The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored - Conor Friedersdorf. Reuters Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres.
Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this? ," he asks incredulously. "Has this president broken the law, lied under oath, or authorized war crimes? An Obama critic, having overplayed her hand, gave Sullivan an opening to respond with what amounts to, "It isn't as bad as Watergate, nor as bad as George W. I have a stronger critique.
To see what he's forgotten as a result, let's run once more through the first questions in Sullivan's latest Obama apologia. Has this president broken the law, lied under oath, or authorized war crimes? Yes, President Obama has broken the law on multiple occasions. Obama also violated the War Powers Resolution, a law he has specifically proclaimed to be Constitutionally valid, when committing U.S. troops to Libya without Congressional approval. The bottom line. A Universe Not Made For Us HD: Carl Sagan on religion, geocentrism [Carl Sagan Tribute Series] What do you think about the Technological Singularity? : PhilosophyofScience. Science Stunner: Observations Support Predictions Of Extreme Warming And Worse Droughts This Century. By Joe Romm "Science Stunner: Observations Support Predictions Of Extreme Warming And Worse Droughts This Century" “Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections,” concluded a new analysis by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
And that “higher temperature rise would produce greater impacts on society in terms of sea level rise, heat waves, droughts, and other threats.” Obama: An Authoritarian Corporatist. By Leif Brecke Civil Liberties “Reporters Without Borders has released its annual World Press Freedom Index and the United States fell 27 points to No. 47 on the list.
100 million to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate. Uh-oh, the Rise of the Machines Is for Realsies. Lannan Foundation: Glenn Greenwald discussing WikiLeaks. When creative machines overtake man: Jürgen Schmidhuber at TEDxLausanne. 911 Best Vid Ever.avi. Why we should be concerned (and I am) Glenn Greenwald gives Boardman Lecture *Audio Now Available*
Mark Ames: The One Percent’s Plan for the Rest of Us – Livestock to be Milked for “Rent” Stuff worth seeing again. Attorney General Holder defends execution without charges. In a speech at Northwestern University yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder provided the most detailed explanation yet for why the Obama administration believes it has the authority to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution by the CIA without even charging them with a crime, notifying them of the accusations, or affording them an opportunity to respond, instead condemning them to death without a shred of transparency or judicial oversight.
Judge Napolitano.How to get fired from Fox Business in under 5 mins. Life is Fragile by Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens and Neil deGrasse Tyson. THE HUMAN MACHINE MERGER: ARE WE HEADED FOR THE MATRIX? Most viewers of The Matrix consider the more fanciful elements–intelligent computers, downloading information into the human brain, virtual reality indistinguishable from real life–to be fun as science fiction, but quite remote from real life.
Most viewers would be wrong. As renowned computer scientist and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil explains, these elements are very feasible and are quite likely to be a reality within our lifetimes. To be published in Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (Ben Bella Books, April 2003). Published on KurzweilAI.net March 3, 2003. Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally. Chris Hedges on the rise of the corporate class. f.s. Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation - Johann Hari - Commentators. By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.
9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon. Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid. Jewish Rabbis Debate Sam Harris & Christopher Hitchens: Life after death. Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. William McDonough on cradle to cradle design. The Cato Hypocrisy. Eckhart Tolle - The Flowering of Human Consciousness - CD1. Being No One. Sean Carroll on the arrow of time (Part 1) Jeff Hawkins on Artificial Intelligence - Part 1/5. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions. Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture. Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy. The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Jay. QUESTION: Professor Chomsky, perhaps we should start by trying to define what is not meant by anarchism -- the word anarchy is derived, after all, from the Greek, literally meaning "no government.
" Noam Chomsky - The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism, Part 1. The Xtremes: Subversive Recipes for Catastrophic Times. "In just a few short months, we’ve witnessed people power in action.
From the Middle East to the Midwest, movements have risen up to overturn tired dogma and challenge entrenched power. Many of us were inspired by these events. And many of us were surprised. Perhaps we were growing skeptical that people power could still work. "Yes, we are talking about a Revolution" -Tim DeChristopher. Scientist Proves Thermite Was Used in 911 WTC Controlled Demolition. David Ray Griffin - Let's Get Empirical. Civil Liberties Under Obama. Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class. Reich: How Unequal Can America Get ? The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality. (updated below) It was first reported in January of last year that the Obama administration had compiled a hit list of American citizens whom the President had ordered assassinated without any due process, and one of those Americans was Anwar al-Awlaki.
No effort was made to indict him for any crimes (despite a report last October that the Obama administration was “considering” indicting him). Despite substantial doubt among Yemen experts about whether he even had any operational role in Al Qaeda, no evidence (as opposed to unverified government accusations) was presented of his guilt. The Quiet Coup - Magazine. The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States.
One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD.
The 11th Hour. With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed.
Podcasts » Glenn Greenwald, Talk, 8 March 2011 – Video. Psywar Video. An Unreasonable Man. The Corporation, Corporations Destroying The Planet deprogram on USTREAM. Politics. Inside Job. The documentary. Online. For free. Why We Must Ration Health Care. Status Anxiety - Part 1.