Another thing to remind the Brits is that they fabricated Napoleon. By attacking the Constitutional Monarchy, headed by the revolutionary Louis XVI, in 1792. Napoleon freed Toulon from the British Army, and fascism took over. So, in a sense, the dictator Napoleon was the best agent that the British plutocracy ever had.

I know for a fact that Google plays games with searches and classifications (although it’s against the law). For many years, I have made less than 3% of my searches on Google, in retaliation. The scariest part is that these people at Google are so stupid and immoral that they think they can threaten a democracy… A large democracy. And win!

That tells us something about the ambiance in Silicon Valley. I guess after years and hundreds of visits of Obama, hat in hand, coming to eat in their hands, and sleep in their beds, and give them billions of public money, they deep down inside believe they have it made! They should go back to school and write November 6, 2012, 1,000 times, until they get how it’s spelled!
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The New York Times censored two of my (very mild!) comments, just today. They don’t like to not be able to pose as fair and progressive. Funny me, the big time leftist, having long used the neologism “Murderoch” always got censored on the left… and not, never… on the right. The WSJ has never censored me. Whereas, just in the last ten days, the New York Times selected me for two of their “PICKS” (meaning excpetionally interesting comments), but then they censored me at least a dozen times… And I am self censoring these days because I don’t feel good about Obama losing (although he fully deserves it, I am not happy with what is going to happen)…

It had huge consequences: the entire Obama economico-financial policy of Obama has been a big time failure, and extension of Bush, basically, and that policy was engineered by the sort of people who decide what should appear in the NYT (which was just as bad as what is in the WSJ… while posing as the opsite; I subscribe to both…)
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So thankful for “allodial”! Now whenever a Brit taunts me on Napoleonic law and the (naturally) superior common law system, I’ll taunt back with “at least my house stands on allodial land, you vassal!”

I call them ‘splies’ – flying spy eyes. Splies actually feature in one of the books I’ve, ah, I’ve not actually written yet (but would have done if I’d got my round tuit). It’d be no s’prise at all to me when the first privacy lawsuit is brought against someone using splies to create porn movies… and Gopornogle++ wins it on the grounds that “… technology make ‘complete privacy’ non-existent.”

And, yes, people will be there ‘defending progress’, as you say.

And then people such as Amna fly to their rescue, because they got some free crumbs. (Funny part I met personally with the guys who really invented Google, years before thay did; at the time those billionaires were looking for a search engine of their own, having correctly determined that, if they concentrated on search, they could do better than Yahoo! In other words, there is nothing that Mr. Brin and Page are so incredibly special about: smarter, immensely rich foxes just needed to go around already existing search engine IP… A similar phenomenon with facebook, this time with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc. behind…)
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The Roman civilization imploded from plutocracy left unchecked (theocracy, namely imperial chrisitanity, was part, and consequence of the plutocratic phenomenon: Catholicism was invented as a state religion about 60 years after emperor Aurelian had invented the cult of Sol Invictus, itself momentary successor to the trinity of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva… The later replaced by the Catholic trinity later: zeus as deus, Juno as Mother of God, Athena/Minerva as the wisdom, the verb, the logos).

I focused on Google, because it is clearly going through the phase cahnge of “Do no evil, that’s our prerogative!”. Fascinating to observe. BTW, even Roman fascism could not go into tracking down what citizens were exactly doing, most of the time. But Google and the like can examine people’s private lives much more thoroughly. In that sense things are changing, for the worse.
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I found the following snippet particularly enlightening:

The search engine company won the case, referencing that satellite technology and aerial photography make “complete privacy” non-existent.”

Personally, I think that says it all. It certainly confirms my belief that no matter how ethically pure any business may be when it sets out, there comes a stage in its growth where it becomes totally corrupt. (And, clearly, unless we recognise and acknowledge that, nothing can change.)

And slavery is always a good deal for those who profit most from it, and had to be set up so that most of the population believed it was good deal for them.

At this point Google is tax cheat, and by being an enabler of free content that refused to cooperate, it helps in the demise of professional journalism. Once that is gone, all that will be left will be paid plutocratic propagandists…

I do not want to do away with Google. I like many of the efforts they are making. I use Android (although I have a Mac Air). I just want them to MODIFY their behavior to become good enough to contribute positively to civilization. Right now their their tax evasion, contribution to the devastation of the conventional media are intolerable, just as their violation of people’s privacy.

To add to all this their insouciant willingness, at the slighest contradiction, to go to war with a leading democracy is revealing of practices so greedy, they have made them demented. They are going to learn France is not the Chinese dictatorship, but something much more radical.
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