Democracy is devolving into fascism before our eyes, the "iron law of oligarchy" is once again asserting itself. You cannot have a concentration of vast wealth and Democracy at the same time, and we currently have the greatest concentration of wealth in history...

David DeGraw appeared on RT TV to discuss the Business Roundtable's latest attempt to gain control of the internet, Google News' censorship of his last report and the mainstream media's obvious efforts to ignore trillions in theft by the Wall Street elite.

For those of you who want to know what the internet will end up like when the Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner interests take it over, you need to look at this shocking new case of censorship by Google News.

The most significant bias in the mainstream media is not the liberal or conservative views propagated to divide, distract, confuse and create apathy among the populace; the ultimate bias is in what is missing from the coverage...

As of Thursday afternoon, Google has blocked our new report "The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society" from their search results.

When you read the headlines about "pay czar crackdowns" and "clawbacks" and "reining in pay," you should know that this whole Wall Street psychological operation is being run by the same man who sold us the Iraq war!

Here's the follow-up to our Wall Street Economic Death Squad video. The US middle class has been hit by an economic deathblow...

The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Goldman Sachs, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such a magnitude entails is left out of the mainstream media, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.

This week a new nail was driven into the coffin of the notion of journalistic objectivity. The culprit? The Washington Post’s leaked social media policy.

The public's assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.

Apple has launched a music-centered social network at iTunes and unveiled slick new iPod and Apple TV gadgets that promised to win the iconic company more devotees. Ping was built into iTunes 10 software made available as a free download at itunes.com. "It is sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said, referring to the world's top online social networking and microblogging services. Tags: Apple Tablet Social Media Music iPod

Federal regulators are seeking public input on what rules should apply to wireless Internet access and specialized services that aren't part of the Internet but are delivered over wired broadband connections. The move by the FCC marks the next step in the agency's long-running effort to adopt so-called "network neutrality" regulations to prevent broadband providers from discriminating against traffic flowing over their lines. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, as well as many big Internet companies, say these rules are needed to prevent phone and cable companies from abusing their control over high-speed Internet access to become online gatekeepers. Tags: Net Neutrality FCC

The news broke around 1 p.m. with a few sketchy details. Gunman. Shots. Hostages. Discovery building. Within minutes, there were photos, including an astonishing one of a man clad in shorts, carrying a rifle and stalking through what looked like an office courtyard. The news of a gunman at the Discovery Channel's headquarters in Silver Spring indeed traveled fast on Wednesday, but none of it came through radio, TV or newspaper Web sites, at least not at first. As it has with other breaking news events -- the landing of a jet on the Hudson River in 2009, the 2008 massacre in Mumbai -- the story unfolded first in hiccupping fits and starts on Twitter, the much-hyped micro-blogging service that has turned millions of people into worldwide gossips, opinion-mongers and amateur news reporters. Tags: Twitter Social Media

Advertisers don't like it. Analysts are unconvinced. The paywall at News International may not be winning many fans, but the man behind it is determined to keep it standing. Two months after Rupert Murdoch's decision to erect a subscription paywall around the websites of The Times and The Sunday Times, thus removing their content from search engines, the bold experiment is having a marked effect on the rest of British media. There are many who still wish the 79-year-old mogul well, hopeful that he is at the vanguard of a cultural shift that will save newspapers. Yet elsewhere there is dismay among analysts, advertisers, publicists and even some reporters on the papers. Tags: Murdoch Paid Content

Written and passed during FDR’s first term, the Communications Act of 1934 consolidated existing radio, television, and telephone regulations and created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to oversee all interstate and foreign communications. It was intended to streamline the regulatory process and expand affordable access to communication services." Tags: FCC Net Neutrality

Amazon.com Inc. is talking with major media companies about offering unlimited views of older TV shows and movies online, as it struggles to stay relevant to consumers flocking to Apple Inc.'s iTunes a la carte store and Netflix Inc.'s all-you-can-eat subscription plan. Amazon has approached several companies, including Viacom Inc., Time Warner Inc., and Sony Corp., three people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. They requested anonymity because the talks are ongoing." Tags: Web Video TV Amazon

Sony has apparently dusted itself off and is ready to take another crack at Apple's iTunes. Sony has plans to launch a music and video subscription service, according to a report in The Financial Times. The Japanese conglomerate is expected to announce the service Wednesday at a technology show in Berlin, just ahead of Apple's media event in San Francisco. According to the FT, "Sony would use its [Web-connected] PlayStation games consoles as the starting point for a new service that users will be able to use across a range of other Internet-connected devices. That could include Walkman music players, Vaio computers, Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players and Sony Ericsson mobile phones." Tags: Sony iPod Apple Tablet

Thomas Jefferson periodically expressed support for a free press as essential to an “enlightened citizenry,” but when the reality of political life settled on him during his presidency and beyond, Jefferson had harsh words for it. The newspapers, he complained in 1803, “present only the caricatures of disaffected minds.” In his “retirement” a decade later, Jefferson deplored the “putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.” The press’ capacity for mischief was ravenous, Jefferson complained. The media of the day, he said, were “like the clergy, [who] live by the zeal they can kindle and the schisms they can create.” " Tags: Media Bias

The catch with respect to the Facebook phenomenon is that we're all in there, even when we haven't signed up. The game is only apparently played within a restricted space. Facebook is not separated from the world. It influences it; models it; and it reflects the world's contradictions. Social networks even risk becoming more important than reality little by little. In becoming the antithetical mirror of our solitudes, they feed our narcosis, our artificial urge to dream reality rather than confront it: the time we spend in front of the screen is the time we no longer spend in the - now reputedly hostile - streets. The more the virtual contains pseudo-friends, the less reality supplies us with real ones. Users accustomed to the comfort of simulation have less and less courage and patience in nonvirtual situations. Yet, it's by forging that one becomes a blacksmith, not by watching - however beautiful it may be - the fire dance." Tags: Facebook Social Media

Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. The futurists at Darpa are working on a project that would make it harder for troops to funnel classified material to WikiLeaks — or to foreign governments. And that means if you work for the military, get ready to have your web, email and other network usage monitored even more than it is now. Darpa’s new project is called CINDER, for Cyber Insider Threat. It’s lead by a legendary hacker-turned-Darpa-manager. CINDER may have preceded Pfc. Bradley Mannings’ alleged disclosure of tens of thousands of documents about the Afghanistan war from Defense Department servers. But the idea is to find someone just like him. By hunting for poker-like “tells” in people’s use of Defense Department computer networks, Darpa hopes to find indications of indicate hostile intent or potential removal of sensitive data. “The goal of CINDER will be to greatly increase the accuracy, rate and speed with which insider threats are detected and impede the ability of adversaries to operate undetected within government and military interest networks,” according to the defense geeks’ request for contractor solicitations on the project." Tags: Hacking Cyberwar

It’s all there, clearly available in easy to read charts to help you see how their stock is performing. On the left side of the chart, there is a section to click on entitled, “ownership.” In the flash of a click, a display of ownership appears of the company I used to work for: ABC News. This information is mandated by laws designed to insure accountability and protect investors. The first category is “Major Direct Holders.” At the top of the list is a former ABC News executive, Robert A. Iger who owns 850,790 shares [Eight Hundred Fifty Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety]. Under him are other biggies who were given or helped to buy stock, allegedly to incentivize them. These holdings complement and add to their already generous salaries. In truth, it’s all a form of looting of the shareholder value. Often these execs have more clout than the boards of directors they theoretically report to. Sometimes, it only takes a small percentage of shares to wield control. Together these insiders and what are called, 5% owners, own 7% of Disney, but exert disproportionate influence. The next category on the chart is Institutional and Mutual Fund owners. They control 68%. And who are they? Fidelity, State Street Corporation, JP Morgan Chase and Company, Price T Rowe Associates, etc. etc." Tags: Media Mergers Economic Death Squad Media Bias

Internet service providers often tell their clients that they offer “bullet-proof hosting.” Whistle-blower organization Wikileaks, it seems, will settle for nothing less than “bomb-proof.” Some portion of Wikileaks’ servers have been moved to the “Pionen” White Mountains data center owned by Swedish broadband provider Bahnhof, as first reported by Norwegian news site VG Nett last Friday. That data center will store Wikileaks’ data 30 meters below ground inside a Cold-War-era nuclear bunker carved out of a large rock hill in downtown Stockholm. The server farm has a single entrance and is outfitted by half-meter thick metal doors and backup generators pulled from German submarines–fitting safeguards, perhaps, for an organization that raised the ire of several powerful military forces last month when it released thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents." Tags: whistleblower Cyberwar

Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is suing nearly a dozen major companies, including tech giants Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC. Interval said Friday it filed the suit in a U.S. District Court in Seattle against the companies. In addition to Google and Apple, the defendants named in the suit are: Facebook Inc., eBay Inc., Yahoo Inc., Netflix Inc., AOL Inc., Office Depot Inc., OfficeMax Inc., Staples Inc. and Google-owned YouTube LLC. Interval owns patents from Interval Research, which was a technology research and development company that Allen started with David Liddle in the early '90s." Tags: Google Microsoft

Despite previous assurances by federal agencies that images from body scanners were not saved or recorded, fears of indiscriminate scanner use rise as the US Marshal Service admits that it stored more than 35,000 body scan images collected from a security checkpoint. First discovered by a Freedom of Information Act request sent to the agency by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a civil liberties group, the stored images of body scans were taken from February 2010 through July 2010 at a Florida courthouse during the testing of the machines." Tags: TSA Civil Liberties

It seems crazy to need to write this, but I will: It’s not polite to use a BlackBerry or iPhone at the table. Ever. It’s bad manners, because you are neglecting your dining partners. (I’d rather see people talk with their mouths full. At least then they’re engaged in the conversation.)" Tags: iPhone Media Consumption

Google is reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a pay-per-view streaming movie service on YouTube by year's end. The search engine giant has been in talks about the service for months, but is intensifying its efforts in light of expected announcements from Apple this week regarding Apple TV, as well as the continued growth of Netflix, according to the Financial Times. "Google and YouTube are a global phenomenon with a hell of a lot of eyeballs – more than any cable or satellite service," said one executive with knowledge of the plans told FT. "They've talked about how many people they could steer to this...it's a huge number." " Tags: Google You Tube Web Video Paid Content

In a piece for Foreign Affairs, the publication of The Council on Foreign Relations, Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III paints a picture of dire threat to American infrastructure, disclosing for the first time details of a devastating cyber-attack on U.S. infrastructure. While not giving many specifics, Lynn described how malicious code on a USB thumb drive managed to spread across the Department of Defense network, establishing a "digital beachhead" that could siphon key data. "It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary," he wrote. "This previously classified incident was the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever, and it served as an important wake-up call. The Pentagon's operation to counter the attack, known as Operation Buckshot Yankee, marked a turning point in U.S. cyberdefense strategy."" Tags: Cyberwar Council on Foreign Relations Net Neutrality Hacking

While the fierce 3PAR bidding war is becoming even more exciting than a live Sotheby auction, the most active market sector in terms of consolidation is undeniably Technology, and there is a reason for this wave of M&As. At the forefront of any analysis it is always important to follow the money. This is the real driver of this trend that has been going on for the past year, and will only intensify over the next four months. So, who has all the money in the world to spend on major technology purchases? The answer would be large corporations and big governments with both the money and need to cut costs to be more efficient and productive through more advanced technology infrastructure. " Tags: Media Mergers

"AVG, a security company, has ranked the top ten riskiest places for people to browse the web, as measured by users' likelihood of being attacked by malicious viruses. AVG explains that its list of the riskiest nations is based on data collected from "AVG's vast user network, spanning 100 million PCs in 144 countries." It's based a week's worth of data: AVG says to compile its list, it tracked the number of worldwide Internet attacks, as well as the frequency with which AVG was installed, during the last week of July. Given that AVG is in the Internet security business, and the limited timeframe of the research, the rankings should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt. Check out the rankings in the slideshow below, then see the most dangerous celebrities to search online." Tags: Hacking

Social news aggregator Reddit.com today agreed to host for free advertisements from marijuana advocacy group Just Say Now, after Conde Nast, the site’s parent company rejected all marijuana legalization display ads. The Reddit community revolted to the censorship, with hundreds of users saying they’d turn on “ad blockers” to deny Reddit and Conde Nast ad revenue. After several hours of pressure from community members, Reddit issued a statement to its community and challenged its parent company’s decision. “Reddit made the right choice to support an open discussion of marijuana legalization,” said Michael Whitney, one of the organizers of Just Say Now, a joint effort of Firedoglake.com and Students for Sensible Drug Policy to organize in support of marijuana legalization initiatives, “While Conde Nast and Facebook think it’s OK to censor marijuana legalization, Reddit knew it was more important to embrace a discussion of the issue, even if it meant foregoing advertising revenue.” Tags: Censorship marijuana Legalization advertising