{"id":39293,"date":"2018-10-17T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39293"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:46:41","slug":"boycott-facebook-twitter-and-google-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39293","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here\u2019s Why\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/10\/17\/or-41571.jpg\" alt=\"Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here\u2019s Why\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/10\/17\/boycott-facebook-twitter-and-google-here-why.html\">Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here\u2019s Why<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>NATO \u2014 the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE \u2014 has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international \u2018news\u2019-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Twitter, and Google, in recent days, delivered what might be the death-blows.<\/p>\n<p>NATO\u2019s main PR agency, think-tank, and lobbying organization, is \u2018non-profit\u2019 \u2014 a legal tax-dodge that\u2019s financed by donations from those weapons-making firms and their supporting firms and their \u2018non-profits\u2019, so that the taxes that it doesn\u2019t pay will need to be paid instead by the general public. Billionaires know how to avoid taxes, and they hire politicians who write the laws with all the \u2018right\u2019 loopholes for them \u2014 and\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>for the very richest \u2014 to use. This PR agency is called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Council\">The Atlantic Council<\/a>,\u201d and it was set up in 1961, the exact same year that U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower left office warning that \u201cthe military-industrial complex\u201d might take control of the U.S. Well, it did so, with The Atlantic Council\u2019s help; and, now, it is finally lowering the boom against democracy itself \u2014 at least among the U.S. and its allied nations (the governments whose weapons-manufacturing firms are in, and sell to, NATO governments). The aim is to drive up the percentage of government-expenditures there that go to pay those firms, and so to reduce the percentages that go to pay everything else. The aim, in short, is\u00a0<strong>the permanent-warfare-economy<\/strong>. After all, firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE sell\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>to allied governments. They have virtually no consumers except those governments. So: their (and their \u2018charities\u2019) basic message is \u2018austerity\u2019 \u2014\u00a0except\u00a0on \u2018defense\u2019 or realistically called \u201caggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here\u2019s Why NATO \u2014 the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE \u2014 has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international \u2018news\u2019-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs. Facebook, Twitter, and Google, in recent days, delivered what might be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4394,1493,378,528,553,1169,8203,22370,819],"class_list":["post-39293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-nato","tag-social-media","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-the-atlantic-council","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39294,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions\/39294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}