The recent drop in oil prices is not likely temporary, as indicated in this article. That's because the real target of OPEC is widespread fracking operations in North America and elsewhere, which OPEC appears to regard as enough of a threat to the oil industry to require drastically lowering oil prices over the long term, and this will kill the fracking industry, a development to be seen as good news to those who believe fracking is a threat to the environment:
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua.
This is a hugely important book that should be in any personal or organizational (e.g. sail training program) library. It is organized into the following parts: weather (and waves), faulty navigation (poor thinking), failure of gear or rigging, failure of ground tackle or mooring lines, collision (think submerged free floating shipping container), fire or explosion, and towing mishaps.
As the great libertarian writer and editor Garet Garrett put it some sixty years ago: “No doubt the people know they can have their Republic back if they want it enough to fight for it and pay the price. The only point is that no leader has yet appeared with the courage to make them choose.”
The American conundrum, and that of the movement for peace and the restoration of the Constitution, is a crisis of leadership. The country yearns for it, cries out for it – and may yet be rewarded for its patience.
The following essay looks to present a theory of false flag terrorism in relation to evidence and motives present for the case of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, France.
I really am tired of the baloney surrounding Google, which calls itself an “artificial intelligence” company. There is no question that its computational mathematics are out of this world — they are also unregulated (the US Government is incompetent in this domain) and divorced from the humanities — people working for Google do not “compute” words like Consilience. Below is an article full of hype that manages to avoid the reality that Google indexes less than 4% of the digital web (their number, mine is 2%) while failing to date to provide any tools for analytics (shared calendars and spreadsheets are nice — like colorful napkins). Never mind that less than 1% of big data is processable; that it takes three years to move a petabyte across the crappy infrastructure the US Government has failed to elevate, or that there are five billion humans out there, each of whom has a brain vastly more able than any computer NSA or Google (NSA Lite) might have in hand. Never mind that Google has no clue when it comes to the intersection of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering. Google is — like most of the secret intelligence community and most of Wall Street banking — a Ponzi scheme. Keep the money moving. Never mind striving for ethical evidence-based decision-support or serving the public interest.
