Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Pentagon Prepares to Blow Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on New Nuclear Submarines
January 5th, 2016Via: Fiscal Times: The Defense Department has given the U.S. Navy the green light to begin entertaining proposals for the service’s next ballistic missile submarine, an effort that could cost nearly $350 billion over its lifetime. A Pentagon spokeswoman told Bloomberg on Tuesday that Frank Kendall, the agency’s top weapons buyer, told the Navy it […]
Christmas 2015—Why There Is No Peace On Earth
December 29th, 2015Via: David Stockman’s Contra Corner: In fact, the War Party entrenched in the nation’s capital is dedicated to economic interests and ideological perversions that guarantee perpetual war; they ensure endless waste on armaments and the inestimable death and human suffering that stems from 21st century high tech warfare and the terrorist blowback it inherently generates […]
Switzerland to Vote on Banning Banks from Creating Money
December 29th, 2015Via: Independent: Switzerland will hold a referendum to decide whether its private banks can create money after 110,000 people said they want their central bank to be solely in charge. Seven years after the financial crisis struck, the Swiss federal government confirmed on Christmas Eve that it would ask its people whether the central bank […]
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
December 14th, 2015Via: The Atlantic: The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages. The competition is fierce, secretive, and elite. It pits Apple against Google against Tesla against Uber: all titans of Silicon Valley, in many ways as enigmatic as they are revered. […]
OpenAI Hopes to Prevent Superintelligence Doom
December 14th, 2015Via: Medium: Essentially, OpenAI is a research lab meant to counteract large corporations who may gain too much power by owning super-intelligence systems devoted to profits, as well as governments which may use AI to gain power and even oppress their citizenry.
Homeland Security: “An Entirely New Phase”
December 6th, 2015The whole ISIS mess originates with U.S. activities in Iraq (which, even the mainstream hive mind admits had nothing to do with 9/11), and now, “We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat.” Via: Reuters: U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by homegrown extremists, are rethinking […]
Zuckerberg-Chan to Give Away 99% of Facebook Shares to “Advance Human Potential and Promote Equality for All Children in the Next Generation”
December 1st, 2015Via: USA Today: Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan celebrated the birth of a baby girl with the stunning announcement they plan to give away most of their fortune through a new initiative to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” The billionaire Facebook founder and chief executive and […]
The End-Point in Financial Credit
November 14th, 2015Via: GoldMoney: Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It amounts to a cartel, planned or unplanned, a partnership between banks and government that […]
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 […]
More Americans Than Ever Use Prescription Drugs
November 4th, 2015Via: NBC: More Americans than ever are taking prescription drugs — close to 60 percent of U.S. adults, according to new research. And most seem to be related to obesity, with cholesterol and blood pressure drugs leading the pack, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The single most popular drug is […]
