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    Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago

    So a thousand feet up from this media meme set of “questioning Silicon Valley” (examples of which I have posted a few today), this looks to me like one/more than one faction of the power players warring against another. One or more groups in the global power game do not want the “tech giant upstarts” to have / continue to have such a significant role in world affairs / the global power structure. Or in SOCIALLY ENGINEERING populations.
    Who are the opposing parties? We can only guess.
    (1) Perhaps someone has some technology dominance that will be challenged by the Silicon Valley upstarts? The military contractors? Nazi International?
    (2) Perhaps the financial sector / money families don’t like that these companies have so much cash on their balance sheets allowing them to transact without using the finance capital system
    (3) Perhaps this is playing out in the US vs. EU financial war of the last several years

    Other thoughts:
    – Old European money families have media holdings in the US and internationally, e.g. through Bertelsmann
    – Governing bodies and political parties are just the tools to enact the war strategies, eg EU’s fines against Google

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      wonderer replied 8 years, 7 months ago

      Forgive me for chipping in here without having read all your other messages….
      One issue of tech division I’m seeing/hearing about at present concerns The Blockchain. An influential coder informed me that he feared the blockchain was going to be weaponised. He used the example of it being used to contain microchipped prisoners in FEMA camps. I do not know whether this was his imagination speaking or whether he was party to inside info and I was not tech-savvy enough to ask intelligent questions, I’m afraid. But the blockchain is also about financial freedom and cryptocurrency. We see divides over government involvement and regulation on Bitcoin. I believe that crypto and its associated freedoms are being used as carrots……..but there are sharp sticks down the line. Particularly taking into consideration Max Igan’s 5g concerns.

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        Cara replied 8 years, 7 months ago

        @wonderer, I am not an expert on Blockchain but just like any technology or idea, it can be used for good purposes and ill purposes. Catherine Austin Fitts posted a link on her website recently to a series of lectures given at Princeton University on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. It is on my list to go through these:
        https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/resources
        Clif High of Half Past Human is a big proponent of crypocurrencies and has quite a few interviews and videos where he talks about them. My take on it is that “the genie is out of the bottle” with these and people will find all sorts of uses and applications for them.
        Another observation on FEMA camps specifically – every couple of years, there seems to be a worry raised in alternative media about these beginning perhaps as early as the 1990s. I have no doubt that the FEMA camps could be used for all sorts of ill purposes but they have not so far been used this way. I would be more inclined to suggest that when fears are raised using the FEMA meme that it is yet another psyop which has as its purpose to cause fear, distress and uncertainty. Linking it to Bitcoin and Blockchain (which are much in the news lately) simply provides more trigger points and hence more opportunities to make people afraid.

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      Cara replied 8 years, 7 months ago

      Okay, so here is some “corroboration”:
      http://www.atimes.com/article/political-backlash-tech-firms-brewing-west-whats-happening-china/
      “A fast changing political landscape has found prominent critics of tech giants — including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — arise on both sides of the aisle in the US. As Ben Smith writes for BuzzFeed, coming from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders both want big tech to be regulated like a utility, as Bannon said just last week in Hong Kong.

      Smith writes about the backlash, which extends far beyond the extreme ends of the political spectrum:

      ‘Opportunists and ideologues have assembled the beginnings of a real coalition against these companies, with a policy core consisting of refugees from Google boss Eric Schmidt’s least favorite think tank unit. Nationalists, accurately, see a consolidation of power over speech and ideas by social liberals and globalists; the left, accurately, sees consolidated corporate power. Those are the ascendant wings of the Republican and Democratic parties, even before Donald Trump sends the occasional spray of bile Jeff Bezos’s way — and his spokeswoman declines, as she did in June, to defend Google against European regulators.’

      With the tide turning against big tech in the US and Europe…”