Archive for the 'Elite' Category
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
March 12th, 2016Via: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. … “Most Americans realize that there are two groups of people who are monitored regularly as they move […]
Bezos Plans Off World Colonies
March 9th, 2016Via: al.com: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ vision of “millions of people living and working in space” drives his space company Blue Origin. … “We’re not going to find another Earth,” Bezos said, “and we can’t cover the whole surface of the Earth with solar cells. We only have a few hundred years to figure this […]
At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs and Top Republicans Plot to Stop Trump
March 8th, 2016Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. —The Prestige I’m trying to understand this Trump situation and the hysterical freakout that’s ensuing in elite and media circles. Trump could have been vote-frauded into […]
Justice Dept. Grants Immunity to Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server
March 2nd, 2016Via: Washington Post: The Justice Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official. The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, […]
Wealthy Republicans Planning to Run Third Party Candidate to Stop Trump
February 27th, 2016Some other flunky Republican-as-3rd-Party candidate would simply take votes from Trump, making it more likely that Clinton would win. These guys don’t think that their candidate will have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning. In other words, these Republicans would rather have Clinton for President than Trump, and they’re working to make that happen. […]
Scalia Died Among Members of Austrian Elite Society, International Order of St. Hubertus — U.S. Branch Started in 1966 at Bohemian Club
February 25th, 2016Wow. Definitely nothing to see here… Via: Washington Post: When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 12 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s. After Scalia’s death Feb. […]
Virtual Reality and Zuckerberg’s, “Rictus Grin”
February 22nd, 2016Har! Via: The Verge: The image above looks like concept art for a new dystopian sci-fi film. A billionaire superman with a rictus grin, striding straight past human drones, tethered to machines and blinded to reality by blinking plastic masks. Golden light shines down on the man as he strides past his subjects, cast in […]
Petrofascism: The Koch Brothers’ Dirty War on Solar Power
February 16th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Rolling Stone: After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal […]
Zika Virus Made Available to Researchers by Rockefeller Foundation in 1953
February 7th, 2016From ATCC Product Page, Zika Virus (ATCC® VR-84™): Via: ATCC Press Release: ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, is poised to assist the medical and life science researchers that are working to address the evolving concerns around Zika Virus infection. Zika virus is a single-stranded RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family, […]
Trump Calls for Iowa Election Do-Over, Plane Makes Emergency Landing Hours Later
February 3rd, 2016Trump is talking about cutting off cheap labor for jobs that can’t be outsourced, and, he wants to, in effect, ban outsourcing to keep jobs in the U.S. All together now: “Not going to happen.” However, daring to broach the vote fraud issue this early… Maybe that falls into a different category of indiscretion. Donald […]
