Aldous Huxley Describes The Ultimate Revolution | DisinformationIf we were in fact drawing closer to the scenario he describes fifty years ago, what would the drug in question be? Aldous Huxley, speaking at U.C. Berkeley in 1962, outlines his vision for the ‘ultimate revolution’, a scientific dictatorship where people will be conditioned to enjoy their servitude, and will pose little opposition to the ‘ruling oligarchy’, as he puts it.

‘We’re Going to Have a Crisis’: David Stockman’s Stark Warning for AmericaDavid Stockman, formerly a leading conservative Reaganite, now blames some of the economic program that he once supported for the 2008 meltdown and sluggish recovery. But liberal Democrats who may be excited about a Stockman defection will be sorely disappointed: His critique of the Obama economic program is just as strong as what he says about his erstwhile friends in the Republican Party.

The People’s BankHow did deep-red North Dakota end up with the nation’s most populist financial institution?

Special Report: How the Fed fueled an explosion in subprime auto loansCredit: Reuters/Marvin Gentry 1 of 2. Jeffrey Nelson poses with his truck in rural Walker County in Alabama March 28, 2013. Money was tight last year for the school-bus driver and neighborhood constable in Jasper, Alabama, a beaten-down town of 14,000 people. One car had already been repossessed.

‘You must own a gun’: Georgia town passes mandatory firearms law – RT USAA small southern American town makes the Second Amendment right of US citizens to bear arms an obligatory duty. Welcome to Nelson, Georgia, a rural town about 50 miles (80 km) north of Atlanta that passed on Monday the ‘Family Protection Ordinance’, which requires the head of each household to own a gun and ammunition.

Living With Less. A Lot Less.I LIVE in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner, I pull out my extendable dining room table.

Hot Money BluesWhatever the final outcome in the Cyprus crisis – we know it’s going to be ugly; we just don’t know exactly what form the ugliness will take – one thing seems certain: for the time being, and probably for years to come, the island nation will have to maintain fairly draconian controls on the movement of capital in and out of the country.

Top Pentagon thinker bemoans “civilian subjugation to the military.”Blistering charges of misplaced power and a morally bankrupt culture in the nation’s “military-industrial complex” are rarely leveled by one of the defense establishment’s own. But that is exactly what an instructor of the military’s rising stars lobbed on Tuesday when he very purposely engaged in friendly fire at a defense budget conference co-hosted by the Cambridge-based Project on Defense Alternatives.

Spike in law enforcement assassinations raises fearsThe Easter weekend assassination of a Texas prosecutor highlights a growing concern about targeted attacks on law enforcement authorities. It’s a fear one Texas police officer shared with Yahoo News. He and his family spent the past holiday season essentially in hiding after learning his name was inked on a white supremacist gang’s hit list.

Women’s Press ” Blog Archive ” Losing my religion for equality…by Jimmy CarterAnd to think that the population of the U.S. have continued to revile this incredible man, long after the military establishment torpedoed him, and left Americans to be helped by the Canadian Ambassador, instead of doing their job! What a humanitarian, what an intellect!

‘Challenging the dollar’: Bitcoin total value tops $1 billion – RT NewsAlready bigger than many sovereign currencies, Bitcoin has broken the $1 billion in value mark this week. In the wake of continuing economic crises and liquidity shortages, this new virtual currency is poised to challenge the euro and US dollar.

Was the Iraq War to Grab Oil … Or to Keep It Off the Market?U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, 4 Star General John Abizaid, Fed boss Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bush speechwriter David Frum, key war architect John Bolton, and a high-level National Security Council officer all say that the Iraq war was about oil.

Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead – Media ChannelVeteran journalist Greg Mitchell is claiming an assigned piece he wrote for the Washington Post that outlined the failure of the media (including the Washington Post) in reporting on the lead-up to the Iraq War was killed by editors, who then ran a piece by Paul Farhi that defends their coverage instead.

Direct Democracy – Origin of the speciesONE HUNDRED YEARS ago Hiram Johnson, one of the most consequential governors in California’s history, called a special election. Johnson was a leader of a movement called Progressivism that reacted to America’s industrialisation by demanding women’s suffrage, direct election of United States senators (originally chosen by state legislatures) and other expansions of democracy.

Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief – Telegraph“If we want to have a healthy, sound financial sector, the only way is to say, ‘Look, there where you take on the risks, you must deal with them, and if you can’t deal with them, then you shouldn’t have taken them on,'” he said.

The Cyprus Bank Battle: The Long-planned Deposit Confiscation Scheme | News Beacon IrelandThe push to confiscate the savings of hard-working Cypriot citizens is a shot across the bow for every working person in the world, a wake-up call to the perils of a system in which tiny cadres of elites call the shots and the rest of us pay the price.

Big Sis Refuses To Answer Congress On Bullet PurchasesDHS staying mum as members probe for explanations Steve Watson Infowars.com Mar 21, 2013 UPDATE: 14 Members of Congress Demand Investigation of Obama’s Ammo Horde Speaking at CPAC with Infowars and We Are Change reporter, Luke Rudkowski, Congressman Timothy Huelscamp revealed this week that the Department of Homeland Security has refused to answer questions from “multiple” members of Congress regarding its recent purchase of huge amounts of weapons and ammunition.

The State of the News Media 2013The State of the News Media 2013 is the tenth edition of our annual report on the status of American journalism. The study contains special reports on how news consumers view the financial struggles of the industry and how the local, cable and network TV news landscape has changed in recent years.

1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation – ForbesArmored Personnel Carriers in Baghdad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Denver Post, on February 15 th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo , so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition.

Above the lawYet last week Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for the administration with an alarmingly casual nonchalance, traduced the whole notion of a nation of laws. First, the attorney general responded to Sen. Rand Paul’s inquiry as to whether the president claimed the “power to authorize a lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S.