So the Facebook "whistleblower" all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible?
Still waiting for that one person to explain to me why Dutch-descendent apartheid in South Africa was bad and it was noble to bring it down with a boycott while Jewish apartheid in Israel is good and untouchable and all attempts at boycotting it are racist and wrong.
Creeps like Bezos and Gates are just going to have to wait.
Hm.... the last point is kind of the opposite of what some of those 'embodiment' style spiritual schools are saying. And those have some eally good, convincing arguments IMO. They say stuff in the direction of 'as long as we despise the body and try to escape it, we will mistreat it and the earth as well and will be in fundamental denial about rest, sex, food, etc...'
Thank you for the clarity on the Frances-from-Facebook matter. It's obvious to me why I read you and Glenn Greenwald when it comes to censorship. Glenn really tore the camouflage off the bullshit box at https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-want-to.
With every new initiative by these corrupt censors, US society embeds itself one kilometer deeper into the tar sands of propagandized stupidity, as the MSM portrays Ms. Haugen as a
"whistleblower." Even as rags like the Guardian abandon the genuine heroic whistleblowers like Ed Snowden. While I obviously can't be privy to Haugen's motives, in the context of the circus of celebrity we inhabit, I can't ignore her actions as potentially revealing a perceived route to celebrity. Because celebrity usually pays out dividends. The celebritization of culture as wonderfully elaborated in Chris Hedges' "Empire of Illusion," seems to me to be an empire-level symptom of the decay in the collective ethos of the capitalist world. A"more-democratic" successor to the hereditary aristocrat and the feudal lord. And as George Monbiot points out about the Pandora papers, "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism." Ditto for Celebrity magnetizing wealth and power to itself. King, duke, lord, social-media darling: in one form or another celebrity-worship is as integral to this corrupt system as is lying for profit. Some days I can barely keep the reverse peristalsis in check.
Glad you called out this 'caned' whistle blower, how obvious can it be? But the Left laps it up and the Right mostly scratches their heads. It was all planned with 60 minutes in tow. This was an Op.
The planned endpoint of direct human to computer interfaces and immortality for wealthy elites is the immortal Borg. You will own nothing, not even your own thoughts, and you will be happy, because the almighty corporation will guarantee that you are. Meanwhile, "1 of 5" will sprinkle her salad with micros and macros.
Good article. These are the new corporate nation 'states' without borders or countries. They hire mercenaries for their armies. We let them have it all and they took it, including our Freedom. Our government been in on it a long, long time too.
North Dakota has an anti corporate farming law, a law that also restricts non-farmers from owning farm or ranch land.
Whatever else it has done, the North Dakota legislature has so far resisted most attempts to roll back this law. The one time the legislature did so (to allow corporate owned feedlots), their efforts were promptly swatted down by a citizen initiative.
Still waiting for that one person to explain to me why Dutch-descendent apartheid in South Africa was bad and it was noble to bring it down with a boycott while Jewish apartheid in Israel is good and untouchable and all attempts at boycotting it are racist and wrong.
Creeps like Bezos and Gates are just going to have to wait.
Hm.... the last point is kind of the opposite of what some of those 'embodiment' style spiritual schools are saying. And those have some eally good, convincing arguments IMO. They say stuff in the direction of 'as long as we despise the body and try to escape it, we will mistreat it and the earth as well and will be in fundamental denial about rest, sex, food, etc...'
Thank you for the clarity on the Frances-from-Facebook matter. It's obvious to me why I read you and Glenn Greenwald when it comes to censorship. Glenn really tore the camouflage off the bullshit box at https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-want-to.
With every new initiative by these corrupt censors, US society embeds itself one kilometer deeper into the tar sands of propagandized stupidity, as the MSM portrays Ms. Haugen as a
"whistleblower." Even as rags like the Guardian abandon the genuine heroic whistleblowers like Ed Snowden. While I obviously can't be privy to Haugen's motives, in the context of the circus of celebrity we inhabit, I can't ignore her actions as potentially revealing a perceived route to celebrity. Because celebrity usually pays out dividends. The celebritization of culture as wonderfully elaborated in Chris Hedges' "Empire of Illusion," seems to me to be an empire-level symptom of the decay in the collective ethos of the capitalist world. A"more-democratic" successor to the hereditary aristocrat and the feudal lord. And as George Monbiot points out about the Pandora papers, "Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism." Ditto for Celebrity magnetizing wealth and power to itself. King, duke, lord, social-media darling: in one form or another celebrity-worship is as integral to this corrupt system as is lying for profit. Some days I can barely keep the reverse peristalsis in check.
Noam Chomski warned more than ten years ago about the "Corporate Personhood" legislation that was passed.
Glad you called out this 'caned' whistle blower, how obvious can it be? But the Left laps it up and the Right mostly scratches their heads. It was all planned with 60 minutes in tow. This was an Op.
The planned endpoint of direct human to computer interfaces and immortality for wealthy elites is the immortal Borg. You will own nothing, not even your own thoughts, and you will be happy, because the almighty corporation will guarantee that you are. Meanwhile, "1 of 5" will sprinkle her salad with micros and macros.
Good article. These are the new corporate nation 'states' without borders or countries. They hire mercenaries for their armies. We let them have it all and they took it, including our Freedom. Our government been in on it a long, long time too.
North Dakota has an anti corporate farming law, a law that also restricts non-farmers from owning farm or ranch land.
Whatever else it has done, the North Dakota legislature has so far resisted most attempts to roll back this law. The one time the legislature did so (to allow corporate owned feedlots), their efforts were promptly swatted down by a citizen initiative.
"Before you know it you're blasting off on a $5 billion carnival ride to space in a rocket that looks like a penis..."
Looked more like a vibrator to me, see
https://peterwebster.substack.com/p/space-pussy
but dont worry they nothing to do with the scamdemic
These aren't "individual "billionaires" but employees/actors of the beast system, selling agendas.
Facebook. Censored.
Twitter. Censored.
Instagram. Censored.
Newspapers. Censored.
TV and Radio "news". Censored.
Personal, selective embargoes are the only progressive form of censorship.
Billions of us should do this to level the playing field.
Not just me.