Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Nick Pope Fully Unfurls: RAF Fighter Jets Ready to Battle UFOs at Olympics Games
June 8th, 2012If Pope actually said these things, it’s very strange, because he’s on the record (on his own site) as not buying into a false flag UFO event theory for the 2012 Olympics: I’m personally skeptical about a false flag alien invasion theory, but it’s a failsafe prediction because if it doesn’t happen, its supporters will […]
Google Fellow Wants to Offer Online Graduate Degrees for $100
June 7th, 2012In ten or twenty years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the majority of paid work in companies, that is, work that isn’t done by machines, being done by these “certificate” holders. They’ll live in ever expanding slums, autonomously policed by RoboCops and drones. They’ll have fast Internet and there will be Superbowl commercials about […]
Western Banks Reaping Billions from Colombian Cocaine Trade
June 6th, 2012Via: Guardian: The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich “consuming” countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn “producing” nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed. And its authors claim that financial regulators in the west are reluctant to go […]
SpaceX Flight Opens Door for U.S. Military Payloads
June 6th, 2012Via: Reuters: Space Exploration Technologies’ unmanned Dragon capsule arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday following a test flight for NASA that could open the door to a long-desired and more elusive customer – the U.S. military. The cargo capsule blasted off May on 22 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida and three days […]
And Now… Unsourcing
June 6th, 201275.2 million people are on Facebook, pretending to grow vegetables and raise animals in their browser windows? … Has it really come to this? Getting ribbons for bragging rights in Facebook games? —The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Via: The Economist: Some of the biggest brands in software, consumer electronics and telecoms have now […]
Australia: Blaming Price Increases on Carbon Tax Could Result in Million Dollar Fine for Businesses
June 4th, 2012Via: The Telegraph: SHOPS and restaurants could face fines up to $1.1 million if waiters or sales staff wrongly blame the carbon tax for price rises or exaggerate the impact. … ACCC deputy chairman Dr Michael Schaper told the Herald Sun companies were entitled to increase their prices and did not have to justify or […]
AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis
June 4th, 2012You keep working, and we’ll keep getting bailouts and bonuses. Mmmkay? Via: Bloomberg: American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will have to work more years as life expectancies increase. “Retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80 years old,” […]
School Districts Taking More Corporate Advertising
June 4th, 2012This USA Today piece contains easily the most ridiculous lie I’ve read in a long time. “The public isn’t paying for public education anymore.” Oh really? This infographic is from USC: U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World: Via: MAT@USC | Master’s of Arts in Teaching Americans are paying more money for public education […]
Increasing Use of Robots in China’s Factories
June 4th, 2012Via: Reuters: The giant orange robotic arms that swiftly weld together car frames at the Great Wall Motors factory in Baoding might seem like the perfect answer to China’s fast-rising labor costs – they don’t ask for a raise, get injured or go on strike. For Great Wall, a private sector Chinese car maker that […]
Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt
June 1st, 2012Remember this? In 2011, the Federal Reserve Purchased a Stunning 61% of U.S. Debt: The recently released Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report for all of 2011 reveals that Federal Reserve purchases of Treasury debt mask reduced demand for U.S. sovereign obligations. Last year the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of the total net Treasury […]
