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“Technology can free people from wage slavery” – An Interview with Xavier Damman, Open Collective

So the internet so far is helping a lot of movements to exist but they cannot have economic power. Occupy Wall street is a good example of that compared to Podemos in Spain. The difference between them is that Podemos was able to turn the energy of the movement to a political party. To convince 85.000 to give them five dollars a month. And that makes the difference between a movement that’s gonna be ephemeral to a more established institution.

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Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run

WikiLeaks’ dump of messages to and from Clinton’s campaign chief offer an unprecedented view into the workings of the elite, and how it looks after itself

Yes, it’s all supposed to be a meritocracy. But if you aren’t part of this happy, prosperous in-group – if you don’t have John Podesta’s email address – you’re out.

Predicting Terrorism From Big Data Challenges U.S. Intelligence

• Connecting the dots from GPS, social media and other databases
• Privacy concerns may foil such moves: Ask Admiral Poindexter

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Hillary Told Bankers ‘I Favor Open Borders' in Speeches Leaked by Wikileaks

Among the emails was a compilation of excerpts from Clinton's paid speeches in 2013 and 2014. It appeared campaign staff had read all Clinton's speeches and identified passages that could be potentially problematic for the candidate if they were to become public.

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Open Power Electoral Reform @ Amazon

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RIGGED: Twelve Ways the Two-Party Tyranny Rigs the US Electoral System to Block Out Independents, Small Parties, and 70% of the Eligible Voters

DEPLORABLES RISING!: Trump Can Win with a Debt Jubilee and Electoral Reform

REVOLUTION!: How Donald Trump Can Win and Govern by Championing Electoral Reform, a Coalition Cabinet, a Balanced Budget, and a Constitutional Convention in 2018

Classics

A Fantasy: On The Seventh Day: How a Burning Babe and Lynn Rothschild Saved Democracy in America

Democracy Riots!: We are all black now – deal with it!

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“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex

The military-industrial complex “is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought,” says the retired US colonel

“Was Bill Clinton’s expansion of NATO — after George H. W. Bush and [his Secretary of State] James Baker had assured Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that we wouldn’t go an inch further east — was this for Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, and Boeing, and others, to increase their network of potential weapon sales?” Wilkerson asked.

“You bet it was,” he answered.

Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman.

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Legal Sidebar:How Can the Results of a Presidential Election Be Contested?

In the midst of the presidential campaign season, the possibility of election fraud has been raised. This discussion briefly examines how the results of a presidential election may be contested

Tip of the Hat to Stephen Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists.