As #EggPrices soared, so did producer #profits

A #USDA program doled out hundreds of millions in relief payments to big egg companies, even as the largest earned record profits.

The #AvianInfluenza outbreak has had far-reaching consequences: >120M hens have been slaughtered & #egg #prices have risen to record levels. In his address to Congress, #Trump called the situation “out of control.”

Yet for some #corporate companies, these are good times.

#BirdFlu #Profiteering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/08/egg-prices-profit-increase-cal-maine/

The best thing on X right now is dieworkwear on X for roasting #MAGA influencers like Alex Jones, DC Draino and Patrick Betdavid - who praise #tariffs and local production hard while their T-shirt and merch gigs quietly outsource to #Mexico and beyond.

As always, ‘#America First’ is more like ‘#Profits First’, and there's nothing these #grifters won't do to earn an extra buck.

(1/2) #Trump's #tariff bullshit came into force recently. They raise #prices across the board for #consumers and will do nothing to help ordinary people. The target is #environmental and #labour laws, and the goal is to restore a 19th c. economy of low #wages & high #profits..

Today in Labor History April 5, 2010: Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. In 2015, Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was found not guilty of charges of securities fraud and making false statements. Investigators also found that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration were guilty of failing to act decisively, even after Massey was issued 515 citations for safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2009, prior to the deadly explosion.

So, the U.S. Dept of Labor, back when the U.S. staffed and funded its regulatory agencies, allowed a murderous boss to get away with 515 safety violations, resulting in the deaths of 29 miners, without any consequences for its bosses. And the courts gave the murderous CEO of Massey Energy a year in a Country Club prison for those same 29 worker deaths. But they’re gonna try Luigi Mangione for first-degree murder and seek the death penalty because he supposedly killed a murderous white-collar crook?

As they say, there is no Justice for the working-class; but there’s plenty of “Just Us” for the wealthy, as in court rulings just for them; subsidies and tax right-offs just for them; elite clubs and resorts just for them; and the right, just for them, to kill their workers and consumers in the pursuit of profits.

The decline of SFX serves as a valuable lesson regarding the challenges of commodifying a subculture, highlighting the resilience of outsider communities. Prior to the rise of electronic dance music (EDM), dance music had thrived for decades as a grassroots and often marginalized community, with its members cautious of any efforts to exploit its cherished authenticity. Despite SFX's attempts to engage with a new generation of dance music enthusiasts, it struggled to resonate with the dedicated core audience at the heart of the genre. SFX developed within the EDM boom, a time when it seemed that electronic dance music would dominate the industry. However, the transition of a subculture into the mainstream can often alienate its foundational audience. As casual fans shift their interests elsewhere, a significant void is left behind.

#DanceMusic #subculture vs #EDM #mainstream #MusicHistory #DigitalMusic #distribution #SFX #beatport #alienation #commodification #profits #electronic #DanceMusic #MarginalizedCommunities #originators #MusicScenes #aficionados #music #OnlineMusic #MusicStores #CoreAudience #history

https://www.europesays.com/1947077/ Bank of Estonia to pay €18.5 million of last year’s profit to the state | News #BankOfEstonia #Eesti #estonia #profits #StateBudget #Uudised

https://www.europesays.com/1940418/ 2 Energy stocks set to gain as crude oil prices plunge – Stock Insights News #BPCL #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #CrudePrices #hpcl #MarketingMargins #OilPrice #petroleum #PolicyChanges #profits

#CanardRéfractaire #Canard-Réfractaire
#politique #trump #guerre #exploitation #ukraine #mensonges #nazis #nazisme #profits #milliardaires #manipulations #propagandes #industries #armées #armes
https://youtu.be/L7PDs-_m2q0?si=pXIiT1HjgfL0SETL

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X30r4w0ytA4

#Profits and #Xenophobia

vidéo en La course à la guerre FAIT EXPLOSER les profits des industriels d'armement !: -- Yj3JkPvnA-k?version=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3JkPvnA-k&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Guerre #Industrie #Armement #Profits #VideoDeGuerre

NPArevolutionnaires Profits records pour les marchands de mort: Avec la rhétorique guerrière des dirigeants politiques et l’augmentation des budgets militaires, les bénéfices de l’industrie de guerre explosent : en 2024, 51 % d’augmentation pour Safran, 39 % pour Thales, ou encore 33 % pour Dassault Aviation. Macron disait que « notre génération ne touchera plus les dividendes de la paix »…… https://npa-revolutionnaires.org/profits-records-pour-les-marchands-de-mort/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon NPA-R #Guerre #IndustrieDeGuerre #MarchandsDeMort #Profits #BudgetMilitaire

“ War is a Racket “ - Major General Smedley D. Butler

Stealth Plan(e) Profiteers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II

F-35 Accidents & Incidents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II

Operational Costs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKNPCk-fd8I

Revolut°Permanente Ultime provocation : le groupe Stellantis offre 12 millions d'euros à l'ex PDG Carlos Tavares: L'ancien directeur général du groupe automobile Stellantis a quitté ses fonctions le 1er décembre 2024. Après avoir pressuré comme jamais les travailleurs du groupe Stellantis, ce départ en grande pompe s'accompagne d'un versement de 12 millions d'euros d'indemnités et de primes.Notre Classe / PSA… https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Ultime-provocation-le-groupe-Stellantis-offre-12-millions-d-euros-a-l-ex-PDG-Carlos-Tavares?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon RP #Stellantis #CarlosTavares #Salaires #Profits #Indemnités

Behind Commonwealth Bank’s stunning profit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Tplv1yf4g

Commonwealth Bank is the $10B per year profit juggernaut - the most expensive bank stock in the world - but what they never tell you is who guarantees the Big Banks. Spoiler: it’s you!