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Big Tech, monopoly and the pretense of capitalism

All those who believe the 'privatized totalitarianism' of Big Tech 'platform plantations' are 'capitalism' have been brainwashed into servitude by Big Tech's pretense of capitalism.

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What do you call an economy of monopolies without competition or any regulatory restraints? An economy of monopolies that control both the buying and selling in the markets they control? Monopolies with the power to commit legalized fraud and the profits to buy political influence? Monopolies whose black box algorithms are all-powerful but completely opaque to public scrutiny?

Call it whatever you want, but it certainly isn't Capitalism, which requires competition and market transparency to price capital, labor, risk, credit, goods, services, etc.

Black Box Monopoly is the death of Capitalism as it eliminates competition and market transparency.

The American economy is now dominated by Big Tech Black Box Monopolies, and thus what we have isn't a "free market" system (a.k.a. capitalism), it's the pretense of capitalism, a slick PR cover for the most rapacious form of exploitation.

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Best of the Web: Multiple studies predicted governments become authoritarian in response to pandemics

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Over the last eight months we have seen many governments around the world enacting authoritarian practices in the name of preventing the spread of COVID-19. All the way back in January, the Chinese government began welding people in their homes to stop them from potentially contaminating others. As the panic spread around the world eager politicians now had the excuse they needed to push policies which restrict freedom of movement and speech.

The authoritarian measures have now grown to include the following:

- checkpoints (asking about travel, checking temperatures)

- temperature screenings at some airports

- contact tracing apps cataloging all your movements and contacts

- emergency orders/executive orders supporting forced vaccinations, isolation, and quarantine

- involuntary quarantine centers/camps

- thermal drones watching people form the sky

- talk of mandatory vaccines (or making it difficult to live without vaccination)

-face recognition tech to fight covid19 (by tracking people violating lockdowns)

- discussion of immunity passports/digital certificates to travel

- censorship of alternative viewpoints

- raiding of businesses for not closing

- arrests of people violating lockdown (and this, and this)

- ankle monitors for those violating quarantine orders

- roving cops searching for people not in the "proper" places

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Virginia Health Commissioner says he'll mandate a COVID-19 vaccine

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State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.

Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021.

Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.

"It is killing people now, we don't have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives," Oliver said.

Under state law, only people with a medical exemption could refuse the mandate.

Comment: Medaries has the right idea - and so do others:




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Democratic mayoral candidate Sabrina Belcher faked her own kidnapping to win votes

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A Democratic candidate running for mayor in South Carolina was reportedly arrested for allegedly faking her own kidnapping to try to win votes.

Sabrina Belcher was arrested and charged with conspiracy and filing a false police report after police say she filmed herself being kidnapped, beaten up and robbed in a Facebook live video Tuesday, which she orchestrated, according to The State. Police say she did this to get "sympathy" ahead of the election.

After she claimed to have been kidnapped she told police that she was "assaulted and kidnapped by an unknown man during an attempted robbery." Belcher also said the unknown man broke her car windows.


Comment: Sabrina Belcher's sociopathic acts of deceit - in order to gain political power - are actually no different (if much less harmful) than the trove of stories we've published here about the DNC's many, many High level crimes. We guess she chose the right party to run under even if she's sabotaged herself right out of the gate with her all-too-obvious ploy.


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Iraqi female protest leader shot dead in Basra

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© TwitterActivist Reham Yacoub was killed and three others were wounded in the shooting
A prominent female activist was shot dead in Iraq on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen.

Reham Yacoub, who was also a well-known fitness instructor, was killed in the southern Iraqi city of Basra by gunmen carrying assault rifles on the back of a motorcycle, Reuters reported.

Three others were wounded in Wednesday's incident. It is considered to be the third instance of violence against anti-government activists this week.

An activist was killed on Friday and four others were fired upon in a separate incident, Reuters reported.

Comment: See also: US embassy's sordid role in stoking October protests in Iraq revealed in Lebanese paper


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Portland unrest continues as protesters invade entire neighborhoods overnight

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© Brendan Gutenshwager/TwitterBLM protesters used bullhorns and spotlights in the invasion
'Wake Up Motherf**ker, Wake Up'

Portland protesters took to the streets once again Thursday evening, chanting and yelling as they promised to keep up entire neighborhoods.

Another riot was declared Thursday in South Portland outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building. Unrest in Portland, Oregon has been steady throughout the past few months, with at least 13 riots being declared over the past 80 days.

Independent journalist Brendan Gutenschwager recorded footage of a "public disturbance" march in Portland ahead of the evening's riot, he tweeted. The protesters could be seen marching through the streets and screaming "ya'll never gonna sleep cuz of me, I ain't gonna sleep cuz of ya'll."

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Police say Muslim man wasn't mocked during fatal arrest - group says bodycam footage contradicts that

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© AP Photo/Matt York/FileIn this June 5, 2020, file photo, Mussallina Muhaymin, left, and Zarinah Tavares, sisters of Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr., a homeless man who died while in Phoenix police custody
An advocacy group released what they say is previously unseen body camera footage Thursday showing Phoenix police mocking the religion of a Black Muslim man who later died in their custody.

Muslim Advocates, a national civil rights organization, released video from the 2017 death of Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr. in which he can be heard crying out in pain and calling for Allah, the Arabic word for God.

An officer appears to say "Allah? He's not going to help you right now ... Relax dude. Stop moving. Stop resisting. You understand?"

The Phoenix Police Department is disputing that interpretation, Sgt. Mercedes Fortune said. He said the police were trying to defuse the situation as per their training.

Comment: CNN published a detailed analysis of the footage in July, which appears to back the sisters' claims. Some excerpts:
The raw, unedited footage obtained by CNN includes bodycam videos supplied to Muhaymin's family through litigation. It brings to light several revealing moments that are not included in bodycam footage already released by the city, including how the officers speak about Muhaymin and his dog while he is in the restroom, out of earshot.

The footage also shows that the officers suspected that Muhaymin had mental health issues.

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The city in the document says Muhaymin "tensed up, thrashed about, pushed and kicked at officers."

Although Muhaymin appears in the videos to at times resist being cuffed — tensing up his arms or refusing to offer up his hands, for instance — none of the footage shows him kicking or punching any officers. Officers stated that Muhaymin "did not attempt to kick, bite, slap or otherwise harm the officers but that he was 'passive aggressive' and resisting arrest," according to the medical examiner's report.

Nor do the recordings show officers kicking or punching Muhaymin, though at one point an officer's elbow strikes his shoulder.

But the videos show several officers putting their weight on Muhaymin for several minutes at a time as he screams and groans.

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Even though police and witnesses later said Muhaymin did not become physically violent during the encounter, the authorities initially told local media outlets that Muhaymin had committed "assault" against an officer and an employee.

"When did they ever retract those statements?" Chami said, referring to the police. "They never did."

Chami said he would like to see the criminal investigation reopened, as was done recently in Colorado, where the governor in late June ordered a new examination into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died from a heart attack shortly after police put him in a chokehold.

n attorney representing the officers in Muhaymin's case declined to comment.



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Fort Hood WMD specialist missing amid string of mysterious deaths & disappearances around army base

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© Fort Hood / Twitter(L) Missing Army Sgt. Elder Fernandes; (R) The main gate at the US Army post at Fort Hood, Texas.
The US Army has asked the public for help finding a biological, chemical and nuclear specialist stationed at Fort Hood in Texas, the latest soldier to vanish after a spate of puzzling deaths and disappearances around the base.

The 23-year-old sergeant, Elder Fernandes, was reported missing earlier this week, last seen by his staff sergeant on Monday at a residence near the Fort Hood army base in Killeen, Texas, according to a local ABC affiliate. The military has now called on the public for any information they might have about the soldier, issuing an alert on social media on Friday.

"We are very concerned about the welfare of this soldier and first and foremost we want to ensure he is OK," Christopher Grey, spokesperson for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), said in a statement.

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Manhunt underway for attacker in Portland truck assault: police - UPDATE

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© Portland Police BureauMarquise Love is being sought in connection to a vicious assault on a Portland truck driver.
Portland police on Tuesday identified a suspect in Sunday night's attack on a truck driver who was seen on video being pulled from the vehicle and violently beaten.

The Portland Police Bureau is on the hunt for Marquise Love, who also goes by the name "Keese Love," for his alleged involvement in the vicious assault that was caught on video and circulated on social media.

Officials said in a press release they have made several attempts to find 25-year-old Love, but have so far been unsuccessful. They have said they have probable cause for his arrest.

Comment: Police have apprehended and charged Marquise Love for the assault:
The Portland Police Bureau said that Marquise Love, 25, was charged with felony Assault II, Riot and Coercion after he and his attorney coordinated his surrender with detectives and the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.

"I am pleased the suspect in this case turned himself in and appreciate all of the efforts to facilitate this safe resolution," said Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell. "Thank you to all of the members of the public who have provided information and tips to our investigators. Your assistance is very much appreciated."
The suspect had previously posted claims on social media that he was "only fighting".
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© TwitterImage that Marquise Love uploaded to Snapchat with his explanation of scene from the July 16, 2020 attack.

Love, a 25-year-old who identified himself on Facebook as an armed airport security guard, was booked into Portland's Multnomah County jail early Friday morning, law enforcement records show. He faces felony charges of aggravated assault, coercion and rioting. The lead indictment is a high-level assault charge, a class B felony, for which Love's bail was set at $250,000. Bail on the other charges was $5,000 each.

Police had been looking for Love since Tuesday, after failing to persuade him to turn himself in. The suspect reportedly posted messages under the name 'Daddy Keese' on social media Thursday, begging for money and denying wrongdoing. "Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him," Love said. "Look it up on Twitter. Put money on my books and come see me."

Love might want to seek legal counsel before running with an "all I did was fight him" defense. Videos posted on social media Sunday showed a man identified as Love striking the alleged victim, Adam Haner, from behind after he was pulled from his truck and surrounded by a group of Black Lives Matter protesters. With Haner sitting dazed in the street, the man identified as Love takes a running kick at the man's head, knocking him unconscious.



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Revisionist 'scholars' risk reversing decades of women's gains when they declare an unearthed Viking woman warrior is transgender

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© Global LookMisgendering Valkyries can be fatal
The discovery of a female body in a Swedish Viking warrior's tomb was a gift to activist researchers, who pounced on a chance to woke-ify the iconic Norsemen. But recasting woman warriors as trans is misogynistic and dangerous.

When DNA testing confirmed a tenth-century skeleton found buried with the trappings of a high-status Viking warrior had two X chromosomes, intersectional revisionists got to work injecting 21st century realities into the culture in which the warrior lived and died.

The warrior woman discovered in Birka, whose tomb was first excavated in 1878, "may have been someone who, in our terms, was a trans man, someone living as a man," Swedish archaeology professor Neil Price wrote, in his much-hyped forthcoming book on Viking history. No mere strong-willed female shattering the social norms of the time to take up arms against her enemies, she instead "may have been transgender...or non-binary, or gender fluid."

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