Adam Ramsay — The Spin War: Cambridge Analytica and Privatized Military Propaganda

Only two years after Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, he wrote a sentence which, for me, teaches us more about the Cambridge Analytica story than much of the punditry that we've seen since: "just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of capital, so war is not measured by being unleashed but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space."

Must-read. Details how the British ruling class is maintaining empire. Why Trumpgate and Russiagate are parts of the same canard, using a decoy to distract.

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The Spin War: Cambridge Analytica and Privatized Military Propaganda – You can’t understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.

Adam Ramsay

More prison privatization horror!

As states hemorrhage money they are selling off assets in an attempt to remain solvent. You can thank the Congress and current Administration for not supply sufficient quantities of FIAT MONEY.

Anyway, as a result of these self imposed state austerity programs entire prison systems  are being privatized. This creates the potential for some very scary abuse because the prison companies need an ever expanding prison population to grow and be profitable.

We've already seen an example of this in the recent conviction of a judge who was involved in a "cash for kids" scheme. That's right, this judge was sending KIDS to prison for money.

Corrections Corporation of America recently sent letters to a number of state governors telling them the company was prepared to buy and maintain prison systems but only if state prison agencies met CCA's condition of ensuring that the prison remained at least 90% full. Translation: We’ll buy your prisons and keep ‘em orderly and clean, so as long you keep the prisoners coming in! Read article here.

It goes further, too. The prison companies are "leasing out" prisoners to large corporations at below-minimum-wage rates. This is forced labor that undercuts the earnings and job prospects of regular, non-incarcerated workers.

America is truly becoming a scary place.