The troll's saboteurs have told staff at the Department of Agriculture not to use the term "climate change". They have been ordered to say "extreme weather" instead.

Ironically, the reason they used the term "climate change" is that denialist officials appointed by Dubya told them to say that instead of "global warming".

Everyone: call on banks not to fund the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Transhumanist technologies that can enhance individuals, in the context of a society organized by extreme capitalism that makes most people choose between all-out competition and abandonment, would tend to become oppressive and effectively compulsory.

Blackwater Founder's "Disturbing" Plan to Privatize Afghan War Gains Ground.

Some Americans, such as truck drivers, dare to start to think about retarding "progress" in automation that they see will benefit the rich and harm most everyone else.

However, they don't dare to propose strong measures adequate to the task, because they are afraid of the stigma of the term "Luddite": a stigma against saying that technology should be or servant rather than our master. They are afraid to propose that we limit technology for people's good.

All we need, to stop driverless trucks and driverless cars from putting millions of Americans out of work, is a state law in some important state to prohibit them. While we're at it, let's make Uber treat its drivers as employees and give them the benefits of employees.

If this means Uber disappears, good riddance! That will put a crimp in massive surveillance.