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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE

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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CNN BLAMES THE SKY FOR SKYROCKETING FOOD PRICES

When all else fails, blame the weather. A 13 August CNN business story (“Get used to surging food prices: Extreme weather is here to stay”) sought to divert attention away from the obvious, with respect to spiraling food costs. According to the story, a global COVID shutdown egged on by MSM outlets, and inflationary government...

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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....

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MARKET OVERVIEW

DOW, S&P EDGE UP TO NEW RECORD CLOSES The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index barely moved on Friday, but scratched out enough of a gain to notch new record closes for both. The Dow tacked on 15.53 points to end the week at 35,515; the S&P nudged up 7.17 to...

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