The new bill says: "The President [...] in the event of an immediate threat [...] may declare a cybersecurity emergency; and may, if the President finds it necessary for the national defense and security, and in coordination with relevant industry sector
Abby Martin (The Empire Files)
The Empire Files takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, tells the untold people's history of resistance to it, and exposes the true nature of the U.S.-Saudi love affair. Watch more on teleSUR - October 3, 2015
THE ORIGINAL DOWNING STREET "MEMO" (PDF) (Plain Text) (Annotated)
MAJOR PLAYERS–who are the people present at this meeting?
THE OTHER DOWNING STREET MEMOS AND DOCUMENTS
"The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and--determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies--fixed the intelligence and facts. What has come to be known as the Downing Street Memos.
The global warming agenda is a desperate effort to gain greater control over our lives. Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) explained that “the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
That’s the political goal of the global warmers.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University
The legacy of the World War II effort to build the atom bomb is haunting the present and may still be wreaking destruction more than 70 years after two bom
by By Sounak Mukhopadhyay on June 24 2015, IBTimes: Chinese and Russian media have started suggesting the possibility of a China-U.S. war. While the national news agency in China calls it “inevitable,” a Russian news agency listed a number of indications that it said “proved’ the two nations were heading toward a military conflict.
Johnathan Davis and Etienne Uzac The news that Newsweek had been sold to IBT Media was received by most of the media world over the weekend as the final, clinching evidence of the magazine's abasement. To be handed off to a publisher that even most people in the news business had [..
"The study, conducted by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), finds that from 2000 to 2014, American workers’ total productivity increased 21.6 percent, while the median worker’s compensation, including pay and benefits, rose just 1.8 percent.
The new data continue a trend that goes back decades. From 1973 to 2014, "American worker productivity increased 72.2 percent while median worker compensation rose just 8.7 percent. From 1948 to 1973, by contrast, typical worker compensation and productivity grew at roughly the same rate.
And it’s not gender, age, income, race or religion.
By political scientist Matthew MacWilliams January 17, 2016
"So, those who say a Trump presidency “can’t happen here” should check their conventional wisdom at the door. The candidate has confounded conventional expectations this primary season because those expectations are based on an oversimplified caricature of the electorate in general and his supporters in particular. Conditions are ripe for an authoritarian leader to emerge. Trump is seizing the opportunity. And the institutions—from the Republican Party to the press—that are supposed to guard against what James Madison called “the infection of violent passions” among the people have either been cowed by Trump’s bluster or are asleep on the job."
"Authoritarianism is not a new, untested concept in the American electorate.
Since the rise of Nazi Germany, it has been one of the most widely studied
ideas in social science. While its causes are still debated, the political
behavior of authoritarians is not. Authoritarians obey. They rally to and
follow strong leaders. And they respond aggressively to outsiders,
especially when they feel threatened. From pledging to "make America great
again" by building a wall on the border to promising to close mosques and
ban Muslims from visiting the United States, Trump is playing directly to
authoritarian inclinations."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533
Now, he can say that a billionaire who refuses to unlock an iPhone to aid in the fight against terrorism on American soil, the House Speaker, Elon Musk, and none other than Karl Rove himself are secretly commiserating on an island at a lavish, neocon-hosted conference to stop America from exercising their right to choose the next President!
It would be difficult to craft a better narrative to tell working class Americans if you tried.