Economist Intelligence Unit: Top 10 Threats to the Global Economy

China, Terrorism and Trump: The Top 10 Threats to the Global Economy A new assessment breaks down the biggest risks to international markets. China’s Economy Tanks Russia Sparks a New Cold War Currency Volatility Leads to Debt Crisis The European Union Cracks ‘Grexit” Breaks Up Eurozone President Trump Terrorism UK Leaves the EU Clash in …

Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics. Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016 In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) …

Ellen Brown: Hillary Clinton’s Libyan Agenda — It’s the Gold, Stupid!

Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical …

Robert Steele: Advanced Scale Computing — Probably Not in Our Lifetime…

Advanced Scale Computing – Probably Not In Our Lifetime Unless we embrace Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) In the ideal, Advanced Scale Computing (ASC) would be holistic – integrating all information across all disciplines, languages, domains, and modes of cyber space-time. ASC today does not integrate all measurements such as true cost economics (e.g. natural …

Daniel Araya: Chris Eliasmith on Reverse Engineering the Brain, Dangerous AI, and Universal Basic Income

Chris Eliasmith on Reverse Engineering the Brain, Dangerous AI, and Universal Basic Income My interview with Chris Eliasmith, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and head of the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of one of the world’s most realistic brain simulations (SPAUN), winner of the …

Owl: Explaining Trump — John Robb Plus UPDATE Evaluating Trump More Links

Donald Trump, Open Source Insurgent and Ball Buster of Oligarch Politicians So much has been written about Trump’s primary election campaign, the “Trump Phenomenon.” I have read in the last few months hundreds of articles trying to explain it, but so far nothing rivals the three articles listed below for deep insight and explanatory power. …