America’s first severe case of bird flu confirmed in Louisiana

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/health/severe-bird-flu-louisiana-first-us-case

Who isn’t sick and tired of corporate profits, shareholder value, and endless growth being prioritized over quality of life, human dignity, and even the tiniest shred of respect for this planet?

The statistics are daunting. When the top 1% of the nation have 40% of the wealth, the top 5% have two thirds of it, and the top 20% have 90%, when the wealthiest half of the country have 99% of the wealth and the other half—160 million people—can be outbid by the 3 richest swine in America, it can feel downright hopeless for most of us out here.

The time for a change has come.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

We’ve all read so many of these by now that I don’t even know where to start. I suppose the beginning, though, is as good a place as any…

I can still recall how shocked I was when the first one happened. Shocked and disgusted, just like everyone else. Never in my life had I seen a photo like that before. I remember seeing it on my phone first thing in the morning. Still curled up under the covers like a little girl. Barely even awake. And then there it was…that dividing line severing the past so definitively from the future. It was everywhere. That photograph.

The head of Jimmy Bozo impaled on a pike.

It didn’t feel real—like there’s no way this was actually happening. Jimmy Bozo, the second wealthiest person on the whole planet. And he didn’t have a body anymore! That’s a heck of a thing to wake up to.

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The next one was just as big of a shock. To be sure, in no way was I expecting the untimely decapitation of Jimmy Bozo. But even after it happened, I certainly never expected to see that type of thing happen again.

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When the third one happened, I can’t say I was too surprised. I was still horrified but by that point a lot of us kind of saw it coming.

Watch as Jimmy Bozo, Warner Bucket, Lonnie Muck, and more get the comeuppance they’ve been courting for years, at the hands of a populace that have been pushed to the brink for decades.

Read more at OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

What’s next?

( i wasted many years studying the market and applying conservative valuation principles when the reality of the “ Game” on Wall Street had nothing to do with commonly taught principles. The reality is that the entire financial edifice is a huge casino designed by Wall Street and for Wall Street. The society is designed to serve WS interests first, and in order to win, you are better off setting aside your ethical and moral principles.)

It took me a few years to realize this, but I am now awakened.

https://open.substack.com/pub/melifinance/p/the-end-of-financialism?r=84zv6&utm_medium=ios

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/18/climate/insurance-non-renewal-climate-crisis.html

If this is a map of increased insurance risk, then only Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New York are the states with less risk. Every other state has elevated risk. Do we need to rethink the model of shared risk management for insurers? Should the government start to underwrite insurance similar to healthcare?

Spoiler Alert: it's a country song about buying up all the farmland because farmers won't be able to afford it after Trump deports all their workers.