Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears $1 Billion

Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears Billion

Amazon Tribute to EU in Form of Fine Nears $1 Billion

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

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

Excerpt:

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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Infrastructure Bill, IRS Team Up to Offer Chilling Effect to Crypto in America

Freedomist Editor August 3, 2021

Over the weekend, the Internal Revenue service made a change to its definition of “broker” that creates a much broader potential for someone to be defined as a broker than before. This is significant given the language in the DNC infrastructure bill that hopes to regulate cryptocurrency regulators. With the broadening of the term broker by the IRS, the bill, in its current form, would give the IRS significant regulatory authority in how the Federal government handles cryptocurrency.

How language in the infrastructure bill could roil the crypto markets

From www.cnbc.com
2021-08-03 05:38:57

Excerpt:

The cryptocurrency industry is lobbying hard this week against language in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill proposal that could choke a vast amount of the crypto ecosystem.

Language in the bill would require crypto brokers to report customer information to the Internal Revenue Service. More importantly, over the weekend it broadened the definition of what’s considered a “broker” to anyone “responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person” which doesn’t exclude miners, software developers, stakers and other individuals in the crypto economy who don’t have customers.

“The language gives a lot of power to define what should be included in the reporting requirement,” Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau. “It says any person who is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person – which can mean anything. If I transfer bitcoin for you, then it can mean I become a broker.

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Biden Teases Vaccine Requirement Mandates from the D

Biden Teases Vaccine Requirement Mandates from the Feds

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

At the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Virginia, with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines present, President Biden was asked if he would consider executing a Federal mandate on getting vaccines.

Biden responded to the question by saying, “that’s under consideration right now,” a move that is sure to ampify the tensions in this land even more than it already is if the Federal government claims to have such authority in the first place.

If he does, we are sure the next step will come from states not beholden to the party of total power, the DNC, who might very well pass laws expressly protecting its citizens from such assaults on liberty.

We are betting no such mandates will come, but rather, that it is telegraphing to the states inclined to make such decisions on their own, a move that is sure to affect those that live in what are colloquially referred to as blue states, but which we will call CCP-knock-off party controlled (that is, the DNC) states, or simply knock-off states.

We are not anti-vax here, but we are anti-mandate, for sure.

Might We Get Back Those Age-Related Lost Memories? UK Mice Say Maybe

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

What might offer hope to millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions of people around the world, who currently suffer from some form of age-related memory loss came out of the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds in England. Age-Related Memory loss was successfully reversed in mice in a study conducted cooperatively by the two UK universities.

From www.nextbigfuture.com
2021-07-28 11:05:15
Brian Wang
Excerpt:

Scientists at Cambridge and Leeds have successfully reversed age-related memory loss in mice and say their discovery could lead to the development of genetic and drug treatments to prevent memory loss in people as they age.

The team have already identified a potential drug, licensed for human use, that can be taken by mouth and inhibits the formation of PNNs. When this compound is given to mice and rats it can restore memory in ageing and also improves recovery in spinal cord injury. The…

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CCP’s Huawei to Roll Out Android Killer

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

Chinese Communist Party extension, Huawei will be releasing its major rival to American-created Android in what will surely be profitable to its bottom line in America as the current administration is almost sure to allow this police state machine to sell its data gathering, tracking tools to Americans for what will presumably be cheaper than than Android currently provides.

Huawei will unleash its Android rival P50 smartphone tomorrow

From feedproxy.google.com
2021-07-28 11:51:00

Excerpt:

Chinese behemoth Huawei will hold its next blockbuster launch event tomorrow, July 29, where the firm is tipped to unveil its alternative to Android 12 as well as an all-new flagship smartphone. In the final hours ahead of the bumper event, some details have leaked.

The latest Huawei launch comes a little over a year after its previous Huawei P40 phone announcement – and almost two years since it was walloped with a trade ban by the US, which barred it from dealing with all American…

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X-Rays Detected Behind Black Hole

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

Something is lurking behind black holes, and it’s x-rays, according to a new scientific breakthrough announced in a new study published in Nature.

Astronomers have spotted x-rays from behind a supermassive black hole

From www.technologyreview.com
2021-07-28 11:00:00
Neel V. Patel
Excerpt:

“This is a really exciting result,” says Edward Cackett, an astronomer at Wayne State University who was not involved with the study. “Although we have seen the signature of x-ray echoes before, until now it has not been possible to separate out the echo that comes from behind the black hole and gets bent around into our line of sight. It will allow for better mapping of how things fall into black holes and how black holes bend the space time around them.”

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While America Burns, China Space Station to Accerate Efforts to Catch and Pass Us

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

While America tears itself apart through reductionist materialism that sets humanity’s worth according to its melatonin, genitalia, and sexual preference, China is rushing forward in its efforts to catch up to the possibly former republic of America in the Space Race. Its Space Station is humming along and preparing to engage in a thousand scientific experiments that are sure to bring ‘hope’ to the world.

China’s Space Station Is Preparing to Host 1,000 Science Experiments

From www.scientificamerican.com
2021-07-28 12:15:00
Smriti Mallapaty, Nature magazine
Excerpt:

China launched the core of its space station in April, and sent three astronauts up in June. But although the space station probably won’t be complete until late 2022, there is already a long queue of experiments from across the world waiting to go up. Scientists in China told Nature that…

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Facebook Still Faces Antitrust Charges Despite Court Dismissal

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

Despite the recent dismissal of a lawsuit against Facebook by 40 States Attorneys General, the mega social media platform still faces threats to its status as a monopoly as the losers in the ruling have vowed that they will keep fighting anyway to break up Facebook through antitrust action.

Facebook Antitrust Suit Dismissal Will Be Appealed, States Say

From www.nytimes.com
2021-07-28 12:00:19
Cecilia Kang
Excerpt:

More than 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday said they planned to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, setting up a protracted legal fight to rein in the power of the Silicon Valley giant.

The states would be pushing back on a decision made last month by a federal judge who eviscerated their arguments that Facebook had obtained a monopoly through its acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 and had harmed competition. The judge said that the…

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Sherrod Brown Thinks Americans Are Too Stupid to Have Nice Things Like Cryptocurrency

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

The potential threat to the state (and by extension the corpostate that serves it and is protected by it) control over the means of value exchange, currency, that cryptoocurrency offers might be seen in the recent fear tactics being deployed by an American Senator, DNC-CCP Senator Sherrod Brown, who recently declared that cryptocurrencies are an existential threat to Americans’ economic security.

Speaking on the state of crytpocurrencies, Brown said the currencies weren’t real dollars, which is true, they’re not fiat-based (or debt-based, really, but we’ll leave that discussion for another time), and that these currencies put our real dollars at risk (as if the Bidenflation, that’s Biden’s inflation to the uninitiated, doesn’t do that and more).

He called the exchanges “a shady, diffuse network of online funny money.” He informed Americans, who he seems to view as being incapable of making decisions on their own despite being part of an alleged republican model of government that assumes such powers among the rank and file from the state, that “if we want a solution to Americans’ legitimate fears about our banking system, shady start-ups are not the answer.”

As an addendum, I should add that the RNC record on cryptocurrencies is not much better (if it is at all) than the DNC, and this point also adds to the assumption made by many (including this writer’s) that the RNC is token opposition to the DNC. So long as we Americans rely on these two parties for relief from state and corporate tyranny, we will lose, again, and again, and again, to the few elites who control the means of social and cultural production.

Twitter Nukes Audit Efforts on its CCP-Inspired Platform

Freedomist Curator July 29, 2021

Yesterday, Twitter made moves to seek to quell the resistance to the mass mailer election of 2020 when it moved to end the twitter presences of numerous accounts that had been sharing information about ongoing election audits around the country.

The move was made under the police-state-standard-favorite guise of preventing dangerous misinformation from being shared with the sheep-like, child-like public, a public that must be told what to think and how to think by the corporate executives all busy living hedonistic lifestyles of excess and entitlement from atop their mighty gated fortresses of power.

From Talking Points Memo:
Among the casualties: The official @ArizonaAudit account, as well as the sharper @AuditWarRoom account, which provided a constant stream of attacks aimed at critics of the sham recount. The anonymous creator of the latter account was also behind several other now-suspended accounts: @AuditMichigan, @AuditWisconsin, @AuditNevada, @AuditGeorgia, @Audit_PA, @Audit_Arizona.

This move is yet more fruit of a nation-state controlled, legislated, and moralized by the corpostate that represents in almost complete unity the will of the party, the DNC, which seems to be more and more pulling its inspiration from the Chinese Communist Party, which expects its corporations to enforce and propagate its party values to the ‘customers’ it serves.

The age of customer and provider is over in America, as corporations now view true Americans, those that hold to the legal and spiritial principles of the Bill of Rights, as subhumans to be weeded out of their police-state-friendly gardens.

America held a mass mailer election, there is no need for an audit for there was no election, as mass mailer elections are unaccountable by their very nature, and no audit will change that fact, no matter the results it might allege to discover. How can you figure out the results of an election that has no accountability and measurability in it in the first place?

This writer cares little about the audits themselves, for the reason mentioned above, but I care greatly for the continued assumption of fact supremacism, of moral supremacism, that corpo-state billionaires and their cowardly hangers on wish to force on Americans, coercively, through the power of their monopolistic hold on the marketplace of commerce and ideas, and so should you.

A people cannot be free that are not self-sustaining. Where self-sustainability is dead, tyranny lives, and this, my friends, is where we live in current year.