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AI is on it’s way and the Military will be using it first?

By ⋅ December 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Robotics coming to warfare is a mostly obvious topic from following the increased use of unmanned drones in “Targeted Killings” and surveillance, along with the ability to defuse a bomb remotely through the use of robotics etc. etc. – the presence and dexterity of real life robotics in use in war and industry is evident. [...]

Thank You Mask Man by Lenny Bruce

By ⋅ February 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The film was completed in 1968. Its audio is derived from a recording of Bruce’s routine. The short was made by San Francisco-based company Imagination, Inc. and directed by Jeff Hale, a former member of the National Film Board of Canada. After years of saving a small town, its population is angered that The Lone [...]

Obama reaches out to US Chamber of Commerce

By ⋅ February 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

“A tiger doesn’t change it’s stripes and the U.S. Chamber is not going to start working for the President’s agenda,” and “are the largest lobbying group in the country, to put this in perspective, they are bigger than the next five combined, and number two, for the record, is Exxon-Mobil. They’re HUGE!” and “they are [...]

Tony Bruman from Al Jazeera, begs the question: USA censorship on a big scale?

By ⋅ January 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Al Jazeera is available in Canada now, thanks to a grassroots effort to make it so. You don’t need to love the program, or even watch it, to feel that some form of wide scale, highly visible and excepted censorship is going on in the USA when a big legitimate news service is denied access [...]

Amend the Constitution – Corporations are not human in the same way as my neighbor Bob

By ⋅ November 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting movement –

Don’t let AIDS gain more ground. Creative ad: human ball

By ⋅ October 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Don’t let AIDS gain more ground. Everyone must have access to treatment.

Robert Fisk: The Terror of Power and the Power of Terror

By ⋅ October 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

National Radio Project [audio: http://digitalmeme.com/audio/MakingCon_101013_Ax.mp3]

Max Keiser interview w/ Ellen Brown: what is money?

By ⋅ October 11, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Are the elite financiers behind BIG capital pushing austerity measures to protect the dollar value of the huge bailouts they received? We’re good, now you bear the brunt of the pain? On the larger scheme of things, does money as it is now make any sense? or has it been hijacked by a Las Vegas [...]

BBC series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ introduces reasons behind the cult of fear

By ⋅ October 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The what why and how to of propaganda. The Power of Nightmares, this is first episode in a three part BBC series that explores the logic behind promoting nightmare scenarios as a means of uniting a nation behind an agenda, as a means of power and control, and as a tactic that tends to engulf [...]

Another Wakeup Call – Manfred Max-Neef

By ⋅ September 22, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Chin up people – poverty is less corrupted by greed. One positive to look forward to. Social networks and creativity prosper in poor communities. Dogma and greed in rich communities? Manfred foresees a quickening approach to an ultimate barrier to things as usual. Apparently some people in his orbit of friends and colleagues even see [...]

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