Al-Qaeda’s partnership with US now ‘official’ High-level sources inside America’s intelligence community are totally flabbergasted by recent administration policies, particularly regarding Syria.
The consensus is that the Obama administration is operating “totally blind” and doesn’t care. Top policy advisors opposed to the new Russian-Iranian alliance, on advice from Israel, are shifting America’s position in Syria’s now “three-sided” foreign-backed insurgency. Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren, acting as de facto White House spokesman, explains why the Obama administration has now abandoned its support of moderate forces for those of al-Qaeda. The fact is al-Qaeda militants are actively wiping out moderate rebel factions fighting the Assad regime, now clearly with Israeli backing.
That means another “arc” exists: Tel Aviv, al-Qaeda and the globalist cabal of neocons, Zionists and financial criminals. Wikipedia claims al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden while in Peshawar, Pakistan during the late 1980s. Our changing world in cartograms. In this series of interactive cartograms, FedEx shows our changing world (and I guess, how they are changing with it) through a variety of worldwide demographics such as access to mobile Web, growth, and happiness.
Above is the cartogram for richest countries i.e. GDP. Choose a topic, press play, and the cartogram changes accordingly to match the current metric. Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster. This is in complete contrast to companies.
The Google boys in the back garage so to speak with ideas of the search engine, were no doubt promoting all kinds of crazy ideas and maybe having even crazy people around them. Well, Google is a bit of an exception, because it still tolerates some of that. But most companies start out probably with some of that buzz. But the data indicates that at about 50 employees to a hundred that buzz starts to stop. A company that was more multi dimensional, more evolved, becomes uni dimensional.
Indeed, if you go to General Motors or you go to American Airlines or you go to Goldman Sachs, you don't see crazy people. It's not surprising to learn that when manufacturing companies are on a down turn, they decrease research and development, and in fact in some cases, do actually get rid of it, thinking this is "oh, we can get that back in two years we'll be back on track. " Cuba Redux. The separatist map of Africa: interactive.
It's Time To Start Taking This Global Food Riot Model Seriously. You should already know the name Yaneer Bar-Yam.
He’s the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and made news for a 2011 paper tying global food prices to 2008 and 2011 riot outbreaks in Africa, and the general theory that above a certain benchmark food price, the conditions for rioting become prime. It’s not a strict cause and effect relationship—if value x, then riots—simply an observation that the probability of riots spikes at a certain point. Other things, like, say, Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire, might be the actual trigger, but day-to-day survival as it pertains to food is what allows the gun to fire. Bar-Yam’s model has another “success,” according to a paper posted on the arVix pre-print server last week. WHILE YOU WERE ASLEEP. The Story of the 2012 Revolution By HopeGirl. Given the current state of the world today, it is clear to just about anyone that something is going to happen.
Journey Down the Rabbit Hole. This article was written late last night by a very good friend of mine.
Welcome to the New Paradigm my friends. This is a new day, a new age. I know that many didn't understand what Heather was relaying during the conversation that we posted yesterday. And many did. I will say that Heather doesn't really speak in "3D", lol! As I have said in response to several comments, this conversation was only the very first. A conversation with Heather Tucci Trustee of The One People's Public Trust. Pax Judaica To Replace Pax Americana Which Replaced Pax Britannica. Those who planned to replace Pax Americana with Pax Judaica began plotting America’s fall even before the demise of Pax Britannica.
The seeds of America’s collapse were sown at a meeting of Rothschild associated bankers on November 22, 1910 when they drafted legislation to create the Federal Reserve bank. You might have noticed that President Kennedy who dared challenge the authority of the banking cartel was assassinated on the anniversary of the meeting that created the Federal Reserve. What to Do When Corporations Rule the World. What to Do When Corporations Rule the World An interview with David C.
Korten by Sarah Ruth van Gelder. Www.theyrule.net. 139 QUOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER US CATTLE. 1.
Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world. Www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf. Graph: How the Financial Sector Consumed America’s Economic Growth : Blog of the Century. Last Tuesday, The Century Foundation was honored to host Alan Blinder, renowned economist and recent editor (alongside Andrew Lo and Robert Solow) of Rethinking the Financial Crisis; a compilation of new research challenging the conventional wisdom on Wall Street about the efficiency of financial markets and the rationality of the investors who speculate in them.
The story Professor Blinder told was a familiar one: Decades of “financialization”—a term economists use to describe the growing scale, profitability and deregulation of the financial sector relative to the “real economy”—allowed banks to become too big, too speculative, and too opaque in the years leading up to the financial crisis. Even with the passage of the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms, financial institutions like Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase remain “too big to fail.” The growth of the financial industry has been a boon for its highly-paid managers. The four business gangs that run the US. Illustration: Michael Mucci. IF YOU'VE ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, I have news: Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia University, agrees with you - at least in respect of the United States. In his book, The Price of Civilisation, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ''Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between government and industry.
Robert Reich: The Billionaires' Long Game. I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy. America's Reptilian Politics. Progressives and Liberals are singing that same tired old song. “We must support the Democrats. We can’t let the Republicans win!” Libertarians and Conservatives are singing that same tired old song. “We must support the Republicans. We can’t let the Democrats win!” The Death Throes of Authoritarianism? Or True Enlightenment Preparation? There's been a trend on this forum (I also see it tending in the 2012 and Gray Area forums) to reiterate the same, simple dogma that "your individuality is an illusion, or worse, a failure of spiritual mindfulness" and to tie it directly to the "impending" transition that this 2012 year has been marketed as being all about. I don't have to convince anyone who spends any time at all here of this, and if you've just dropped out of a cloud onto this forum and haven't been badgered relentlessly with threads to this effect, then I'm not concerned about whether you accept the premise of this assertion.
This thread is for the regulars, and the regular lurker/readers. The New Republic. Podcasts: Iceland: Where Citizens Govern via Facebook. Iceland has involved its citizens in many forms of crowdsourced government. How small countries can save the European project: the rise of the habitat-nation. Local governance needs to up their game, or else... Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline. Thirty-five years later, it was still on my bookshelf in a little section on utopias (as well it should have been, being a modern classic). A friend had written his name inside the cover and even dated it: August 1976, the month I returned to New York City from years of R&R on the West Coast.
Oliver Stone: The Problem With America's History Books. Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick are co-authors of The Untold History of the United States (Gallery Books, $30) It has become commonplace to deplore U.S. students' dismal performance in math and science when their test results are compared to those of students in other advanced and not-so-advanced industrial countries.
But, it turns out, according to the Nation's Report Card, or National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federally administered test results released in June 2011, the area in which U.S. students perform most poorly is actually U.S. history. According to the results, only 12 percent of high school students were proficient in U.S. history. And only a scant 2 percent could identify the social problem addressed in Brown v. Geoffrey R. Stone: Why Did the Republicans Win the House? Al Jazeera Frames - Tax Dollars at War.
Kim Jong-Un keeps the world guessing. Or maybe it has. Focus Issues. WW3. Saffa Stories.