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The Rise of American Fascism. Fascism Part II: The Rise of American Fascism by - May 15, 2004.

The Rise of American Fascism

Elizabeth Warren - Wikipedia. Warren is an active consumer protection advocate whose scholarship led to the conception and establishment of the U.S.

Elizabeth Warren - Wikipedia

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She has written a number of academic and popular works, and is a frequent subject of media interviews regarding the American economy and personal finance. Following the 2008 financial crisis, Warren served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Libertarian socialism - Wikipedia. Libertarian socialism (or socialist libertarianism)[1] is a group of anti-authoritarian[2] political philosophies inside the socialist movement that rejects socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy.[3] Past and present political philosophies and movements commonly described as libertarian socialist include anarchism as well as autonomism, Communalism, participism, guild socialism,[27] revolutionary syndicalism and libertarian Marxist[28] philosophies such as council communism[29] and Luxemburgism[30] as well as some versions of utopian socialism[31] and individualist anarchism.[32][33][34][35] Overview[edit] Libertarian socialism is a Western philosophy with diverse interpretations, though some general commonalities can be found in its many incarnations.

Libertarian socialism - Wikipedia

Noam Chomsky is one of the most well-known contemporary libertarian socialist thinkers Anti-capitalism[edit] John O`Neil argues: Women's March Is Reinforcing Divide, Critic Says. Is the Women's March on Washington inclusive?

Women's March Is Reinforcing Divide, Critic Says

US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns. America's score fell to 7.98 last year from 8.05 in 2015, below the 8.00 threshold for a full democracy, the EIU announced in a report on Wednesday.

US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns

That put the world's largest economy on the same footing as Italy, a country known for its fractious politics. A flawed democracy is a country with free elections but weighed down by weak governance, an underdeveloped political culture and low levels of political participation, according to the EIU. Other flawed democracies in 2016 included Japan, France, Singapore, South Korea and India, the report said. The American government's growth has been severed and we need to take a cue from biology to revive it : C_S_T.

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Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Portland, Oregon. I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn to another protest that happened here in the Northwest on Saturday. This was farmworkers leading an international day of action calling for a boycott at Driscoll’s, the largest berry distributor in the world. Bernie Sanders' Long History With Alternative Medicine. On the day of his crushing victory in the New Hampshire primary, 74-year-old Bernie Sanders shot hoops with his grandkids.

Bernie Sanders' Long History With Alternative Medicine

He has a good mid-range shot. Boom. Boom. Boom. He sank it every time. Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think (City Lights Open Media): Ralph Nader: 9780872867055: Amazon.com: Books. Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics? - Motherboard. The tech industry has talked long and hard about democratizing industries.

Could Technology Remove the Politicians From Politics? - Motherboard

Democratizing content, democratizing taxi-cabs, and democratizing bed and breakfasts. But what about democratizing democracy? Gizmodo. Get ready for the robot propaganda machine. This article was taken from The WIRED World in 2015.

Get ready for the robot propaganda machine

Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Humanity has been advancing the field of propaganda for as long as we've been at war or had political fights to win. But today, propaganda is undergoing a significant change based on the latest advances in the fields of big data and artificial intelligence. Center for Technology & Civic Life. Don't Send Bottled Water. US authorities distorting tests to downplay lead content of water. How PBS sold its soul to a billionaire donor - latimes. John D.

How PBS sold its soul to a billionaire donor - latimes

Arnold testifies in Washington in 2009. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated…) A few days ago the Public Broadcasting Service announced it was returning a $3.5-million grant it had received from a Texas billionaire to fund a series of documentaries about the "pension peril" -- the costs to cities and states of their public employee retirement obligations. PBS took the action after a report in the tech news website PandoDaily exposed the conflict of interest underlying the original donation.

291 - Federal Lands in the US. The rough beauty of the American West seems as far as you can get from the polished corridors of power in Washington DC. Until you look at the title to the land. The federal government owns large tracts of the western states: from a low of 29.9% in Montana, already more than the national average, up to a whopping 84.5% in Nevada. This map, depicting the distribution and share of federal land per state, was first published on this blog way back in 2008. Nevertheless, it keeps accumulating comments and hits at a steady pace, and is still frequently shared around.

Unlike hundreds of other random maps, this one has become a perennial. Alaska State Judge Anna Maria Riezinger (Anna Von Reitz), November 28th. On November 28th, 2015, Alaska State Judge Anna von Reitz (Anna Maria Riezinger) addressed an open letter to all federal agents, including the FBI and US Marshals to arrest Congress, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury. She goes into incredible detail on the fraud that has been committed. Anyone who reads this is sure to learn at least something. Below is the text and you can open the original pdf here. This has been encouraged to be shared widely. Anna Maria Riezinger (Anna Von Reitz)

Anna von Reitz. It Just Got More Risky to Violate Swiss Bank Secrecy - MoneyBeat. Bloomberg News ZURICH—The penalties for whistleblowers and others breaking Switzerland’s fabled bank secrecy laws just got more severe. Starting on Wednesday, those convicted of profiting from violating the secrecy laws—say, by selling a disk full of information about foreign Swiss bank clients to keen foreign tax authorities—face up to five years in prison.

EU & Switzerland ink historic agreement to end Swiss banking secrecy — RT Business. Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority. Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is the Swiss government body responsible for financial regulation. This includes the supervision of banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges and securities dealers, as well as other financial intermediaries in Switzerland. FINMA is an independent institution with its own legal personality based in Bern.[2] It is institutionally, functionally and financially independent from the central federal administration and the Federal Department of Finance and reports directly to the Swiss parliament.

FINMA is called German: Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht, French: Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers, Italian: Autorità federale di vigilanza sui mercati finanziari. Anne Héritier Lachat was Chairwoman of the Board of Directors from 2011[3][4] until January 1, 2016[5] when Thomas Bauer, former Ernst & Young partner became Chairman.[6] History[edit] How Reddit took on its own users – and won. Halfway through 2015, one of the largest white supremacist communities on the internet was closed down. The Boy Who Could Change the World. Millennials Want To Send Troops To Fight ISIS, But Don't Want To Serve.

Welcome. The Real Nuclear Danger. The Real Nuclear Danger. Geo-engineering: Climate fixes 'could harm billions' Geoengineering: How to Cool Earth. Where’s the justice in geoengineering? (This post is based on a lecture given earlier today at the SRM Science conference in Cambridge) Geoengineering. Geoengineering commonly refers to Climate engineering. Geoengineering may also refer to: Geological engineering, a hybrid discipline that comprises elements of civil engineering, mining engineering, petroleum engineering, and earth sciencesEngineering geology, the application of the geological sciences to engineering studyGeotechnical engineering, the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materialsGeophysical engineering, the application of geophysics to the engineering design of facilities including roads, tunnels, and mines.

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Occupation of the Dominican Republic. Rafael Trujillo. 'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg (with subtitles) - HQ. Geolibertarianism. NATO. 1033. The Open Secret - Charles Eisenstein. CokeWatch.org. Skolnick - Oklahoma City Bombings...A Split In The FBI? Gov News Release: AIR FORCE C-21 CRASH. Has The War Begun? Sherman H. Skolnick (1930 - 2006. Our nonmagical modern world as the biggest magical trick ever…

Conspiracy/Paranoia/Esoterics. David Wilcock. CHAPTER 11: GLOBAL GRID II: HYPERDIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS IN PLANETS. Water fluoridation. Here's How to Get it Out of Your System. It Makes People Dumb, Docile, and Sick – Microsoft Word - Cocacola-CIA.doc - cocacola-cia.pdf. GeoengineeringWatch.org.