North Korea has supplied Iran with ballistic missile technology, blueprints, and technical advice since the 1980s
Zelenskyy reported that Kim plans to deploy a total of 30,000 to 50,000 troops to Russian territory. Russia has repeatedly used North Korean-supplied ballistic missiles to strike civilian areas in Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia.New Units: A specialized North Korean missile unit consisting of personnel, launchers, and up to 120 ballistic missiles began deploying to western Russia's Voronezh region.
Giving corporations the license to hack should be considered an unlawful act. We as citizens should fight this tooth and nail. This is fascism and at that point our rights and freedoms are gone.
First, thinking outside the box: get over it; we were never a united country.
We have to accept that we were never united; we were divided at the signing of the Constitution, with seven northern states and five southern states that disagreed and did not trust each other. The billionaires would like you to believe otherwise, that we were a united, homogeneous group. We were not, and as we expanded to our present size, we became more diverse in the communities our immigrants established. Areas of our country are as diverse as Switzerland is from Germany, and our delusional belief that we can unite is wrong and has caused much fiction. Russia also tried to create an all-inclusive country, with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics trying to control and unite 15 republics until 1991, when it collapsed, and the 15 states became free again. The USSR lasted 70 years, from 1922 to 1991. I know we fought in the Second World War as the United States of America, and we are proud of that, but our troops were not integrated, and we still had massive segregation, and the returning soldiers were not treated the same. Our country is blessed with exceptional resources, and as a result, our country prospered. This everlasting issue of differences has always hampered our growth and services. We must be ready to address this dislike for each other by dividing the country by geography and inherent basic differences. Natural divides and groupings in our country cry for recognition: Texas, California, and the Northeast group of states.
Second, thinking outside the box: the Mondragon community.
Examples of new and different forms of government that have proven successful and effective, and that have limited capitalism and millionaires. The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in 1956 in the town of Mondragón by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical college he founded. It is the seventh-largest Spanish company by asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country. At the end of 2016, it employed 74,117 people across 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail, and knowledge. In 2024, it generated 16 billion dollars in revenue. It is a workers' cooperative.
At Mondragon, agreed-upon wage ratios exist between executive work and field or factory work, with the latter earning a minimum wage. These ratios range from 3:1 to 9:1 across cooperatives and average 5:1. That is, the general manager of an average Mondragon cooperative earns no more than 5 times the theoretical minimum wage paid in their cooperative.
Cooperation Jackson:
Cooperation Jackson is a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It aims to develop a series of independent yet connected democratic institutions to empower workers and residents of Jackson, particularly to address the needs of poor, unemployed Black and Latino residents. Cooperation Jackson's development has been heavily inspired by the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, a federation of cooperatives, and by historical cooperative movements described in works by W. E. B. Du Bois and in the book Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014, strives to realize a vision of a radically democratic city of interconnected cooperatives and supporting institutions. (Radical democracy is a form of democracy that advocates the radical extension of equality and liberty as core values, following the idea that democracy is an unfinished, inclusive, continuous, and reflexive process.) In the agonistic strand of radical democracy, this extension particularly emphasizes difference and plurality. (Pluralists believe that social heterogeneity prevents any single group from gaining dominance.)
Third, thinking outside the box
Wake up, my fellow Americans. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt raised the marginal rate to 94%; he started Social Security; he raised the estate tax to 60%; and he pushed legislation to close tax loopholes. Every Republican president other than Eisenhower lowered the tax rate to our current rate of 37%, and workers' wages decreased.
Why do you think this happened, or better, how did it happen? Please acknowledge that billionaires-controlled Congress with their money. This tax arrangement can be reversed, but not with our present Congress, which is brain-dead. It results from a make-believe mentality about the wonders of capitalism.
Thank you Contrarians, one and all. We are in this together. Literally. Pun intended.
It will only continue to get worse. Thank you Contrarians. A real free press is more critically important than ever before.
The BIG STORY today is Krasnov + Kim + Putin.
North Korea has supplied Iran with ballistic missile technology, blueprints, and technical advice since the 1980s
Zelenskyy reported that Kim plans to deploy a total of 30,000 to 50,000 troops to Russian territory. Russia has repeatedly used North Korean-supplied ballistic missiles to strike civilian areas in Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia.New Units: A specialized North Korean missile unit consisting of personnel, launchers, and up to 120 ballistic missiles began deploying to western Russia's Voronezh region.
Giving corporations the license to hack should be considered an unlawful act. We as citizens should fight this tooth and nail. This is fascism and at that point our rights and freedoms are gone.
Thinking outside the box
First, thinking outside the box: get over it; we were never a united country.
We have to accept that we were never united; we were divided at the signing of the Constitution, with seven northern states and five southern states that disagreed and did not trust each other. The billionaires would like you to believe otherwise, that we were a united, homogeneous group. We were not, and as we expanded to our present size, we became more diverse in the communities our immigrants established. Areas of our country are as diverse as Switzerland is from Germany, and our delusional belief that we can unite is wrong and has caused much fiction. Russia also tried to create an all-inclusive country, with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics trying to control and unite 15 republics until 1991, when it collapsed, and the 15 states became free again. The USSR lasted 70 years, from 1922 to 1991. I know we fought in the Second World War as the United States of America, and we are proud of that, but our troops were not integrated, and we still had massive segregation, and the returning soldiers were not treated the same. Our country is blessed with exceptional resources, and as a result, our country prospered. This everlasting issue of differences has always hampered our growth and services. We must be ready to address this dislike for each other by dividing the country by geography and inherent basic differences. Natural divides and groupings in our country cry for recognition: Texas, California, and the Northeast group of states.
Second, thinking outside the box: the Mondragon community.
Examples of new and different forms of government that have proven successful and effective, and that have limited capitalism and millionaires. The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. It was founded in 1956 in the town of Mondragón by Father José María Arizmendiarrieta and a group of his students at a technical college he founded. It is the seventh-largest Spanish company by asset turnover and the leading business group in the Basque Country. At the end of 2016, it employed 74,117 people across 257 companies and organizations in four areas of activity: finance, industry, retail, and knowledge. In 2024, it generated 16 billion dollars in revenue. It is a workers' cooperative.
At Mondragon, agreed-upon wage ratios exist between executive work and field or factory work, with the latter earning a minimum wage. These ratios range from 3:1 to 9:1 across cooperatives and average 5:1. That is, the general manager of an average Mondragon cooperative earns no more than 5 times the theoretical minimum wage paid in their cooperative.
Cooperation Jackson:
Cooperation Jackson is a network of worker cooperatives in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It aims to develop a series of independent yet connected democratic institutions to empower workers and residents of Jackson, particularly to address the needs of poor, unemployed Black and Latino residents. Cooperation Jackson's development has been heavily inspired by the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, a federation of cooperatives, and by historical cooperative movements described in works by W. E. B. Du Bois and in the book Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard.
Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014, strives to realize a vision of a radically democratic city of interconnected cooperatives and supporting institutions. (Radical democracy is a form of democracy that advocates the radical extension of equality and liberty as core values, following the idea that democracy is an unfinished, inclusive, continuous, and reflexive process.) In the agonistic strand of radical democracy, this extension particularly emphasizes difference and plurality. (Pluralists believe that social heterogeneity prevents any single group from gaining dominance.)
Third, thinking outside the box
Wake up, my fellow Americans. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt raised the marginal rate to 94%; he started Social Security; he raised the estate tax to 60%; and he pushed legislation to close tax loopholes. Every Republican president other than Eisenhower lowered the tax rate to our current rate of 37%, and workers' wages decreased.
Why do you think this happened, or better, how did it happen? Please acknowledge that billionaires-controlled Congress with their money. This tax arrangement can be reversed, but not with our present Congress, which is brain-dead. It results from a make-believe mentality about the wonders of capitalism.
Professional sports are just slavery, really. They're just paid well to dance and play the banjo. Americans have to break so many habits.