
Pete Jordan
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Commented on The referendum question
Indeed: virtually all nation states are already less powerful and influential than the largest corporations; splitting states into smaller entities will hardly change that (pace Poul-Henning Kamp's comment above). The only practicable control I can see is in larger federal...
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Commented on The referendum question
You make no comment, past your introduction, of the "transnational corporate entities"; do you see any non-catastrophic resolution of the relationship between them and your, essentially syndicalist, replacement for nation states?...
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Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
The BBC are, and always have been, an organ of the Establishment (not necessarily the same thing as the government, but there tends to be a fair bit of overlap). Nothing new here....
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Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
I think you're being overly optimistic with your final paragraph; the UK government routinely shapes discourse (or at any rate attempts to) with lies and misinformation. Even leaving aside adventures in foreign policy, local social policy is largely based on...
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Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
You mean a bit like scientology started as a joke? The similarity in mindset is, to say the least, disturbing....
