Today’s selected articles brought to you by Global Research focus on the impacts of state sponsored social and financial engineering: law enforcement, urban transformation, the control and manipulation of the news chain, the demise of pension funds, the abolition of cash.
SELECTED ARTICLES
By Robert Barsocchini, August 28, 2015
North Dakota has become the first state to approve government use of drones equipped with “less than lethal weapons”, including “rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers”.
Urban transformation…shapes mindset of locals, who as a result of non-participation in decision making related to transformations of their cities become disconnected from the city they live in. More construction projects aim to satisfy the demand of the businesses rather than the needs of the local population and overall aesthetic requirements. Such transformations make the local population a passive receiver of these changes, which eventually makes them inactive in other areas of local governance too.
The CIA and the Media: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know
By Prof. James F. Tracy, August 28, 2015
Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis. CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story–indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.
Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge
By Mike Whitney, August 28, 2015
Corporations are taking the retirement savings of elderly public employees and using them to inflate their stock prices so wealthy CEOs and their shareholders can enrich themselves at the expense of their companies. And it’s all completely legal.
Financial Times Calls For Abolishing Cash. “To Give More Power to Central Banks”
By Paul Joseph Watson, August 28, 2015
The Financial Times has published an anonymous article which calls for the abolition of cash in order to give central banks and governments more power.
