superb documentary “System Error – How will capitalism end?” (Optiz, 2018)#
PS: faster machines are nice – but sufficient fast machines are sufficient/enough – going faster and faster will not rescue the planet – a holistic concept for sustainable survival of life on this planet could.
https://medium.com/@Swartzchild/the-cancer-of-capitalism-92d82bd01089
let me start by saying: Thanks! To Edward Snowden and all investigative journalists that took the risk to help him.
Thanks to all involved.
Before-Snowden – people using the internet – could not imagine that governments was looking over their sholder 24-7 and recording every button they press.
Now Snowden has delivered the proof on the encrypted laptops he gave out to several Journalists – many of them too afraid to touch the material.
Without Snowden – the thought – that all our communications is recorded – maybe even FOREVER – and analyzed to build as he said “perfect histories” of people – of course – in order to track and hunt dissidents like the Nazis did with the Jews.
It also shows how corrupt and rotten to the core many of the so called democratic institutions – the beacon of civilization – the USA and other Western Nations – have become.
They are (largely digital finance) dictatorships with democratic painting.
Snowdens “left and right converge to authoritarianism” seems to give proof to that.
Shocking shocking shocking – what comes after democracy? More dictatorship?
Does not sound like a step forward to me.
As you can see with Assange now in held in prison and treated and probably tortured like a “terrorist” without ever planting a bomb shows the plot – label anyone against “the system” a terrorist – human rights do not apply to terrorists.
“Would US-gov (John Kerry (Skull and Bones 1966)) have grounded my passport in Ecuador – the CIA would have it much easier to catch me – but they grounded me in Moscow, Russia.
So Russia had the unique opportunity to do the right thing by doing nothing”
source: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/30/edward_snowden_us_surveillance_corporate_america
https://www.abebooks.com/9781250237231/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden-1250237238/plp
project: “Stellar Wind” (or “Stellarwind“) violating the US constitution on a daily basis: code name of a warrantless surveillance program begun under the George W. Bush administration‘s President’s Surveillance Program (PSP).[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Wind
https://www.democracynow.org/topics/edward_snowden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members#1990s_to_present
… was about to post something funny here… but can not… this matter is too serious.
fire your kindle… fire your nest… fire Alexa… fire Siri… fire Google… fire Microsoft!
FUCKING NOW!
“The main reason for the particularly high Irish GDP growth rates lies in the fact that in recent years,
attracted in large part by low corporation tax rates,
a number of large multinational corporations have relocated their economic activities,
and more specifically their underlying intellectual property, to Ireland.”
https://www.oecd.org/sdd/na/Irish-GDP-up-in-2015-OECD.pdf
two possibilities: a race to the tax-bottom (in Germany companies pay 40% income tax consumers pay 19% tax on almost all products… where does it end?)
or
social unrest – we all shall become “criminals” claim land and pay no taxes with reference to Ireland and especially Luxembourg – how well this works for them.
Sorry – this is the EU and if this is happening inside the EU and the EU is not doing anything about it – it is corruption – cancer to democracy – people need to build a wall (or block all streets) to/from Brussels and Berlin and Dublin in order to contain the corruption. (anyone inside may chose to leave or starve)
(City of London wants to avoid taxes like hell) “the Conservatives (Theresa May Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019) were vehemently opposed to Tax Evasion regulations that were being proposed by the EU.
Back in 2015, Britain rejected plans announced by Brussels to combat “industrial-scale tax avoidance by the world’s biggest multinationals”. Britain had built a corporate tax haven for multinationals that included slashing corporation tax from 28% to 20%, new favorable tax regimes for multinationals with offshore financing subsidiaries, and tax breaks for patent-owning companies. As a result, Britain saw a number of large corporations like Aon, Fiat Industrial, and Starbucks’s European operations, set up headquarters in the UK with a small number of staff in order to take advantage of these tax laws.”