Archive for the 'Books' Category
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery
January 11th, 2016Building a refinery for Hitler? *pfft* How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Also see: Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: New York Times: The father of the billionaires Charles […]
Michael Hand Found Living in the United States
November 14th, 2015Via: Sydney Morning Herald: One of Australia’s most wanted fugitives, Michael Hand, the co-founder of the Sydney-based international merchant bank Nugan Hand, has been found alive and well and living in small-town America. He vanished in 1980 amid rumours of CIA and organised crime involvement in the bank as the United States attempted to back […]
Apple Boss: Next Generation of Children ‘Will Not Know What Money Is’
November 11th, 2015Well, most adults don’t know what money is, so… I’ve maintained for years that the whole thing isn’t cashless already because of the drug trade being run by intelligence agencies. I don’t know how officially sanctioned “illegal” drug trafficking will work in a cashless system. Maybe they will implement some sort of blockchain thing that […]
Genetic Modification of Human Embryos
September 9th, 2015I just read about this in, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom and the implications are very wild and potentially terrifying, especially in terms of social engineering. Via: BBC: It is “essential” that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, says a group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts. A Hinxton Group report […]
How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over
March 16th, 2015Via: The New York Review of Books: Here is what that future—which is to say now—looks like: banking, logistics, surgery, and medical recordkeeping are just a few of the occupations that have already been given over to machines. Manufacturing, which has long been hospitable to mechanization and automation, is becoming more so as the cost […]
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public by Steven M. Druker
March 9th, 2015Via: Amazon: This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, […]
The Snowden Avalanche
December 25th, 2014Cryptogon reader Derek Swannson let me know about his new book: The Snowden Avalanche.
Congressman Suggests Moat Around White House
November 21st, 2014I just finished reading, Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle, so I naturally have to suggest that the regime should build a trace italienne for itself. By the way, I only recommend Wolf in White Van for older nerds who also enjoyed The Stranger by Albert Camus. You’ll find yourself internally screaming, “Why!?” If […]
Are the World’s Religions Ready for E.T.?
October 1st, 2014Via: Vanderbilt University: Realization that the nature of the debate about life on other worlds is about to fundamentally change led Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy David Weintraub to begin thinking seriously about the question of how people will react to the discovery of life on other planets. He realized, as Einstein had observed, that people’s […]
Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?
September 13th, 2014My money would be on nukes. How about, superintelligent machines somehow in control of nukes? Via: Reason: In Frank Herbert’s Dune books, humanity has long banned the creation of “thinking machines.” Ten thousand years earlier, their ancestors destroyed all such computers in a movement called the Butlerian Jihad, because they felt the machines controlled them. […]
