Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-04 Thread Brian Holmes
Hello John, so good to hear from you! It's fantastic what the ZAD has achieved - not just stopping the airport, not just staying on the site, but inventing lives in the present that can imagine a viable future. I guess everyone knows that's not so easy to do. and meanwhile on the zad we are busy

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread John Jordan
Hey brian … miss you buddy .. Re religions… could not agree more. You should read this great book: Erica Lagalisse Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail=964

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Keith Hart
C L R James argued from the 70s that there are only two world revolutions left -- the second Russian revolution and then the second American revolution (missing out the civil war which instituted national capitalism). We thought the fall of the Berlin Wall was the first, but it wasn't. It

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Tripodi
Patrice, this is an interesting perspective, but how do you expect NRA supported armed trumpians, trained fascists and various paramiltary goons training full day at shoot-all video games, backed likely by the above quoted corporate rulers and with the enthusiastic external support of Russian

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2019-03-03 12:10, Keith Hart wrote: The corporations already are the lawmaker of the world. (...) With other words the cyberpunk writers of the late 80s/90s were right from the start. The not evenly distributed future has arrived for real, and maybe a little sooner than anticipated. So we

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Brian Holmes
Keith's post addresses the global situation perfectly and he brings it to the real point: "Time for a movement that addresses the problem we face now: where will we find the popular political forces to stop all this? Probably not short of another world war." Popular political forces are

Re: Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread Keith Hart
The corporations already are the lawmaker of the world. In the 80s the World Bank and the IMF destroyed national governments' ability to protect their own economies(Structural adjustment policies) in order to enable the free flow of global capital. Now the capital is invested in these countries

Facebook’s “toxic” global lobbying

2019-03-03 Thread allan
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws Sent from myMail for iOS # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #