Chris Hedges · Dan Boguslaw · The Chris Hedges Report
Investigative journalist Daniel Boguslaw uncovers collusion between law enforcement, Corporate America and academics to create new targets for the expanding US security state.
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How Trump Is Expanding the Definition of ‘Terrorism’ — and What It Means (w/ Dan Boguslaw)
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Is American democracy safe? | Martin Wolf on the US midterms
Martin Wolf · Robert Kagan · FT YouTube
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Apocalypse Now and Then
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
Arundhati Roy · Equator
The triumph of AI will be a crime against humanness. It will bottle our brains in formaldehyde. It will destroy the world as we know it. The men who promote it and profit from it are cognizant of this, and have already made arrangements to exit into another realm.
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“Terminate with extreme prejudice.”
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The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards
Tim Marchman · WIRED
Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”
“Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”
“We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.
Kennedy said that the change in standards had “really hurt the FBI.”
“Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked.
“We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.
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FDR: “government by organized money is just as dangerous as government organized by the mob”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936)
On the eve of his 1936 re-election, Franklin D Roosevelt told the American people they were fighting “business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, war profiteering … We now know that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government organized by the mob.”
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How Psyops ACTUALLY Work | Richard Hames meets Trevor Paglen (video)
Trevor Paglen · Richard Hames · Do Your Own Research
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Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump’s oligarchs
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic
this is just straight up corruption, oligarch pals of the President getting to roll up and gut the industry’s globally important, culturally essential media sector. The “teachers’ pets” of the Democratic Party have once again sold out working people in a bid to be liked by the rich and powerful
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And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
Kurt Vonnegut • The New Yorker
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!
—Kurt Vonnegut