Liberty under threat?
Bryce Edwards | NZ Herald | 14 Sept 2014 Will tomorrow’s Dotcom/Greenwald Moment of Truth revelations about state surveillance in New Zealand actually change anything in the lead up to polling day? Should the public really be concerned about this issue? Do any of the allegations amount to an ‘abuse of power’ or an attack…
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
Ron Bailey | Reason | 12 Sept 2014 In Frank Herbert’s Dune books, humanity has long banned the creation of “thinking machines.” Ten thousand years earlier, their ancestors destroyed all such computers in a movement called the Butlerian Jihad, because they felt the machines controlled them. Human computers called Mentats serve as a substitute for…
Investors pull £17bn from UK as banks ratchet up Scottish independence pressure
The Telegraph | 12 Sept 2014 Investors have pulled money out of the UK at the fastest pace seen since the financial crisis of 2008 amid fears that Scotland will break away from the Union, triggering a broader political crisis. Net flows out of Britain hit $27.3bn (£16.8bn) in August, the highest seen since Lehman…
Obama’s ISIS War is Not Only Illegal, it Makes George W. Bush Look Like a Constitutional Scholar
by Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg | September 13, 2014 Rudderless and without a compass, the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing – Andrew J. Bacevich, the Boston University political science professor and former Army colonel who lost his son in the Iraq war in 2007, in a recent Reuters article. I have spent the…
The Weather Channel is losing viewers to global warming and other pointless programming
9/11 Was Created by CIA, Neo-Cons
Javad Arab Shirazi | Fars News | 13 Sept 2014 “9/11 was brought to us by the CIA, and the Neo-Cons in the Department of Defense (most of whom were from Project for the New American Century), which believed that, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a unique historical opportunity for the…
Breaking the last taboo – Gaza and the threat of world war
John Pilger | 11 Sept 2014 “There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.” For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated…
The Geopolitics of World War III
Storm Clouds Gathering | September 12, 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3tINgWfQE?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] The real reason Russia and Syria are being targeted right now. Related posts: Strange Unnamed Clouds Appearing All Over The World Russia, Europe, USA and fundamental geopolitics The Mike Brown Shooting What You’re Not Being Told Former Russian Gen: Russia Is ‘Defending The Entire World From Fascism’…
Humans to be farmed for drug testing
by Christina Sarich | Natural Society | September 12, 2014 Developers of artificial micro-humans, or ‘mini GM humans,’ are hoping to release their technology on the market by 2017. No this isn’t a sci-fi joke. Scientists are developing artificial humans in the same vein as GM plants with the hope that these creations will replace…