You Can Change the Channel, but Local News Is the Same
Agreements in which local TV stations share news operations are a barrier to competition, and the stations assert that such agreements are requisite components of their survival strategy. Companies that collude to curb competition constitute a cartel.
The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”
- Rudiger Dornbush
U.S. - home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners.
NPR - Prisons (retroactive “correction”) funded at the expense of education. [Listen Here]
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All governments suffer from a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is a magnet to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Source: a-petro-manifesto
If you live in the United States and don't have health insurance, you qualify for discounted prescription drugs
Today in Useful Fucking Things That No One Tells You About: the Prescription Assistance Program (PAP) offers a discount drug card to uninsured Americans. The card is accepted at over 56,000 pharmacies nationwide, including CVS, RiteAid, Walgreens, and Safeway, and offers a discount of up to 75%.
I was fired a few years ago and was afraid I would have to give up my antidepressants, but my dad told me about the drug card. With it, I paid $30 instead of $60. Still kinda pricey, but I was able to afford them until I found a new job (and since they were for my social anxiety, I have no doubt they helped during interviews).
Share this. I’m sure there are a ton of unemployed and uninsured people who don’t know about this.
PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST SCAMS:
If you use a site other than the one above, know that these cards WILL NOT ask for any bank account/credit card information or any personal information beyond your name and phone number. These cards are FREE; there is no monthly fee. If you’re being asked to pay for this card, something is wrong.
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No number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals. And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals, they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.
Source: theunconquered1
February 16th, 2012 in Paris, France: Firefighters wave flares and spray down police as they protest during a national strike day in defence of their labour agreements.
Photographs: Ian Langsdon/EPA
Source: Guardian
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Source: marxistromanticist
