Anytime you turn or do anything - someone may be watching & is trying to make a buck off you. I see this as a beginning. Will your ISP soon be watching you? Or are they already? At what point do we say we want the damn internet back and some privacy too?

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Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV" by Sapna Maheshwari.

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Book: The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience by Jeremy Rifkin.

Article: "Private prison investors set for giant windfall from Trump tax bill" by Jamiles Lartey.

Article: "Anarchy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oligarchy" by Wikipedia.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Article: "Narcissism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sen. Bob Corker will not run for re-election in 2018" by Michael Collins.

Article: "Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate" by Dan Nowicki.

Article: "The Truth About the Wounded Knee Massacre" by Patti Jo King.

Article: "The Yield Curve as a Leading Indicator" by Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Article: "Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Billy Bush" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own" by Matthew Rosenberg And John Markoff.

Article: "Stephen Hawking's Six Wildest Predictions From 2017—from A Robot Apocalypse To The Demise Of Earth" by Dana Dovey.

Article: "A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted" by Donald G. Mcneil Jr.

Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "Gini coefficient" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of countries by income equality" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London in association with The Equality Trust.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Article: "Update: Will Trump Be Impeached Or Resign?" by Mark Taylor Canfield.

Video: Mark Taylor-Canfield.

Article: "Can Trump Pardon Himself? Explaining Presidential Clemency Powers" by Charlie Savage.

Article: "Can the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes" by Charlie Savage.

Article: "December 29 is the Anniversary of Wounded Knee" by John Christian Hopkins.

Article: "Ghost Dance" by Encyclopædia Britannica.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "China Breakthroughs: Pay it forward on cashless society" by Qian Ding.

Article: "China takes the lead in launching facial recognition payment for commercial use" by China Daily.

Article: "Enabling Act of 1933" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "Trump Says Russia Inquiry Makes U.S. ‘Look Very Bad’" by Michael S. Schmidt, Michael D. Shear. "Another reason that I’m going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes"

Article: "CBS CEO: “...may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS”" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young" by Ellen Brown.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau.

Article: "Three-Fifths Compromise" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steady-state economy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why We Need a Universal Basic Income" by Keri Leigh Merritt.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Book: Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759.

Book: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth.

Video: The Outdated Origins of Neo-Liberalism. It's Time to Move On (w/Guest Kate Raworth).

Site: "The Venus Project".

Video: Future by Design (2006) Official Full Movie.

Article: "Transcript of Obama Redistribution of Wealth Audio" by Barack Obama, October 26, 2008. "generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties".

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review)

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857

Article: "CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity" by Lena H. Sun and Juliet Eilperin.

Article: "US federal department is censoring use of term 'climate change', emails reveal" by Oliver Milman.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Can We Indict a Sitting President?" by Susan Low Bloch.

Article: "New solar-powered highway opens in China" by Euronews.

Site: Paula Jean Swearengin.

Article: "Is punishment as effective as we think?" by Hokkaido University.

Article: "Prisoner's dilemma" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision" by Thom Hartmann

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Article: "'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read" by Tegan Bennett Daylight.

Book: A Sentimental Journey & Journal to Eliza by Laurence Sterne.

Article: "Perception management" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Power of Nightmares" by Adam Curtis.

Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Article: "Republicans' tax bill could trigger a $25 billion cut to Medicare" by Tara Golshan.

Article: "PAYGO" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Donald Trump Signs Historic Tax Cut Bill; Offers Pens to the Media" by Charlie Spiering.

Image: "Republican Jesus" by RDTdaily.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Site: Public Citizen

Article: "The Uncanny, Frightening Ways That Trump's America Mirrors Hitler's Germany" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Only Nonviolent Resistance Will Destroy Corporate State" by Chris Hedges.

Article: "Norwegian resistance movement" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Darkest Hour".

Quote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" - Karl Marx.

Article: "'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses" (Redmap) by David Daley.

Article: "California Citizens Redistricting Commission" by Wikipedia.

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