Archive for the 'Elite' Category
9/11: What 17 Years of Lies Have Done to Us
September 12th, 2018Via: Richard Dolan:
Decentralisation: The Next Big Step for the World Wide Web
September 9th, 2018Via: Guardian: The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?
TRUMP THREATENS TO PULL U.S. OUT OF WTO
August 31st, 2018Via: Bloomberg: President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the U.S. better, targeting a cornerstone of the international trading system. “If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News. Trump said the […]
To Understand America’s Neofeudal Economy, Start with Extortion
August 28th, 2018Via: Of Two Minds: Let’s spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height of feudalism, and imagine we’re trying to get a boatload of goods to the nearest city to sell. As we drift down the river, we’re constantly being stopped and charged a fee for transiting one small fiefdom […]
Dan Rather: What Mueller Knows Will Make Cohen/Manafort “Pale By Comparison,” “Stay Tuned”
August 25th, 2018When Rather says, “We’re in a kind of political theater of the absurd now,” I think he’s right! Talk of impeaching Trump, as Bill and Hillary Clinton walk free, is pretty absurd. Via: Real Clear Politics: Dan Rather warned Wednesday night that if you think Tuesday was a shock with the Cohen guilty plea and […]
Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy
August 24th, 2018The article mentions a Russian, “Troll factory.” How about American troll factories? Here’s what the U.S. Air Force wanted back in 2011: Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a […]
A Milestone in Afghanistan
August 22nd, 2018Via: Ron Paul Institute: Sometime late next year, possibly as early as September, news crews will gather in Afghanistan for a unique event: To interview an American serviceman or woman who was not born when the war they are fighting began. He or she will not remember 9/11, and will have grown up with the […]
Robots Can Effectively Brainwash Children
August 22nd, 2018And now, children, we’ll learn how jet fuel can melt structural steel. Via: SHTFplan: “People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. We know this as conformity. But as robots will soon be found […]
In Guilty Plea, Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Says He Made Payments at Candidate’s Direction
August 21st, 2018Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016 election at the direction of a candidate for federal office. The guilty pleas came in the same hour that a federal jury […]
Uncle Sam Wants You: Treasury Depends More on Domestic Bond Buyers
August 17th, 2018Mmm hmm. Keep in mind, the Fed can simply monetize the debt, if enough suckers/bond buyers can’t be found. This is similar to check kiting, but since it involves trillions of dollars, they came up with a more innocuous sounding term for the practice: Open Market Operations. Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S. government has […]
