Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million?
October 6th, 2010There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured. First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts. There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The […]
Super-Rich Investors Buy Gold by Ton
October 5th, 2010Via: Reuters: The world’s wealthiest people have responded to economic worries by buying gold by the bar — and sometimes by the ton — and by moving assets out of the financial system, bankers catering to the very rich said on Monday. Fears of a double-dip downturn have boosted the appetite for physical bullion as […]
James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
October 5th, 2010Research Credit: mja
U.S. Judge Asks Vatican to Serve Court Paper to Pope
October 4th, 2010Via: AP: A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the […]
ISGP Taken Down Again
October 2nd, 2010Here’s the isgp.eu backup file that Joël van der Reijden had posted previously. Via: isgp.eu: ISGP has been up from September 2004 to September 2010. After the millionth page load it was taken down. A book may some day replace the website, but this is not a certainty at this point. Research Credit: dt
1010: No Pressure
October 1st, 2010Update: They Tried to Take It Down How’s that working out for you, 1010global? Mirror 1 Mirror 2 —End Update— Via: 1010Global: Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly […]
Ecuador: Army and Police Exchange Gunfire
October 1st, 2010Via: BBC: Soldiers in Ecuador have rescued President Rafael Correa from a police hospital after a day of protests by security forces angry at benefit cuts. Mr Correa was rescued after soldiers opened fired on dissident police. Moments after being freed he appeared on the balcony of Quito’s presidential palace and spoke to thousands of […]
Russia: Medvedev Fires Yuri Luzhkov, the Mayor of Moscow
September 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepped out of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s shadow long enough on Tuesday to fire Moscow’s larger-than-life mayor, rattling a political establishment that until now has accepted Putin as the nation’s undisputed authority.
How Elon Musk Turned Tesla Into the Car Company of the Future
September 29th, 2010What I found most interesting about this piece was how Toyota and Daimler got on board with Tesla. It seemed like those organizations saw Tesla as a catalyst that could help overcome their own bureaucratic inertia. Toyota’s involvement with Tesla is definitely interesting. Toyota made a big miscalculation with its long insistence that hybrid technology […]
The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations
September 29th, 2010Careful, Barry, you might cause Maria to smear her lipstick. Via: The Big Picture: Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in industry, finance, literature, sports, manufacturing, technology, entertainment, travel, communication, etc. I would like to discuss the paradigm shift that is occurring in […]
