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Insurrection Versus Insurrection
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com In the dark hours of Sunday, the BigTech-government alliance showed its hand in its massive purge of the public square — which is what social media became in a nation of strip-malls, parking lots, and nonstop … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil disobedience, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, False Flag, freedom of speech, media, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Apple, Big Tech, CIA, corporate media, Deep State, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Facebook, FBI, Google, Insurrection, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Social Media, Technocracy, Twitter
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Having Sucked America Dry, Tech Giants Seek New Markets Beyond Reach of US Antitrust Laws
An aggressive push to consolidate companies in the tech sector, coupled with the world’s ever-increasing dependence on digital platforms and tools, is quickly leading to a crisis of sovereignty. By Raul Diego Source: MintPress News The American consumer market for … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged AI, Alphabet Inc., Apple, Dion Devow, Facebook, Google, India, Jio, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, Technocracy, technology, VR
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Minority Report (2002) Esoteric Analysis
By Jay Dyer Source: Jay’s Analysis Spielberg’s Minority Report is now an important film to revisit. Based on the short story by visionary science fiction author Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg’s film version implements an important number of predictive programming elements … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Film, NSA, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, A.I., Afghanistan, algorithmic tracking, Apple, DARPA, Dystopia, elites, Google, Minority Report, NSA, panopticon, Phillip K. Dick, Philosophy, police state, Precrime, Science fiction, Silicon Valley, Siri, Steven Spielberg, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Ubik
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How to Avert a Digital Dystopia
By Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh Source: OneZero “What I find [ominous] is how seldom, today, we see the phrase ‘the 22nd century.’ Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Black Mirror, culture, Dystopia, Elysium, Facebook, Google, Jeff Bezos, Mad Max, media, Nosedive, Pop Culture, Ready Player One, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Utopia
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CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes?
By Carl Rhodes Source: aeon On 15 September 2008, the giant financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, starting a chain reaction that saw the global economy spiralling toward total collapse. The global financial crisis that ensued revealed just … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, education, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Authoritarian, capitalism, CEO Salary, Donald Trump, economic inequality, Elon Musk, Facebook, financial crisis, Harvey Weinstein, Jamie Dimon, Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Shkreli, Miramax, Neoliberalism, recession, Stock Market Crash, Tim Cook, Turing Pharmaceuticals, wall street
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Amazon and Apple: Wall Street’s Trillion Dollar Babies
By Dean Baker Source: CounterPunch Last month Amazon joined Apple, becoming the second company in the world to have a $1 trillion market capitalization. Amazon’s accomplishment didn’t cause quite as much celebration as Apple’s – it pays to be number … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, Oligarchy, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Apple, big data, capitalism, corporatocracy, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Jonas Salk, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Polio, Silicon Valley, Smoking, Stock Market, Tax Evasion, wall street
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First Amendment Under Attack: What You Need to Know about Big Tech’s Assault on Alex Jones
By Sander Hicks Candidate for US Congress Special Report for the New York Megaphone. Around August 6, 2018 independent journalist Alex Jones was kicked off Facebook, YouTube, Google, Spotify and Apple, in a coordinated, late-night purge, due to Jones’ criticisms … Continue reading
Posted in 9/11, Authoritarianism, black ops, civil liberties, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, FBI, History, internet freedom, media, news, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged 9/11, Adrian Vermeule, Alex Jones, Apple, BCCI, Bill Clinton, Cass Sunstein, censorship, civil liberties, CNN, Coleen Rowley, conspiracy, corporate media, Deep State, Facebook, FBI, First Amendment, free speech, Google, Jeffrey Epstein, Kevin Ryan, Olivery Darcy, Robert Mueller, Sander Hicks, Spotify, Twitter, VOX, youtube, Zack Beauchamp
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Martial Law By Other Means: Corporate Strangulation of Dissent
By Glen Ford Source: Black Agenda Report “The ‘hate speech’ trick, in practice, rewards Black people’s occupiers and abusers (the police) and renders voices of protest illegitimate and mute.” The people that rule the United States are in the third … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war
Tagged Alex Jones, Apple, censorship, china, civil liberties, Cold War, Corporate Censorship, corporate media, Economics, empire, Facebook, free speech, Google, Hate Speech, imperialism, Militarism, Oligrachy, propaganda, racism, Russia, RussiaGate, war
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