Self-driving cars sounds great until you start to think about it. The results over robots taking jobs over has created a split in the scientific community. Forty-eight percent of respondents say that they will destroy more jobs than they create. Fifty-two percent have the opposing view
Facebook’s Gateway Drug
..to Silicon Valley’s question of “Is Internet access a human right?” one could respond by turning the tables: What kind of “Internet,” and what kind of “access”?
Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
“If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism,” says David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent.
RT @wikileaks: Google money spent on lobbying in DC now ranks above military giant, Lockheed Martin
Google entered the lobbying rankings above military aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, with a total of $18.2 million spent in 2012. Boeing and Northrop Grumman also came below the tech...
Google Wants Human Bodies, For Baseline Study
the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be.
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
“Because you appear on a telephone list of somebody doesn’t make you a terrorist. That’s the kind of information that gets put in there.”
Government agents ’directly involved’ in most high-profile US terror plots
Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says. "In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,"
US: Terrorism Prosecutions Often An Illusion
“.. take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”
If the crime doesn’t exist they have to invent
Police agencies coercing people into committing crimes so they can arrest them is not completely unheard of. (It's been used liberally to create the idea that the nation is crawling with Islamic terrorists.)