‘Take that order and throw it the hell out’: Trump reportedly rails against campaign staff for telling surrogates to stop attacking judge ... Donald Trump advised prominent campaign surrogates to go after journalists who ask questions about a Trump University lawsuit and encouraged them to defend him against criticism of his comments about the US district judge presiding over the case....Read More
‘Irritation and anger’ may lead to Brexit, says influential psychologist ... British voters are succumbing to impulsive gut feelings and irrational reflexes in the Brexit campaign with little regard for the enormous consequences down the road, the world’s most influential psychologist has warned. Daniel Kahneman, the Israeli Nobel laureate and father of behavioural economics,...Read More
3 Signs of a Recession Janet Yellen Is Ignoring ... The Fed Chair's upbeat speech glossed over key warning signs. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was upbeat on Monday in a speech at The World Affairs Council, where she largely dismissed the negative implications of Friday's jobs report, which showed that the U.S. economy added just 38,000 new jobs, the worst monthly reading in nearly six years....Read More
We have Hillary all wrong: Americans hate a politician of the press' imagination. To her detractors, she’s either a bloodless automaton or the devil incarnate. Is it any wonder that she’s guarded? -SalonThis article posted at Salon suggests that much of the criticism aimed at Hillary occurs because she is not a man.As best we can tell, if we are properly following the article, Hillary'...Read More
‘Take that order and throw it the hell out’: Trump reportedly rails against campaign staff for telling surrogates to stop attacking judge ... Donald Trump advised prominent campaign surrogates to go after journalists who ask questions about a Trump University lawsuit and encouraged them to defend him against criticism of his comments about the US district judge presiding over the case....Read More
‘Irritation and anger’ may lead to Brexit, says influential psychologist ... British voters are succumbing to impulsive gut feelings and irrational reflexes in the Brexit campaign with little regard for the enormous consequences down the road, the world’s most influential psychologist has warned. Daniel Kahneman, the Israeli Nobel laureate and father of behavioural economics,...Read More
3 Signs of a Recession Janet Yellen Is Ignoring ... The Fed Chair's upbeat speech glossed over key warning signs. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was upbeat on Monday in a speech at The World Affairs Council, where she largely dismissed the negative implications of Friday's jobs report, which showed that the U.S. economy added just 38,000 new jobs, the worst monthly reading in nearly six years....Read More
Trump ... said he thinks the jobless rate is close to 20 percent and not the roughly 5 percent reported by the Labor Department. And, of course, Crudele reported, anyone who buys the 5 percent figure is a "dummy," according to Trump. This, in a nutshell, is typical of the usual economic conspiracy theories we have discussed in the past. -BloombergGood for Trump.The jobless numbers are actually par...Read More
What is memetic warfare and how it threats democratic values? ... One of the contributors of Defense Strategic Communications journal issued by NATO Stratcom COE, Jeff Giesea defines memetic warfare as "competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. One might think of it as a subset of 'information operations' tailored to social media. Information operat...Read More
Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria – You’ll Kill Our Moderates! ... The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria because Washington’s “moderate” rebels are fighting together with al-Qaeda in Syria and any attack on a...Read More
U.S. Set to Approve Moon Mission ... Commercial Space Venture Startup proposes to land payload of scientific gear on lunar surface some time next year. -Wall Street JournalSo now private trips to the moon are to take place.And yet, there is plenty of controversy regarding moon trips.A few years ago, various Chinese officials demanded a formal investigation into claims that the US even went to the...Read More
Trump ... said he thinks the jobless rate is close to 20 percent and not the roughly 5 percent reported by the Labor Department. And, of course, Crudele reported, anyone who buys the 5 percent figure is a "dummy," according to Trump. This, in a nutshell, is typical of the usual economic conspiracy theories we have discussed in the past. -BloombergGood for Trump.The jobless numbers are actually par...Read More
What is memetic warfare and how it threats democratic values? ... One of the contributors of Defense Strategic Communications journal issued by NATO Stratcom COE, Jeff Giesea defines memetic warfare as "competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. One might think of it as a subset of 'information operations' tailored to social media. Information operat...Read More
Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria – You’ll Kill Our Moderates! ... The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front in Syria because Washington’s “moderate” rebels are fighting together with al-Qaeda in Syria and any attack on a...Read More
U.S. Set to Approve Moon Mission ... Commercial Space Venture Startup proposes to land payload of scientific gear on lunar surface some time next year. -Wall Street JournalSo now private trips to the moon are to take place.And yet, there is plenty of controversy regarding moon trips.A few years ago, various Chinese officials demanded a formal investigation into claims that the US even went to the...Read More
June 6, 2016 - Chesapeake Gold Corp (TSXV: CKG | OTCQX: CHPGF) presented at the recent CleanTech and Technology ...Read More
Free Speech Isn’t Facebook’s Job ... My instinct as a First Amendment teacher is to be outraged at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft for knuckling under to European Commission pressure to ban hate speech on their platforms. But after sleeping on it, I think it’s fine. Here’s why: These social media giants are private actors, not the state. -BloombergWe disag...Read More
Musk: We intend to launch people to Mars in 2024 ... Elon Musk will send a mission to Mars without people on it - on the Flying Dragon version 2 rocket - starting in 2018 and launch a rocket headed there every 26 months. – CNBCElon Musk and Jeff Bezos believe that the final frontier of space will soon be penetrated.Musk (see excerpt above) intends to send people to Mars in eight years'...Read More
Free Speech Isn’t Facebook’s Job ... My instinct as a First Amendment teacher is to be outraged at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft for knuckling under to European Commission pressure to ban hate speech on their platforms. But after sleeping on it, I think it’s fine. Here’s why: These social media giants are private actors, not the state. -BloombergWe disag...Read More
Musk: We intend to launch people to Mars in 2024 ... Elon Musk will send a mission to Mars without people on it - on the Flying Dragon version 2 rocket - starting in 2018 and launch a rocket headed there every 26 months. – CNBCElon Musk and Jeff Bezos believe that the final frontier of space will soon be penetrated.Musk (see excerpt above) intends to send people to Mars in eight years'...Read More