“WELCOME TO THE PLUTONOMY MACHINE” said the all caps headline in a leaked report by Citigroup to select investors. That Citigroup report was cited as part one of the headlines in the weekly recap of MHVille headlines below. “Our economics team led by Lewis Alexander researches and writes about these issues regularly and they are the experts,” explained that multi-page Citigroup memo to higher-end investors. “The World is dividing into two blocs – the Plutonomy and the rest. The U.S., UK, and Canada are the key Plutonomies – economies powered by the wealthy.” Investopedia explains that a: “Plutonomy refers to a society where the wealth is controlled by a select few and where economic growth becomes dependent on that same wealthy minority.” At the core of a plutonomy are plutocrats.  Vocabulary explains that: “A plutocrat is someone who uses their wealth to buy political power. It’s not a compliment, yet plutocrats rule the world. Just ask them.”

If you are curious or probing what’s gone wrong in the U.S.A., or in affordable housing in general, or in MHVille – i.e.: the manufactured housing industry more specifically – and aren’t up to speed on the subjects covered in this Sunday weekly articles and headlines review, then you have not been doing your homework correctly. Nor would you have been reading industry leading MHProNews lately. But don’t sweat it. On this Father’s Day, this recap report will help you catch up pronto.

 

With plutocrats and the rest of us in mind, this classic Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) “Official Music Video” named “Fortunate Son” has had 138 million views. It seems the signs of plutonomy have been around for longer than millions of us were led to think.

 

Part I

From the WND News Center to MHProNews is the following. Near the close of Richard Blakely’s exclusive is the first part of the headline quote from left-leaning MSNBC’s Joy Reid. Blakely lays out an evidence-based case you may not find in too many places in MHVille, or in enough of the mainstream news, yet he cites the linked evidence.

Moscow is talking. Is Washington listening?

Exclusive: Richard Blakley hammers president for ‘starting another [beep]-ing war’

By Richard Blakley
Published June 14, 2024 at 7:00pm

Years ago, my wife and I adopted a peaceful, tortoiseshell-colored stray cat that was very timid and stayed hidden – that is, until we were moving with the help of professional movers. Apparently, the movers found her last hiding place and, with her back against the wall, she came out and chased an over six-foot tall man down the steps and out the front door.

When Biden, Obama’s point man in Ukraine, was in Ukraine with the CIA in 2014 helping to flip the government to a pro-western government, Russia felt its back was against the wall, having only two warm-water ports, with one being Crimea. The government of Crimea voted to join Russia and Russia annexed them.

The West did not recognize the government of Crimea, stating it was illegitimate. Russia did not recognize the newly flipped government of Ukraine, viewing it as illegitimate.

In January 2021 with Biden in office, Ukraine began asking for NATO membership.

What do you think would happen if Mexico suddenly wanted to join league with a country hostile to the United States? History shows in January 1917, the German foreign secretary sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico, known as the “Zimmermann Telegram.” It revealed a plan for Germany to form an alliance with Mexico, promising Mexico her lost territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This threat at our doorstep was one of the factors leading the U.S. to declare war against Germany five weeks later.

Likewise, it is a fact that Russia views Ukrainian NATO membership as a threat to their country. With Ukraine asking for NATO membership, in 2021 Putin requested talks with Biden, but Biden refused if Ukraine’s NATO membership was one of the topics. So, Putin communicated with Biden in the spring of 2021 by massing Russian troops near Ukraine’s borders for “training exercises.” By November 2021, satellite images showed around 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine’s border. On Dec. 17, 2021, Russia presented security demands, including NATO pull back troops and weapons from Eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining NATO. Dec. 30, 2021 Putin reached out and requested a call with Biden. During the call Putin asked for “legally binding guarantees” that “the 30-member NATO alliance” would “not expand further eastwards and that certain offensive weapons would not be deployed to Ukraine or other neighboring countries.” It was stated, “Washington regards many of his [Putin’s] demands, including restrictions on NATO expansion, as non-starters.” So, in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.

When the Russia-Ukrainian war first started, Pope Francis commented, “We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was, perhaps, somehow either provoked or not prevented.” He recalled a conversation with a head of state, who expressed concerns about NATO. When asked “why,” this head of state said, “They are barking at the gates of Russia. They don’t understand that the Russians are imperial and can’t have any foreign power getting close to them.” Could this have been Putin?

Now Putin is threatening to give arms to U.S. enemies. Is this an idle threat? Biden likes to considers himself “Mr. Tough Guy” who would beat up people “behind a barn,” because he thinks he has an invincible American military behind him; but was this true on Sept. 11, 2001?

Former Obama Administration Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated, “[Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” quoting from Gates’ memoir, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”

ABC News added the following statements concerning Joe Biden’s foreign policy decisions:

“Former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in 2010: ‘Since his election to the U.S. Senate in the early 70s, Joe Biden has been on the wrong end of virtually every foreign policy dispute since then.’

“Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer in 2012: The vice president over the last 30 years ‘holds the American record for [being] wrong on the most issues in foreign affairs ever. … He is the Herbert Hoover of American foreign policy.’

“Marc Thiessen, speechwriter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, in 2012: ‘The fact is Biden has a near-perfect record of being wrong about almost every major foreign policy question that the United States has faced in the past three decades.’

“Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2012: ‘Biden has – has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that I’ve been involved in the last 20 years or so.'”

Jerry Shenk, writer for The Mercury, added, “Joe Biden and his administration have blood on their hands. Republicans who promoted Biden’s presidency, Biden voters and his corporate media cheerleaders are accessories.”

So Biden has a history of making wrong foreign policy decisions.

Now Putin says he is going to give armaments to U.S. enemies. Moscow is communicating with Washington, D.C., stating they feel Russia’s back is against the wall. U.S. leaders, considering this an idle threat, are expressing their lack of concern about the American people who will die, while Washington politicians hide in U.S.-taxpayer-built nuclear bunkers. It’s only mutually assured destruction for the masses, not the ones causing the problems.

Now with America distracted with Hunter Biden trials, Russian warships are conducting Zircon hypersonic missile drills off the East Coat of America as they travel to Cuba. “The U.S. East Coast will be within Zircon range … and the missiles can … be used to strike ground targets,” Cuban authorities say. “None of the warships are nuclear-armed.” “The White House does not view it as a threat, it is symbolic.”

Symbolic? Moscow is communicating with Washington, just like when they positioned 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine. Were 100,000 troops symbolic?

Why is Biden pushing so hard for peace in Gaza and not in Ukraine? Even MSNBC got it right on a hot mic concerning Biden’s character; for in the background while Biden was speaking, Joy Reid stated Biden is “starting another [beep]-ing war.” ##

 

MHProNews notes: several media outlets have expressed concerns that Biden’s foreign policy, including, but not limited to his policies with respect to Ukraine, is pushing the world closer to World War III than at any time since the end of the Cold War. While the military-industrial-spy complex may enjoy the funding, it is a troubling reminder from the Woodrow Wilson (D) era and the late Marine General Smedley Butler that “War is a Racket.”

 

Part II

From the WND News Center and made available to MHProNews is the following report.

Congressman plans to address Pelosi’s J6 confession with new report

Ex-House Speaker confirmed Jan. 6 riot was her fault

By Bob Unruh
Published June 12, 2024 at 6:32pm

After ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was revealed, on video, to have admitted responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, and she went into a full meltdown claiming her own words were “revisionist history,” it’s not hard to predict the next event.

It’s that members of the current Congress will “submit our own report” on what has happened.

The blowup is over that day’s events, which included a rally by President Donald Trump. From there, a few thousand people went to the nearby Capitol, and a few hundred rioted and vandalized parts of the building.

The Department of Justice, following the Democrats’ claims that it was an actual “insurrection,” with plans to take over the government, its economy, its foreign policy, its military and more, have arrested, charged and even convicted more than 1,000 people at the scene that day, some for no more than walking into the building past security guards holding the doors open for them.

Subsequently, Pelosi assembled a partisan committee to investigate, but what it did essentially was to orchestrate testimony and evidence to try to blame the events on Trump.

Trump had offered to have thousands of National Guard troops in attendance to prevent violence, but his offer was rejected by leaders in Congress.

Now there’s the video showing Pelosi admitting she was at fault for not being prepared.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk explained, “It did show me that at least the speaker herself, admitted that they were not prepared. … If she didn’t know that they were even requested, then who in her staff or who was it that would not approve the request for the National Guard? … It is surprising to me that she did say, ‘Hey, I am taking responsibility for this,’ then the select committee spends $18 million, trying to say that it was Trump’s responsibility that the National Guard wasn’t there and that the Capitol was breached.”

He said the current Congress can’t just go in and retract what another Congress stated.

“But there are some things that we can do to submit our own report. Also, bring out the disparities and the contradictions and the falsehoods that are in the Select Committee’s report, and at least make some type of sense of Congress that this report is not reliable. It was biased, it was a political hack job, and that the American people and the history books should not take this as is any factual account of what happened that day.”

A report in the Arizona Sun Times explained Ohio GOP Rep. Warren Davidson also said the video footage, which was recorded by Pelosi’s daughter for an HBO documentary, counters the committee’s report.

“What we didn’t do is find out the truth about what actually happened on January 6,” he said on the “Just the News, No Noise,” television show. “What Nancy Pelosi created was a sham partisan committee that was designed to cover up the failures … [of] what happened on the Capitol grounds. How was it that protesters were able to even breach the security of the Capitol and go through the Capitol.”

When video of her emerged, Pelosi claimed her own words were “revisionist history.”

FACT: Trump requested the National Guard be ready before J6.

Nancy Pelosi declined and now there’s video of her taking responsibility for the riot that ensued. Nothing was revised, Nancy. pic.twitter.com/uGFdAwinAD

— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) June 11, 2024

 

The earlier video showed her admitting fault, even after she spent three years and some $20 million trying to blame Trump.

🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.

NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:

“I take responsibility.”

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/95a0totTWB

— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) June 10, 2024

 

It was the House Oversight Subcommittee that released the video, announcing: “Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump. NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED: ‘I take responsibility.'”

Pelosi charged, at the time, “This is ridiculous. You’re going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol police — I mean the National Guard? Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?”

A Post-Millennial report explains she was talking from the back seat of a car.

Politico explained the footage was shot by Pelosi’s documentary filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, who created the HBO documentary “The Insurrectionist Next Door” about Jan. 6.

A report months ago explained the events that day were, in fact, Pelosi’s fault, according to President Trump.

The report at that time said Trump said, “Pelosi was ‘responsible for Jan. 6,’ the day when the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob.”

Trump at the time told NBC that Pelosi, who was in charge of security for the Capitol, “turned down a request for 10,000 soldiers to be stationed at the Capitol. He contended that had the soldiers been deployed as requested, the events of January 6th could have been averted.” ##

 

Part III

Provided by the WND News Center to MHProNews is the following report.

WND MONEY

Governor promised 10,000+ EV, battery jobs: $1 billion and years later, not even close

Only about 200 jobs have been created, a far cry from the 12,000 voiced

By Around the Web
Published June 14, 2024 at 9:28am

By Nick Pope
Daily Caller News Foundation

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s multi-billion dollar effort to lure electric vehicle (EV)-related factories to the state has not produced the thousands of jobs she promised, according to an analysis conducted by Bridge Michigan.

Whitmer and the state government have already spent $1 billion of the $2 billion pledged to five different projects to build EV battery factories or expand EV production, but only about 200 jobs have been created, a far cry from the 12,000 jobs Whitmer has stated the companies will ultimately provide for Michiganders, according to Bridge Michigan, a Michigan-focused nonprofit publication of the Center for Michigan. Two years after the subsidies were extended in 2022, only 2% of the jobs promised have been delivered while the state-backed projects have downsized relative to original plans or faced delays.

The companies that are to receive the $2 billion in pledged funds include Ford, LG Energy Solution, Our Next Energy and General Motors. Also included is Gotion, the subsidiary of a China-based company that has significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party, which the Daily Caller News Foundation has covered extensively.

Gretchen Whitmer Raked In Over $1 Million From Billionaires, Celebrity Donors While Attacking Her GOP Opponent’s ‘Special Interests’ Tieshttps://t.co/CVg8yOBFig

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 15, 2022

 

Each of the projects is now off schedule, and scale reductions have cut the best-case scenario for job creation by 13%, according to Bridge Michigan. However, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), which has played a key role in providing the subsidies, is still confident that its efforts will provide considerable benefits to Michiganders.

“While there has been some re-scoping, we are still talking about billions of dollars being injected into the state and thousands of jobs being created,” Otie McKinley, a spokesperson for MEDC, told Bridge Michigan.

General Motors has so far received about $468 million of the state’s total pledged boost of $600 million to build an EV battery factory and expand EV production at a separate Michigan plant, according to Bridge Michigan. Whitmer and other proponents touted projections that the developments would cumulatively create 4,000 jobs, but so far there have only been 120 jobs created between the two projects.

Both General Motors projects were supposed to be completed and open this year, but construction remains ongoing at both sites, according to Bridge Michigan. LG Energy Solution’s planned facility in Michigan is the only of the five examined by Bridge Michigan that has yet to receive a large, up-front check from the state to facilitate its efforts.

Our Next Energy received $78.3 million from the state to build a massive EV battery factory and bring $1.6 billion of investment into Michigan, with the company initially saying that the factory would generate more than 2,100 new jobs, according to Michigan Bridge. However, the company has about 50 workers staffing its Wayne County project and has terminated 25% of its employees.

Michigan has also spent $70 million to purchase land for the Ford and Gotion projects, but officials did not “explicitly disclose” those payments, according to Michigan Bridge. Further, the state has already extended loans worth $51 million and spent an additional $600 million on utility hookups and other equipment for the same two developments, Michigan Bridge discovered through public records requests.

Ford’s facility in the state’s southwest “is still under construction; production at the site is scheduled to start, on time, in 2026,” a spokesperson for the company told the DCNF. “Last November, we said that the scale of the project, including job creation, was being reduced. Accordingly, it’s reasonable to expect that the State of Michigan’s support, when announced, will be smaller.”

The spokesperson characterized questions about the facility’s future as “premature, at best.”

The state’s support for the projects is intended to prepare Michigan to maintain its status as the center of America’s auto industry through the transition to EVs, which the Biden administration is facilitating with stringent regulations, according to Bridge Michigan. At the time that the subsidies were conceived and offered, state officials were concerned about the decisions by Ford and General Motors to establish factories in right-to-work states like Kentucky and Tennessee, prompting the push to open up the subsidy floodgates.

If the projects were to never be completed or are completed at a reduced scale, new rules and regulations will likely make it challenging for the state to recover subsidy funds, Bridge Michigan also found. Formerly, companies would have to create jobs first before receiving government cash, but the rules governing the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) — an economic development fund established by the legislature in 2022 — allow for companies to receive state subsidies after they have passed other milestones, like arranging private financing or acquiring machinery.

Green energy and related initiatives have emerged as major parts of Whitmer’s agenda during her tenure as governor. In November 2023, Whitmer signed the Clean Energy and Jobs Act into law, committing Michigan to reaching 100% green energy generation by 2040, and also including language that allows the state’s utility regulator to override local governments to site green energy infrastructure.

Whitmer’s office, the MEDC, General Motors, Gotion, Our Next Energy and LG Energy Solution did not respond immediately to requests for comment. ##

 

MHProNews note: The recent tweet (X-post) of a CBS News interview with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (D) is a reminder that the problem in Michigan is on some level a microcosm of the problem nationally in ‘going green‘ in the Biden-Harris era. Some are clearly making big bucks with very little to show for the tax dollars spent.

Why is the federal government involved in this? This would be like having had the federal government oversee the building of gas stations in the 1930s. https://t.co/dTiphmLClP

— danpallotta (@danpallotta) May 26, 2024

 

The balance of the mainstream news items mentioned in the headline, including some sobering facts on fatherhood, follow in the postscript (Part V) of this installment of the Sunday weekly MHVille headlines in review. The report which cited the Citigroup memo cited in the preface for this article is on the Daily Business News report for 6.15.2024.

With no further adieu, here are the headlines for the week that was, from 6.9 to 6.16.2024.

Part IV

What’s New on MHLivingNews

 

 

 

 

What’s New from Washington, D.C. from MHARR

 

 

 

 

 

Select Items from the Words of Wisdom by Tim Connor, CSP

 

 

What’s New on the Masthead

 

 

 

 

 

What’s New on the Daily Business News on MHProNews

Saturday 6.15.2024

 

Friday 6.14.2024

 

Thursday 6.13.2024

 

Wednesday 6.12.2024

 

Tuesday 6.11.2024

 

 

Monday 6.10.2024

 

Sunday 6.9.2024

 

Postscript (Part V)

1) From The Center Square to MHProNews is the following report.

Report: America has a fatherhood crisis

Florida investing millions in fatherhood programs

 

This isn’t a left or right issue, it is facts vs. fiction issue. Former President Obama, per PolitiFact and while he was a senator, said the following to a black church.

“More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children.” Obama was 46 at the time.

The absence of fathers is important, Obama continued, because “children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”

Dads – your role is important and being a good father is to be celebrated. Even being a so-so father is routinely better, per the data, than being absent from the lives of children.

 

 

2)

From the Daily Torch to MHProNews is the following item teased from today’s headline.

Trump Verdict a Virtual Non-Factor as Americans Prioritize Economy, Border, and Crime – But it Did Rile up Biden’s Base

By Manzanita Miller

The latest CBS News/ YouGov survey highlights just how little of an impact former President Trump’s guilty verdict seems to have on voters’ priorities this fall. According to the poll, Trump’s verdict is significantly less important to a plurality of Americans than a slate of domestic issues including the economy, inflation and immigration. However, President Joe Biden’s voters are increasingly saying their vote this fall will be to block Trump, not to support Biden.

A plurality of Americans (55 percent) say Trump’s verdict is a non-factor for their vote, while just 28 percent say it is a major factor and 17 percent say it is a minor factor according to the survey. In addition, 51 percent of Americans say they view the election in November as a comparison between Trump and Biden, not as a “judgment” about either candidate.

While just 45 percent of Americans say the Trump verdict is a factor in their vote – with 28 percent saying it is a major factor and 17 percent saying it is a minor factor – wide pluralities of Americans rank other issues like crime, the economy, and immigration as priorities.

According to the poll, 96 percent of Americans say economic issues are a factor in their vote this fall, with 81 percent saying the economy is a major factor and 15 percent saying it is a minor factor.

Inflation is the second most important issue with a full 93 percent of Americans citing inflation as playing a factor in November. Seventy-five percent of Americans say inflation will play a major factor in November, while 18 percent say it will play a minor factor. There are very few disparities among Americans who prioritize inflation, but there is a 13-point gap between non-college voters (81 percent) and college educated voters (68 percent).

Crime is also an important factor in November according to the poll, with 90 percent of Americans saying crime is factor in their vote. Sixty-two percent say crime is a major factor and 28 percent say it is a minor factor according to YouGov.

The border is also a major factor in November, with 88 percent of Americans saying immigration will impact their vote in November. Over half (56 percent) of voters say the border is a major factor and 31 percent say the border is a minor factor. Whites (61 percent), Republicans (83 percent) and non-college Americans (69 percent) prioritize the border at the highest rates.

To put the verdict into context, less Americans say the verdict is a major factor in their vote than other relatively low-ranking priorities are. For example, while just 28 percent of Americans say the Trump verdict is major factor in their vote, 37 percent of voters say issues of race and identity are a major factor in their vote and 35 percent say climate change is a major factor. All three minor issues pale in importance for a majority of voters when stacked up against concerns about the economy, inflation, crime, and immigration.

While the verdict has had a negligible impact on a majority of Americans, it appears to have moderately motivated Biden voters to pledge to vote in November in a protest vote against Trump.

Biden supporters appear to be largely not Biden supporters at all – but planning to support President Biden to oppose Trump.

A mere 27 percent of likely Biden voters say they are mainly supporting Biden in November because they like him while 19 percent are supporting him largely because he is the Democratic nominee. The remaining 54 percent are supporting Biden “mainly to oppose Doanld Trump”, according to the poll.

Interestingly, it is white Biden supporters who appear the most furious over the Trump verdict, with a full 62 percent of white Biden supporters saying their vote in November will mostly be an effort to block Trump, compared to just 31 percent of Blacks and 50 percent of Hispanics. There is little difference between the share of college-educated Biden voters (64 percent) and non-college Biden voters (61 percent) who say they are mainly supporting Biden to oppose Trump.

The picture is nearly a mirror opposite among Trump voters, with over half (52 percent) saying they are supporting the former president mainly because they like him, while just 14 percent are supporting him because he is the GOP nominee and 34 percent are supporting him because they oppose Biden.

Among Trump supporters, Millennials (57 percent) and voters over 65 (55 percent) are more likely to be supporting Trump because they like him than Gen X voters (47 percent). However, wide majorities of GOP voters support Trump because they like him.

The other disparity is between non college and college educated Trump voters. Noncollege Trump voters are much more likely to be supporting Trump because they like him (60 percent) compared to college-educated Trump voters (42 percent).

While the prevailing narrative in political circles for several election cycles has been that Democrats are positively motivated by “hope” while Republicans are negatively motivated by “fear”, that doesn’t appear to be the case this November.

Trump’s verdict is of little concern to most Americans but has riled up a share of his opposition. Very few Americans have faith or hope in the way Biden will govern if he is reelected and his supporters are mostly voting for him in an effort to keep Trump out of the White House. A majority of Trump supporters are positively inclined toward the former president, and are supporting him because they like him, not because of Joe Biden.

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation. ##

Miller and the Daily Torch dig into polling data on a regular basis. Along with Real Clear Politics, and an array of other media, they routinely reflect that Trump leads Biden in most swing states and nationally. Miller has also probed the dissatisfaction of young adults with their current opportunities, a subject that MHProNews has periodically explored for years as it relates to MHVille.

 

 

3) MHProNews notes to Miller’s contention that Biden’s “supporters are mostly voting for him in an effort to keep Trump out of the White House” that FEAR is a strategy used to manipulate many, as is the Big Lie, which has historically meant the bold repetition of something as true time and again in order to create an illusion of believability.

 

 

Warren Buffett reportedly invests 5 to 6 hours daily in reading. In about 1/12 of that time someone can read a report like this one and walk away with a better understanding of how the world really works, which means that informed readers can then make better decisions.

It is worth mentioning that reader engagement with MHProNews has broadly risen and has been doing so for some time. It was some measure of trepidation that MHProNews tested the waters of longer articles that provided far more facts and then connected the dots between those facts in the analysis portion of a report. Years ago, we asked readers for 10 to 15 minutes a day. Now, some readers may spend 30 minutes, an hour or more on MHProNews.  The data is reflected in the results in reports like the one below.  Millions of visits annually to read about manufactured home “Industry news, tips, and views pros can use” ^© in an artificially small industry is something no one else in MHVille focused trade can claim without fingers crossed behind their back.

 

The site-data indicates those reports are popular too.

4) As some of the reports linked above reflect, MHProNews gives Buffett credit when due, but we are critics of his business, communications, and related political and his related philanthro-feudalistic methods. There is an evidence-based case to be made that Buffett is a white-collar criminal. If that might seem ‘out there’ for say a first-time reader, not too long before Bernie Madoff was arrested, it would have seemed outlandish to millions to think of Madoff as a criminal. It isn’t that Buffett’s purported crime is the same as Madoff’s, they have some clear differences. But illusions which operated in the open are how con jobs, be the confidence game small to huge, are created.

 

 

 

Because news is often agenda-driven, it is necessary to grasp the bias and/or possible agendas of a media source.  Not all news is fake news, said Chrysalis Wright, Ph.D, with the Psychology Department of the University of Central Florida. Wright explores the influence of media and tech on the public.

 

 

 

 

We began this report noting that the U.S., and numbers of other nations, were effectively plutonomies run by plutocrats and oligarchs. That doesn’t mean, as some say, that the Republic is ‘dead,’ but it does mean that the U.S.A. is not operating as designed. The laws needed to fix what is wrong in most cases already exist. What is needed is to grasp that the people who own and/or effectively control the media and big tech are routinely the oligarchs and plutocrats. Who says? Some of the very people in the media and those who are to plutocrats. See the linked reports to learn more. When someone, for whatever reason, admits what is obviously backed by evidence, why not believe them?

 

 

It should not be just ‘hot mics’ that catch ‘a journalist like MSNBC’s Joy Reid’ saying that Joe Biden’s policies are leading us toward a much bigger war. News should be news and told accurately, not in a partisan fashion. The facts should be told about a range of issues, plainly and objectively. Doing so would benefit our nation and its some 340 million citizens. But obviously, that’s not the case.

@africanstream A recent hot-mic moment left MSNBC’s Joy Reid red in the face. Reid didn’t realise her mic was still turned on as a soundbite of US President Joe Biden played. He was calling for more ‘security’ at the Mexico-US border, where 2.5 million ‘encounters’ between migrants and US Customs and Border Patrol agents took place in fiscal year 2023. Biden’s proposal ties increased border-security funding to an aid package for Israel and Ukraine. For many, this looks like the start of an inevitable war in West Asia involving Iran. The US has accused Iran of sponsoring Palestinian group H*m*s and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, both of whom are engaged in conflicts with Washington’s beachhead in the region, Israel. Tel Aviv has repeatedly requested Washington’s support to help cut off the ‘head of the snake,’ referring to Iran. Reid ended that night’s show by walking back her comment, but what do you make of it? #MSNBC #JoyReid #JoeBiden #Security #Mexico #USA #Border #CustomAndBorder #AidPackage #Israel #Ukraine #WestAsia #Iran #Palestine #fyp ♬ Aesthetic – Tollan Kim

 

We have to acknowledge that news is partisan, that information is agenda-driven, and act accordingly.

 

 

The fact that ‘hot mics’ are often what reveal what reporters, pundits, and anchors may really be thinking is revealing.

While that obviously is not the way things are today, hope springs eternal. The ‘many have beaten the money’ before and they can do so again. When the plutocrats and oligarchs have broken the law, they should be held to account. Doing so routinely can restore ‘the rule of law’ and ironically make for a more prosperous Republic. ###