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Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Anti-Empire Report
Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
January 13, 2008
by William Blum
January 13, 2008
by William Blum
" ... No, I don't know what we should do about our leaders, except impeach them. The US electoral process which we're all suffering through right now, which feels like it's been going on non-stop forever, is replete with continual cries from the leading candidates about some kind of "change". Whatever can they mean? They mean nothing. And the media treats it all like some kind of horse race, a spectator sport. Is there any election system in this world as lacking in intellectual discussion, as hopelessly corrupted by money, and as undemocratic as the one Americans are blessed with? Where else in the world is the candidate with the most votes not necessarily the winner? (I'm not referring to fraud here. I mean legally.) If we could interview each and every American voter to determine exactly why they voted for a particular candidate, compared to what the actual facts are about that candidate, and the results were widely publicized, it would be such a national embarrassment the next election might be called off. What does winning an election mean other than that the sales campaign was successful? An outright auction for the presidency would be more efficient, and more honest. ... "
The Power Elite
“The long-time tendency of business and government to become more intricately and deeply involved with each either has, in the fifth epoch, reached a new point of explicitness.”
By C. Wright Mills
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=548
By C. Wright Mills
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=548
Microsoft's Big Brother-style software
" ... Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical well-being and competence.
The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolisms.
The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rates, body temperatures, movements, facial expressions and blood pressure. ... "