Archive for the 'Elite' Category
‘Gamers Are Now in Full Battle Rattle with Official U.S. Army Rifle Controllers, Backpacks and Headsets’
January 6th, 2012Start ’em young. Via: Joystiq: CTA DigitalTM (http://ctadigital.com) today announced a partnership with the U.S. ArmyTM to manufacture U.S. ArmyTM branded video game accessories. Virtual soldiers on the video game battlefield can now take pride in Being Army StrongTM. Rifle controllers, backpacks and headsets with an authentic U.S. ArmyTM design are some of the many […]
Ron Paul: Race, Ritual and the Scottish Rite
January 6th, 2012Disclosure: I sent $20 to Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign, even though I don’t vote in U.S. Presidential elections, and haven’t since I voted for Ross Perot in 1996. See: Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion, for my opinion on national elections in the U.S. — While many of you might quickly write […]
UK Police Treating Remains Discovered at Queen’s Estate as Murder
January 5th, 2012Via: AP: It’s a case that Sherlock Holmes would have loved to unravel: British police say a woman’s body has been found at the vast rural estate in Norfolk where Queen Elizabeth II and her family celebrated New Year’s. Police are treating the case as a murder, and an autopsy was conducted Tuesday to learn […]
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
January 5th, 2012Be warned: If you are having difficulties with maintaining appearances at work, this book won’t make it any easier. Via: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt: For understanding the professional, the concept of “ideology” will emerge as much more useful than that […]
A Brief History of Plutocracy
January 5th, 2012Via: Robin Upton at Chaos Computer Club: This whistlestop re-telling of world economic history squeezes 12,000 years of history into 18 slides. Its focus is the changing nature of money and the rise of the monied class in US and Europe. It outlines how the modern system of banking was instituted, how international organising allowed […]
SOPA: Internet Giants Consider ‘Nuclear Option’
January 3rd, 2012Via: Cnet: The Internet’s most popular destinations, including eBay, Google, Facebook, and Twitter seem to view Hollywood-backed copyright legislation as an existential threat. It was Google co-founder Sergey Brin who warned that the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act “would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the […]
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation
January 1st, 2012Via: Cory Doctorow at Chaos Computer Club: The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of […]
Twelve Triggers for World Government
January 1st, 2012Via: Adrian Salbuchi: The Private Global Power Elite embedded in major governments is dead set on imposing World Government on us sooner rather than later. Let’s look at 12 mega-processes – veritable “Triggers” – that we infer they are using to achieve their goals. Research Credit: windhorse
DYI Radiation Scanning in Japanese Grocery Store
January 1st, 2012Via: The Japan Times: But on a street just six minutes from JR Kashiwa Station, the Bec-Miru facility that Motohiro Takamatsu opened in October is turning heads by offering residents a chance to scan their own groceries, garden soil and other items for radiation. “To have Kashiwa become contaminated with radiation, that was a big […]
Civilian Contractors in the Kill Chain
January 1st, 2012The absurdity is reaching Strangelovian proportions: “Our No. 1 manning problem in the Air Force is manning our unmanned platforms,” said Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, Air Force vice chief of staff. Via: Los Angeles Times: After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised […]
