Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’
October 6th, 2011Via: Andrew Gavin Marshall: While I fully endorse the efforts and actions of the Occupy Wall Street protests, now emerging internationally, there are concerns which need to be addressed and kept in mind as the movement moves forward. The process through which a potentially powerful movement may be co-opted and controlled is slight and subtle. […]
Flashback: Citigroup Plutonomy Memos
October 6th, 2011I was pretty sure that I’d posted these long ago, but I’m not finding them in my archives. In short: The rich are getting richer, so Citi advised buying a basket of stocks of companies that cater to very wealthy people. Via: Monkeyfister: …the rich are the dominant source of income, wealth and demand in […]
Introducing Siri: DARPA’s Ghost in Apple’s Machine
October 5th, 2011So their eyes are growing hazy cos they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazy, well… give em what they want —10,000 Maniacs – Candy Everybody Wants One of the stocks that I used to kick around in the 1990s was that of a now long dead company called General […]
Most Popular Contraceptive Used in Parts of Africa May Double Risk of Contracting HIV
October 4th, 2011Instead of cheap, effective, ubiquitous neem oil being promoted by alleged humanitarian organizations for birth control, dangerous and expensive pharmaceutical products are used that also happen to double the risk of women being infected with HIV. That’s an absolutely fascinating coincidence. Via: New York Times: The most popular contraceptive for women in eastern and southern […]
Putin Wants to Build ‘Eurasian Union’
October 4th, 2011Via: Reuters: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a “Eurasian Union” in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the Kremlin as the country’s next president. Putin said the new union would build on an existing Customs Union with Belarus […]
Koch Industries: A Global Menace
October 3rd, 2011Just another day at the office. Via: Business Insider: A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades. According the report, company officials have been caught […]
Germany Must Hit the Eject Button
October 1st, 2011Absent significant monetary instability or an injunction for use of bancor for the making of an important set of payments (e.g. payment of taxes), surmounting the barriers to wide acceptance would be a key and perhaps prohibitive challenge. —IMF on the Proposed Global Currency Called the Bancor, Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability, April 13, […]
Former Member of Bush Economic Team Thinks Germany Will Bring Back Deutsche Mark: ‘They Have Already Ordered the New Currency and Asked that the Printers Hurry Up’
September 29th, 2011Bio: Philippa Malmgren: Dr. Philippa Malmgren is the President and founder of Principalis Asset Management, a financial firm based in London. In short, she helps fund managers better understand how politics, policy and geopolitics will impact the financial markets. Investors use her insights to manage their portfolios more profitably. Her clients include many investment banks, […]
6 Images of Abandoned Weaponry You Won’t Believe Are Real
September 29th, 2011Via: Cracked: Rare, expensive materials, cutting-edge designs and top-secret prototypes are all hallmarks of the military industrial complex. It’s how they produce all their beautiful toys: the stealth fighters, nuclear submarines and flying fortresses that are the cornerstone of our childhood fantasies and Michael Bay movies. But what happens when you get bored of your […]
The A to Z of the pHood Industry’s Most Evil Ingredients
September 29th, 2011Via: Natural News: Ever wonder what’s really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, “What ingredients should I avoid?” So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances causing cancer, diabetes, heart disease […]
