Elon Musk: Automation Will Force Governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income

Musk relayed concerns that autonomous technology will impact jobs, and he noted that we will likely have intelligent, massive-scale automation for transportation relatively soon—within the next few decades, in fact: “Twenty years is a short period of time to have something like 12-15 percent of the workforce be unemployed,” he said, pointing out the extent of … Read more

German newspaper rips Trump, calling him ‘unfit’ and ‘a danger to the world’

Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has … Read more

FBI probing attempted hack of Trump Organization, officials say – ABC News

On May 5, golf writer James Dodson told WBUR radio that Eric Trump had bragged to him that Trump golf courses “have all the funding we need out of Russia,” a statement Eric Trump later denied making. In 2008, Don Jr. told investors in Moscow that the Trump Organization had trademarked the Donald Trump name … Read more

Trump’s Hysterically Stupid Tweet Seeks Apology From Clinton For Something That Never Happened

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate? Just asking! 4:21 AM – 3 Apr 2017 The first laughably absurd observation about this drivel is that Hillary Clinton never received any “answers” to the debate. What Trump is ineptly attempting to reference is the allegation that Donna … Read more

It Took Donald Trump 8 Days To Bring The U.S. To The Brink Of A Constitutional Crisis | The Huffington Post

“Obedience to specific court orders is what keeps us from being a banana republic or fascist dictatorship. That’s a really big deal.” “Saturday’s ruling does not undercut the president’s executive order,” a senior White House official told NBC News midday Sunday in reference to the Brooklyn judge’s decision. “All stopped visas will remain stopped. All … Read more

WaPo Factcheck Attack on Sanders’ ACA Warning at Odds With Actual Facts | FAIR

The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that for every 455 people who gained coverage across several states, one life was saved per year. Applying that figure to even a conservative estimate of 20 million losing coverage in the … Read more

“Perverted” Sex with Russian prostitutes, kickbacks, bribes and other Trump follies revealed

we’re all doomed. Seriously. You can’t control, let alone govern a society in which the very idea of norms or standards is non-existent. In a way, it is the triumph of moral relativism. There is no right or wrong, but opinion makes it so. This, I believe, is the biggest challenge facing our world at … Read more