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Who owns UK Coffee Shops ???
Feeling like you might wanna buy British???
Here's a quick skim of the internet to find out where our money goes ...
Starbucks - you guessed it. A publicly listed USA company.
Costa Coffee - a wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, which is a company from the USA, in case you were wondering.
Caffe Nero - private UK company with the main shareholders being UK and Luxembourg intermediary companies.
Pret a Manger - owned by JAB, a German company.
Blank Street - a private company from the USA.
Greggs - is a publicly listed UK company based in Newcastle.
Of course, supporting your local independent coffee shop is probably the way to go.
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#Amazon’s bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over #TikTok’s ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep #NationalSecurity concerns over the app’s Chinese ownership, & passed a #law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in Jan.
#Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of #TikTok, …as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the #UnitedStates….
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President #JDVance & #HowardLutnick, the #commerce secy….
#USpol #Trump #broligarchy #JeffBezos #law #tech #Antitrust
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D95FBEC6-2C4F-46F0-AAEC-465CE954890A
The New York Times · Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Twenty-three states sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/01/donald-trump-elon-musk-special-elections-florida-wisconsin-texas-arizona-us-politics-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67ebfd448f0842b23ea4f0a1#block-67ebfd448f0842b23ea4f0a1
#MadKingDonald #dontatorship #dictatorship #broligarchy #news #politics #UnitedStates #health #lawsuits #authoritarianism
the Guardian · Twenty-three states sue Trump administration over decision to rescind billions in health funding – liveLawsuit claims ‘sudden and reckless cuts violate federal law, jeopardize public health and will have devastating consequences’
A rather thought provoking article for those in the Tech industry and where we are in politics - thanks to @LWN for the link (LWN are fabulous for keeping an eye on the open source ecosystem too by the way) https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope #broligarchy #fascism https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope
ratfactor.comI'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor
So, a pretty productive Saturday; finished piecing a simple table runner top, salvaged some leftover fabric for lining a third panel for dining room,
and exercised my #1A rights protesting the corrupt Musk #broligarchy. #TeslaTakedown
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The "West" could always claim moral high ground because of the "freedoms"
But now with the broligarchs who openly want to genocide billions and statist fascist enthusiastically supporting genociding "The useless eaters" the choice is, as it always was.
People Vs. Elites
This won’t end well
The #SEC is beginning to onboard ofcls w/billionaire #ElonMusk's #DOGE, acc/to an email sent on Fri to staff.
SEC staff were informed that the DOGE task force had contacted the regulator, & that they would be treated as staff for the purposes of network, system & data access. The SEC is establishing a liaison team w/the "intent to partner" w/DOGE, the email said.
[#Musk has repeatedly been investigated & sued by the SEC]
#law #Trump #broligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-securities-exchange-commission-beginning-onboard-doge-staff-email-says-2025-03-28/
#Trump said he doesn’t know #TrevorMilton but was told that the way Milton was treated by the justice system was “very unfair.”
“And they say the thing that he did wrong was he was one of the first people that supported a gentleman named Donald Trump for president,” Trump said. 
Trump also said he acted after receiving some “fantastic recommendations”about Milton.[
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#law #pardons #felon47 #fraud #Nikola #kleptocracy #broligarchy
https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764
AP News · Convicted founder of electric vehicle startup Nikola pardoned by Trump
#Trump's newly announced 25% import #tariffs on foreign #cars will increase vehicle prices by thousands of dollars for cars coming from Germany, Japan, & South Korea, as well as for the US assembled autos that use foreign-made parts, acc/to most auto industry experts.
However, one company likely to fare better is #Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer led by close Trump administration adviser #ElonMusk, industry analysts say.
#broligarchy #kleptocracy #trumpcession
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342456/tariffs-tesla-imports-musk-trump
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Defense Secy #Hegseth called his disclosure a “team update” meant to “provide updates in real time, general updates in real time.” He didn’t address how a disclosure that he released 30 mins before flights took off & 2 hours before the fighter jets began strikes was “real time.”
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Besides being a #drunk #rapist, #Trump #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth is a total idiot, on full display in this video.
Aside, note the general he names behind him, immediately turns because he doesn’t want to associated w/this jackass.
Best alternative to Google Maps?
I'm working to get Google out of my life and data, and that map app is the next step, once I finally shake gmail loose.
How the early 20th century US Technocratic Movement (with its company Technocracy Inc.) prefigured much of today's Silicon Valley ideas of technological singularity and tech oligarchies, including the US annexation of Canada: my co-worker Eva Visser, tutor at Hogeschool Rotterdam, has been working on her PhD thesis on this topic for many years. It is now more relevant than ever. In this blog post she gives a preview of her historical research:
https://michaelrasche.eu/technate/?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content
michaelrasche.euAmerican Expansionism & the Technate of AmericaIn her doctoral thesis at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, historian and philosopher Eva Visser is researching the ‘technocrats’, a controversial and banned North American movement from the 1930s. Much of what this group wanted to achieve is now appearing as goals of the US government. An exciting historical view: to understand the present, you have to look into the past.
Wenn bis jetzt kein Bedarf bestand WhatsApp zu verlassen sollte es jetzt so weit sein. Das Ziel ist ein Aufweichen der Akzeptanz für komplette KI Überwachung und Verkauf der Daten. Gerade in privaten Chats sollte man sich auf Privatsphäre verlassen können. Überzeugt eure Freund*innen heute #WhatsApp, #Insta & Co zu verlassen. Es ist Zeit die Gemütlichkeit abzulegen.
netzpolitik.org · Angriff auf Privatsphäre: Meta-Messenger führen KI-Assistenten in Europa einKünftig können Nutzer*innen von WhatsApp und Co. mit einer KI chatten und auch sprechen. Dabei werden ihre Daten mit Meta geteilt. Und ein Test-Feature lässt die KI sogar durchgängig mithören.
"Meet the new #authoritarianism boss. Same as the old #authoritarian boss."
"How DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule."... a #Libertarians #techbros #Broligarchy
"The #DarkEnlightenment: The #TechOligarchy #Ideology Driving #DOGE’s Destruction"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-dark-enlightenment-the-tech-oligarch-ideology-driving-doges-destruction.html #Libertarianism= #Fascism pretending to have democratic goals, and many of you were indoctrinated to accept it via #HarryPotter books/moovees
naked capitalism · The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction | naked capitalismHow DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
"In this way, this ravenous industry is a perfect stand-in for the false prophets whispering other varieties of lies. It’s the same rope-a-dope offered by Trump and the podcast boys. You can cure your emptiness, your ennui, your material precarity, without the pesky work of interdependence. All it takes is one more strongman, one more tariff, one more bathroom ban, one more deportation, one more winning bet."
Garrett Bucks on what #SportsBetting and #Broligarchy have in common
The White Pages · The house always wins