UK & US: How the Oligarchies Posing as Democracies have Been Exposed

What went wrong with what were once touted as examples of democracies?

Short answer: neither the US nor UK is a democracy in name only

To serve the economic, social, security & welfare of all the people – is subordinated to what will play well enough for enough voters to ensure a governing party’s re-election

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/05/britain-and-the-us-how-the-oligarchies-posing-as-democracies-have-been-exposed/

#democracy #oligarchs #UK #America #elections #DemocracyTheatre #government #corruption

Currupt appointed by the corrupt.

"#City veteran and former #MasterCard boss Rick #Haythornthwaite worked for #PetroSaudi International (UK) Ltd, the oil group’s #British arm, for eight years, earning £200,000 a year.

The #oil group is alleged to have been involved in a scheme to divert hundreds of millions of dollars from 1MDB, a sovereign wealth fund created for the benefit of #Malaysia and its people"

#NatWest #Londongrad #oligarchs #corruption #FossilFuelsKill #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/09/new-natwest-boss-rick-haythornthwaite-saudi-company-petro-saudi-1mdb

@AliceStollmeyer the useful idiot #elonmusk was played by mobbed up, #FSB owned #oligarchs in #russia. What a tool.

Marina Hyde in today's Guardian.

This or similar was always going to happen.

Once you allow people to become as rich as Musk et al, they don't just think they are above the law, they ARE above the law. And they undermine both the rule of law and accountable governance.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/elon-musk-satellite-war-starlink-system-ukraine?CMP=share_btn_tw

#musk #ukraine #oligarchs

X should not be licensed for banking.
"After Twitter's employees identified Al-Sadhan to the Saudi government, Twitter allegedly never notified him before he was reportedly kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned in 2021—sentenced to 20 years for posting tweets mocking the royal family.
...after the FBI alert, "Twitter began approving Saudi requests for confidential information, including 'emergency disclosures,' in 'droves.'"
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/x-unfit-for-banking-because-of-complicity-in-saudi-spying-lawyers-argue/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Musk #Oligarchs #X #Twitter #Starlink

"3] Putin’s wholly-owned man, #Trump.

A world-class grifter & career criminal who’s been helping #Russian #oligarchs launder their ill-gotten gains thru real estate for decades, Trump & the criminals associated w/ him want to take over #America so they can end the rule of law & institute a☝️party #neofascist , #WhiteSupremacist , strongman state." #ThomHartmann https://bit.ly/44Ea7Pm

From that liberal left-wing rag, Forbes: How much money is enough? These people don't think they need democracy to exist.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/02/19/here-are-the-billionaires-who-donated-to-donald-trumps-2020-presidential-campaign/?sh=5f7fb5144667
#1% #Oligarchs #Money #Capitalism

“‘We used to, but we don’t anymore.’ I asked him why, and he said, ‘We can’t sell it anymore because Sobeys owns the building and it’s a big moneymaker, and we’re not allowed to sell it.’”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #novascotia #foodsecurity #foodjustice #inflation #sobeys #oligarchs
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/they-dont-let-us-dollarama-stores-sell-bread-unless-theres-a-sobeys-nearby/

@rms

This compliance in the #UK to, as you've said "#brainwashing", would not surprise us. There is also #indoctrination going on closer to home in our own local part of #Australia — and it has nothing to do with China.

Our #media get big #advertising revenue from the likes of #dotCons Goo', (Sc)Amazon, Apple, and other mega-corps. As a result they produce messaging that supports these #oligarchs and never really, never properly, challenge the current progression into #technoFeudalism.

They're having some trouble on Reddit figuring out that #oligarchs are mulling over doing to #AlamedaCo D.A. Pam Price what they did to Chesa Boudin across the bay.

https://reddit.com/r/California_Politics/s/1C0g9kwtrB

“Grocery capital wants people to believe that inflation, and inflationary process increases, are caused by workers’ wages and use that to oppose their own workers’ wage demands. … ‘It was not caused by workers having too many jobs and making too much money. It’s been caused by profit taking — not just by supermarkets, but by powerful companies at every step of the supply chain.’”
#cdnpoli #inflation #oligarchs #labour #grocerystores
https://springmag.ca/fighting-the-real-grocery-store-thieves

#CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern

#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Welcome to Jinwar, a women-only village in Syria that wants to smash the patriarchy [UPDATES]

https://www.facebook.com/ritchiepage2001/posts/pfbid0zWAJdnr8R7a6ww9piy4irKwXTxQNWhYK8JY21adiA7T8mM6zs22j9XsaAr8jPXDpl

This...

@JuanWild
@GottaLaff

The #gop has sold us down the creek with their #trickledown #economics coupled with #unregulated #capitalism. It is a financial disaster for the bottom 90%. Hmmmmm. I wonder who really benefits?

#uspol #oligarchs

American #Oligarchs: Regimes of #Influence, #Violence, and #Pain

American oligarchs have taken billions, no, make those trillions, from our own government. Some of the ways they scam people is by giving “defense” contracts to companies like Halliburton and Lockheed Martin

America’s oligarchy is seen in everything from healthcare and fossil fuels to the war business itself. More than half of all guns sold around the world are made by American Companies.

"POGO Knew"

https://medium.com/@gwfoto/american-oligarchs-regimes-of-influence-violence-and-pain-d1fd1231bf18

Why right-wing billionaires and the GOP want a nation of uneducated, compliant serfs..#GOP..#oligarchs..#whitenationalism..https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-right-wing-billionaires-and-the-gop-want-a-nation-of-uneducated-compliant-serfs/ar-AA1fZyRw?cvid=4e266d4839bb436dfb0f0f4a0b451161&ocid=winp2fptaskbar&ei=6

@nick @amszmidt
Re #democracy: we don't have it. GFC: Banks print money for *themselves*. Protestors quashed in #corporateMedia.

Democracy isnt a 1-in-4 year thing. It happen everytime one spends money/energy. So when Central Bank (read: #monopoly) engages in tillony, printing money disproportionately for the benefit of #oligarchs, they kill democracy.

DogCoinPusher, mentioned above is a darling of DARPA. Forget anything sound there. Amazon/Goo/CloudGlare/MShaft = fascist moneyLosers.

@GW

It's a set of targets that will unfortunately still cohere around their Felon in Chief when the dark money PACs fund his election. #oligarchs #cowards #usefulidiots

@silverspookgames I'm glad that such agreements like those he makes are pretty much illegal in Germany for all the right reasons...

But yea, #Oligarchs in the #USA are pushing for #Neofeudalism...

#Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #DemExit #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Kurdish-led forces in Syria withdraw from fight against ISIS to battle Turkey in Afrin, saying U.S. "let us down." [UPDATES]

https://www.facebook.com/ritchiepage2001/posts/pfbid0DQTzAaS8UsK7bkkcu9VkuK9ZdxiwK42QtHXXSHiimwEA5yCWG3kUp3RzX6F8CjxVl

“It turns out that even bomb-the-boats UK will welcome any asylum seeker who enters via the private jet terminal at City Airport (to be fair, these ‘refugees’ have extensive properties in Zone 1 and country places in the Home Counties, so they won’t need housing).”

#Kleptocrats #Oligarchs #Corruption

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/launderers-enforcers-bagmen/