Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Merkel: Euro Members Must be Prepared to Cede Sovereignty
April 22nd, 2013Via: Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that euro zone members must be prepared to cede control over certain policy domains to European institutions if the bloc is truly to overcome its debt crisis and win back foreign investors. … “We seem to find common solutions when we are staring over the abyss,” […]
They’re Still Talking About the Gold Wreck
April 17th, 2013Via: Daily Ticker: The speed and depth of gold’s decline drew comparisons to the 1987 stock market crash and prompted veteran trader Dennis Gartman to declare: “We’ve never… ever… ever… seen anything like what we’ve witnessed in the past two trading sessions.”
Cyprus: Government Plans to Sell Part of Its Gold Reserves
April 17th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: The Cypriot government plans to sell part of its gold reserves within the next months, a decision that needs to be approved by the country’s central bank, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades said. … Central bank chief Panicos Demetriades said last week that the Cypriot government didn’t have the right to sell gold without […]
‘News Is Bad for You – And Giving up Reading it Will Make You Happier’
April 15th, 2013“I hear from people who had read Cryptogon for years, and report to me how their quality of life improved dramatically since shutting out this type of information.” —Comment to Cryptogon reader Via: Guardian: News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. […]
Hacked Photos Show Colin Powell at Bohemian Grove
April 14th, 2013Via: cryptome (.pdf): Guccifer: Colin Powell and Bohemians April 9, 2013 Related: Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering
Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utilities, According to U.S. Utilities
April 14th, 2013Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute […]
Cliodynamics
April 14th, 2013Via: Wired: In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory. Drawing on mathematical models that describe what happened in the past, he anticipates what will happen next, including the fall of the Galactic Empire. That may seem like fanciful stuff. But Peter Turchin […]
Judges Threaten California Governor Jerry Brown with Contempt of Court Over Prison Overcrowding
April 13th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California’s packed prisons. In a blistering 71-page ruling, the jurists rejected Brown’s bid to end restrictions they […]
Manager of a South Pacific Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong Franchise Says That Kids Should Consider Learning Mandarin
April 10th, 2013Via: New Zealand Herald: Prime Minister John Key wants more students to consider learning Mandarin. And a Herald-DigiPoll survey shows a surprisingly high number of people, more than 25 per cent, would like Maori and a foreign language to be compulsory at school – although the majority prefer no compulsion. The Prime Minister is visiting […]
Chinese Colonel Says Latest Bird Flu Virus Is U.S. Biological Weapon
April 10th, 2013Via: Washington Post: Colonel Dai Xu of the People’s Liberation Army wrote online that the new strain of bird flu hitting China, known as H7N9, is an American “bio-psychological weapon” meant to destabilize China. The rant, posted to Dai’s account on the Twitter-like service Weibo, had already been shared by more than 30,000 fellow users […]
