Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now?
May 11th, 2018Via: Pat Buchanan: Brushing aside the anguished pleas of our NATO allies, President Trump Tuesday contemptuously trashed the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. Prime Minister Theresa May of Great Britain, President Emmanuel Macron of France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel were put on notice that their ties to Iran are to be severed, or […]
How Silicon Valley Elite Store Billions of Dollars Worth of Bitcoin
May 9th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Behind the guards, the blast doors and down corridors of reinforced concrete, sit the encrypted computer servers — connected to nothing — that hold keys to a vast digital fortune. Argentine entrepreneur Wences Casares has spent the past several years persuading Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires that Bitcoin is the global currency of […]
Jeff Bezos Dreams of a World with a Trillion People Living in Space
May 2nd, 2018My guess is that he plans to ride out TEOTWAWKI in a personal submarine. Via: CNBC: Dreaming big isn’t something Jeff Bezos has a problem with. And true to form, the multi-billionaire’s vision for the world that his great-grandchildren’s great-grandchildren will live in is pretty wild to imagine. The Amazon and Blue Origin boss says […]
Bill Gates Backs Space Based Video Surveillance System for Entire Planet
April 20th, 2018Via: TechCrunch: A new space imaging startup called EarthNow aims to provide not just pictures of the planet on demand, but real-time video anywhere a client desires. Its ambition is matched only by its pedigree: Bill Gates, Intellectual Ventures, Airbus, SoftBank and OneWeb founder Greg Wyler are all backing the play. Its promise is a […]
Palantir Using War on Terror Tools to Track American Citizens
April 19th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: The LAPD uses Palantir’s Gotham product for Operation Laser, a program to identify and deter people likely to commit crimes. Information from rap sheets, parole reports, police interviews, and other sources is fed into the system to generate a list of people the department defines as chronic offenders, says Craig Uchida, whose consulting […]
Arming the World: Inside Trump’s ‘Buy American’ Drive to Expand Weapons Exports
April 18th, 2018Via: Reuters: In a telephone call with the emir of Kuwait in January, U.S. President Donald Trump pressed the Gulf monarch to move forward on a $10 billion fighter jet deal that had been stalled for more than a year. Trump was acting on behalf of Boeing Co, America’s second-largest defense contractor, which had become […]
Cult Leader Charged with Sex Trafficking
March 29th, 2018Via: BBC: Keith Raniere, the leader of an elusive US self-help group, has been arrested by the FBI in Mexico and charged with sex trafficking. Federal prosecutors allege Mr Raniere oversaw a “slave and master” system in his group called Nxivm, where female members were expected to have sex with him and were branded with […]
Musk Removes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook Pages
March 24th, 2018Via: The Verge: During a tweetstorm, Elon Musk has removed both of his companies’ Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers. The pages of both SpaceX and Tesla are now inactive. Each had around 2.6 million followers. Musk was answering a flurry of tweets this morning when he […]
UK Court Hears of Plot To Rape, Dissolve in Acid Children For Pleasure of Unnamed ‘Top Politicians’
March 19th, 2018The source article is paywalled at Court News UK: Plot to Abuse Children for ‘Top Political People’: A paedophile told an undercover police officer that they could make millions of pounds raping children on camera for ‘top political people,’ a court heard. Gihan Muthukumarana, 28, claimed they could sell the film for £10m if they […]
Trump’s Election Consultants Filmed Saying They Use Bribes and Sex Workers to Entrap Politicians
March 19th, 2018Via: Channel 4: An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers. Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica – the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump’s presidential victory – have been secretly […]
