Cameron Neil

Entrepreneur in the impact economy; drinks good coffee, beer & whisky; sci-fi geek; Dad

@RedHatImpact | @Lend4Good

[Cameron Neil @CameronNeil]

Waking up, with sober mind, to 24 hours of clear knowledge that humanity is an unprecedented extinction event for our planet. & with climate change, likely authors of our own demise.

What to do? How to be different/better?

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This Forbes investigation is a must-read.

Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.

He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.

A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
https://t.co/0MzmPI2AE3

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan release statement saying 'Israeli occupation is the main source of instability in the region'

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

"every morning i mindfully kick a handcuffed farmer off a cliff"

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Guy who has complained about George Soros for years has given 4x more than George Soros ever gave in a single cycle, the largest amount spent on a single election by an individual in history

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There was a deeper reason why the film NAZA left the entire audience speechless.

This film isn’t about the tangible, visible horror of Gaza. It was about something more hidden, something far closer to home.

This was about the horror lurking within each of us. What the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil”.

We were stunned, I think, by the realisation that the 24 Israelis up on the screen – each of whom admitted, often dispassionately, sometimes a little proudly, carrying out the most monstrous of crimes – could have been our son or daughter, our brother or sister.

The only reason to applaud, as happened at the Venice Film Festival, it seemed to me, was to drown out the still, small voice of one’s conscience asking, “Might I have done as they did? Might my children?”

NAZA is a gut punch not because it tells us anything we did not already know or suspect about Israel and Gaza.

The enclave’s Palestinian journalists showed us daily the evidence of the genocide, before each was picked off by Israel’s AI machinery – in the largest slaughter of media personnel ever recorded.

No, the film tells us something far more shaming. It tells us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on.

Today’s western privileges were built on a long history of naked, racist colonialism – of greed, of pillage, of slavery, of genocide – that we have never truly renounced or forsaken.

Israel continues that tradition for us, both in sharpening colonialism’s technical efficiency with endless, murderous experimentation on a captive Palestinian population and in obscuring our own complicity in this barbarity.

That is the reason why it was so effortless for our leaders to collude in Israel’s genocide: to supply the bombs, to pass on the intelligence, to provide the diplomatic cover, to excuse the “excesses”, to crush the protests.

NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty.

This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. It’s about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️

[Panzer @panzer]

The money for nothing rogue one edit just makes me want to run through a wall probably the best SW edit of all time

[Cameron Neil @CameronNeil]

@cameronwilson Our government should prosecute the shareholders and directors of these companies.

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Apparently some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

— Frank Herbert

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):

Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.

Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

Nous vivons un grand moment de l'Histoire. Des mouvements lycéens et étudiants ont actuellement lieu aux quatre coins du monde.

Le néolibéralisme a détruit partout les services publics et les conquêtes des travailleurs, jusqu'à amener tout le monde au point d'exaspération.

C’est ce qui se passe quand on a enlevé au plus grand nombre et sur la terre entière, toute espérance d'y arriver par soi-même.

[William Fitzgerald @william_fitz]

"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."

https://t.co/tbDb5ubQ0h

[ToddVousGuette @ToddVousGuette]

Je crois sincèrement qu'on tient ici la séquence du siècle

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's @RonniSalt

"The violence we still refuse to name"

https://t.co/iWe7qQnvTA

[Victor Laszlo @Impolitics]

The fact that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has enough loose change to spend $100 million of it on a campaign to defeat the proposed one-time 5% tax on California billionaires is itself the single most powerful argument in favor of a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

This latest article from Thomas Pikkety, the renowned French economist and leading authority on wealth inequality, should be essential reading here in the UK.

His argument is simple.

France has never been wealthier. Yet education funding per student has fallen by 20% since 2017, public services are struggling, and inequality is deeply embedded in the system.

Sound familiar?

The problem isn't that our countries have run out of wealth. It's how that wealth is distributed, who controls it, and the political choices made to protect it.

For decades, we've been told that austerity, declining public services and falling living standards are unavoidable consequences of economic crises, yet those same decades have seen extraordinary concentrations of private wealth.

Socialise the costs. Privatise the gains.

This is the reality we all need to wake up to.

These aren't inevitable economic outcomes. They're the consequences of political choices, made over time, that have prioritised the accumulation of private wealth over the needs of society.

And as public anger grows, we're seeing a deeply concerning response: The rise of the far right, directing that anger towards immigrants, disabled people, those claiming welfare and other vulnerable groups, rather than towards the economic structures responsible for the inequalities people are rightly furious about.

As @NaomiAKlein describes fascism, "it's capitalism's most ferocious threat response. A way of directing public anger downwards at the vulnerable, rather than upwards at the system."

Fascism doesn't challenge the status quo. It protects it by giving people someone else to blame.

The fundamental question isn't whether our societies can afford something better. It's why, when we've never been wealthier, we're repeatedly told we must accept less.

We need to fundamentally rethink an economy built around extraction, exploitation and wealth concentration, and start building one that delivers equitable, sustainable prosperity for everyone.

And with the UK Budget next week, this should be a serious warning to @UKLabour.

If the Budget fails to acknowledge this fundamental reality, and instead offers another round of "difficult decisions" that protect concentrated wealth while asking ordinary people to shoulder the burden, then @andyburnham really hasn't understood what's happening across Europe.

What's unfolding in France isn't an isolated protest. It's a warning of what happens when people stop accepting that a society growing ever wealthier somehow can't afford to give them a better life.

This isn't something politicians can keep kicking down the road.

The warning signs are everywhere. The question now is whether those in power are prepared to confront the causes, or continue defending the very system that's driving the anger.

@ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Just fucking awful.

As are early grotesque attempts to craft a Zionist-friendly narrative around this. Utter ghouls.

This is an unhinged man attacking a prominent, beloved public woman, widely regarded as one "of the good ones". My thoughts are with Helen and her loved ones.

[ǝdɐɔsǝʇıʍpıɯ @cnb_1992]

"People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem."