People, Jews and others, do not want to believe this, and not believing it, being sheep whoswallow any govt line/lie, is taking usa deeper and deeper into fascism. Also, your comment re Obama's thrill is right on target withthe values of President Barack Drone.
"What the revelation teaches us is as simple as it is stark: Every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat to the medicine we take to the information we share and consume, is now governed by a throbbing blob that erases any clear delineation between “government,” “corporate America,” “nonprofit organizations,” and other previous and distinguishable pillars of our civil society.
"Not coincidentally, former president Barack Obama is giddy about this melding of state powers, surveillance technology, and big money. Speaking this week to his court stenographer, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama expressed concern about what he called “the demand for crazy” on the internet and advocated a heady brew of regulation and self-imposed industry standards to make sure that only approved information is made available to citizens. Which, on the scale of 1 to treason, is a much graver assault on the fundaments of American democracy than donning a Viking helmet and frolicking around a bunch of empty offices."
"...none of our self-appointed intellectual and moral betters, habitually given to lobbing accusations of Islamophobia, had anything to say about the government-corporate complex tracking the movements, interactions, and communications of a religious minority. Jews, however, should: To the extent that there’s any real existential peril to Jewish life in this country, it comes not from sporadic attacks by isolated maniacs but from knowing that our captains of industry, our elected officials, and our public intellectuals are all cheering on a system designed to significantly curb the basic freedoms that have made [the United states}, and American Jewish life, possible in the first place.
People, Jews and others, do not want to believe this, and not believing it, being sheep whoswallow any govt line/lie, is taking usa deeper and deeper into fascism. Also, your comment re Obama's thrill is right on target withthe values of President Barack Drone.
"What the revelation teaches us is as simple as it is stark: Every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat to the medicine we take to the information we share and consume, is now governed by a throbbing blob that erases any clear delineation between “government,” “corporate America,” “nonprofit organizations,” and other previous and distinguishable pillars of our civil society.
"Not coincidentally, former president Barack Obama is giddy about this melding of state powers, surveillance technology, and big money. Speaking this week to his court stenographer, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama expressed concern about what he called “the demand for crazy” on the internet and advocated a heady brew of regulation and self-imposed industry standards to make sure that only approved information is made available to citizens. Which, on the scale of 1 to treason, is a much graver assault on the fundaments of American democracy than donning a Viking helmet and frolicking around a bunch of empty offices."
"...none of our self-appointed intellectual and moral betters, habitually given to lobbing accusations of Islamophobia, had anything to say about the government-corporate complex tracking the movements, interactions, and communications of a religious minority. Jews, however, should: To the extent that there’s any real existential peril to Jewish life in this country, it comes not from sporadic attacks by isolated maniacs but from knowing that our captains of industry, our elected officials, and our public intellectuals are all cheering on a system designed to significantly curb the basic freedoms that have made [the United states}, and American Jewish life, possible in the first place.
is there ever a Big Lie in which our govt does not have a hand: FBI, CIA, Biden's office, etc.