The EU and the Internet.

I was checking my blog and found the following statement by blogger.

"European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used and data collected on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.

As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies, and other data collected by Google.
You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. If you include functionality from other providers there may be extra information collected from your users."

I don't really care what European law says and I collect nothing from readers or those who post comments. I have never had an ad or anything similar. I must conclude that all bloggers on blogspot have received the same notification. They are seeking to place the internet under international law eventually. You will notice that they have not said we need to conform to Chinese law. The EU has no authority over what people in other countries post. If they do not like what is on the internet they are free to not allow it within their country. American companies do not need to follow the law of other countries for things posted in America.

Be clear, the United States created the internet. The US government did and we own it. We can prohibit other countries from using it. We have a first amendment, the freedom of speech and other countries do not. If we live by their laws then we will not. This attack on freedom of speech will not end until they control what you can and cannot say online.

Why Oligarchs Create Hopelessness.

My dear friends, I feel like talking a little. Let us look at history. Throughout history oligarchs, the "elites", despots, tyrants, the establishment has sought to control in the same manner. Consolidate power, create inequality and cause the majority to feel hopelessness and despair. Look at the medieval times if this is not clear to you or look at recent despots such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao or even Kim Jung Un.

In India they called it the caste system, in England the class system, in America we call capitalism, in the Soviet Union they called it the communism. Creating systems for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. Now, in Polynesia and Africa this did not exist in the same way. Being more familiar with Polynesia I will use that for my example. These systems were community based and even those whose labor was not needed were treated the same. Why would any rational society work to benefit a few at the expense of the society?

Since the fall of the soviet union, our oligarchs have sought to weaken the middle class to create hopelessness. You can see it if you look at the Midwest and rustbelt. Take away all hope and you create a class of fear and dread. You may believe that this had to happen; but, look at China. All their wealth has come from America and Europe sending the jobs there. That could have happened here; but, that was not what was wanted by our oligarchs. Our community, the west, built China by transferring our wealth there.

MSN - CNBC - The 1 percent will always control the wealth and here's why.  According to the article which likes this situation, 1 percent in the world control 82 percent of the wealth.

Bloomberg - Look at What's Going to Happen to Sweden's Fabled Welfare State.  The article claims that Sweden cannot survive unless it takes in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of immigrants, supposedly from the middle east, and gives up on taking care of its people.

The reason Trump and Brexit upset the oligarchs so much is because they fear it makes think people think they can make their societies work for the whole society rather than just the oligarchs. Greed and selfishness can only exist in societies that allow a few to own everything or at least most everything.

Automation and Human Restrictions.

Mirror - Robot to run for mayor in Japan in "world first" Promising "fairness and balance" for all residents. Automated fairness, what a concept. Who decides what is fair, some programming geek? The greatest minds in history cannot agree on what is right. Can you possibly believe that people who built such a thing would not give themselves and advantage, a back door out of problems?

Huffington Post - Capitalism's Betrayal of the Working Class Could be it's Undoing.  A good history of the last 90 years.

Fox - New York City banning cars from Central Park.

Just some things you should be aware of. They will affect your lives much more than porn stars that Trump slept with.

Here is a good question.

How many congressmen lost all their money when the housing market or stock market crashed? Now, here is where it gets fun. How many congressmen who voted to end Glass-Steagall and lost one penny from the stock crash? How many allowed the banks to reduce controls on housing loans lost their houses from the crash? Yeah, you can figure out who knew what was coming from how the benefitted. Its not really that hard. In the end, it is just numbers. Millions of Americans have lost their pensions and their houses. Are you aware of ANY congressman losing their house or pension? Yeah, me neither.