Wenn ein Verlag vor Dummheit und Populismus brummt und die Überschriften lobbygesteuert, unwahr und umweltfeindlich sind.
Wenn der Inhalt der PR-Artikel nichts mit der Überschrift zu tun hat, dann sind wir bei... #welt#AxelSpringer#lobbyismus#KKR#KKR_ÖlSchmuggel_Shareholder
Übrigens die zwei Wurstscheiben auf dem Foto sind echte Fleischwurst. Ich habe es überprüft
Langer Thread zur systematischen Verhinderung von #Energiewende in #Deutschland, und was #KKR damit zu tun hat. Viele werden vieles schon kennen, aber nicht alle alles. Von daher:
Wusstet ihr, dass die bekannten deutschen #Fahrrad-Marken #Winora & #Staiger sowie die niederländische Lastenrad-Marke #Babboe der US-Beteiligungsgesellschaft #KKR & Co. (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) gehören; und KKR sein Geld hauptsächlich mit fossilen Projekten (Erdgas, Erdöl) verdient? Außerdem gehören KKR auch noch die WELT- und BILD-Zeitung.
#Kapitalismus ist echt ein Scheißsystem. Man unterstützt also durch den Kauf eines Fahrrads von Winora, Staiger oder Babboe einen fossilen Konzern.
Sovranisti o sopranisti? Rete Tim senza Sparkle, ecco come il governo dà l’ok alla vendita a Kkr senza esercitare la golden share
Il governo ha autorizzato l'operazione di vendita della rete di #Tim al fondo americano #Kkr dopo gli impegni delle parti su alcune questioni strategiche.
Sovranisti in campagna elettorale, ma quando mamma USA batte il tempo, ecco che i nostri sopranisti cantano inni di gioia con voci da castrato
I'm watching yet another iteration of Greek mythology where Zeus is a deadbeat dad who wants to do better and Hera is the vengeful word-I-don't-use, and it's just so sexist.
Does anyone know of any Greek myth retellings from Hera's point of view? I'd love to read a feminist take on all that.
La chiusura dell'operazione #Tim#KKR è prevista entro l'estate 2024. L'offerta valorizza la rete fino a 22 miliardi. Mandato all'ad per un'offerta migliorativa per Sparkle
Heißt auf Deutsch : "Wir wollen nichts gegen den Klimawandel tun, wir sind die Hausierer der Volksverblödung und vertreten ausschließlich die Interessen der zerstörerischen Mafia der Kohle-, Gas- und Ölindustrie ! #Lindner#fdp#Blackrock#KKR #Klimakrise#Klimawandel#FFF
Das Investment-Unternehmen #KKR gehört zu den weltweit größten Investoren im fossilen Bereich. KKR will erklärtermaßen trotz #Klimakrise auch weiterhin in fossile Industrien investieren. KKR ist größter Teilhaber des Axel-Springer-Verlags. Bei jeder Meldung von #Welt oder #Bild, zu irgendwas mit Klima, Öl, Gas, Verbrennungsmotoren, Wärmepumpen, Erneuerbaren Energien, den Grünen, Letzte Generation, Fridays for Future etc. muss das mitgedacht und mit erwähnt werden!
“When COVID-19 hit, hospitals owned by private equity firms were among the first to cut their workers’ pay and benefits because their operations could no longer generate profits on elective surgical procedures delayed due to the pandemic.”
Excerpt From
These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner
“The growing sophistication of the nursing home industry has enabled some owners to leverage and direct assets in a manner that maximizes profits without meaningful accountability for nursing home quality.”
Excerpt From
These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner
today,we at @fattoquotidiano run an investigation on what will happen to some of the most sensitive #data of Italian citizens,if the U.S.investment fund #KKR buys our biggest telecom #TIM.
We quote,among others,#BruceSchneier and #JacobAppelbaum (Italian):
Long before they became recently known for sucking Toys R Us dry, KKR drained what was then RJR Nabisco. Now @pluralistic explains how those vampire barbarians are at the publisher's gate:
Last Nov, publishing got excellent news: the planned merger of #PenguinRandomHouse (the largest publisher in the history of human civilization) with its immediate competitor #SimonAndSchuster would not be permitted, thanks to the #FTC's deftly argued case against the deal:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Paramount has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion in cash, after more than three years of trying to offload the book publishing powerhouse.
Let's review a little of KKR's track record, shall we? Most spectacularly, they are known for buying and destroying Toys R Us in a deal that saw them extract $200m from the company, leaving it bankrupt, with lifetime employees getting $0 in severance even as its executives paid themselves tens of millions in "performance bonuses":
The pillaging of Toys R Us isn't the worst thing KKR did, but it was the most brazen. KKR lit a beloved national chain on fire and then walked away, hands in pockets, whistling. They didn't even bother to clear their former employees' sensitive personnel records out of the unlocked filing cabinets before they scarpered:
But as flashy as the Toys R Us caper was, it wasn't the worst. Private equity funds specialize in buying up businesses, loading them with debts, paying themselves, and then leaving them to collapse. They're sometimes called vulture capitalists, but they're really vampire capitalists:
Given a choice, PE companies don't want to prey on sick businesses – they preferentially drain off value from thriving ones, preferably ones that we must use, which is why PE – and KKR in particular – loves to buy health care companies.
Heard of the "surprise billing epidemic"? That's where you go to a hospital that's covered by your insurer, only to discover – after the fact – that the emergency room is operated by a separate, PE-backed company that charges you thousands for junk fees. KKR and Blackstone invented this scam, then funneled millions into fighting the No Surprises Act, which more-or-less killed it:
KKR took one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, Envision, hostage to surprise billing, making it dependent on these fraudulent payments. When Congress finally acted to end this scam, KKR was able to take to the nation's editorial pages and damn Congress for recklessly endangering all the patients who relied on it:
Critics Rip Private Equity Firm's Deal to Buy Simon & Schuster as 'Dark Day for #Publishing'
"I guess all of corporate book publishing is beholden to investors above all else but this really makes it blatant," said one literary podcaster.
American literati recoiled in howls of articulate indignation Monday following news that multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global has agreed to sell venerable publishing house Simon & Schuster to #KKR"
I wouldn't be surprised - they have plenty of money to pay someone to keep that page clean.
I also found out after this post that they're in the active process of acquiring Simon and Schuster. Cory Doctorow (aka @pluralistic) has a great writeup on them here.
Die Propaganda des Gas- Kohle und Öl-Netzwerks (#KKR#FDP#Springer) hat es teilweise geschafft deutsche Wahlen und Wahlumfrsgen zu beeinflussen mit Fake News über "Heizungsverbot".
Die Dringlichkeit der Energiewende ist zwar Konsens, aber keine andere Partei ausser den Grünen traut sich es wirklich anzugehen.
Springers Hauptanteilseigner KKR ist laut 'climate risks scorecard' drittgrösster Übeltäter unter Private-Equity-Investoren mit Portfolios fossiler Brennstoffen:
Paramount to sell Simon & Schuster to KKR for $1.6 Billion Cash (www.cnn.com)
Paramount has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion in cash, after more than three years of trying to offload the book publishing powerhouse.
The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (open.substack.com)
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry