the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Garry Glass discusses how advances in automation are disrupting class relations. Part 4 - Universal Basic Income Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the proposition of a new social contract whereby states essentially print money and give it to citizens in order to keep money circulating through the economy. This is also known as a negative income tax. Jobs for all was a slogan of organised labour yet under Capitalism unemployment is a necessary part of maintaining an abundance of cheap labour. UBI is surely an advance on the current system of welfare where people are forced into the humiliation of pretending to be actively seeking employment in a labour market where there is often not any meaningful work. UBI is being hailed by many on the left as a progressive measure, which when compared to workfare and austerity it undoubtedly is, yet UBI citizenship is little more than an allegiance to a system of rationing. With higher unemployment comes the loss of the barga

International rating agencies, closely monitoring the situation in the UK, have warned the country’s creditworthiness faces a downgrade after the Conservative Party’s failure to win a majority in Thursday’s general election. globinfo freexchange The sentence above describes perfectly the true nature of the so-called 'invisible' markets that supposedly act independently. The global financial mafia is focused on the UK for the moment because of the unexpected rise of Jeremy Corbyn. The Socialist 'threat' hangs above one of the key financial centers of the planet and the elites have one more serious reason to remain in alarm mode. So, as RT reported, “ International rating agencies, closely monitoring the situation in the UK, have warned the country’s creditworthiness faces a downgrade after the Conservative Party’s failure to win a majority in Thursday’s general election. According to the agencies, the UK’s election result could delay nego

Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed that the company is working on developing its own brand of self-driving cars, a rare insight into the tech giant’s secretive auto industry plans. Apple’s ‘Project Titan’ – the firm’s code name for its car project – has been a source of speculation for some time. Now, however, Tim Cook has finally offered some insight, suggesting to Bloomberg that the company is focused more on self-driving technology than building a full car. “ Clearly, one purpose of autonomous systems is self-driving cars – there are others. And we sort of see it as the mother of all AI projects, ” Cook said. “ It’s probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on. So autonomy is something that is incredibly exciting for us. " More: https://www.rt.com/viral/392109-apple-car-project-titan/

A US military convoy in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province was hit by a roadside bomb earlier today, with Pentagon officials quick to insist that no one was wounded in the incident. Three civilians, however, two of them children, were killed in the immediate aftermath. The US troops responded to the bomb hitting their vehicle by getting out and firing indiscriminately, according to Afghan police, who say that the US gunfire killed a brickworker named Ziyar Gul, and two of his children, both 10-year-old boys. A third son who was present at the scene survived, running to get help, though by the time he returned everyone else was dead. Relatives say this is the second time US troops have killed members of this family in the past 12 months, as during an incident last year US troops killed another four members of the family, including Ziyar’s 6-year-old son. Though Afghan officials publicly confirmed the incident, the Pentagon insisted they had heard no

A South Korean military source has said that a suspected drone of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which was found last week near the east inter-Korean border, spied on the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) deployment site in southeast South Korea. According to an unnamed South Korean military official cited by local media outlets on Tuesday, the drone took hundreds of pictures, including about 10 photos of the THAAD site, with an embedded camera. The photos, taken by the drone camera, included those of two mobile launchers and the radar of the U.S. missile shield that were installed on April 26. Two THAAD mobile launchers and the AN/TPY-2 radar as well as other equipment were transported on the day to the site, or a golf course at Soseong-ri village in Seongju county, North Gyeongsang province. The Seongju county is some 270 km south of the military demarcation line (MDL) that has divided the two Koreas since the three-year