Kansas's Legislative Coordinating Council approved $2.775 billion in public subsidies for a new Chiefs stadium in a 30-minute closed-door meeting—the largest stadium subsidy in American history. The Hunt family, worth $6.53 billion, will pay 40 percent of construction costs while retaining 100 percent ownership and all revenue streams. Eighty-three percent of economists oppose such subsidies, and Kansas's own failed STAR bonds projects predicted this disaster. The state will finance billionaire infrastructure while ranking 41st in education spending and leaving 150,000 residents without healthcare. Every $15 beer sold will remind taxpayers: they built the stadium, will eventually demolish it, but the Hunt family pockets every dollar.
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December 19, 2025December 19, 2025America, Capitalism
Merry Christmas Is Made in China
American Christmas has become almost entirely dependent on Chinese manufacturing—from the 87% of decorations to 80% of toys to the inflatable Santas on suburban lawns. This $1 trillion holiday celebrating family values and tradition reveals a stark gap between what Americans claim to cherish and what their purchasing choices actually prioritize: cheap abundance over domestic production, disposability over durability, and material expression over presence. The economic, environmental, and strategic costs of this dependence continue mounting, yet political will to change remains trapped by consumer unwillingness to pay higher prices for the very values they profess to hold dear.
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December 14, 2025December 14, 2025Capitalism, Conspiracy, Corporate, Technology
America’s Largest Corporations Profit from Exposing Your Data While Small Businesses Die
When Code Spaces suffered a data breach in 2014, the company shut down within weeks. When Equifax exposed 147 million Americans' Social Security numbers in 2017, it recovered fully within two years and continues operating as one of three credit bureaus controlling Americans' financial lives. This isn't coincidence—it's the predictable outcome of a system where large corporations transform catastrophic data breaches from existential threats into manageable quarterly expenses.
While 60% of small businesses fail within six months of a cyberattack, Fortune 500 companies see their stock prices recover within 53 days on average. Settlement payments work out to less than $5 per affected individual—roughly the cost of a coffee—while representing less than 5% of a single quarter's profit. Meanwhile, breached data flows into a $441 billion data broker industry that aggregates, enriches, and resells personal information, creating a secondary market where stolen identities become purchasable intelligence.
The disparity isn't accidental. Through coordinated lobbying campaigns, corporations have shaped privacy legislation in over three dozen states, registered hundreds of lobbyists, and spent over $125 million to ensure that opt-out frameworks replace consumer consent, that private rights of action are eliminated, and that penalties remain negligible. When the CFPB attempted to regulate data brokers in 2024, the rule was withdrawn five months later. The result: a system designed to extract value from personal information rather than safeguard it, where small businesses die from the same breaches that large corporations absorb as rounding errors.
This investigation examines how America's largest corporations have transformed data security from a mandate into a choice—and why they consistently choose profits over protection.
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November 6, 2025November 6, 2025America, Capitalism, Conspiracy, Corporate, Health
Americans Are All Too Eager to Pay a Premium Only to Be Poisoned by Their Favorite Brands
In June 2022, a premium meal from Daily Harvest—backed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams—sent hundreds to hospitals with liver damage. The culprit? An ingredient that entered America's food supply without FDA oversight. This wasn't a discount brand cutting corners. This was expensive, aspirational wellness food. And it reveals an uncomfortable truth: the price you pay has nothing to do with safety. From Burt's Bees lipstick testing positive for lead to Fenty Beauty containing "forever chemicals," from the FDA allowing 10,000 food additives it's never reviewed to cosmetics companies hiding toxins behind the word "fragrance"—Americans are paying premiums to be poisoned by the brands they trust most. As regulatory loopholes swallow consumer protection and corporate greenwashing reaches epidemic levels (52% of consumers now recognize it), this investigation exposes how the illusion of "premium equals pure" has become America's most dangerous—and profitable—lie.
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June 9, 2025December 21, 2025America, Capitalism, Corporate, Psychology, Technology
From Porn to VHS to Facebook: How Video Technology Conquered Society in 50 Years
A small triangular play button has become one of the most powerful symbols in modern life, representing video's complete conquest of human attention. This comprehensive examination traces video technology's 50-year evolution from VHS's victory over Betamax through Mark Zuckerberg's Facemash becoming Facebook to YouTube's parasocial revolution and Netflix's algorithmic streaming dominance. The article reveals how technologies succeed when they satisfy our dual drives to look at appealing images and experience them with minimal friction—and how psychological mechanisms including curiosity gaps, emotional contagion, and algorithmic amplification weaponize human cognitive biases to drive engagement. Today, video accounts for 82% of all internet traffic, with humans spending eight hours daily on digital media. From controversial origins society prefers not to acknowledge—pornography pioneered online streaming, live feeds, and payment systems years before mainstream platforms—to 15.47 billion views of "Baby Shark Dance," video has transformed from novelty to the dominant form of human communication.