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Nonilex

The #legislation was expected to add significantly to the #debt, given the enormous cost of extending the #TaxCuts for corporations & the rich that #Republicans put into place in 2017, the central pillar of the bill. #FarRight lawmakers demanded that the party use their total #control of Washington to also slash #spending & contain the cost of the legislation, but the #CBO’s estimate was a reminder that the party fell well short of covering the roughly $3.8 trillion cost of extending the cuts.

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@BobCollins

The peculiarly USAnian institution of the Home Owners' Association (HOA) (I'm Canadian) is notoriously filled with the kind of busybody Mussolini/Franco-wannabe dictators and martinets that want nothing more than to (a) be all up in everyone else's business, and (b) be upset about it.

They get on the boards (no one else wants to be on them), and they set crazy control-freak rules [1] like:

No vehicles parked on street.
No vehicles parked in driveways outside the hours of 8am - 6pm.
No flags allowed.
No advertising allowed, including company branding on vehicles parked in the neighbourhood.
All yards must be covered with lawn consisting of approved grass seed types and be maintained between 2 and 3 inches long at all times.
All windows must have blinds or drapes that show white to the outside.
Only the colours of these three approved paint chips may be used to paint fences with.
All houses must be stucco of one of these 3 approved colours.
House numbers must be displayed in this approved font, and be between X and Y inches high.
No overnight guests without advanced approval.

... and on and on and on. And then they go around the neighbourhood looking for violators to report to the board (that they're on) for punishment and correction.

It's downright nutty.

[1] These are all examples I've seen online.

#busybody#martinet#Mussolini
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Toni Aittoniemi

A great example of how #capitalism is a tool of #control comes from the history of #agriculture

Traditionally, agriculture had been communal

Giving all families in the village a split of all lands guaranteed fair share and fair participation

It also made people stick together. The king of Sweden didn’t like that!

Sweden didn’t have serfdom, so they played on people’s greed instead

Already in the 1700’s, the narrative used was ”efficiency & economy”

sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storskif

sv.wikipedia.orgStorskiftet – Wikipedia
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Thomas Barrio

From Productivist Work to the Megamachine: Alienation, Instrumental Rationality, and Systemic Domination

💼⚙️ From the Taylorist factory to the #Plantationocene: how has #InstrumentalRationality transformed #work, bodies, and #society? #Alienation, #speed, #control, #extractivism, and self-destruction—critical insights with #Fromm, #Jappe, #Virilio, #Foucault, #Weber, #Adorno, #Ferdinand, and #Merchant. #philosophy #sociology #ecology From Productivist Work to the…

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Homo Hortus · Du travail productiviste à la mégamachine : aliénation, rationalité instrumentale et domination systémique💼⚙️ De l’usine taylorienne au #plantationocène, comment la #RationalitéInstrumentale a-t-elle transformé le #travail, les corps et la #société ? #Aliénation, #vitesse, #contrôle, #extractivisme et …
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CBC Technology Science

Militant approach needed to control Canada goose population in border city, says expert
Managing Windsor's population of Canada geese needs diligent effort over multiple years to truly make a dent in the number of the birds throughout the city, says Dan Frankian — a specialist with Hawkeye Bird an...
#wildlife #city #control #population #Windsor #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mil

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CBC Windsor

Militant approach needed to control Windsor's Canada goose population, says expert
Managing Windsor's population of Canada geese needs diligent effort over multiple years to truly make a dent in the number of the birds throughout the city, says Dan Frankian — a specialist with Hawkeye Bird and Animal ...
#animals #wildlife #control #population #Windsor #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mil

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And what's worse, you'll probably never see this because you're not supposed to until the #transition is complete.

#REALID, #Social #Credit #Score using #XAI, and an #economic #control #grid that dictates what you buy based on where it's made.

The #goal is a #global #AI #trade #network that balances #resources and #debt so that #competition completely disappears.

The stick in the spokes of this operation?

#China and the #BRICS nations. They threaten to undo 500 years of work.

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Witness of History

The biggest irony of the #US, is that it was founded on the principal of the people through their #representatives having total #control over monetary and fiscal policy (no taxation without representation), but the #banking #regime have already taken over #monetary #policy before most of us were born, and now they are very close to taking over #fiscal policy in #Washington.

#Bankers fund #political #campaigns, and in turn get put in #government positions to keep directing funds to #WallStreet.

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