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today's overseerer
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I'd call this an overseerer - like the War Department had used on early tribes; you'd ask permission for fabric and medicine... or a plantation owner's manager and the slave had to ask for anything needed
ANALOGY
Imagine a household where the family does not control its own checkbook. Instead, a private financial manager holds the checkbook and decides how much money the family can access each month. Every time the family needs funds—for groceries, for home repairs, for the children’s education—they must borrow from this manager, who charges interest on every loan. The family works hard, earns income, but that income flows first to the manager, who takes his cut before allowing the family their share. Over generations, the family sinks deeper into debt to the manager, even as they produce more and work longer hours. The manager, meanwhile, grows wealthy from the interest payments. He uses that wealth to influence the family’s decisions: which jobs they take, which purchases they make, which neighbors they befriend or shun. The family believes they are making free choices, but the manager’s control over their finances shapes every option available to them. This is the American monetary system. The Federal Reserve is the manager; the American people are the family; and the debt that compounds year after year is the chain that binds productive labor to financial extraction.
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Captured - kids are not safe
Kids Who Get Cellphones Before Age 12 at Higher Risk of Obesity, Depression, Poor Sleep
December 2, 2025
Children who have their own cellphone by age 12 are at greater risk of obesity, depression and insufficient sleep than kids who don’t — and the younger they are when they get the phone, the greater risk they’ll be obese and have trouble sleeping, according to research published Monday in Pediatrics.
Ran Barzilay, M.D., Ph.D., the study’s lead author and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told The Defender he hopes parents will consider how their decision to hand their kid a cellphone may affect their child’s health.
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Riots in Rome | Why are Italians protesting? Two Months Ago
AND THIS WEEK:
Major strike to affect transport and public services in Italy on December 12
Travellers and residents in Italy should prepare for widespread disruptions on Friday, December 12, 2025, as Italy’s largest trade union, Cgil, holds a nationwide general strike. The action will affect both public and private sectors, including many subcontracted services.
The strike is part of a protest against what the union describes as an “unfair budget law,” with demands for higher wages and pensions, stronger public health and education funding, and better protection for workers’ rights.
Trumpy Trumps
Trumpy Trump – the new card game satirising the US President
Garrick Webster 12/8/2025
There are those of us who used to turn on the news and say, 'What fresh Hell is this?' Today, many don't watch the news at all, in large part due to the proportion of news coverage surrounding US President Donald Trump. If you're one of them, designer Graham Johnson knows exactly how you feel, and he's responded by creating a new card game called Trumpy Trump. You can tell where this is going…
"He and his kind rule the world at the moment. You've got to do something, right?" says Graham. "I can't be a full-time activist, but I can put this game out there. I hope I'm not pouring petrol on family arguments this Christmas… Not true, maybe that's exactly what I'm doing!"
buying up land?
America’s big business billionaires are buying up LOTS of land
Wealthy business people are buying up bigger and bigger plots of land as investments. 🚀
A massive, 100-square-mile Texas ranch that belonged to recently deceased mega-millionaire T. Boone Pickens went on sale for $250m in 2017.
But compared to other land empires, Pickens’ plot was a small potato: 100 wealthy families own 42m acres of land across the US, and the amount of land owned by these lords of land has spiked 50% since 2007.
Why do billionaires want so much land?
Land tends to its retain value over time, making it a more consistent and predictable asset than other luxury investments.
For rich families with oodles of cash, land offers the added benefit of providing recreational opportunities — fishing, hunting, vacationing — to friends and family for generations.
But, as The New York Times reports, huge private land grabs also limit local access to public lands, which has made billionaire land barons unpopular in parts of the American West where they’ve bought up big lots.
So, who are some of the biggest landowners?
Many of the country’s largest landowners are famous business magnates. Here are a few of the big names — and how much acreage they’ve got:
- John Malone, former CEO of Tele-Communications Inc: 2.2m acres
- Ted Turner, founder of CNN: 2m acres
- Stan Kroenke, owner of LA Rams: 1.38m acres
- Peter Buck, co-founder of Subway: 925k acres
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon: 420k acres
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