[ Because in order to kill other people for a living (or maybe even for a college education) – you first have to have someone help you to dehumanise others and someone to help you de-individualise yourself This sets you up for all kinds of life problems – later on […]
Fascism
Source: sott.net Comment: Damning new evidence came to light last month that clearly implicates the Blair government in covering-up the murder of British scientist Dr. David Kelly. And this month it was announced that the UK’s Attorney General would investigate a dossier submitted by a former KGB agent, now resident […]
The internet is an intellectual jungle, where lies and liars are quickly exposed and savaged. That is the new reality. This is survival of the fittest, which means survival of the most accurate, where winning by spending enough money to force people to believe as they are told to believe […]
Source: wired.com The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter […]
[ Wot ? ] An investigation has been launched in response to allegations by two Muslim students that they were banned from boarding a London bus because of their veils. The two Muslim students claim that the driver of a Metroline bus refused them entry onto the bus, claiming they […]
[youtube]d2bCIspDbHs[/youtube] This is what ethnic cleansing looks like in 2010. These peaceful people have been living in the Negev Desert since the Ottoman Empire. Israel destroys a whole Negev Village — 200 Children left Homeless. The villagers, mostly children and old people, were left stunned near the destroyed village, shelterless […]
Al Jazeera English Interesting show this one, caught an episode today where they were discussing the need for a global government, like it was no big thing… yikes. I’ll endeavour to post it when it makes it into the “pipes and dump-tucks” of internet land. Here is a good intro […]
The thousands of US officer reports from Afghanistan appearing on Wikileaks yesterday show how technology can imperil a military’s secrecy and operations. But there is another side to that relationship. The technologies used by militaries to kill by remote control, which are becoming increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, are transforming warfare. […]
It’s been one lie after another in the US media about the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound relief flotilla. No matter that the Israeli media views the whole incident as a debacle for Israel, in this country the Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd is on overdrive defending the operation. As usual, facts don’t […]