By Michael Kwet | CounterPunch | April 27, 2018 The recent Facebook and Cambridge Analytica fiasco deepened public concern about the political power and allegiances of Big Tech corporations. Soon after the story went viral, 3,100 Google employees submitted a petition to Google CEO Sundar Pichai protesting Google’s involvement in a Pentagon program called “Project Maven”. Last […]
By Mark Anderson
21st Century Wire
More advance notice than perhaps ever before has been given this year regarding where and when the infamous, highly secretive Bilderberg Group will next meet. Apparently, the “Bilderbergers,” as they’re often called, will return to Italy for the first time in 14 years, having last met there in 2004 in the city of Stresa.
Older phones, skull-shaped asteroids and gaming disorders + this day in history w/the sentencing of the Hillside Stranglers and our song of the day by Tricky on your Morning Monarchy for January 9, 2018.
In a surprise move, former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, is stepping down as executive chairman of the search giant’s parent company Alphabet amid reports that his personal life is being scrutinized. He says he will remain with the company as a technical advisor. An unnamed source said that the move would allow him to have a more “hands-on role” in developing artificial intelligence for defense. [...]
RT | November 21, 2017 Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced that his company will ‘de-rank’ RT’s articles online, calling them propaganda. Is he concerned for the integrity of news, or are his motives more partisan? The 62-year-old, with an estimated wealth of $11.1 billion, has never hidden his political […]
Vegas vacation, ousted critics and craving robocock + this day in history w/OJ acquitted and our song of the day by Four Tet on your Morning Monarchy for October 3, 2017.
In what critics are calling a “deeply troubling” indication of the power massive corporations have over ostensibly independent policy shops, New America—an influential Washington-based think tank—reportedly decided to oust a prominent anti-monopoly voice after he praised the European Union’s June decision to fine Google for “
(ANTIMEDIA) — In September of 2011, Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt testified before Congress that Google was not manipulating search results to favor its own shopping service (it was).
A town in British Columbia really, really want to inject GPS tracking devices into "prolific offenders"; would you like to play a game... of ‘Hack the Pentagon’?; and the head of Google is heading up US military "innovation".
For those of us who came of age sometime in the late 80s to early 90s the date October 21, 2015 has special significance in terms of both nostalgia and excitement. For those who don’t grasp the reference immediately this is the day that Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) travel to in the film Back to the Future 2. The purpose of the trip was to prevent Marty’s future son (also played by Fox) from taking part in an armed robbery that sends the McFly family on a downward spiral (Doc Brown having already taken the trip to the future and witnessed all this).
