Tag: Mutual Benefit Societies
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No sympathy
I note that the “mayor” in Spokane has joined other “mayors” in a court brief opposing Trump’s cuts to research funding. No sympathy. The corruption of federal funding has been blatantly obvious and perfectly well known inside academia. Everybody knows it and everybody keeps taking it. For christ’s fucking sake, EISENHOWER warned about it in…
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Brutalist typography
This 1970s film is teaching journalism students about proper design. It’s unapologetically brutalist, in the same denaturing spirit as Corbusier in architecture or Cage in music. Remove all beauty. Remove all decorations. Remove all variation and improvisation. Only stark colorless rectangles are allowed. Replace it with squared-off type masses… Short words, short sentences and short…
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Happy WWV New Year!
Since the 1960s I’ve always tried to mark the new year by catching the actual time on WWV. Shortwave reception in Spokane is poor, so I’ve failed to hear WWV in recent years. Tonight it came in loud and clear on 10 MC! I’ll call this a sign for a BETTER year with BETTER reception…
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A genuine historic first!
As pointed by Shepstone, the US Government has done something unique and perfectly unprecedented. Instead of destroying modular sovereignty of states and counties and Mutual Benefit Societies, just this once it defended modular sovereignty AGAINST the billionaire globalist terrorists. From a government press release: = = = = = START HEADLINE: U.S. District Judge Jennifer…
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Beehiiv’s Mutual Benefit Society
Earlier I read about this and LOVED the idea. Now I’ve read the Society’s website. It’s the Media Collective. The info on the site matches what I read before, and also clarifies the revenue method. What I read before: Health insurance: Monthly stipend and concierge service with our network of insurance partners. Legal support: Pre-publication…
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Mechanical is better
A passionate defense of informal justice by Michael Moore: = = = = = START QUOTE: Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who…
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Reprint on MECHANICAL laws
Continuing from previous item, reprinting this piece on the specific subject from 2021. Real profit works mechanically when the mechanism is set up to increase profit for the whole business or the whole government. The setup fails when the mechanism makes a single exception for the billionaires who STEAL profit and taxes from the business…
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Three parallels
Since 2008 I’ve been trying to highlight and illustrate better ways of solving the problems created by Wall Street. The New Deal was the most effective solution. It was preceded by Mutual Benefit Societies in the 1880s, then Social Economics around 1910. All three movements continued in various ways until Wall Street finally killed everything…
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How new is this?
After the CEO of a “health” insurance firm was killed, plenty of commentators are sympathizing with the universal hatred toward “health” insurance. The industry has naturally grown worse since Romneycare aka Obamacare, designed by the Heritage Institution, gave the industry a legally forced monopoly. Guaranteed monopolies MUST be sternly regulated. Strictness is the PRICE for…
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The BEST Mutual Benefit Society
New thought: I’ve been missing the best and most modern example of MBS! Native tribes! They’re FRATERNAL with a vengeance, in a way that would be blatantly illegal for other ethnic groups. Cherokees have been kicking out Pretendians for a century, requiring serious genealogical proof of bloodlines. There’s a good reason for the strictness: WEALTH.…
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Policlicks
I know I’m writing solid stuff when I have exactly zero readers for a long time. The only items that get readers are the occasional stupid mentions of political crap. The rule is getting more and more solid. In the last two weeks I’ve written several pieces about Mutual Benefit Societies, and some historical items…
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Trinity House again
Somebody has proposed eliminating NIH after its tyrannical genocide during the “virus”. The agency needs to be punished by elimination for goddamn sure. There’s no real solution for the Public “Health” torturers except elimination. We’ll never get a Nuremberg for the torturers, but we can stop paying them. BUT: NIH also funds quite a bit…
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More on Union Power
Two weeks ago I highlighted WCFL, a Chicago radio station run by a labor federation, which wisely started broadcasting on shortwave in the early 30s. Shortwave was the best way of reaching a worldwide audience with relatively low expense. Now American Radio Library has uploaded a 1929 magazine published by WCFL. It’s a high quality…
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The Creeping Thyme solution
Matt Stoller tries his hand at diagnosing the D party’s ailment. = = = = = START STOLLER: For the last few weeks, I’ve been mulling over a question that I think will bedevil all of us in the anti-monopoly space for years, perhaps decades. Anti-monopoly policy is immensely popular, and there hasn’t been an…
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Brilliant idea!!!
Via Axios, the new Substack competitor Beehiiv is trying a unique way to encourage gutsy journalism. = = = = = START QUOTE: The new fund will help beehiv build the tools, resources, and operational support systems needed to help journalists scale their newsletter products on the platform, the company said. Journalists will receive a…
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