Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
December 21st, 2014This Los Angeles Times series looks and reads like distopian sci-fi. High tech green houses stretch across the land to the horizon. Workers exist in abject squalor. Or are they slaves? It depends on the the facility and the arbitrary whims of the crooks in charge. (View the image galleries, if you dare.) And when […]
Tech Investors Plowing Money Into Future Farms
December 19th, 2014Via: The Seattle Times: Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s oldest industry — with an audacious agenda: to make sure there is enough food for the 10 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by 2100, do […]
Most Politically Active Corporations Receive $760 from U.S. Government for Every Dollar Spent on Influencing Politics
December 17th, 2014Via: Sunlight Foundation: Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support. That figure, […]
New Zealand: “Are Electricity Prices Rising Too Quickly?”
December 16th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. There are multiple retailers, so a functional market must exist! Right? Cartel. Cartel. Cartel. This is a word that crooks on both the left and right hope you’ll never understand. Cartel: In economics, a cartel is an agreement between competing firms to control prices or exclude […]
Afghanistan War: One Trillion Dollars
December 14th, 2014Hope + Change we can believe in = Priceless Via: Financial Times: The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month, according to FT calculations and independent researchers. Around 80 per cent […]
British Tycoon Impaled on Spikes Following 60ft Fall from Luxury London Penthouse
December 10th, 2014Update: Scot Young Via: Telegraph: A financier at the heart of one of Britain’s biggest divorce battles has died after falling from his £3 million home and impaling himself on iron railings. Scot Young, 52, suffered horrific injuries after plummeting four storeys from a window of his luxury central London penthouse. His death comes almost […]
Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company
December 9th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Bloomberg: At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more […]
Betting On The ‘Other’ Oil Black Swan
December 9th, 2014Via: ZeroHedge: That said, if oil prices go “too low”, there are some very powerful State actors who could become incentivized to precipitate a geopolitical crisis in order to get oil prices back up. E.g. a Saudi Arabian spring, or an attack on a major pipeline? The ISIS-sponsored attack in November in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich […]
Energy Crisis: Turn the Wind Turbines Off When the Electricity Prices Get Too Low
December 7th, 2014What we’re dealing with in New Zealand is sort of mini, South Pacific version of Enron. —New Zealand: Commercial Solar Boom Underway Most people in New Zealand haven’t heard of Enron’s numerous and insidious scams, but they should familiarize themselves with what happened: Before passage of the deregulation law, there had been only one Stage […]
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
December 6th, 2014Oh yes, the big “mystery” as to why the Taliban cut off opium production baffles Rolling Stone. 9/11 scratches more itches than anyone in the corporate media could possibly imagine. I’d say that one of main purposes of 9/11 was to restart the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of heroin money into the […]
