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  Macron and Merkel Push for Independent “EU Army” posted by darcy, 2018-11-14 20:27:28
This is one of recent history’s huge backfires. Buffoon president Trump was sent on a weapons sales mission to the EU not so long ago, true to his ignorant form he browbeat, insulted and taunted EU leaders about not spending enough to protect themselves from mythical, Washington fabricated enemies, after all, how does one sell hugely expensive weapons without a bogeyman supposedly threatening your safety? (full story)
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 A House Divided Cannot Stand ... posted by gus, 2018-11-12 02:34:40
If the message of the midterms has taught us anything it’s not to be found on surface layers of political discourse. (full story)
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 The Voice of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ posted by Amelia Lester via gayle, 2018-11-12 00:25:36
One evening this fall at a house in West Hollywood, the Australian editor and writer Claire Lehmann had dinner with the neuroscientist Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein, the managing director of tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s investment firm. Joe Rogan, the podcast host, joined later on, when the group decamped to a comedy club. (full story)
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 Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution posted by John Kiriakou via baz, 2018-11-12 00:00:42
Recently declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress and then classified their crime. They must take responsibility for their sordid actions. (full story)
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 The Deep State Makes ALL the Decisions posted by cyd, 2018-11-09 21:20:18
Don’t kid yourselves doodle dandies, the entire political circus in the USA is just that, a circus designed to enthrall and give the impression that voters count when reality dictates that voters count for NOTHING, as the status quo has not missed a beat since the days of Bill Clinton and probably earlier, but don’t let that screaming reality interfere with media fabricated FICTIONS and PROPAGANDA today. (full story)
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MidTerm Result: The Obvious Escapes Most Americans posted by drake, 2018-11-07 23:55:37
What is the point of a one stable two horse race? Clearly both major parties are owned by the same interests, so what would you think would really change? The short answer is NOTHING of substance, only cosmetic appearances. Real change involves real competition of differing core beliefs and policies and it takes a micro surgeon to determine any real differences in either the blue or red camps today, though tiny minority issues are constantly presented to the public as crucial while the real crucial issues are forgotten, gay rights, abortion policies etc, are not crucial issues that affect the democratic MAJORITY, but how do these ridiculous non-majority concerns effect real change, short answer again, they DO NOT, they serve to distract from the real issues. (full story)
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 The Unreal World of US Elections – Fake As A Pro Wrestling Match posted by Caitlin Johnstone via claire, 2018-11-06 20:27:23
I haven’t been writing about the US midterms much because I don’t care about that nonsense anymore. The whole thing’s a fake pro-wrestling performance staged every couple of years to give a heavily armed populace the illusory sense that they have some degree of control over the things their government does. (full story)
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 The Massive Failure of Julian Assange posted by rikki, 2018-11-06 19:56:12
From the outset it became abundantly clear that Assange pursued a personal agenda, it was all about him and HIS pursuits of exposing state corruption and crimes, not that that corruption wasn’t previously known. People -- with the exception of Americans -- are not stupid, it was/is universally known that elected ‘democratic’ governments do NOT represent the people/majority, they serve powerful minority interests, the media plutocrats and oligarchs that placed them in ‘power’ though the real power rests with the oligarchs that install and depose national leaders like they change shirts, historical FACT! (full story)
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New bill Would Punish IT CEOs With Up to 20 Years Jail for Violating Consumer Privacy posted by Jake Johnson via jon, 2018-11-03 20:28:46
"There needs to be consequences when corporations don't protect your data. My bill will put reckless CEOs in jail if they lie about protecting your personal information." (full story)
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 Google's top Washington lobbyist to 'step down' posted by Steven Overly via stacey, 2018-11-03 19:18:45
Former Republican Rep. Susan Molinari is stepping down as the head of Google's Washington office at the end of the year, the company said today, a change in policy leadership that comes at one of the most politically fraught times in the company's history. (full story)
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 Amazon's Jeff Bezos Puts the Pentagon on His Monopoly Board posted by Jason C. Ditz via shirl, 2018-11-03 18:56:19
While employees at Google and Microsoft are wary of collaborating with the military, Amazon revels in it. (full story)
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 Losing Users: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Problems posted by Dr. Binoy Kampmark via james, 2018-11-03 18:33:46
His detractors and enemies have been waiting some time for this, but it must have given them moments of mild cheer. Facebook, the all-gazing, accumulating system of personal profiles and information, poster child, in fact, of surveillance capitalism, is losing users. At the very least, it is falling to that mild phenomenon in business speak called “flat-lining”, a deceptively benign term suggesting that the fizz is going out of the product. (full story)
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Four 'invisible countries' that could redraw the world map posted by Joey Watson via gayle, 2018-11-02 22:48:33
No matter where you are on the Earth's landmass, you are almost certain to be in a country. But what makes a country a country? (full story)
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Failed Political Systems/Governments Give Rise to Ultra-right Dictatorships posted by jake, 2018-10-30 20:32:39
Have we forgotten so soon that fascist dictators rise as a direct result of failed democracies? Hitler rose to power easily riding the tide of massive discontent, the German people were so desperate for positive change they willingly surrendered to a criminal fascist dictatorship, though it should be noted that Hitler did indeed improve the social circumstances of the German people, which social devastation was imposed by external allied powers post WWI. (full story)
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Information Overload and its Consequences posted by lex, 2018-10-28 20:43:51
The most notable of which are social myopia, tuning into info that only supports one’s views, dreams and illusions, and of course its consequence, social paralysis in the face of urgent required action, climate chaos for example. (full story)
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