat to the National Labor Relations Board, which would have given the agency a Democratic majority during the first two years of Trump’s administration. The appointment needed confirmation, and only 49 Republicans showed up to vote against it, meaning Vice President Harris could have broken a tie and made the appointment happen. But, of course, the big money that owns the GOP reached out to Manchin and Sinema and they dutifully showed up to vote with the Republicans. Now Trump gets to make the appointment and will have a Senate majority to rubber-stamp it. These two also killed Democratic efforts that had already passed the House to gut Citizens United and guarantee all Americans the right to vote. And now this. F*cking traitors.

Geeky science: Unlock Your Brainpower. Here’s a simple step (pun intended) that you can take to improve your memory and cognition. A major new study from University College London has found that a simple 30-minute brisk walk can produce as much as a measurable 5% improvement in episodic and working memory the following day. The study was done on older adults (50-83) and its results were solid and consistent. If you’re not walking a half-hour every day, start now!

NOW READ: Here's what happens when the world's richest man buys the presidency

Москва

Сергей Собянин. Главное за день

France's Macron visits cyclone-devastated Mayotte as residents plead for aid

Gaurav Khanna on the possibility of Anuj returning to Anupamaa, says 'It is possible to return...'

'Not sending Gukesh to school was tough call': Mother

Anmolpreet Singh smashes fastest List A hundred by an Indian

Ria.city






Read also

Jayden Daniels throws for 5 TDs as the Commanders end the Eagles’ winning streak at 10

My raging husband wants to take revenge on my lover with a baseball bat

TV star Claudia Winkleman makes surprise admission about new series of hit game show The Traitors

News, articles, comments, with a minute-by-minute update, now on Today24.pro

News Every Day

France's Macron visits cyclone-devastated Mayotte as residents plead for aid

Today24.pro — latest news 24/7. You can add your news instantly now — here


News Every Day

'Ashwin retirement start of team's transition, next 3 weeks...'



Sports today


Новости тенниса
Стефанос Циципас

Циципас и Шевченко проиграли паре Томпсона и Нагала на выставочном турнире в Абу-Даби



Спорт в России и мире
Москва

ЦСКА и "Нефтехимик" забросили 11 шайб в рамках КХЛ



All sports news today





Sports in Russia today

Москва

ЦСКА и "Нефтехимик" забросили 11 шайб в рамках КХЛ


Новости России

Game News

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, December 20


Russian.city


Australian Open

Лучший теннисист Эстонии чудом прошел на турнир первого Большого шлема


Губернаторы России
Владимир Потанин

«Норникель» развивает технологии защиты энергетики от последствий изменений климата


РОСГВАРДЕЕЦ ИЗ КАЛУГИ СТАЛ УЧАСТНИКОМ ФЕСТИВАЛЯ «КУЛЬТУРА ПОБЕДЫ»

Ударными темпами: Путин открыл новые аэропорты и дороги

То ли еще будет: самую протяженную трассу в РФ откроют к 2030 году

РОСГВАРДЕЕЦ ИЗ КАЛУГИ СТАЛ УЧАСТНИКОМ ФЕСТИВАЛЯ «КУЛЬТУРА ПОБЕДЫ»


«Ивлеевой не будет в новогоднем фильме из-за меня»: Филипп Киркоров поставил жесткое условие создателям фильма «Небриллиантовая рука» на ТНТ

Интересные каналы в Telegram. Лучшие каналы в Telegram. Каталог каналов Telegram

В Сбере посоветовали посетить выставку "Виктор Цой.Легенда" в Петербурге

Волочкова снялась голой в бане с вениками


За 37 минут решилась судьба матча Рыбакиной против второй ракетки мира

Елена Рыбакина уверенно обыграла Симону Халеп в матче Мировой теннисной лиги

Анна Калинская снялась для обложки журнала Harper’s Bazaar и попросила не спрашивать её о романе с Янником Синнером

Циципас и Шевченко проиграли паре Томпсона и Нагала на выставочном турнире в Абу-Даби



Вышел новый рейтинг "Специалисты, к которым хочется возвращаться. Кем может гордиться Москва?"

Создании ИИ клипа. Создание клипа с помощью нейросети.

В Москве на Исторической сцене Большого театра пройдет Новогодний гала-концерт

Хомяк, да не тот: что показали на последнем в 2024 году фестивале поп-культуры


Когда золото обретает форму: «585*ЗОЛОТОЙ» показала Павла Деревянко в роли атлетичного кузнеца в новом ролике

Актриса и балерина Ирена Баженова умерла после болезни в 88 лет

Экс-жена Тиммы Оша заявила, что Седокова не оплачивала его похороны

Рубрика «Охрана Минтранса в лицах»: Более 13 лет на страже транспортной безопасности начальник отделения «Хор» Приморского филиала ФГУП «УВО Минтранса России»


"Томскводоканал" пока не смог устранить крупную аварию на водоводе

Погоня за креативом растянулась // Неравенство в развитии творческих индустрий в субъектах РФ нарастает

«Сначала надо выйти в плей-офф, а там будем рассуждать о шансах»

Новогодние каникулы с детьми: как сделать Рождество главным праздником зимы



Путин в России и мире






Персональные новости Russian.city
Любовь Успенская

Суд отказал Наталье Лапиной в исковых требованиях к адвокату Успенской



News Every Day

Anmolpreet Singh smashes fastest List A hundred by an Indian




Friends of Today24

Музыкальные новости

Персональные новости