The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise: Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants

November 10, 2021November 10, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | November 9, 2021
Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.
The Metaverse Is Big Brother in Disguise: Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants

The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.
The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies

US puts Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on trade blacklist

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US puts Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on trade blacklist

Avoiding a climate lockdown

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Avoiding a climate lockdown

Under a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.

Facebook and Washington vs Internet Sovereignty

October 26, 2021July 4, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Facebook and Washington vs Internet Sovereignty

It was as early as 2011 when Facebook along with the US State Department began weaponizing this control over a social media platform deeply entrenched in the information spaces of nations around the world and particularly in the Arab World.
The New York Times in a 2011 article titled, “US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” would admit that the US government had funded many of the opposition groups years in advance to the Arab Spring, training and equipping them to overthrow their respective governments.
The article also mentions US tech companies and their role in US-sponsored subversion abroad…
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These [security] clearances would not be possessed by a genuine whistleblower organization exposing real abuses inside the US government, but instead an organization posing as such to mitigate the damage real whistleblowers might cause if their information was brought to the press and released to the public before being sanitized, censored, and spun in a politically expedient manner.

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Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen represented by US intelligence insiders

October 22, 2021October 26, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

The background of Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Aid legal team indicates she was cultivated to complete Facebook’s transformation into a vehicle for the US national security state.
Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen represented by US intelligence insiders

Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future

In August 2020, Thiel told Die Weltwoche that COVID-19 had created an opening. “Changes that should have taken place long ago did not come because there was resistance. Now the future is set free.” But the future desired by Thiel is one that involves less democracy, more restrictive immigration measures, and a tech industry even more aligned with the interests of the US government. Tech’s libertarian age is waning, but its future could be even worse.