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Owl: Micro Drones for Assassination – A New Equalizer Between 1% and 99%?

The New Equalizer – A Genuine Game Changer: Kamikaze Assassination Micro Drones The revolver was the great equalizer of the 19th and 20th centuries between individuals unequal in power or size, and perhaps, in the light of John Robb’s writings, guns of various kinds have been a great equalizer between guerilla fighters and much larger …

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Matt Taibi: The Divide – American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap — Legal Immunity for the 1%, Criminalization of Everything for the 99%

A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis   Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world’s wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one …

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SchwartzReport: Matt Taibbi on the Legal Divide — Two Justice Systems — Criminalization of Poverty Among the 99%, Impunity for the 1%

This is a very good interview with Matt Taibbi discussing what has happened to the American justice system. One of our myths is that we have the fairest justice system in the world but, like our fantasy that we have the world’s freest press, it is a delusion. As with the press we aren’t e! …

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SchwartzReport: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship on Government as a Protection Racket for the 1%

A democracy cannot long survive when its citizens perceive the government to be against their best interests Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP – Bill Moyers.com EXTRACT PewOur now infamous one percent own more than 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Meanwhile, the bottom 40 percent of the …

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Berto Jongman: Opportunity Cost of Peace $9.46 Trillion in 2012 –11% of Gross World Product Lost to War

How Much Is Peace Actually Worth? According to an emerging branch of economics, approximately $9.46 trillion. Talia Hagerty Pacific Standard, 22 April 2014 EXTRACT The most recent study published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) found that violence cost the world $9.46 trillion in 2012 alone. That’s 11 percent of gross world product. …

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