April 23, 2026

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Don’t Let the Unvaccinated Fly, Former DHS Official Declares

PGC – And so it has begun, a former Obama official is now throwing a thought up a flag pole to see not only who salutes, but who doesn’t cry out, “is you crazy?”

Well, consider this we the people saying to you, ‘is you crazy?!”

Juliette Kayyem, a former low-level official in Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, is suggesting in an op end in the Atlantic that maybe we should consider putting the unvaccinated on a no-fly list, or, to put it in another term, maybe we should nudge the vaccinated public to subhumanize the non-vaccinated even more.

Perhaps the DNC is betting that the vast majority of the unvaccinated in Bidenmerica are Republicans, or, at the very least, DNC resisters, maybe even DNC deniers.  So, by pushing for vaccinations in the first place, they create the self-filtering conditions that let them identify their ‘people’ from all others, faith in government and corporations, the kind of people the DNC wants to be around for decades to come.

Those other kinds, the ones less prone to accept a world where we own nothing and rent everything, well, of course they’d be less likely to vaccinate under these conditions, a vaccine that was rushed, efforts to brutally silence any data that counters the narrative of the state and the corporation, all of which seem willing to work hand in hand on some major public debates in America today.

But maybe they’re just worried about our safety and realize we are far too uninformed, or even informable, for that matter, to make decisions on our own regarding our understanding of safety versus liberty, risk versus reward.

Obama-era official calls for the unvaccinated to be placed on a no-fly list

From www.theblaze.com
2021-08-04 23:30:00
Alex Nitzberg
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A former assistant secretary for homeland security who served under President Obama is suggesting that unvaccinated people should be placed on a no-fly list by the federal government.

Juliette Kayyem argues in a piece published on The Atlantic that placing the unvaccinated on a no-fly list…

 

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Facebook’s New Vulnerability, “Misinformation”

PGC – Facebook is being accused of letting climate ‘misinformation’ get through its filters by a social media report that is sure to give ammunition to those who would wish to see power more rooted in their particular sphere of power.

Governments around the world can now use its own too-quick willingness to attempt to be responsibile for something like misinformation when it threw in with the coalition of the willing in opposition to the great bad boogeyman Donald J Trump, whose legend was used as a justification for turning the 2020 election into a war to overcome filters or lock down opposition to the shared outcome, a DNC win, by any means necessary.

Now, Facebook’s willingness to dive in to such a sea of responsibility in the name of stopping the literal devil, Donald J Trump, makes them vulnerable to any government ruling wannabes that can now use its accepted ‘responsibility’ of being the filter of true data versus misinformation across the board.

So long as the government officials have the ear and the voice and the power of the state behind them, their definition of misinformation had better be yours, Facebook, else you face fines or other such measures beyond fines, such as Facebook-busting antitrust moves.

When you dance with the devil, don’t be surprised when you find, at the end of the dance, all of your valuables missing.

Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds : worldnews

From www.reddit.com
2021-08-05 02:16:59
/u/Pazluz
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot)


Facebook failed to enforce its own rules to curb an oil and gas industry misinformation campaign over the climate crisis during last year’s presidential election, according to a new analysis released on Thursday.

Exxon alone spent $5m.”The industry is using a range of messaging tactics that are far more nuanced than outright statements of climate denial. Some of the most significant tactics found included tying the use…

 

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Democrats Want A Breathalyzer In Every Car
Imagine you can’t just start your car and go but have to breathe into a machine to prove you aren’t drunk before you can drive? Imagine when that machine gets it wrong, even trace amount of alcohol even mouthwash can set this off, and you are stuck, unable to move? Imagine every malfunction of the machine becomes a “violation” you have to prove wasn’t your fault? This is the driving nightmare the Democrats want for you!

The Democrats want a breathalyzer in every car so you have to prove you aren’t drunk every time you drive your car.

Tucked into the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill, now over 2700 pages long, is a provision requiring car manufacturers to install these devices in every new car. The way they work, presently, is that when you start to drive it tests you and then randomly tests you as you travel. If it tests positive, you fail to do the test, or the machine has a malfunction, you have so many miles to travel before it shuts your car down. It also monitors your driving and send your information, including violations, to a database.

These devices are being pushed by “Mothers Against Drunk Driving” and, of course, by companies that manufacture them. The devices are notorious for draining your battery even when the vehicle is off, would add a thousand or more dollars cost, and require monthly monitoring fees. Their use would dramatically increase your costs, invade your privacy, treat you like a criminal, and possibly leave you stranded multiple times.

Once again, the ruling class are on a tear, avdancing a new feudalism whereby we, the producers of the wealth they essentially steal, mindless drones on their plantation. This program is not being debated in the light of day, it is being insirted into a massive bill nobody will read in order to be slipped in before we know it.

To Democrats, and their ruling class puppet masters, everyone is a criminal until proven otherwise. But it’s all for “safety”, therefore it’s all good, right? Having a breathalyzer in every car is an easy way to further control the population and keep everyone who isn’t someone in their place.

Dems, Reps, Push Tax On Driving: Essentially Make ALL Federal Highways TOLL Roads

Bill Collier- In a stunning blast against freedom of movement and privacy, and a further massive tax burden on working people and the poor, Seators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are pushing for a motor vehicle per-mile user fee. Styled as a “toll” to avoid the word “tax”, this dramatic Federal overreach would cause an intense invasion of privacy allowing for tracking of tour mileage, which may include even tracking your whereabouts, and would potentially add a new layer of red tape to your life as tou calculate and pay these “fees.”

While the money raised would allegedly pay for “infrastructure”, the likelihood of this new slush fund being used solely for its intended purpose is almost zero. Finding new ways to milk the poor and workers, the producing classes in our society, to make life better for the ruling class, all while concealing this intention, seems to be the chief skill most politicians seek to become expert at.

This proposal, as part of the so-called “infrastructure bill”, a “bipartisan” money grab that actually does very little for infrastructure, makes the “user fees” part of a pilot program. What that means isn’t clear, evidently only a few victims in a few places will be initially chosen by Transportation Secretary Buttigieg and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The end result is, if this is fully implemented, transforming all Federal highways into toll roads or all roads in general, it isn’t clear if these “user fees” will count all miles or only miles on Federal highways, toward your bill.

The fleecing of the producers in our society by uber rich politicos and corporate bigshots is running the normal course of a dying and moribund civilization which has lost its very soul to a craven “world-as-spoil” lust on the part of our depraved ruling class. This proposal represents a massive invasion of privacy and massive increases in the cost of living and will likely only be used to dole out contracts to favored entities who support the right politicians.

The poorest and minority communities will be hardest hit by such a program. Even efforts to waive the fees for the poor would introduce more red tape and dehumanizing complexity to their lives as they will have to “prove” how truly broke they are!

The fact this proposal has bipartisan support is not a surprise. The uniparty is ruled by and for the ruling class at the expense of the producing classes, the workers and makers.

1943

PGC – A 1943 Supreme Court Ruling, West Virginia v Barnette, could undo the whole effort by the DNC to indoctrinate the youth of our land to accept a very specific moral construct, the doctrine of race-based, disenfranchised-based critical thinking that begins with an assumption that generation wrongs must be righted by diminishment of the classes that are part of those generational wrongs.
This type of thinking is antithetical to the spirit of many moral constructs across these lands, including forms of Chrisitanity, Islam, Buddhism, and even non-deistic belief systems like Stoicism or Objevtivism.

Nevermind which might be the one true moral construct, the point is that we live in a pluralistic land of moralities, most all of which can find socio-cultural harmony through the standards of the Bill of Rights.  When our public education system, an extension of government, chooses to use its power to influence our children to indoctrinate it into a very specific moral frame, then it no longer represents a republican government, it represents a tyrannical one.  Apparently, in 1943, our Supreme Court agreed with me.

Supreme Court precedent opposes Critical Race Theory in public schools

From www.americanthinker.com
2021-08-04 01:00:00

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By 1962, most schools had a small ceremony to start the day that included the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. There were prayers at the beginning of football and basketball games, beseeching good sportsmanship; invocations and benedictions at graduation exercises, encouraging students to succeed and be happy; and separate baccalaureate services, imploring the Almighty to bless these particular persons.

A small group decided to challenge these traditions for violating the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Soon, Supreme Court decisions concluding that these references coerced students into accepting certain notions ending most invocations to a higher power in public school.

The Court in the post-1960s era relied heavily on an earlier case, West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)that said:

If there is any fixed star in our constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

So, we have come full circle: Even though the Supreme Court majority once banned as coercion – public entities prescribing orthodox thought and forcing citizens to “act their faith herein” — a minority of leftists are relentlessly advancing their ideology in public schools in the form of Critical Race Theory

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Defeating The New Totalitarianism One Neighborhood At A Time

The new totalitarianism is a weird combination of hedonistic alt-gendered self-indulgence, cancel culture bigotry, corporate monopolies, and neocommunist politicos all working together using bogeyman fears and utopian promises to alternatively bully and con the population into submission. The lust for power and control is matched by an opposite desire to be dominated and have all worries removed by some power that takes care of everything for you. This lust for power is also fueled by ego on one hand and desire to avoid personal responsibility on the other hand. It is all the worse vices working as one to advance the power of the few at the expense of the many.

Most of the fights to push back against this totalitarianism within our midst are focused on political outcomes and events, all still aimed at hoping to control who is in the highest offices. These fights are not as essential to the battle as many believe and in some ways are a distraction from the real needs and better tactics.

Totalitarianism thrives in crisis, material dependency, a concentration of wealth and power, and the loss of support for the individual through the institutions of faith, family, and community. When individuals regain material independency and restore their support through a revitalization of faith, family, and community, they destroy the reach and power of totalitarianism in their own lives and relationships. When this happens many hundreds of thousands of times, a core of liberated people emerges who have the means and resources to effect local then state and eventually national election outcomes and they hold enough economic weight that corporations who try to cancel them get canceled themselves.

Building freedom is primarily a local effort that begins with you as an individual with your own immediate family and friends connecting in order to become as self-reliant and prosperous as possible!

Do you want to be controlled by power-mad politicians and corporations whose values you find reprehensible? Or would you prefer to be governed by your own values and to enjoy the mutual support of others who deeply share your values and beliefs?

We basically believe that close-knit collaborative relationships seeking absolute mutual self-reliance and material independency require a high degree of organic cohesiveness that shallow, braod-based coalitions of people whose core values are not deeply aligned cannot obtain. The larger coalitions needed to win an election cannot be translated to the kind of close-knit collaborative relationships needed to obtain material independency within the framework of your essential spiritual and moral convictions.

One breakthrough idea we have is the concept of intentional spiritual nationhood, which is meant to enable people to create a shared identity that reflects their beliefs and allows anyone who uses that identity to easily connect with anyone else who does. When people have such a voluntary shared identity, when it reflects their own beliefs, values, and convictions, they can connect and collaborate naturally, organically, without a top-down controlling hierarchy dictating things to them.

To build such an identity we both offer principles and an example. The “Upadarian” national identity is a form of spiritual nationhood with a Christian core identity and a set of specific ideals, principles, and practices which we might say are based on convictions that aren’t essential Christian dogma but that define that national people group.

Anyone who is a Christian and who embraces the shared convictions of this “national people”, which are spelled out in “The 17 Protocols of Upadaria”, can be a Upadarian. They have nothing to join and no human hierarchy to answer to in this decision or how they will pursue it in their life. The presence of organizations and structures that are based in whole or in part on this identity should never be conflated with the identity itself.

This is the kind of organic cohesiveness needed for small and strictly voluntary groups of people to function together in order to both acheive material independency and nurture their shared beliefs, values, and convictions. It is possible for broader coalitions of people to acheive some degree of mutual self-reliance, but if your own beliefs, values, and convictions are not nurtured, the benefit of such a group is limited.

Material independency is essential to defeating totalitarianism in our lives, relationships, and neighborhoods but spiritual and sociocultural as well as socioeconomic autonomy within a nurturing and totally free-will participatory community of fellow travelers is essential to a material independency that nurtures your own beliefs, values, and convictions.

To simply be materially independent without having your own beliefs supported and valued is of little use to your own long-term spiritual and mental well-being. One needs both spiritual and cultural independency and material independency, but spiritual and cultural independency is a necessary prerequisite to the kind of material independency that makes you truly free!

Our focus is threefold in this arena of local liberation: we promote a specific form of spiritual nationhood, we nurture compatible forms of nationhood consistent with our freedom vision, and we promote broader coalitions of people for mutual support on a group-to-group, multilateral, basis.

Holding local seminars or gatherings to find the right people may be essential to our efforts to build local self-reliance.

Building a local self-reliance and mutual support community should begin with identifying and gathering people who might wish to adopt your shared form of spiritual nationhood. Once they realize that through adopting this intentional form of spiritual nationhood they can collaborate more freely and without any hierarchical control, they will be able to quickly devise ways to be more socioculturally and then materially independent.

We do explore ways people can become more independent, but the focus of this article is on the necessity of forming local ad hoc groups that have a high degree of organic cohesiveness, such as a shared form of nationhood. When you know 20 people who live near you and who share your beliefs, values, and convictions who also have your back, as you do theirs, you will see many new opportunities to become more materially independent together, through mutual efforts.

Let’s focus here on this: creating a group of 20 or more local people who are each all connected to each other for mutual benefit and support and whose beliefs, values, and convictions are in total harmony. Forget everything else for a minute; if you achieve this your options and opportunities to be more free will grow exponentially.

All these efforts to build freedom without building these close-knit local mutual-benefit and mutual self-reliance groups based on strong organic cohesiveness are like going to war without an army. Sure, large groups can be quickly drawn together if the initial cost of engagement is really low, but such groups are undisciplined mobs easily defeated by much smaller and more cohesive groups!

If you want to be free, you need a local group of people with amazing organic cohesiveness who can work together informally or formally to deliberately create material independency while nurturing their shared beliefs, values, and convictions. While we suggest the breakthrough concept of intentional spiritual nationhood as a means to obtain this end, your particular approach simply needs to ensure that the common thread for all members is a deeply held set of beliefs, values, and convictions all within some for of shared ideals, principles, and practices which become the acceptable norms and standards of the group.

If, for instance, you read and pray over and feel drawn to the 17 Protocols of Upadaria as representing your own innermost beliefs, values, and convictions then you could find people who might agree, introduce them to these things, and, for those who feel the same way, begin to build your own local group who agree to work toward mutual self-reliance and mutual support until everyone is material independent.

Through “The Blue Book of Upadaria”, we will provide some ideas and blueprints you can use, but any group who simply use the 17 Protocols can begin building mutual self-reliance and mutual support in their own way. This is entirely autonomous.

This does not mean YOU have to use our 17 Protocols. You can build your own form of intentional spiritual nationhood use some other form of organic cohesiveness. The point is that groups of 20 people or more who strive together to build mutual self-reliance are essential to building freedom and defeating totalitarianism one neighborhood at a time!

If you desire freedom and independence, you MUST decide to work toward finding those 20 or more local people with whom mutual benefit and mutual self-reliance are possible through organic cohesiveness. If you say you cannot do this because “nobody here will do that”, first, we caution that this may not be so, but, second, and if it is true, then maybe you need to move.

Through platforms like the Freedomist and other means, you can connect to other people virtually and gain some degree of support. They may also be a handy way to gather or meet local people who are outside of your present circle but who share your beliefs. What is essential in all this is to know that the closer your group of 20 or more fellow travelers are on beliefs and physical proximity the easier it will be to obtain material independency.

Why Did The US Lose The War On Terror?

Bill Collier- The objective of the Islamic terror organizations that waged war on America from its inception, culminating in the 9-11 attacks on New York and DC, was to weaken the US and install Islamist regimes in as many places as possible. The effort to lure in the US to a ground fight on the home turf of the Islamists and bleed that country into weakness and retreat.

Meanwhile, the fear lest in fighting the terrorists we ourselves become intolerant has also led to a paradoxically more friendly and accepted, even protected, status for Islam in the US which has allowed for the ease of recruiting Americans themselves into the ranks of radical Islamism.

While the “war on terror” has spanned the globe and has turned its prying gaze inward toward innocent Americans, thanks to the misnamed “Patriot Act”, in no places was it more violent and concentrated than Iraq and Afghanistan. In these two lands, tens of thousands of US troops came to grips with the enemy and found him to be tough, merciless, and smart. The trauma experienced by hundreds of thousands of young Americans has left a massive scar on more than one generations: 20 years of constant war have meant that the children of the first soldiers who started this war were equally traumatized by it.

The enemy isn’t and wasn’t a tactic of lateral warfare, it was and remains an ideology and those who promote it, a form of imperialistic, totalitarian, and cultish Islam whose goal is world destruction in uhersing in the end of the age. Whether the particular brand is Shia, as from Iran, or Sunni, as from Afghanistan, the common belief is that the state should control the population in a totalitarian manner to produce loyal and faithful Muslims while rooting out any unfaithful persons and punishing them or killing them.

The even deeper root of the core ideology is totalitarian control by the state in service of the ideas and beliefs of the rulers. The fellow travelers of this enemy include right and left wing ideologues, ranging from the right-wing Putin to the left-wing Chinese Communist Party, and in the US includes some leading Democrats and far right antisemites. Totalitarians have a certain solidarity against those who reject totalitarianism on principle and without compromise.

The “war on terror” became an authoritarian overstep both at home and abroad by a government that was becoming increasingly corrupted by parochial self-interest, moral depravity, and greed. The lust for power and control, almost sexual in its feeling, began to infect rank and file and topmost political and corporate leaders who, through the Patriot Act, were less and less accountable to anyone but their own whims. The US became an authoritarian and abusive occupation force whose reign was as abusive to average people as the Islamic totalitarians they had temporarily displaced.

A recent initiative announced by the Biden Administration against “domestic terrorism” seems to see US forces coming home even as all the powers of the Patriot Act which were focused on Islamic terror are focused on opponents, whether of the left or right, of the Democratic Party. The war on terror has been lost and is now morphing into a war on freedom in the name of a new war on “domestic terrorism.”

The loss of this war is seen in the precipitous withdrawal of the US from the heartlands of Islamic Totalitariamism, leaving the field to the likes of the Taliban and Iran. While the Freedomist has never supported this foreign adventurism, the manner of the withdrawal exposes the true depth of the defeat. Put simply, the fields of battle are now left to the Islamic totalitarians whom the US tried to defeat.

With all our military might and modern technology, the US was unable to subdue the enemy or win the population over to a more enlightened way. Small cells and bands of under-armed and untrained irregular forces bled out the US and its allies through a thousand cuts every day. Every “battle” saw the enemy leave the field, but the real strategy wasn’t to occupy lands the US could not enter, the enemy became like water, flowing away from strong force pouring into the surrounding population, who remained sympathetic to them and hostile to the Americans.

The count of dead was not like other wars, mostly because of advances is battlefield medicine. But the toll on the psychology of the troops in these far-flung fields became ever more immense. The cost of materials and supplies, and of “nation building” efforts, has accounted for almost $4 trillion dollars. This comes out to around $12,200 for every single human being living in the United States.

The enemy did not have overt support from major powers, like the Viet Cong did in our last lost war. True, some powers did back the enemy, sporadically, and Iran certainly did all it could, but if the US had wanted to punish these powers, it could have without too much risk to itself.

The constant fighting in essentially hit and run ambushes with plenty of IED’s and terrorist attacks kept US forces on constant guard, a psychological burden few can endure without lasting effects, and it caused many injuries and deaths.

The enemy won on three fronts:

1. Radical Islamic ideology is protected and promoted in the US itself and the overall atmosphere for Islamic recruitment in the US is far more favorable than it has ever been

2. US forces have left the field to the enemy who is now re-occupying ground and gainig global recognition for having defeated “the great satan”

3. The “war on terror” has turned inward and now the enemy of the Islamic totalitarians is itself being torn apart by the growing totalitarianism of its ruling class

After 20 years, the US has lost the war on terror. Totalitarian Islamic ideology is on the march abroad, free to recruit within the US, and content in the knowledge Americans are now the target of the “Patriot Act”, not them!

We lost this war as soon as we decided to wage war on a tactic, liberate people who didn’t want to liberate themselves, and resort to the same kinds of totalitarian methods as our enemies.

Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears  Billion

PGC – The battle for supremacy is long from over among the most powerful in our lands, and in our time they come from two primary sources of real power, the halls of the mega international corporations and the halls of the most powerful governments of the world.

The corporate international powerbase  is something never before seen in human history, and it offers those seeking controlling power maybe better ways to get there than the state model did, yet their power relies in large part on the willingness of the host countries to protect them from violent action should the people it serves ever come to such a point in thie relationship with it.

We are seeing these Vehicles of Power dance around each other, even as they work together in certain areas, in areas in which they both see competition being eliminated.  Even as Amazon, for instance, is getting hit by a fine of nearly $1 billion by the EU, it will still  work with the EU to assure no new competition to its model gets to form,  or exist long after it forms.  In exchange, the EU gets data as well, intelligence.

I don’t need the papers to prove my point, just a simple understanding of the reality of power to deduce the nature of the dance we are seeing going on around the world.

Amazon operates at levels that affects the very security of nation-states now.  Imagine what would happen in America, for instance, if Amazon deliveries just suddenly stopped.  It would cause quite a stumble in the flow of commerce.

For all one can imagine, this fine thing was built into the Amazon model well in advance and everyone knew well ahead of time the tribute they  would offer to  continue to co-exist in this uneasy alliance, where both sides are looking for ways to secure their model as being the more signficiant source of real power in a land that submits to its governing authority claims.

Amazon Slapped with Record Fine for Violating EU Data Privacy Rules

From www.insurancejournal.com
2021-08-03 05:20:21

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Amazon.com Inc has been hit with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing personal data in violation of the bloc’s GDPR rules, as privacy regulators take a more aggressive position on enforcement.

The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon in a July 16 decision, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Amazon will appeal the fine, according to a company spokesperson. The e-commerce…

 

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TenCent Gets Broken by Chinese State Media Calling Its Product “Spiritual Opium”

When the Chinese State wants its corporate extensions to modify their market practices in some significant way, it has a number of ways to go about doing this, but, for the sake of the preservation of the image of the benevolent dictator, the state generally chooses to send those message as gently as possible, in a public way.

Turns out, the best way to communicate to your government extension, which is what these corporations within China really are, is to simply create news shows and broadcast them across the lands and monitor anyone who tries to do the same thing but iwithout state approval.

Can’t have anyone expressing unorthodox views to the public, that’s the state’s job, responsibility, nay, right, and its right alone.

When the State saw that one  of its corporate giants was producing a product that was not producing the desred effects of the state, they just create stories that broadcast this new directive in the form of concerns expressed by pretty newscasters in controlled and highly manipulated frames.

The Chinese State Media told Tencent that their games are spiritual opium and electronic drugs and need to be looked into.  The company quickly issued a statement committing to the new direction, both of which caused the shares to stumble abraod.

Investors now realize they hold worthless paper should the centralized personality of Chairman Xi decide to declare whatever must be declared through their state-controlled news outliet whatever narrative gets the message across without making the state look like the heavy-handed thug it really is.

It should be noted the context of the word opium being selected, as there were a series of wars, called the Opium Wars, in the mid 1800s fought against the British by the Chinese, who were fighting the Brits’ efforts to open up China markets to grow and sell opium, to sell domestically as well as imports.  Chairman Xi chose his words very well.

Tencent shares slump after online games branded ‘spiritual opium’ and ‘electronic drugs’ by Chinese state media | Science & Tech News

From news.sky.com
2021-08-03 03:55:00

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Shares in China’s biggest online gaming companies slumped after state media branded their products “spiritual opium” and compared them to “electronic drugs”.

The criticism – as reported by Reuters news agency – has stoked concerns that the online gaming sector will be the next to receive unwanted attention from Beijing’s regulators, following a crackdown on tech giants in the country.

Tencent’s stock tumbled by more than 10% in morning…

 

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China Meets Worker Resistance from African Miners

PGC – China might end up suffering to some degree the fate of early 20th century Germany, a Johnnie-come-lately to a particular brand of colonization that left the  nation-state unable to effectively build its own colonial Empire like England, France, and Spain had done.

In may ways, this latest iteration of what might be called colonialization was created by the United States, or at least perfected by it, and other nation-states followed suit, building commercial empires that had the same net effect of having an Empire without nearly the cost of actually sustaining one on the ground.

Since that time, however, nation-states around the world have all gotten a lot more sophisticated at recognizing these tactics of exploitation that leave the poorer nation-states getting less from their resources than the ones who extract them would get.

In Africa, the mineworkers are now ready to challenge their new potential colonial overlords, China, who have been working them too hard with too little pay and benefits, and China, we don’t live in 2006 anymore, ain’t nobody got time for that no more.

So China might very well be arriving too late, like Germany in the late 1800s, early 1900s.  It never came close to building a colonial empire using the old model of Western Europe.

It  might very well be that China will never be able to build her American-like Empire of Commerce, soft power, because the locals around the world know what that is before it even arrives, and not many are in the mood to surrender their sovereignty to distant corpo-state agents thousands of miles away.

Pressure grows between African mineworkers and their Chinese bosses

From www.scmp.com
2021-08-03 06:19:32
Jevans Nyabiage
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A global rush for cobalt – an essential component in the lithium-ion batteries which power smartphones, laptops and electric cars – has seen a growing number of Chinese companies enter the southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), holder of the world’s largest reserves of the metal.The Central African nation has an estimated 3.4 million tonnes of cobalt, almost half the world’s known supply. But in a country where the World Bank estimates three-quarters of the population live on…

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