{"id":53204,"date":"2020-05-12T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53204"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T17:44:26","slug":"youre-being-conditioned-to-live-in-a-smart-city-resist-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53204","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Being Conditioned to Live in a \u201cSmart City\u201d \u2013 Resist It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You\u2019re Being Conditioned to Live in a \u201cSmart City\u201d \u2013 Resist It<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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And at the dead center of it all is Eric Schmidt. Well before Americans understood the threat of Covid-19, Schmidt had been on an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign pushing precisely the \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d vision of society that Cuomo has just empowered him to build. At the heart of this vision is seamless integration of government with a handful of Silicon Valley giants \u2014 with public schools, hospitals, doctor\u2019s offices, police, and military all outsourcing (at a high cost) many of their core functions to private tech companies.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 The Intercept<\/em>: Screen New Deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each crisis in the 21st century has been aggressively and ruthlessly wielded into a massive wealth and power grab by the American oligarchy and national security state. The big power grab following 9\/11 centered around whittling away constitutional rights via mass surveillance in the name of \u201ckeeping us safe\u201d, while the money grab after last decade\u2019s financial crisis concentrated wealth and assets into fewer hands while entrenching financial feudalism<\/a><\/strong> and making the Federal Reserve and mega banks even more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the success of this diabolical and intentional concentration of money and power, there\u2019s still too much privacy, freedom and independent wealth around for the imperial oligarchy to feel comfortable. As such, the current pandemic is being used to put the finishing touches on whatever little political and economic freedom remains in these United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lessons learned from prior crises are being rolled out simultaneously this time around while people remain incapacitated at home due to Covid-19. The 2008\/09 financial collapse taught those in power they can get away with unprecedented, unaccountable theft during an economic and stock market crash. Similarly, 9\/11 demonstrated people will relinquish civil liberties without much protest when immersed in a state of fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019re Being Conditioned to Live in a \u201cSmart City\u201d \u2013 Resist It And at the dead center of it all is Eric Schmidt. Well before Americans understood the threat of Covid-19, Schmidt had been on an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign pushing precisely the \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d vision of society that Cuomo has just empowered […]<\/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":[11065,29011,379,4285,6174,786],"class_list":["post-53204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-conditioning","tag-covid-19","tag-government","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53204","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=53204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53206,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53204\/revisions\/53206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}