With the FDA advising against COVID booster shots, at least for the moment, Bill Gates is already game-planning how to make the most of the next pandemic. Gates told The Times Of India that his foundation is fueling efforts to make India a leading world producer of mRNA vaccines. “For the next pandemic, we will...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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GOVERNMENT: FREE SPEECH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH
A Big Tech summit sponsored by Politico last week produced calls for the Federal government to further leverage de facto social communication monopolies to censor Americans. The summit produced four “top takeaways.” But number one on the list targeted free speech rights, via a declaration “Self-Regulation Isn’t Going To Cut It”: “Facebook and Google have...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
BIDEN ADMIN PUSHING FOR IRS SURVEILLANCE OF ALL BANK ACCOUNT DATA. It’s called the “American Families Plan.” First introduced by the Biden administration in May, the legislation pretends to be about strengthening average American families. In reality, it gives the IRS new powers and beefed up personnel to comprehensively surveill the finances of American citizens....
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POWERING OFF AI: THE NEXT “HATE CRIME”
The same corporations fueling efforts to restrict freedoms and medical rights of Americans, are busy building the case for AI legal rights. A recent article at MIT’s Technology Review chronicled rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence that have frank goals of creating systems that can outperform human beings in computational, logical and even creative endeavors. But,...
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A SHORT PATH FROM COVID VAX TECH TO GENETIC WEAPONS File under another handy use of genetic info and experimental COVID vax tech: wipe out adversaries. Widespread genetic collection from human populations has been going on for years. People literally pay to give themselves away. Though they have benign reasons—wanting to know more about their...
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HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY: A FOLLOW-UP
Last week the Trends Journal detailed some of the ways Big Tech corporations have propagated their monopolies, in areas including social media, cloud storage and website services, e-commerce, advertising communication, and app development sales and distribution. (See “HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY,” 17 August 2021) A new guest column by Ken Blackwell at the...
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PULL THE PLUG ON TECH POWER OR THE PLUG WILL BE PULLED ON YOU
A relative few mega corporations, and the people that control them, are swallowing up and profiting from a quickening in technological innovations. Those new technologies are allowing an enormous shift in power and wealth away from average humanity. And that power is being used to suppress oversight and opposition, as technocratic elites pursue dangerous transhuman...
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1984 TO 2021: HOW APPLE LEARNED TO LOVE BIG BROTHER. Some are old enough to remember an iconic commercial from 1984, where a woman at a dystopian gathering of prisoners smashes a telescreen screen showing a “Big Brother” like figure. That commercial was debuted by Apple (during Superbowl 18) to promote its new MacIntosh personal...
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I’LL TAKE THE VACCINE WHEN…
I’ll take the vaccine when… Dr. Anthony Fauci is held in contempt for lying to Congress concerning funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab where COVID-19 likely originated. I’ll take the vaccine when the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is stripped of his position for covering up his role and...
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HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY
A handful of Big Tech companies currently control the lion’s share of e-commerce, web advertising, social media, cloud services and more. Everyone knows the players: Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter. They make more the GDP of many countries, escape fair taxation (ie. levels average citizens in many places pay), and manipulate policy debates....