The Dialectic of Institutional Asymmetry and the Crisis of Representation: The Rise of Lobbying and the Decline of NGO-Union Resistance @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5324411
#Lobbying #CivilSociety #TradeUnions #Hegemony #DemocraticRepresentation #BlackMoney #RevolvingDoor #Neoliberalism #PowerElite #ManufacturingConsent #GlobalSouth #DiscourseAnalysis #ComparativePolitics
#powerElite
C. Wright Mills : L’élite du pouvoir, ou la fabrique américaine de l’oligarchie
Dans The Power Elite, C. Wright #Mills révèle comment l’Amérique moderne concentre le #pouvoir entre les mains d’une #élite politico-économique-militaire. Un classique pour comprendre l’#oligarchie contemporaine. #sociologie #PowerElite #pouvoir #PhilosophiePolitique #politique Dans son ouvrage majeur The Power Elite (1956), le sociologue américain C. Wright Mills démonte l’idée d’une…
If anyone's looking for an excellent biography or critical evaluation of the work of #sociologist C. Wright Mills (author of The #PowerElite, Causes of World War 3, etc.), I highly recommend #StanleyAronowitz's Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills & the Making of Political #Intellectuals.
It assesses Mills's major works & how he continuously worked to make public interventions, during a repressive political era in the US (1940s & 1950s), at odds w/ the Stalinist left & liberal apologists. #reading
How will you be celebrating Britain's tyranny of its masses?
With a #Brexit #ChlorinationChicken?!
So before they go to war with #China to prop up their #USDollar (woops we mean save poor little #Taiwan from a country that, warts-and-all, lifted 800 million out of #poverty and who their #powerElite were happy to send all our #productiveIndustries to for decades while we were screaming about the longterm damage that would do to us),
… we suppose then we better start with #Israel, and by bombing ourselves in #Australia for being part of that alliance.
Oh wait what?!
@njoseph
Good points not sure growth is the goal quite yet though. We think the corporatists have realised that not all boats can be lifted.
It appears like they are preparing privateIsland with the intention to move there when they bring in the #CBDC (#CentralBankDigitalCurrency). Either that or they are prepping a #falseFlag on mainland #Aus to blame on #China. Assange death is also a threat to #powerElite.
As we've said, the…(1/3)
@bohofromthegetgo
Love this word, "dork" used as a verb.
The #BidenEmails highlight how these #powerElite come off looking like #crude #thugs because that's what they are. Brutal #fascist thugs with #privateArmies.
Have you seen JFK to 911: Rich Man's Trick? The narrator is an magnificent genius.
Maybe this whole #surveillanceState thing can be made to work in reverse. A big maybe. People would have to *want* to fight the #oligarchs. Ugh.
@sean @alex
To what extent are #powerElite now using #COVID to distract from their failures and divert attention to the "#SpreaderOther". And should those in power be held more to account for creating this situation in the first place?
#corporateGreed #bigRealEstate #immigration #auspol #dissidents #activists #exploitation #ignored #humanCost #lockDown #libLab #libLabs #mondoweiss
Imagine if offshore bank accounts were sanctioned and the #powerelite were taxed enough to bail out main street. The new world order doesnt sound to nefarious.
It's good to see that some in #Australia have been able to identify #JobKeeper as a #scam. Designed to enrich the #powerElite, and the #extremelyWealthy, while regular honest #Australians, #casualWorkers, #unemployed and the #lessFortunate are left behind.
Good to see people hashtagging #NoWorkersLeftBehind and #WageSubsidyForAll but what did you make of those hashtags?
Did you actually #organise?
This is why we need #alternativeMedia and more using Tor and I2P.
@dredmorbius
All great points. #RichardStallman talked about the dangerous trend towards #plutocracy recently on an interview he gave on #RT.
The part about the #swingVoter is true. The #powerElite have refined tactics to understanding the swing voter so they can #manipulate them. Some of the #psychological techniques are covered in the fourth and final episode in #AdamCurtis' series, titled #TheCenturyOfTheSelf (2002, #BBC).
@pluralistic
The #powerElite don't invade poor #communities, they invade rich ones like the #freedomSoftware movement.
(Quote adapted from #MichaelParenti's famous speech)
#GNULinux #GNUProject #Congo #Venezuela #Syria #FSF #wealthTransfer #humanEnergy #CEOs #CEO #jeffreyEpstein #money #corruption #BillGates #freeMoney #moneyPrinterGoBrr #Microsoft #github #Mozilla #Cloudflare #Firefox #GNOME #GNOME3 #canonical #ubuntu #oracle #Java #Google #Go #webAssembly
@bohofromthegetgo
Yes. For the #powerElite, it has been a most convenient crisis, affects #blackPeople at a much higher rate than others.
Also a great distraction from the #JulianAssange case, criminalising #journalism.
We wrote about this recently. If memory serves our toot about the #repoScandal covers how power benefitting from #COVID19
Seems to be an excuse for #extremeSurveillance so we can be controlled from their #privateIslands by #AI.
"Due to his terminal illness John had an 'I'-shaped recovery."
Things like 'K'-shaped recovery are not a #recovery. Please don't use #Orwellian #newspeak.
Say #theft.
…theft from #workingClass people by #CEOs and the top #onePercenters
#kleptocrats #wallstreet #powerElite #jeffreyEpstienClass #centralBankers #theFed #warOnSavers #shapedRecovery
Are #islands going to become the place where the #powerElite and #jeffreyEpsteinClass live?
Will they manage their #workers on the #mainland using various #massSurveillance technologies, #drones etc.
@stellamoris1
We weren't aware that they stole his luggage in 2010, which would later be abused as evidence against #ChelseaManning.
Truely sickening.
The extent to which the #powerElite have abused #JulianAssange is off the charts. This includes the forced, engineered removal of #Australia's then PM, #KevinRudd.
#engineeringOfConsent #antiDemocratic #forcedNews #corporateNews #freeJulianAssange
Is it possible to radically simplify #tax and #socialSecurity by removing all #profitLoss garbage, so manipulated by the #powerElite, to instead focus all taxes on #landTax (based on #rentalValue/#salePrice) and #GST (on #manufactured/#nonEssential items, see #Australia)?
A #btcFuture will be different. It could be more #equitable…
…but only if we demand it.
LandTax could start at 15% of the rental value and increase based on the amount of #landValue owned by the person, to 50%.
Thoughts?
#MaxKeiser slips, implicating #Microsoft in prediction that #apartmentDwellers will be used in an #AI farm.
In yesterday's ep of #KeiserReport, at the 9 min mark, Max repeats his prediction that the #powerElite aim to formally farm #humanIntelligence, but accidentally says "My-" for M$, before correcting to "#Facebook".
If you've seen the #patent filed by M$ you wouldn't be surprised.
But why is Max afraid to say it?
@thor
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#Govts and #bigBusiness are using the #opportunity (#crisis) for various things, good and bad, including, no particular order:
- test #reduceTravel (especially #airTravel), not necessarily for the #powerElite who can use #privateJets and #helicopters.
- test #UBI,
- buy up #assets at #lowerPrices,
- boost #militaryBudget, increase #militarisation of #policeForce (especially in #Australia),
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