#government
Many #American #Conservatives might like to critique the #UK as being too #Socialist, many of those critiques may be valid, however, the #USA is not a #Capitalist economic system any more than the UK is, with the #GDP of both nations being comprised of around 40% #government spending.
The USA has been for decades a mixed Capitalist/Socialist economic system. What's most sad about both the UK and #US is that the kind of #Socialism being deployed is actually #corporate Socialism, wherein #taxes are forcibly redistributed to #corporations and the most wealthy. The worst aspects of both systems.
#corporatesocialism #redistribution #angloamerican #economics
Among the many false claims made by various #government media, #corporate media and social #media commentators, such as the UK being a "Liberal Democracy," we are also told how terrible the #capitalist #system in the #UK is and how we need more #Socialism to save us.
While I do agree that crony capitalism and #monopoly capitalism are indeed terrible, we don't actually live in a capitalist economic system, we live in a mixed Capitalist/Socialist #economy, where for the last two sociological generations or more, government spending has comprised more than 40% of all economic activity in the UK.
#cronycapitalism #monopolycapitalism #economics #economicactivity #gdp
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5326/economics/government-spending
“Without #censorship, Hitler never would have achieved his terrible power, nor would he be able to hold it.”
“A #censor tells the #newspapers what to publish, so that in this ignorance the citizen will support the #government in #power."
September 30, 1938 | The Daily Times
#Microsoft is a national #security threat, says ex-#WhiteHouse cyber policy director
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/
Microsoft has a shocking level of #control over IT within the US federal #government
#technology #CyberSecurity #economy #politics #software #problem #usa #news
Quand les #Américains voulaient #gouverner la #France par #AnnieLacroix-Riz
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C’est une page peu connue de l’ #histoire de la seconde #guerre #mondiale : dès 1941-1942, #Washington avait prévu d’imposer à la France — comme aux futurs vaincus, #Italie, #Allemagne et #Japon — un #statut de #protectorat, régi par un #Allied #Military #Government of #Occupied #Territories ( #Amgot). Ce #gouvernement #militaire #américain des #territoires #occupés aurait #aboli toute #souveraineté, y compris le #droit de battre #monnaie, sur le #modèle fourni par les #accords Darlan-Clark de novembre 1942.
A en croire certains #historiens #américains, ce #projet tenait à la #haine qu’éprouvait Franklin D. #Roosevelt pour Charles #deGaulle, « apprenti dictateur » qu’il eût voulu épargner à la France de l’après-Pétain. Cette #thèse d’un #président américain soucieux d’établir la #démocratie #universelle est séduisante, mais erronée.
Edward #Snowden just tweeted:
The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper--because no one has noticed.
source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1779920066840055847
#omg #wtf #law #nsa #problem #usa #privacy #internet #government #politics #fail #media
South African app receives 46,693 potholes reports — 7,842 have been closed
The app is not so much about potholes themselves, but more about how transparency is needed to measure success or failure to provide services to citizens. Too often, reports just disappear into a back-end system and no-one sees the full picture, nor how the resolution rate is progressing.
Seeing municipal services are actually public funded services for citizens, I really wonder why not all electrical, roads, water, etc requests are not publicly visible for citizens to judge how their service delivery is going. If this could have been done for the Municipal Money website in South Africa, why not for other municipal services too? Right now, anyone can compare one municipality with another for their financial key performance indicators.
Maybe what is needed is more transparency for citizens to see what is going on, or not, with their municipal service delivery. Then we’ll at least be dealing with objective judgements around service delivery, and be able to measure real improvement.
See mybroadband.co.za/news/motorin…
#Blog, #accountability, #government, #southafrica, #technology
#Vaccine #Crimes
Japanese #Professor, “The Actions of the Japanese #Government must be #stopped..."
Japanese Professor Delivers Stunning Message Everyone Needs to Hear
Published on April 10, 2024 By Vigilant Fox
Masayasu Inoue, MD, PhD, and Professor Emeritus at Osaka City University Medical School, recently released an eight-minute video with a groundbreaking message for the world.
He said, “The pandemic was used as a false pretext by the WHO to drive vaccinations of all peoples in the world.”
Inoue also declared that the #fraudulent use of “ #experimental #gene #therapy to #healthy #people” was not only an “ #extreme #violation #of #human-rights,” but “the result was the induction of the terrible drug-induced injury that has never [been] seen in human #history.”
#vaccinescam to depop
Watch on Aussie17’s Substack source: VigilantNews.com
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
Since freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure, it is important that the government should have the approval of the great majority of the population and should deal with discontented minorities, wherever possible, in a manner calculated to allay their discontent. A government must possess force, but cannot be a satisfactory government unless force is seldom necessary.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Freedom and Government,” in Ruth Nanda Anshen, ed., Freedom: Its Meaning (1940)
#quote #quotes #quotation #force #freedom #government #security #freedomofopinion #freedomofthought #liberty #majority #minority #populargovernment
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3391/
billionaire #whistleblower
Now will you believe this insider billionaire whistleblower? He confirmed that #Facebook #is owned and operated by the U.S. #Government and Mark #Zuckerberg is just the #Frontman. That's why the corrupt FBI is knocking on doors for Meta posts. https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/
#NYC’s #government #chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations
Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-is-lying-about-city-laws-and-regulations/
That tendency seems poised to cause some serious problems now that a chatbot run by the #NewYork City government is making up incorrect answers to some important questions of local law and municipal #policy.
... our current situation, is that the United States #government is aiding and abetting our own conquest, encouraging it and paying for it with forced #taxation and printed funds. I believe there is a legal means of refusing to pay taxes to the federal government, because they have refused to abide by their obligations to maintain #borders, ensure the welfare of the people and been woefully negligent in acting in the fiduciary interest of the American people. If we had an actual legal system instead of a corrupt means of punishment, that is.
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To get that right, like all of the others, it seems as if we are going to have to demand it at a point of leverage that the American people seem unwilling to employ as yet. This is the break point. We are either going to pay for our own conquest, or we’re going to throw off these criminal masters and engage in either wholesale secession, #civilwar or a #counter-revolution to the bureaucratic dictatorship that has risen up and supplanted representation. Those are the simple choices. Nothing makes this more clear than the recent 1.2 trillion dollar spending bill recently passed, which was done in the face of popular opposition.
~ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/complacent-about-replacement