“…When capitalist interests took over

However, just as the American sociologist Daniel Bell predicted in his book on the post-industrial society, dominant interests and capitalist power would eventually – with some help from the US government and the EU – fully appropriate the internet and commodify the information society, bringing it firmly in line with capitalist interests and wealth creation. In stark contrast to the myth of the internet being a level-playing field of equal opportunities, the commercialisation of the internet led to an extreme and global oligopolisation accelerated by network effects characterised by a “winner-takes-all” logic. This was achieved through two old models of media monetisation, namely subscription advertising, often combined. Subscription models are platforms designed to counter the illegal downloading of media content such as Netflix and Spotify, but also the ways in which alternative platforms encourage donations by their audiences. The advertising model is more prevalent, however, because of the free culture ideology that accompanied the emergence of the internet.

In the age of social media and big data, the advertising model has become both more sophisticated and more insidious. The privileging of data extraction models and the commodification of our sociality and everything this reveals about us, led to an era of “surveillance capitalism”, whose “mechanisms and economic imperatives have become the default model for most internet-based businesses”. The very idea of a “free” internet, as advocated by the alternative cyberpunks and lodged into the popular imagination, has paradoxically fuelled a mainstream business model based on the commodification of users’ sociality and their digital footprint. As a result, capitalism today does not only feed off our collective labour, but “every aspect of every human’s experience”…”

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“…But it should come as no surprise to “Americans” that the U.S. settler-colonial experiment, in the context of ecocide, is the progenitor of Germany’s psychopathic approach to Jewish people as well as the zionist entity’s psychopathic approach to Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian people. From Indigenous people to the people of Vietnam, the U.S. has perfected the use of chemical and biochemical warfare to vanquish those who stood in the way of its conquest to increase its grip of imperialism through empire building and dispatch of those it deemed enemies – both foreign and domestic. For just as the zionist entity exercises ecocide via chemical warfare against Palestine and Iran, the U.S. exercises similar methods against frontline Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities – see also Cancer Alley, a community also being subjected to fossil fuel ecocide. And when the U.S. isn’t using fossil fuels as a direct weapon to poison and kill people, it uses them as a weapon of soft imperialism as we are witnessing with the Revolutionary Republic of Cuba whose entire grid system has collapsed due to the draconian international and imperial gangsterism of “America’s” military that is blocking the delivery of oil and other critical supplies necessary to sustain everyday functions of the island.

WIth the U.S. and the zionist entity, we are observing the same tactics utilized during the era of Nazi Germany imperialism – the only difference being that the swastika has been replaced by Stars of David and Stars and Stripes…”

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…During the bizarre exchange, Phillips explained, “I was with my boys one time and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House. And I ended up at a Waffle House – this was in Georgia and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was.

“And they said, ‘where are you?’ and I said, ‘A Waffle House.’ And ‘a Waffle House where?’ And I said, ‘Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.’ And they said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real…”

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“…So, perhaps the viewers of Montana TV station KRTV weren’t as surprised as we’d assume on February 11th, 2013, when, in the middle of a CW talk show about “teen cheaters”, they heard the tell-tale buzzer of the channel’s emergency broadcast system. After a few blasts of this alarm, the show went mute before a calm, authoritative voice announced that “the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and are attacking the living.”

After all, it does seem to be only a matter of time before we get those messages for real, doesn’t it?..”

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“…Destroyed buildings constitute the largest element of the estimated carbon cost. Based on reports by the Iranian Red Crescent humanitarian organisation that about 20,000 civilian buildings have been damaged by the conflict, the analysis estimates the total emissions from this sector to be 2.4m tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e).

Fuel is the second biggest element, with US heavy bombers flying from as far away as the west of England to carry out raids over Iran. The analysis estimates between 150m and 270m litres of fuel were consumed by aircraft and support vessels and vehicles in the first 14 days, producing a total emission of 529,000 tCO2e.

One of the most shocking images of the war has been the dark clouds and black rain that fell over Tehran after Israel bombed four major fuel storage depots surrounding the city, setting millions of litres of fuel ablaze. The analysis estimates that between 2.5m and 5.9m barrels of oil have been burned in that attack and similar strikes – including Iranian retaliations on its Gulf neighbours – emitting an estimated 1.88m tCO2e.

In the first 14 days, the US lost four aircraft, while Iran lost 28 aircraft, 21 naval vessels and about 300 missile launchers. This destroyed military hardware is estimated to account for embodied carbon emissions of 172,000 tCO2e…”

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This investigative breakdown explores the documented overlap between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, examining the broader power networks allegedly surrounding both figures. Whitney Webb analyzes Trump’s reported bailout connections to Rothschild banking interests, ties to Roy Cohn and Robert Maxwell, and the deeper institutional structures behind these relationships.

The discussion also examines the scandal involving Prince Andrew, including allegations of blackmail connected to UK arms deals involving BAE Systems. It further explores Leon Black’s $158 million payments to Epstein, the controversy surrounding the butler’s “black book,” and references to Ghislaine Maxwell.

A central focus is the “controlled demolition” theory surrounding Epstein’s arrest and death. Webb presents the perspective that Epstein’s downfall may have resulted from high-level intelligence and geopolitical conflicts, including alleged tensions involving Mohammed bin Salman, Jared Kushner, and former CIA leadership such as John Brennan.

The video also addresses questions about: • Epstein’s 2008 plea deal

• Intelligence community connections
• The 2008 financial crisis angle
• Missing prison footage and official narratives
• Why the full story may still remain undisclosed-

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“…The Slovaks’ new Czech overlords in Prague treated them with comparable cruelty to 18th century Russian serfs or American slaves before the US Civil War.

This horrific reality was never acknowledged in the Anglo-American and French historiography of the time. But all Slovaks lived it and it was why they desperately welcomed even the Nazis as liberators in March 1938, when Hitler set up a brief puppet state there while annexing the Czechs’ own prosperous and industrialized Bohemian heartland.

Further south, there was another dark, suppressed story: Nobody in the West knows today that in 1920, to destroy historic Imperial Hungary—the eastern half of the Habsburg Empire—Britain and France armed Romania to the teeth. The Romanians promptly occupied and enslaved the vast and prosperous lands of Transylvania and happily raped and pillaged the subject Hungarian, Jewish and German populations who had lived there for 750 years. They even briefly occupied and pillaged the great city of Budapest and raped its women with abandon, an outrage unprecedented in 400 years.

Wilson also demanded the creation of an independent Poland after its people had been occupied and dominated for 150 years or so by the surrounding nations of Prussia/Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.

Wilson, the great American Visionary Genius thought he was creating a stable, peaceful democracy under the gentle pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski. But instead, the Poles led by their own “Modern Napoleon” Marshal Joseph Pilsudski who went on to conquer nine times the territory that Wilson planned to allot to them.

The remarkably large territorial empire that Pilsudski created enslaved millions of Ukrainians, Russians, Germans and Jews. Acclaimed British historian Paul Johnson in his masterpiece Modern Times rightly compared the system of Polish domination to that of white Apartheid South Africa under the Verwoerd regime.

So horrific was the rape, murder and pillaging of the previously prosperous and peaceful German population in Silesia in 1919-22 that the suffering people desperately appealed to Wilson’s beloved League of Nations to deliver them from their Polish tormentors. The response was farcical. They got nothing.

In reality it was, to borrow from H.G. Wells, “The Shape of Things to Come.” All the tormented peoples of the world, from China to Abyssinia/Ethiopia,Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, across Europe and Eurasia, would discover over the next two decades that Wilson’s beloved League was nothing more than a Big Lie. It was even less substantial than the huge, inflammable, vulnerable death trap airships that caught the imagination of the world around that time.

The League, based in Geneva, Switzerland was always a fantasy, a pie-in-the-sky dream of liberal internationalist hypocrites…”

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“…Fishback’s campaign inadvertently gave the world a glimpse into how gooning-obsessed this youngest generation of far-right men has become. Leaked text messages from the Florida governor-hopeful’s campaign showed one high-ranking staffer semi-jokingly suggesting that straight sex is “gay” — echoing a claim by fascist influencer Nick Fuentes — because of this perception that engaging with women is degrading. Another set of leaked texts, these from conservative students in Miami-Dade County, was nicknamed “Gooning in Agartha.” (Agartha, the legendary utopia that some believed to exist at the center of the earth, was believed by many Nazis to house an Aryan superior race and so is a fitting reference to include in a chat full of racist and antisemitic dialogue.)…”

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“…Almost 40 years ago, a seemingly meaningless interview eerily foreshadowed what is happening in the Middle East right now. What I am about to share with you is absolutely amazing, because it shows that the threat that Iran poses was very much on Donald Trump’s mind even when he was a young man. Now he is in the White House, and we are witnessing things that we have never seen before. The U.S. and Israel are relentlessly destroying thousands of important targets all over Iran, and in return the Iranians continue to launch missiles and drones at targets all over the region. Shockingly, during an interview with Barbara Walters in 1987, Trump warned that there would be “a war” and that it would “start in the Middle East”…

‘You’re going to have a war, and it’s going to start in the Middle East,’ Trump predicted to Walters during the interview.

When he made that statement, Trump probably never imagined that he would be the president of the United States when that war finally began…”

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