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Americans wake up to the rigged economy and meaningless elections; Wall Street answers the phone when you dial 911; and the social engineers plan food riots.

Americans wake up to the rigged economy and meaningless elections; Wall Street answers the phone when you dial 911; and the social engineers plan food riots.

By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam | June 27, 2016 Executives from Google and Facebook have faced enormous political pressure from forces as diverse as Pres. Obama himself to the Israel Lobby, to rid their sites of Islamist content. Over the years, videos portraying ISIS beheadings have outraged the public (though not on YouTube or […]

Social customs, electronic persons and activist drops + this day in history w/Franz Ferdinand and our song of the day by Aesop Rock on your Morning Monarchy for June 28, 2016.

By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | June 25, 2016 The web’s biggest content providers have started using automation to remove “extremist propaganda” videos from their sites. Censoring Content YouTube (owned by Google) and Facebook are among the sites deploying systems to block or rapidly take down Islamic State videos and other similar […]

The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the Mother Church of the Paulist Fathers in Hell’s Kitchen, proudly celebrated diversity in this post-Orlando exhibition of solidarity.

On Monday, Google’s mobile site, as well as its iOS and Android apps, introduced a feature designed to help users find more relevant information on medical symptoms. You don’t have to enter a specific symptom to get information; you can look up something as vague as “my stomach hurts.”

That about sums up my feelings. I will not try and compete with your own disgust or claim that I’ve somehow tapped into a greater appreciation of the horror than you have. I’m not for pithy hashtags or filters. I don’t send thoughts and prayers out as I’ve never understood what that even mean. What I do is try and dissect the issues and apply a healthy dose of critical thinking to a horror that’s been coopted by every faction and ideological mob. the usual suspects.

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21st Century Wire

If you wanted a thoughtful and intelligent race, pick another one. This isn’t the one. This is about yelling and screaming and irrelevancies. Inapposite and inconsequential nonissues that mimic relevant considerations. Too much heavy lifting. Beyond our pay grade. Too deep and complicated. We’re done with it. We’re through. We like easy topics and stories and issues. Like Chewbacca Mom or the plight of elegant and majestic apes that we’ve penned and caged for our amusement that are gunned down while unattended kids enter prohibited regions. Pick northern election.