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Category Archives: Privatization
One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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Social Media’s Threat to Free Speech is Real
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well The interplay between the First Amendment and corporations like Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook is the most significant challenge to free speech in our lifetimes. Pretending a corporation with the reach … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Privatization, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Election 2020, Facebook, First Amendment, free speech, Google, Hunter Biden, Internet Freedom, Joe Biden, Parler, Social Media, Twitter
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New Pentagon-Google Partnership Suggests AI Will Soon Be Used to Diagnose Covid-19
Google recently teamed up with the Pentagon as part of the new, AI-driven “Predictive Health” program. Though only focused on “predictive cancer diagnoses” for now, Google and the military have apparent plans to expand the AI model for automating and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Health, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged AI, coronavirus, Covid-19, Cyber Alliance to Defend Our Healthcare, Defense Health Agency, Defense Innovation Unit, Department of Defense, Global Health Institute, Google, Google Cloud, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Microsoft, Predictive Health, Silicon Valley, surveillance state, Technocracy, the CTI League
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Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
By Dirk Philipsen Source: aeon Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), he maintained that the baker bakes bread … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Corporations, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Freedom, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health
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Of Course Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
By HipCrime Vocab There’s apparently a row over whether billionaires should exist. That is, whether or not billionaires should be a thing in our society. What a stupid question. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist! But the reason has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Amazon, Aristocracy, Bill Gates, Billionaires, capitalism, Classical Liberals, economic inequality, Economics, Great Britain, John D. Rockefeller, Libertarianism, market failure, Matt Stoller, Millionaires, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration
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Bezos Reveals His Ugly Vision For The World He’s Trying To Rule
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com “Guess what the best planet is in this solar system?” asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a recent media event on his Blue Origin space program. “It’s easy to know the answer to that question,” … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economics, Ecosystem, elites, environment, Jeff Bezos, Julian Assange, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Plutocrats, political corruption, Silicon Valley, society, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism, Wealth Concentration
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Desultory Heroics 