If all goes according to plan, North Koreans will soon have free, uncensored Internet provided by satellites the size of toaster ovens. That's part of a project called Outernet, which hopes to launch hundreds of tiny satellites — known as CubeSats — to provide Internet to eve...
What else can we do with the $1.25 trillion we'll save by eliminating these obsolete financial middleman parasites? A lot.Technology has leapfrogged the banking sector, rendering it as obsolete as buggy whips. So why are we devoting 9% of our economy to an obsolete parasite? Fina...
To live in this age is an exciting time. The technological advances have accelerated communication around the world, and in effect, a shifting of resources to more sustainable alternatives continue to be implemented at an increasing rate.Who knew thirty or even fifty years ago th...
While President Obama and Congressional members have made an effort to convince their constituents that the provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act will never be used against citizens of the United States, the fact is that the laws clearly allow for the detention, ar...
If there’s one thing that’s certain about what’s happening in the world right now it’s that uncertainty is pervading every aspect of the global economy. From fabricated employment statistics and consumer spending reports to obscene levels of debt and a failing domes...
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed.The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."Now it tu...
We all know that the radiation from the stricken Fukushima plant has spread around the globe and is poisoning people worldwide. We all know that the West Coast of the United States is being polluted with radioactive debris and that the oceans, the beaches that border them, and ev...
On January 20, I wrote an article entitled “Upcoming Military Drill Off Limits To Reporters,” in which I reported on the announcement that South Carolina’s Richland County Sheriff’s Office would be engaged in joint training exercises with unidentified units from Ft. Bragg...
Coincidentally, all mainstream news organizations missed a piece of information that basically changed journalism as we knew it.Fark.com had to bring this one to our attention.On Friday, they linked to the blog page of CeaseSPIN.org, a website “dedicated to uniting voices in su...
The U.S. military's pursuit of killer robots continues to make the news, despite the concerns of major international human rights groups who have launched a campaign to stop the runaway development of robots for war. Cambridge University has even launched a "Terminator" study pro...
What was once thought to be a crisis actor, interviewed multiple times after the Boston Marathon bombings, appears to be a CNN Pentagon Correspondent posing as multiple different witnesses.Most people would agree that they would appreciate being able to trust their local and nati...
The “real” owners of the internet are having a meeting to discuss how they can successfully obtain complete governance over the World Wide Web.The US State Department (USSD), under the Office of International Communications and Information Policy (OICIP) with direction from t...