Archive for the 'Elite' Category
China’s Expansion Into Africa
July 20th, 2008I wasn’t aware of the extent of China’s interest in Africa. I thought it was much more piecemeal. Their grand strategy makes perfect sense, given the dire problems China is facing. There are some howlers in this article, though, such as, “Despite Britain’s commendable colonial legacy of a network of roads, railways and schools, the […]
Sarkozy Call for Second EU Vote Provokes Storm in Ireland
July 17th, 2008If at first you don’t vote the way We want, try, try again. Via: AFP: Irish politicians reacted angrily Wednesday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested Ireland should hold a second referendum on the EU’s new treaty, after rejecting it last month. Irish voters dealt a blow to the European Union last month by rejecting […]
Desk Rage Spoils Workplace for Many Americans
July 11th, 2008The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern. ‘Great changes’ are beyond their control, but affect their conduct and outlook none the less. The very framework […]
IMF to Conduct “X-Ray of the Entire U.S. Financial System”
June 30th, 2008What becomes of the IMF if this audit is actually carried out? The U.S. has the largest quota of SDRs and largest percentage of votes in the IMF. The whole system would be shown to be the farce that we already know it to be if the most powerful member (and one of the founding […]
“Some Guests Left Wearing Strange Featureless Human Masks”
June 28th, 2008UPDATE 2: Ad Campaign for Automobile Firm Faceless Droids Stalk the Wealthy UPDATE 1: It’s Some Kind of PR/Marketing Stunt For what, though? More pics from Dlisted. — End Update — Leaving an Elton John party… Woh. Via: Mail on Sunday:
Is Britain on the Slippery Slope to Dictatorship?
June 26th, 2008Falling headfirst into the abyss would be more accurate. Via: Guardian: Aesthetically, at any rate, it does feel as if some of our science fiction dystopias are gradually coming true. In an estate near me, George Orwell’s CCTV cameras are actually trained on the residents’ doors and driveways. Ray Bradbury’s wall-sized TVs flicker in small […]
Supreme Court Cuts Exxon Punitive Damages for Valdez Oil Spill by 80%
June 26th, 2008Via: San Francisco Chronicle: The Supreme Court, winding up a term of victories for businesses, cut punitive damages for Alaskans harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill by 80 percent today in a ruling that may signal new limits on damage awards for victims of corporate wrongdoing. In a 5-3 decision, the justices reduced punitive […]
George Carlin Dies
June 23rd, 2008Via: Time: When the culture began to change in the late 1960s — when the old one-liner comics on the Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the War in Vietnam — George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America. By the […]
Socialists Made Eugenics Fashionable
June 21st, 2008If you have ever wondered why the crackpot left seems as terrifying as the crackpot right, it’s because they’re both products of the same nuthouse—run by the wealthiest people [sic] on this planet. Via: National Press: An exhibition of the history of those scientific ideas that gave a grimy intellectual veneer to the Nazi genocide […]
Brown Pushes EU to Allow More GMO Animal Feeds
June 20th, 2008Grim. Via: Independent: Gordon Brown is calling on the European Union to relax its rules on importing genetically modified animal feed in a further sign of the Government’s willingness to embrace the controversial technology. Mr Brown believes GM crops are vital to the attempt to cut spiralling food prices. His proposal comes the day after […]
