Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Prince ‘I-Didn’t-Party-Or-Do-PDAs’ Andrew
November 17th, 2019Maybe this is an attempt to portray him as being interested in adult women and not children??? Via: Daily Mail: Never-before-seen video footage showing a sweaty Prince Andrew being openly affectionate with a bevy of young women while partying in the late 2000s has been unearthed – just hours after his ‘car crash’ interview with […]
Prince Andrew’s Pizza Party Alibi: A Theory
November 17th, 2019Via: Reddit User stop4me_its_the_claw: Prince Andrew has now denied ever meeting 17 year old Virginia Roberts, as well as denying having sex with her, despite the photograph of him with Virginia with his arm around her bare midrif while Ghislaine Maxell lurks in the background. Prince Andrew bizarrely claims he was at a “pizza party” […]
Prince Andrew Interview: “It’s Like Watching a Man in Quicksand”
November 17th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: A public relations expert said the Duke of York’s interview over his links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was ‘like watching a man in quicksand’. PR and crisis consultant Mark Borkowski said Prince Andrew’s appearance on BBC Newsnight was a lesson on ‘how not to do’ public relations. The duke’s long-awaited appearance on […]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Automation Could Replace 800 Million Jobs by 2035
November 15th, 2019Via: Yahoo Finance: Some half of all jobs worldwide — or up to 800 million total jobs — could be at risk of becoming obsolete by 2035 due to the rise of automation. That’s the assessment from a new report written by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC) analysts highlighting 10 themes to watch for […]
Amazon Challenges Pentagon’s $10-billion Cloud Award to Microsoft
November 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it is contesting the Pentagon’s award of an up to $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft Corp, expressing concern that politics got in the way of a fair contracting process. The company filed notice last Friday that it will formally protest the decision on the Joint Enterprise […]
Medicines Pose Global Environmental Risk
November 14th, 2019Via: AFP: Residues from billions of doses of antibiotics, painkillers and antidepressants pose a significant risk to freshwater ecosystems and the global food chain, a new analysis said Thursday. There are growing fears that the unchecked use of antibiotics in both medicine and agriculture will have adverse effects on the environment and on human health. […]
The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion
November 14th, 2019Via: Common Dreams: The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published Wednesday by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public […]
The Newest Fake Meat Is Made from Thin Air
November 12th, 2019pHood! Via: FastCompany: Most plant-based meat, such as the Impossible Burger or the Beyond Burger, uses protein made from soy or peas. The newest meat alternative uses protein made from air instead, in a process that transforms CO2 into an ingredient with the same nutritional profile as the protein you find in animals. Air Protein, […]
Google Collecting Complete Health Histories on Millions of Americans
November 11th, 2019Unbelievable. Via: Wall Street Journal: Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold […]
Richest 1% of Americans Close to Surpassing Wealth of Middle Class
November 10th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The U.S.’s historic economic expansion has so enriched one-percenters they now hold almost as much wealth as the middle- and upper-middle classes combined. The top 1% of American households have enjoyed huge returns in the stock market in the past decade, to the point that they now control more than half of the […]
