Dave Kranzler — The Fake News Witch Hunt: McCarthy’s Red Scare Redux

You’ll note that I specifically single out Jeff Bezos. Bezos was quietly appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Innovation Advisory Board in July. The Board was formed in March 2016 to “focus on new technologies and organizational behavior and culture.” The Board has been asked to “identify innovative private-sector practices and technological solutions that the DoD could employ in the future.”

Clearly this is straight of Orwell’s playbook. It has behavioral modification and thought control seeping from every pore. It is a Deep State operation and Jeff Bezos is now part of the Deep State fabric.

This is Orwell’s Thought Police. The new “advisory board” is headed up by Google’s Eric Schmidt.…

I predict this PropOrNot movement, sponsored by the likes of Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, is going to succeed in shutting down the one ray of hope left for this country. Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post has taken the lead in this modern version of a McCarthyism “witch hunt” and the WashPo exemplifies the amount of political power and wealth being directed at suffocating the truth. It is Orwell’s playbook unfolding in front of us.

Sprott Money
The Fake News Witch Hunt: McCarthy’s Red Scare Redux

Dave Kranzler

How Connecting 7 Billion to the Web Will Transform the World: Judy Woodruff interviews Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Video and transcript.

PBS Newshour
How Connecting 7 Billion to the Web Will Transform the World
Judy Woodruff interviews Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Bonnie Kavoussi — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Defends Tax Dodge: 'It's Called Capitalism'

Google's chairman says he is "proud" of the way his company avoids paying taxes.

"It's called capitalism," Eric Schmidt told Bloomberg in a Wednesday article. "We are proudly capitalistic. I'm not confused about this."

"We pay lots of taxes; we pay them in the legally prescribed ways," he said. "I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate."

Bloomberg reported on Monday that Google avoided paying $2 billion in global income taxes last year by housing profits in Bermuda, which has no corporate income tax. Google already had been paying a 2.4 percent overseas tax rate through tax avoidance strategies, according to a 2010 Bloomberg report. Its overall effective tax rate was 22.2 percent in 2009.

The Huffington Post
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Defends Tax Dodge: 'It's Called Capitalism'
Bonnie Kavoussi

I thought Eric Schmidt was a smart guy. That was a very stupid thing to say.