The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JOURNAL: Global Financial Cancer EXTRACT: A new paper, The Network of Global Corporate Control by Vitali et. al. from ETH in Zurich. This paper finds, through extensive network analysis, that a small group of tightly intertwined financial institutions control the bow of the global financial system. It is in effect, the world’s first super-organism. 147 …
Portland Oregon is working on revising zoning regulations regarding urban market farms. Early debate indicates that the protection of traditional approaches to real-estate value (ornamental residences, noise/traffic abatement, etc.) is the priority. Given the scale of the economic crisis that is already upon us, this approach is completely broken. They should be focused on building …
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Great article. Starts with Citigroup’s Plutonomy report (the report has been ruthlessly removed from the Web by Citi’s lawyers) — wherein they show that, in the US, the middle class doesn’t really exist. In reality, there are only two groups, a small percentage of rich households (that drive all consumption and investment) and the rest …
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Anonymous declares war on Facebook. For those of you interested in how global guerrilla warfare theory is being applied in the wild, here’s a book for you: Deep Green Resistance (by Derrick Jenson, Aric McBay, and Lierre Keith). Here’s a little on their ecowarfare strategy from their website, and some more on how they use open source warfare and …
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Why do Crowds Turn Deadly? That’s a good question. Here’s a partial answer that challenges conventional wisdom: most crowds that stampede, crushing people, do so when entering a venue. Why? One reason is that people are more likely to surge forward when they think they are about to be excluded from something. The other more …
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BIG QUESTION: Gold or Virtual Currencies? As anticipated, we’re on the brink of a global economic depression (again). There’s a strong possibility that a long running global depression will lead to a reshuffling of the global economic and political landscape. IF that happens, many of the fiat currencies we currently use will simply evaporate. Given …
Friday, 05 August 2011 JOURNAL: D2, The Second Global Economic Depression D2 is shorthand for the second global economic depression. It started formally in 2008, and despite a short respite over the last two years, it never left. It was only delayed by massive amounts of government intervention. It is now back in force. D2, …
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