Lord James of Blackheath, House of Lords February 16 2012 Breaking news Lord James of Blackheath has spoken in the House of Lords holding evidence of three t... 
The agency apparently wants to create remotely operated bipedal machines that could perform some soldiering duties. Flying dragons not included. Read this blog post by Tim Hornyak on Crave. Walmart offers cheap goods, but from driving out competitors to expanding taxpayer subsidized healthcare, little good actually comes from this.
The Koch Cancer
* http://mydd.com/users/theyoungturks/posts/koch-brothers-destroyed-by-bloomberg-report * http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150520/you_thought_the_koch_brothers_were_bad_turns_out_they're_even_worse_than_you_thought/ * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbykzqJ6ens * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPSaCvVb4-g * http://www.thenation.com/blog/165077/koch-brothers-alec-and-savage-assault-democracy As Chomsky says, consent is a manufactured commodity. 
Income inequality is accelerating fastest at the top. Who are the 0.1%? 
The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, was chock full of speakers using hateful speech to describe liberals -- all while decrying "name-calling" by Democrats. Michael Hudson: Greek crisis used to find out how far finance can drive down wages and privatize... 
Wealth disparity has become pronouncedVisalia Times-DeltaLast week, the United States media took Gov. Mitt Romney to task and criticized his statement regarding the very poor Americans. 
A BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries found unemployment was the world's fastest-rising worry. The Nazis had the Herrenvolk – the master race. It didn’t work out for them so well. But if they’d been a bit slicker in their thinking, they would have done what we’ve done and touted the master culture – aka, the doctrine of American Exceptionalism. This is the notion not merely that We’re Number One – but that we are going to make you Number One, too. Everyone the world over is to be transformed – by force, if need be – into a member in good standing of Team Democracy. Which in practice means becoming a satrap of corporate interests, pledging allegiance to becoming the next “company town” in a string of company towns – with the ultimate goal being a world company town. Everything the same. Especially, the same financial institutions and the same system of debt-slavery, with periodic votes as to who will be the new massa – but never a real choice to exit or even fundamentally alter the system.
Ours includes these things, too. But there is also the extra needling of conversion. They must become like unto us. C.S. Lewis put it this way:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” |
Amazon.com: Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America (9781608462513): Writers for the 99%, A.J. As the presidential primary race has unfolded over the last few months, curious Americans have angled for a look at the candidates’ wallets—and observed that they are bulging. There’s Newt... 
Host Ira Glass speaks with an Apple device about its origin. (2 minutes) What's lost in this subtext is the responsibility of the lender. Yes, nobody forced Greece to borrow 200 billion euros (or whatever the true total may be), but then nobody forced the lenders to extend the credit in the first place. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the riches made monitoring the population and the pittance paid for agreeing to be monitored.... 
Frank VanderSloot, Romney finance co-chair, suppresses scrutiny by threatening reporters and bloggers... ![[With Liberty and Justice for Some] - C-SPAN Video Library | Concentration of Wealth == Existential Risk | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/R6AWy1nnQ8rzVFPK1DNlCDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Former constitutional rights lawyer Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the "haves" and one for the "have-nots." Mr. Nancy Pelosi talks with Jane Mayer 
Obama is promising new factory jobs that he can’t really deliver, with workforces shrinking. 
A growth market you should not ignore. Here is the technology you should be paying attention to. In these five industries alone there will be hundreds of millions of jobs disappearing. But many other sectors will also be affected. Certainly there’s a downside to all this. The more technology we rely on, the more breaking points we’ll have in our lives. Driverless drones can deliver people. These people can deliver bombs or illicit drugs as easily as pizza. Robots that can build building can also destroy buildings. All of this technology could make us fat, dumb, and lazy, and the problems we thought we were solving become far more complicated. We are not well-equipped culturally and emotionally to have this much technology entering into our lives. There will be backlashes, “destroy the robots” or “damn the driverless car” campaigns with proposed legislation attempting to limit its influence. At the same time, most of the jobs getting displaced are the low-level, low-skilled labor positions. Our challenge will be to upgrade our workforce to match the labor demand of the coming era. Although it won’t be an easy road ahead it will be one filled with amazing technology and huge potentials as the industries shift. |
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