@Philosia @BillySmith @debby @thierry_van_kerm @akamran @RaffKarva @jrdepriest @overunderlay @sboots @MorpheusB @PatrickWirth @maphew @jinxhart @stevewfolds
Not sure how we are all associated, but we look like a group that would make an amazing 'Think Tank'!
My article in Jan '25 Entrepreneur Middel East explored exciting new ventures from a hospitality start-up event. I looked at concepts like Poynto's reimagined capsule hotels & Fil Foods' modern take on traditional Palestinian shatta. Key takeaway? We need more platforms for young founders in our industry! Let's "look beyond the edge of our own plate." Read more: https://issuu.com/entmagazineme/docs/entrepreneur_middle_east_january1_2025/60
Day 33 
“A #Liberal-aligned #ThinkTank running last-minute #AntiGreens #advertisements targeting young voters received more than $600,000 from the #coal industry during last year’s #Queensland election, disclosures show.
On Monday evening, the #AustralianInstituteForProgress released a “Can you afford the Greens?” video advertisement pushing claims, based on its own commissioned research, that the Greens’ housing policies would lead to increased #rents.
Emails to supporters from the #AIP executive director, former Queensland Liberal vice-president #GrahamYoung, seeking #donations to push anti-Greens advertisements show the #campaign is specifically aimed at helping elect #LiberalNational party #candidates #TrevorEvans and #MaggieForrest in the seats of #Brisbane and #Ryan.”
This is why I use the term #LNPCrimeGang.
#AusPol / #Liberal / #Nationals / #LNP / #ThinkTanks / #democracy / #MaxChandlerMather / #ClimateEmergency / #HousingEmergency <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/australian-institute-for-progress-anti-greens-election-ads-coal-australia-donations-ntwnfb>
#AusPol #TheSundayShot #IPA #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety
From 6 minutes in this explained so much #Atlas #JunkTank #ThinkTank
From 'The Sunday Shot';
'Last weekend’s Sunday Shot should scare the living daylights out of you.
Turns out when Hillary Clinton said there was a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at work, she was 100% right. Lucy Hamilton took us through the Atlas Network, an extraordinary clandestine web of organisations established and lavishly funded by the likes of the Koch Brothers for the sole purpose of deceiving citizens and enabling corporate interests to endlessly increase profits at everyone else’s expense. Including the planet’s.
Along the way, Atlas coopts extremist ideological warriors to be their foot soldiers, unconcerned about enabling fanatical White supremacist, Christo-fascist agendas if it allows them to make a few more dollars.
It's terrifying stuff. And its tentacles reach deep into the Australian political and corporate right-wing elite, with Advance merely the tip of the iceberg.
Trans Justice Project’s Jackie Turner reminds us there are human consequences to the culture wars these people launch to distract citizens from their grift. Anthony Klan joins the dots on the handful of wealthy Australians masquerading as democracy’s grassroots who defeated the Voice and are fighting to derail our transition to renewable energy.
And now they’re buying TV licenses.'
@ 6 mins Lucy Hamilton speaks about Atlas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIpLPbsvttg&t=2512s
Trotz des Aufruhrs an den Börsen hält US-Präsident #Trump an seiner #Zollpolitik fest. Sein Berater #Musk schlägt nun ganz andere Töne an - und fordert eine "Null-Zoll-Situation" zwischen #Europa und den #USA.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/musk-europa-zollpolitik-100.html?at_medium=tagesschau&at_campaign=DeviceSharing&at_content=SiteSharing
Achtung Falle!!!
Erinnert sich noch jemand, was das größte Problem am #Freihandelsabkommen #TTIP war?
Richtig: die #Aushebelung von #EU- und #National - #Gesetzen durch #Schiedsgerichte!
Am Ende steht ein #Freihandel, der rein dem #rücksichtslosen #Gewinnstreben von #Firmen und #Konzernen unterworfen ist!
So musste die #BRD 2021 an die #Energiekonzerne durch den #Atomausstieg vom #Schiedsgericht der Weltbank (ICSID) verordnet 2,43 #Milliarden #Entschädigung bezahlen. Und das war nur ein Vorgeschmack vom dem, was ursprünglich in #TTIP verordnet werden sollte.
Ein #schwaches #Europa ohne #Regulierungen und #Verordnungen ist genau was die #libertären #US #Nationalisten wollen.
Am 11. März traf sich der #konservative #Thinktank #HeritageFoundation in #Washington DC, um Taktiken zur #Zerstörung der #EU zu debattieren.
Sie wollen u.a. #Lobbyarbeit bei #konservativen #Politikern machen. Ich würde mal sagen, Schritt 1!
Das ist die #Hintertür, um die #EU zu unterlaufen!
Das #afd_verbot_jetzt ist einer von vielen Ansätzen, um unsere #Demokratie zu schützen und die braune #Nazi-Paste irgendwie in die Tube zurück zu kriegen.
Aber wir brauchen mehr, mehr, mehr.
Aus diesem Grund hat #Campact einen #ThinkTank ins Leben gerufen, der Expert:innen in Sachen #Faschismus zusammen bringt, forscht und weitere Möglichkeiten sucht.
Wer das Projekt mit einer Spende unterstützen will:
https://aktion.campact.de/rechtsextremismus/denkfabrik/spenden-202504-2
#DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an #independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
#takeover #usip #thinktank #Musk
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
Think Tank’s Walker Pro Backpacks Are Made for Photographers https://petapixel.com/2025/03/18/think-tanks-walker-pro-backpacks-are-made-for-photographers/ #thinktankwalkerpro #camerabackpack #camerabag #thinktank #backpack #News #gear #bag
Lets try thinking for ourselves again, instead of using smart devices, intelligent artifacts and thinking tanks!
Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced
Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples
The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering
btw, do you know the largest #GOP donor in #America is?
the guy who helped fund #tiktok's creation and is a major stakeholder. a guy who helped fund a #rightwing #thinktank to warp the judiciary in #israel to keep #netanyahu in power
do you understand what you're defending?
will you please get your head out of your ass?
"sure, let #democracy die, because everything in life has to be done in perfect grace"
jesus fucking christ
Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy that hoity toity #ThinkTank economists and The Man keep telling us is doing fine and shoud STFU about it. Uh huh.
> Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Pay Their Medical Bills https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-gofundme-medical-debt-1235189323/
And for those of you looking to do a little extra reading on the objectively fascist think tank mentioned in these posts, The Claremont Institute, here's a 2023 article from The New Republic that should be quite enlightening and alarming:
"Extremism of the right-wing variety has always figured on the sidelines of American culture, and it has enjoyed a renaissance with the rise of social media. But Claremont represents something new in modern American politics: a group of people, not internet conspiracy freaks but credentialed and influential leaders, who are openly contemptuous of democracy. And they stand a reasonable chance of being seated at the highest levels of government—at the right hand of a President Trump or a President DeSantis, for example."
Speaking of weird, now Jason Alexander is an alien.
Can we just drop the "think tank" moniker and call them what they are?
Think tank = Propaganda Factory
Maybe it was a mistake to outsource thinking to heavy war machienery.
“#Gay #furry #hackers” leak revealing #data from #HeritageFoundation, a major #antiLGBTQ+ #Republican #ThinkTank
The #Farright Religiously-motivated #hategroup wants to #rollback #transgender people's #civilrights. But these #hackers are #fightingback...
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
ich ihn einem rechten #Thinktank anempfehle statt einer Hochschule.
Die letzten Tage ist mir schon so ein Beitrag aufgefallen. Muss man einen #Rechtsruck auch in der #Intelligenzia annehmen, nach dem Motto, mit dem Unvermeidlichen muss man sich anfreunden. Oder ist es #Strategie, die Hörer mit solchen gedanklichen Probestellungen zum verstärkten Selberdenken zu bewegen, Widerspruchsgeist zu provozieren? Mein Motto ist und bleibt: Die #Demokratie retten, heisst, #mehrDemokratiewagen
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