Corruption

Frighteningly, there is evidence America is not a democracy. Instead, America is now an oligarchy. Merriam-Webster describes an oligarchy as “a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.” We think this describes the United States Congress and the Democratic and Republican parties. Hence…

A brief exploration for sophisticated, perfectionistic collectors — Intro Sometimes, you come across a corrupt video file. For example, it cannot be viewed when trying to play the file in a desktop video app. Sometimes videos have buggy/fuzzy/freezy-glitchy sections within several timestamps of the video. For example, the first hour of the video will run smoothly, but then every…

Congress has started an attack on our freedom of speech. — The dog and pony show Congress put on yesterday was not only an embarrassment to Americans, but a display of a corrupt Congress that’s for sale to the highest bidder. That highest bidder of the moment appears to be Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, Meta CEO and greedy billionaire, is determined to…

By Karen Hinton, author of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power Violet and her five-year-old son live day to day figuring out which bill to pay first, then second, then third, or even at all. At 23 and after losing two jobs, through no fault of her…

Bailouts are now the American way. For example, the federal government is now bailing out all banks that get into trouble. All depositors at Silicon Valley Bank, including billionaires, big corporations and tech investors, will get all their money back from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). …