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Sticker Shock in the Mailbox: USPS Stamp Hike Hits Maryland Residents and Raises Broader Questions About Government Oversight

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The U.S. Postal Service’s latest price hike has pushed the cost of a Forever stamp to 78 cents, sparking backlash across Maryland and beyond. While USPS frames the increase as part of its long-term “Delivering for America” recovery plan, critics say the agency is piling financial pressure on everyday Americans without fixing its deeper structural failures. With six hikes in four years and mail volumes plummeting, many are asking: how much longer can the public afford this “forever” stamp strategy?

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The Price of Your Child: How Family Court Became a Billion-Dollar Industry

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What is the price of your child? In family court, it’s whatever the system can extract—through legal fees, child support orders, court-mandated services, and endless litigation. This isn’t justice. It’s a billion-dollar industry built on your heartbreak. Behind every “best interest of the child” ruling lies a profit motive no one wants to talk about. Until now.

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Child Custody / Child Support / Corruption / Court Reform / Divorce / Family Court / Fraud / Privitization

The Business of Broken Families: How Corporations Profit from Child Support Enforcement

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The child support enforcement system, often seen as protective, is critiqued for being a profit-driven network. It utilizes administrative measures bypassing judicial oversight, leading to punitive actions against struggling parents. This system, enriched by corporate contractors, harms families, particularly fathers, while demanding reform for transparency and due process.

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The Child Support Industrial Complex: How Defense Contractors Like Lockheed Martin Turned Broken Families Into Big Business

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Michael Phillips highlights the troubling involvement of defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, now Conduent, in child support enforcement. This privatization has transformed the system into a profit-driven industry that prioritizes metrics over families, leading to automation that harms vulnerable parents. The need for reform, transparency, and human oversight is critical.

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Privitization

The Privatization of Reality: How Big Tech Became the New Government

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Powerful corporations have effectively privatized reality, transforming from platforms to unaccountable authorities shaping public discourse through algorithms. The government’s outsourcing of censorship to these tech giants undermines constitutional protections, leading to manipulated information and diminished public consent. Citizens must reclaim the public square for a truly democratic society.

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American / Corruption / Defense / Judicial / Politics / Privitization / Surveillance

The New Warlords: How Private Corporations Replaced Governments in the Name of Freedom

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The post discusses the rise of corporate power following the fall of the Berlin Wall, highlighting the outsourcing of government functions to private companies in areas like military operations, prisons, and intelligence. It argues that this shift has led to a system prioritizing profit over public welfare, fostering neo-feudalism and diminishing democratic oversight.

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Advocacy / Constitutional Law / Legislation / Privitization / Regulatory

Justice for Sale: How ADR Courts Hijacked Due Process and Made You Pay for It

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The post critiques the shift from traditional courts, which uphold justice as a constitutional right, to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) systems that charge for legal services, undermining due process. It highlights court cases emphasizing access to justice without fees and calls for reform to restore constitutional rights and challenge the financial burden placed on litigants.

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The Silent Coup of the 1990s: How Privatization, ADR, and Drug Cartels Rewired American Power

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The 1990s, often viewed as a prosperous decade, actually concealed significant systemic corruption characterized by privatization of justice and prisons, alongside the emergence of corporate cartels. These changes, fueled by political interests and military-industrial complex dynamics, blurred the lines between government, corporations, and crime, undermining democracy and public accountability.

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