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German Minister Seeks Jail Time, Fines In Criminal Crackdown Against Facebook “Fake News”
German Minister Seeks Jail Time, Fines In Criminal Crackdown Against Facebook “Fake News” With Facebook having announced last week the launch of measure to flag and eliminate fake news from appearing on its website, Germany does not think the process is fast enough, and according to Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas, German judges and state prosecutors need […]
The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media
The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media Official US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review, reveals that the US military plans to create […]
The Sleepwalkers Awaken
The Sleepwalkers Awaken A host on bubblevision this afternoon noted that the S&P 500 is now down $2 trillion for the year and wondered if his panel could explain “what’s happened since January 1st?” The implication, of course, was that since no new recessions have started—- nor have any new wars been declared, polar glaciers melted or Wall Street banks […]
Amazon And The Fantastic FANGs——A Bubblicious Breakfast Of Unicorns And Slippery Accounting
Amazon And The Fantastic FANGs——A Bubblicious Breakfast Of Unicorns And Slippery Accounting At year end we posted a rant about the “Brobdingnagian” bubble embedded in Amazon’s market cap. On December 29th it was valued at $325 billion and had gained $180 billion or 55% of that towering figure in just the previous 12 months. Self-evidently this was a flashing red warning signal that the end of the […]
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market. But of course the major […]
Deja Vu All Over Again
Deja Vu All Over Again Janet Yellen will increase interest rates for the first time in nine years on Wednesday. She isn’t raising them because the economy is strengthening. The economy just happens to be weakening rapidly, as global recession takes hold. The stock market is 3% lower than it was in December 2014, and […]
Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]
Fourth Turning–Social & Cultural Distress Dividing the Nation
FOURTH TURNING – SOCIAL & CULTURAL DISTRESS DIVIDING THE NATION I wrote the first three parts of this article back in September and planned to finish it in early October, but life intervened and truthfully I don’t think I was ready to confront how bad things will likely get as this Fourth Turning moves into […]
Ahead of Senate Vote, Edward Snowden Speaks Out to Stop CISA Surveillance Bill
Ahead of Senate Vote, Edward Snowden Speaks Out to Stop CISA Surveillance Bill @Snowden / Twitter As the U.S. Senate gears up for a vote on the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday, privacy advocates are galvanizing an 11th-hour push against the bill they say does nothing more than expand government spying powers. […]
Germany to investigate Google, Facebook data transfers to US
Germany to investigate Google, Facebook data transfers to US © Sigtryggur Ari / Reuters Data protection authorities in Germany have announced that they will review the legality of internet giants’ data transfers from the EU to the US, after the European Court of Justice ruled that Europeans’ data isn’t safe from intelligence services on US-based […]
Snowden leaks reveal harmfulness of US monopoly on internet – Russian minister
Snowden leaks reveal harmfulness of US monopoly on internet – Russian minister Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov © Vitaliy Belousov / RIA Novosti The NSA’s mass surveillance would not be possible if the internet wasn’t controlled by just a few major US companies, Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s communications minister, […]
Saudi Arabia Warns “Rumour-Mongers” on Facebook and Twitter Risk EXECUTION
Saudi Arabia Warns “Rumour-Mongers” on Facebook and Twitter Risk EXECUTION A specific moment from the biopic film, The Doors – starring Val Kilmer – took up residence in my subconscious years ago. In actuality, it’s two lines of slurred dialogue that randomly and subtly float into my thoughts as if they are propelled by hot air into the atmosphere. The scene depicts an inebriated Jim Morrison taunting an audience of […]
“It’s Over For Me” Matt Drudge Warns Public “You’re A Pawn In The ‘Ghetto-isation'” Of The Web
“It’s Over For Me” Matt Drudge Warns Public “You’re A Pawn In The ‘Ghetto-isation'” Of The Web The very foundation of the free Internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets, according to Matt Drudge. “I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge, warning web users […]
Tech Company Censorship – Apple Bans App Cataloguing Every U.S. Drone Strike; Facebook Blocks Ad for “Negativity”
Tech Company Censorship – Apple Bans App Cataloguing Every U.S. Drone Strike; Facebook Blocks Ad for “Negativity” One thing I’ve learned from my three and a half years of writing publicly on the internet, is you never know which posts are going to go viral. Nothing proves this point more than last week’s post, The UN […]
