This podcast is structured around a review of Peter Phillips' book, Giants: The Global Power Elite. I elucidate and assess the main points of the book, [1] that seventeen globally active asset management corporations each administer over $1 trillion, together totalling $41.1 trillion, [2] that these corporations are managed by 199 directors who Phillips gives brief biographies of; [3] that there are deep connections between these personnel and the three main propaganda and public relations global conglomerates, various 'think tanks' and policy bodies, and governments. I further relate this connectivity to the role of big data as it is extracted and exploited by the tech giants Google and Facebook. I rely on Shoshana Ruboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism to make the latter connection. In the light of Phillips' and Ruboff's rigorous scholarship, I consider the vilification of the UK left by the billionaire-owned media and the prospect of a radical, progressive turn in world politics and what is needed to ensure it. [Free. 29 minutes.]
COP26 FIRST IMPRESSION - INTERESTING TIMES 42
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE UK & BEYOND - PART3 [THE FUTURE]
TORY SLEAZE - INTERESTING TIMES 41
ADVENTURES IN THE TWITTERVERSE - IMPENDING REVOLUTION?
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE UK & BEYOND - PART 2C [THE PRESENT]
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE UK & BEYOND - PART 2b [THE PRESENT]
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE UK & BEYOND - PART 2a [THE PRESENT]
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE UK & BEYOND? - PART 1 [HISTORY]
WELSH LABOUR - A GLIMMER OF HOPE
REMARKS ON FREUD PART 2 - THE TOPOGRAPHICAL MODEL
LAO TZU 41
MONEY & TAX IN QUESTION - INTERESTING TIMES 40
TAOIST DIALECTICS
LAO TZU 40
AFGHANISTAN, GEO-POLITICS, HISTORY - INTERESTING TIMES 42
GB NEWS & TOXIC 'FREEDOM' - INTERESTING TIMES 40
DAWN BUTLER & THE POST-TRUTH PARLIAMENT - INTERESTING TIMES 39
SAVAGE JAVID'S RANDIAN FANTASY - INTERESTING TIMES 38
COVID19 & MENTAL HEALTH
EYES - COMMENTARY ON A VERSE
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