WE NEED MORE MORE MORE OF THIS
Here and Now NPR
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
Education for K12 + Citizens
Here and Now NPR
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510051/here-x26-now
THEY ADDICT PEOPLE TO THEIR PRODUCTS/ SCREENS, APPS, ATTENTION
THEY SPY, STEAL, AND COLLECT OUR DATA
THEY OWN OUR DATA.
–> WE ARE THEIR PRODUCTS<–
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
AND EVERY OTHER KIND
NEEDS TO BE ALL ABOUT SPEARHEADING ANTI TRUST LAW
PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THEIR MONOPOLIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PRIVACY ONLINE
The Boston Tea Party was about the Tea Act of 1773, which granted a tea monopoly in the colonies to the well-connected East India Company. Merchants based in the Americas would be shut out of the market. The Tea Act of 1773 granted a tea monopoly in the colonies to the well-connected East India Company.
Many colonists stormed three ships in Boston Harbor on the night of Dec. 16, 1773, and tossed chests of East India tea which was really coming from China.
Global Britain was built as a narco-empire Stephen R. Platt describes how the sale of vast quantities of opium to the Chinese became a vital source of revenue for Britain in the 19th century
The opium trade is remembered as a British outrage: English merchants, protected by English bayonets, turning China into a nation of addicts. But Americans got rich from this traffic—among them, a young man named Warren Delano. He didn’t talk about it afterward, of course. And neither did his grandson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
https://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9C-fair-honorable-and-legitimate-trade%E2%80%9D
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/global-britain-was-built-as-a-narco-empire/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/British_East_India_Company
Top Democrats believe that anti-monopolism can be a political winner for their party. It’s a way to address voters’ anxiety over high drug prices, digital privacy and more. “The control of business over certain segments of the economy,” says Senator Amy Klobuchur of Minnesota, a potential presidential candidate, “I think it will be a much bigger thing going into 2020.”
Klobuchar has offered a good bill that would raise the legal standards for merger approval. But preventing future mergers won’t be enough. Eventually, the government will probably need to break up existing giants, as it did to the old AT&T and Standard Oil. One obvious candidate is Facebook, which has gobbled up Instagram, WhatsApp and other businesses.
And corporate bigness doesn’t need to be a partisan issue. Senator Mike Lee of Utah is among the Republicans who have expressed concern about it. Conservatives, after all, are supposed to care about the ideals that monopolies undermine — like market competition, economic dynamism and individual freedom. Ultimately, monopolies aren’t only an economic problem. They are also a political one.
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,” Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice and anti-monopoly crusader, said a century ago, “but we can’t have both.”
Just because it’s trending, doesn’t mean it’s true ~ Maarten Schenk’s blog
BBC Interviews Christopher Blair And Maarten Schenk in “The Faker and The Fact Checker”
https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469879-fake-news-bbc-world-service—trending-the-faker-and-the-fact-checker.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_godfather_of_fake_news
“Changing” the US constitution is particularly fun – he’s already written more than 30 fake amendments. (There are only 27 genuine ones.)
Christopher Blair grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, a city on the northern outskirts of Boston. His stepfather was a committed Democrat who once ran for the Massachusetts state senate. Once his fake news started to get clicks, he was able to use Google’s advertising platform to convert page views into money. In 2014, he quit his day job. They had one aim – to provoke an emotional response that would get people to share them.
The words flow from the thoughts in his head. Unconnected to reality, he needs no research, and no notes.
His fingers rhythmically tap the keys. Letters form into words, words into sentences and sentences into a blog of about 200 words.
It doesn’t take long to write.
Publish.
Blair sits back in his chair and watches the likes and shares roll in.
Yesterday Eli Saslow at the Washington Post wrote a fantastic article about Christopher Blair, a man from Maine who has been trolling conservatives and Trump supporters online for years and occasionally even made a living out of it.
https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3469909-christopher-blair-busta-troll-americas-last-line-of-defense-reading-list.html
runs a series of websites including the now-defunct thelastlineofdefense.org. That particular site posted a “fake news” story that was what fake news used to be called—a real big old fucking lie. It used a picture of an actual Muslim cleric, saying he was refusing to help hurricane survivors, and it got that cleric death threats.
https://affotd.com/2018/10/10/christopher-blair/