Elizabeth Warren says the U.S. economy is rigged. Many conservatives agree.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has built a sizable political profile – including the requisite presidential speculation – by espousing a simple idea: that the system is “rigged” against average Americans. And you might be surprised who agrees with her: A whole bunch of conservatives.
Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10KFor the new issue of Forbes Magazine I wrote an article about David Crane, the visionary CEO of NRG Energy . When I met Crane for lunch a couple weeks ago, no sooner had we sat down than he began singing the praises of this new contraption he had in his basement.
Facebook mind control experiments linked to DoD research on civil unrestReuters / Dado Ruvic Facebook’s experiment on over half-a-million unsuspecting users has taken a new twist with the revelation that a researcher connected to a Department of Defense-funded program to use the military to quell civil unrest also participated in the study.
Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov’tWASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court (30%) and Congress (7%), and a six-year low for the presidency (29%). The presidency had the largest drop of the three branches this year, down seven percentage points from its previous rating of 36%.
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?This is a story about the future. Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It’s the one where computers keep getting smarter and smarter, and clever engineers keep building better and better robots.
New world economic order a goal at G77+China summitBan spoke to a vast audience that included some 30 heads of government and representatives of more than 100 nations, about two-thirds of the world’s countries. The destiny of billions of poor people and the state of the planet depends on their work, Ban told the group.
Government control emerges as central issue at ICANN meetingWhat level of control governments should exert over the Internet emerged early in ICANN’s meeting this week as a primary sticking point, with the representative from France advocating for more state control and the U.K. arguing for less. More than 3,300 representatives from around the world have descended on London to discuss what will happen after the U.S.
Russell Brand: ‘Fanatical, terrorist, propagandist’ Fox News is ‘more dangerous than ISIS’ (VIDEO)Comedian Russell Brand condemned Fox News as a “fanatical terrorist propaganda organization” during a heated, 10-minute tirade recorded on video and uploaded to the web this week. The 39-year-old British stand-up comic-turned-actor is now making headlines for the video footage, which was uploaded to his personal YouTube channel on Tuesday this week under the title: Is Fox News More Dangerous than Isis?
Preview: The Lies That Lead Us to WarAs the exploding crisis in Iraq spotlights once again the tragic record of American policy in the Middle East, Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis, whose new book, 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity details the many government falsehoods that have led us into the current nightmare.
Battlefield USA: American police ‘excessively militarized’ – ACLU studyAFP Photo / Timothy A. Clary Inheriting both the weapons and the mindset of the US military, police are becoming militarized and ‘hyper aggressive’ in their approach to maintaining security on the streets of America. New study calls on police not to treat people as ‘wartime enemies’.
Putin’s aide proposes anti-dollar alliance to force US to end Ukraine’s civil warSergey Glazyev, the economic aide of Vladimir Putin, published an article outlining a plan for “undermining the economic strength of the US” in order to force Washington to stop the civil war in Ukraine. Glazyev believes that the only way of making the US give up its plans on starting a new cold war is to crash the dollar system.
Iraq crisis: Sunni caliphate has been bankrolled by Saudi ArabiaSo after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and Raqqa in Syria – and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.
WikiLeaks publishes ‘secret draft’ of world trade agreementWikiLeaks has published what it calls “the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex,” apparently covering 50 countries and most of the world’s trade in services.
The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spyRobert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it’s a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core.With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence and training, Steele’s exemplary career has spanned almost all areas of both the clandestine world.
Presbyterian Church votes to divest in protest of Israeli policiesJohn Moore / Getty Images / AFP The Presbyterian Church has narrowly voted to move forward with divestment in various companies in protest of Israeli policies toward Palestinians. The group has now become the most prominent in the US to endorse some form of divestment.
Utah county follows Cliven Bundy’s lead, refuses to recognize federal agenciesUtah’s residents have had a contentious history with the federal government when it comes to public lands. Now one county in the state has taken things a step further, passing a resolution refusing to recognize federal agents.
‘Welcome to Police Industrial Complex’ – former Philly commissionerDangerous, alienating, and sociopathic: the policy of arming police to the teeth with military-grade gear shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how crime is solved and what it means for a cop to walk the beat, former Captain Ray Lewis told RT. Nine-foot tall, 55,000 pound, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored-fighting vehicles rolling through the streets of America.
Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military and Media FreedomFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – WHEN I chose to disclose classified information in 2010, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. I’m now serving a sentence of 35 years in prison for these unauthorized disclosures. I understand that my actions violated the law.
Americans fared better after Great Depression than today | Al Jazeera AmericaThe economy is improving – or so headlines tell us almost every day. But is that true? The answer to that question depends on the time frame used for comparison, whether inflation is taken into account and how you measure improvement.