Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Global Credit Situation Worse than Pre-Lehman
September 15th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly before the Lehman crisis five years ago, the Bank for International Settlements has warned. Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly before the Lehman crisis five years ago, the Bank […]
‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments
September 15th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division. The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according […]
Beeban Kidron: We Need to Talk About Teenagers and the Internet
September 12th, 2013Grim. Via: Guardian: There is a new world order and our children are carrying it around in their pockets.
Best Times for the 1 Percent Since 1920s
September 11th, 2013Via: AP: The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top […]
9/11 & Operation Gladio
September 8th, 2013Via: Russia Today:
16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
September 6th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: Readers may recall an ugly story that broke earlier this summer, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman rebuked the news/business information firm Thomson Reuters for selling access to key economic survey data two seconds early to high-frequency algorithmic traders. The story strongly suggested that some Thomson Reuters customers were using […]
‘School Is a Prison’
September 4th, 2013I hope that everyone who sees this post clicks through and reads the whole piece. Also, here’s the book: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray Via: Salon: Parents send their children to school with the best of […]
Worse Off Than a Medieval Peasant?
September 2nd, 2013Via: Reuters: Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired. But despite his reputation as a miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations. Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking […]
Shocker: Israel One of the Top Spying Threats Facing U.S. Intelligence Services
August 30th, 2013The U.S. will probably punish Israel by giving it another $115 billion. Via: The Hill: The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal. A secret budget request obtained by The Washington Post from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden lumps Israel alongside U.S. foes Iran […]
Prescription Sleeping Pill Use in America
August 29th, 2013Via: NBC: Desperate for rest in a frenzied world, at least 8.6 million Americans take prescription sleeping pills to catch some Zzzs, according to the first federal health study to focus on actual use. Between 2005 and 2010, about 4 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 and older popped popular prescription drugs such as Lunesta […]
