Some are whining about President Trump's statements about his power to pardon.
Here is what the US Constitution specifies:
Article II, Section 2
1: The President shall ... have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
So he CAN pardon anyone, but not himself if he is impeached.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo remains inconsolably hostile toward whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, insisting they are a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and are plotting to “take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end.”
Hostility to WikiLeaks has been a mainstay in the US government, as every administration faces the prospect of their covert misdeeds becoming a matter of public record, to their general embarrassment albeit rarely to the end of any meaningful reform.
You can read the rest @
http://theantimedia.org/cia-chief-wikileaks-plotting-to-take-down-america/
I think the phrase "hostile intelligence service plotting to take down America any way they can and find any willing partner to achieve that end" applies more to the CIA than to Wikileaks.
The CIA is NOT acting in the best interests of We The People. Wikileaks, on the other hand, appears to be doing just that.
What do you think?
Do you remember those Amazon jobs I mentioned a month ago?
“Associates will be stationed at ergonomic work stations and when customer orders come in, the robots will bring the inventory to them at the work station, where an associate will pick the item off a shelf and put in a tote and get sent off to packing,” explains Ashley Robinson, spokesperson for Amazon Operations.
Source - http://kxan.com/2016/05/31/amazon-looking-to-fill-1000-new-jobs-in-san-marcos/
Well, it looks like they may be VERY short lived:
Robot developers say they are close to a breakthrough - getting a machine to pick up a toy and put it in a box.
It is a simple task for a child, but for retailers it has been a big hurdle to automating one of the most labor-intensive aspects of e-commerce: grabbing items off shelves and packing them for shipping.
Several companies, including Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudson’s Bay Co. and Chinese online-retail giant JD.com Inc., have recently begun testing robotic “pickers” in their distribution centers. Some robotics companies say their machines can move gadgets, toys and consumer products 50% faster than human workers.
& & & & & & & &
Until recently, robots had to be trained to identify and grab each item, which is impractical in a distribution center that might stock an ever-changing array of millions of products.
Automation companies such as Kuka AG, Dematic Corp., and Honeywell International Inc. unit Intelligrated, as well as startups like RightHand Robotics Inc. and IAM Robotics LLC are working on automating picking.
You can read the rest @
https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-leap-for-robots-picking-out-and-boxing-your-online-order-1500807601
Organisms become "extinct" when they no longer can adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Technology has enabled rapid, unstoppable changes with which humans do not and cannot cope.
We are, in effect, rapidly headed toward extinction.
And NO Jeff Bezos is not going to help us colonize the solar system. What would be the point, other than raising us like cattle to sell to some E.T. buyers with a taste for human flesh?
This time last week, the Russia sanctions bill was floundering in the House, with efforts by the Republican leadership to tack on sanctions against North Korea complicating matters. Today, House Democrats say a deal has been reached on the matter.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – MD) reported that the deal will allow for “sweeping” sanctions against Russia, and will also include sanctions against both North Korea and Iran. Officials express hope the deal will be finalized before the August recess.
You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/07/22/congress-reaches-deal-on-sweeping-russia-sanctions/
The US has only one method for coping with conflict - war.
It should be clear from the past century that the US decides to go to war LONG before "official" hostilities occur. Once the decision is made, the deep state maneuvers the organs of the actual state to make war inevitable.
This FACT puts the lie to the "free markets" swill we keep hearing in the MSM. There ARE no free markets; for should we ever find one, we would go out of our way to destroy it.
Of the many myths that befog the modern political mind, none is so corrupting of the understanding or so incongruent with historical fact as the notion that the wealthy and the powerful do not conspire.
They do.
They conspire continually, habitually, effectively, diabolically and on a scale that beggars the imagination. To deny this conspiracy fact is to deny both overwhelming empirical evidence and elementary reason.
Source - http://www.globalresearch.ca/hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war/5600090
A federal Homeland Security law enforcement officer was assigned to Metro transit patrol as part of a beefed-up security plan for the busy Fourth of July weekend.
He didn’t like what he saw.
Late in the afternoon on July 4, the officer walked into the North Hanley MetroLink substation to find 12 St. Louis County police officers milling about. A resulting Metro check of video footage determined that not only were county police officers loitering in the North Hanley security office instead of patrolling trains or platforms, at one point they covered the security camera with an envelope and tape.
You can read the rest @
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-caught-on-camera-st-louis-county-cops-cover-their/article_9789e796-f617-5e6d-ad19-765104543318.html
All of them should be fired.
On the other hand, maybe it's better they stay in the office. It's the officers on patrol who are needlessly killing innocent people in several states.
