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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> "fool me once, more fool I, etc." Always on the ball thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HarriettMB</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB/114315497809013238" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beige.party/@HarriettMB/114315</span><span class="invisible">497809013238</span></a></p>
𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙<p>Helluva long read, but always topical - and relevant to anyone (that's everyone :) who thinks they're smarter than others. And particularly in these days of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Idiocracy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elites</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/arts/what-is-elon-musks-iq.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.BLal.imd7gS-YeBcK&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/05/arts/wh</span><span class="invisible">at-is-elon-musks-iq.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.BLal.imd7gS-YeBcK&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Populist.in 💥 Populism<p>»<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LePen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LePen</span></a> Verdict Fuels Claims That <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elites</span></a> Are Colluding Against <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Populists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populists</span></a>.« <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/le-pen-verdict-fuels-claims-that-europes-elites-are-colluding-against-populists-c08493e2?Populist.in" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsj.com/world/europe/le-pen-ve</span><span class="invisible">rdict-fuels-claims-that-europes-elites-are-colluding-against-populists-c08493e2?Populist.in</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FactCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Populist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Populist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Movement</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>class</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> @HenryTufnell m.p. ( <a href="https://mas.to/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> ?) <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pembroke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pembroke</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/haverfordwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haverfordwest</span></a> Please take note.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/zero-self-awareness-second-home-owners-council-tax-england" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/apr/01/zero-self-awareness-second-home-owners-council-tax-england</span></a></p>
Vas<p>300 of America’s wealthiest citizens ask Congress not to carry out tax breaks for them. Here’s why</p><p>Group of wealthy Americans includes member of the Disney family, founder of Seventh Generation, heir to the Rockefeller family and more..<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a>..<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tax-breaks-congress-disney-rockefeller-letter-b2722039.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/tax-breaks-congress-disney-rockefeller-letter-b2722039.html</span></a></p>
-0--1-<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterTurchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterTurchin</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComplexityScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComplexityScience</span></a>, discusses <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Political</span></a> dynamics and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> of what is occurring in the US. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CounterElites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CounterElites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> and resulting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalInstability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalInstability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CompetitionToBecomeElite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CompetitionToBecomeElite</span></a> <a href="https://youtu.be/eYxPXDPnyYg?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/eYxPXDPnyYg?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p>
Ehay2k<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh, like Epstein's island? Is that what they want? Because creating a place where people live with unchecked power has never, ever, ever, ever, ever worked out well. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSa52TR9tCA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=QSa52TR9tCA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialContracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialContracts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Morals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Morals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QualityOfLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QualityOfLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialImmobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialImmobility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MoralNorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoralNorms</span></a></p>
MistercazEEK94<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BillClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillClinton</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deregulation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmpireCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmpireCapitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elites</span></a><br><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/how-bill-clintons-presidency-changed-american-capitalism-lichtenstein-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2023/</span><span class="invisible">09/how-bill-clintons-presidency-changed-american-capitalism-lichtenstein-interview/</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p>Something to think about. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peace</span></a> How to resist the elites. Just listened to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Radio3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Radio3</span></a> 'thought for the day'. A proper reflection 🙏🏽 When the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> oppress the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a> they must be 'thrown down' (<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Amos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amos</span></a>, 'new age prophet'). It may not be your cup of t, but do it a give it a listen. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/strongertogether" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strongertogether</span></a> ✊🏾</p>
Estelle Platini<p>'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'</p><p>'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'</p><p>Azfar Shafi writes: <a href="https://vashtimedia.com/starmers-project-depoliticisation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vashtimedia.com/starmers-proje</span><span class="invisible">ct-depoliticisation/</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/supremacy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>supremacy</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourParty</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elites</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/extremeCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremeCenter</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/raceMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raceMaking</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/riots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UKRiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKRiots</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BorisJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorisJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/moralPanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moralPanic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/policeState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policeState</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lawAndOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawAndOrder</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/stateViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stateViolence</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/whiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Southport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Southport</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/standingArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standingArmy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/depoliticisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depoliticisation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/commonSense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonSense</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NijjorManush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NijjorManush</span></a></p>
Coffeehouse Talker<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/radical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radical</span></a>-chic The story of a killer &amp; the fecklessness of our <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a> got buried this week. Which is a shame, because the consequences of their silliness were far more serious than whether some college president plagiarized or not. (<a href="https://www.coffeehouse-talker.net/posts/nyt-two-time-killer-charged-again-at-83.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coffeehouse-talker.net/posts/n</span><span class="invisible">yt-two-time-killer-charged-again-at-83.html</span></a>)</p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Transnational Yncivil Society Network: includes the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/realestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>realestate</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/brokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>brokers</span></a> and other asset facilitators, who turn whole precincts of the world’s greatest <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cities</span></a> into empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, while ensuring that footlose <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a> always have a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/penthouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>penthouse</span></a> to perch in when they take a break from the desiccated husks they’ve drained dry back home.</p><p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-kleptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-df965ddbd88" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doctorow.medium.com/how-the-kl</span><span class="invisible">eptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-df965ddbd88</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>Transnational Yncivil Society Network: includes the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/realestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>realestate</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/brokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>brokers</span></a> and other asset facilitators, who turn whole precincts of the world’s greatest <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cities</span></a> into empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, while ensuring that footlose <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a> always have a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/penthouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>penthouse</span></a> to perch in when they take a break from the desiccated husks they’ve drained dry back home.</p><p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-kleptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-df965ddbd88" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doctorow.medium.com/how-the-kl</span><span class="invisible">eptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-df965ddbd88</span></a></p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p>The pandemic showed how callous, unequal, and ineffective American health care can be- The Nation by Gregg Gonsalves<br /><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sandro-galea-public-health-reason/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/society/</span><span class="invisible">sandro-galea-public-health-reason/</span></a> </p><p>Poverty is manufactured: The well-off and with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/predatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>predatory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a>, who enact <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/extractive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>extractive</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/exploitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>exploitative</span></a> policies to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CreatePoverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CreatePoverty</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/entrench" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>entrench</span></a> it, in America, across the world, and across history.</p>
Gladwyn d’Souza<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kleptocracy</span></a>: the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAE</span></a> has positioning itself as a haven for sanctioned <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/criminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>criminals</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/taxevaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>taxevaders</span></a>, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/goldsmugglers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>goldsmugglers</span></a>— by providing <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sanctuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sanctuary</span></a>.</p><p>Al Jazeera English recently debuted a documentary series about the “Gold Mafia”—an exploration of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/moneylaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moneylaundering</span></a> (in the name of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>decolonization</span></a>) by African <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>governments</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/elites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elites</span></a>, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/religiousentrepreneurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>religiousentrepreneurs</span></a> that features the UAE.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/6/what-draws-the-gold-mafia-to-dubai-dubai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/6/wh</span><span class="invisible">at-draws-the-gold-mafia-to-dubai-dubai</span></a></p>