Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Surveillance State Wenlock
May 18th, 2012Via: Forbes: London decided to make its surveillance yen a dominant feature of its otherwise goofy mascots. “Wenlock” and “Mandeville” both have a huge single eye made out of a camera lens so that they can “record everything.” Image at right is from the official London Olympics website. In case that’s too subtle for you, […]
And Now: Ex-Patriot Act
May 17th, 2012Wow. The full text of this should be interesting. What’s next? Punishing the family members of people who flee? Via: ABC News: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. […]
The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You
May 17th, 2012I’ll never be for anything that hands more money to the state, but I do like the idea of a maximum compensation ratio applying to all employees of corporations. This is an old comment of mine on the subject: One of my impossible to implement ideas would be to have a maximum total compensation ratio […]
Will Smith’s Son Talks Aliens at The White House
May 17th, 2012The BBC clip is below: Via: Silver Screen Saucers: Men in Black 3 star Will Smith today told BBC Radio 1 host Chris Moyles that his 13-year-old son Jayden (himself a Hollywood star) put President Obama on the spot recently during a private tour of the White House. The subject of Jayden’s enquiry – aliens! […]
Italian Court Rules MMR Vaccine Did Trigger Autism
May 17th, 2012Via: NYR Natural News: An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causation between an MMR vaccine and the resulting autism in a young child “has been established.” The unnamed child received the […]
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Can Make You Dumb, U.S. Scientists Warn
May 16th, 2012Via: AFP: Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup — […]
Accidentally Released Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling’
May 16th, 2012Via: Rolling Stone: It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public. The lawyers for Goldman and […]
Canon: Fully Automated Digital Camera Manufacturing by 2015
May 15th, 2012Via: AP: Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs — a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics. If successful, counting on machines can help preserve this nation’s technological power — not the stereotype of machines snatching assembly line jobs from […]
Profits: Louisiana is the World’s Prison Capital
May 14th, 2012Via: Times Picayune: Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s. The hidden engine behind the state’s well-oiled prison machine […]
Texas Legislature: Video of Vote Fraud
May 13th, 2012Via: KEYE Austin Repost on YouTube:
