"Vicious Cycle: The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services:
The US Department of Defense’s bloated budget, along with CIA venture capital, helped to create tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and PayPal. The government then contracts those companies to help its military and intelligence operations. In doing so, it makes the tech giants even bigger.
In recent years, the traditional banking, energy and industrial Fortune 500 companies have been losing ground to tech giants like Apple and Facebook. But the technology on which they rely emerged from the taxpayer-funded research and development of bygone decades. The internet started as ARPANET, an invention of Honeywell-Raytheon working under a Department of Defense (DoD) contract. The same satellites that enable modern internet communications also enable US jets to bomb their enemies, as does the GPS that enables online retailers to deliver products with pinpoint accuracy. Apple’s touchscreen technology originated as a US Air Force tool. The same drones that record breath-taking video are modified versions of Reapers and Predators.
Tax-funded DoD research is the backbone of the modern, hi-tech economy. But these technologies are dual-use. The companies that many of us take for granted–including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and PayPal–are connected indirectly and sometimes very directly to the US military-intelligence complex. ... "
Can you imagine reading something like this 2 years ago and not thinking "This author must be nuts" ?
Now, people talk about this stuff just like they talk about other common knowledge stuff. This is what Great Awakening looks like.
Want to have fun? Found while digging: "2008 fact-checking Facebook / In-Q-Tel connected to CIA"
https://www.techdirt.com/2008/01/17/folks-in-europe-trying-to-connect-the-cia-to-every-successful-american-internet-company/
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Wow, Guardian ad published such redpill stories? I am telling you, OWS was one of the very few times we came really close to exposing the shadow players, and thats why they had to wheel out the identity / race / gender stuff so heavily to break up the movement.