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. In case you're unfamiliar with cartograms, they're the same idea as choropleth maps, but instead of using color to represent a metric, the country areas are used. A caveat of choropleth maps is that large geographic areas inevitably end up looking more prominent even if their value is lower than that of a smaller country.
For example, here's the cartogram for high-technology exports. Have a look for yourself. [FedEx] 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. It closes down. 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. " Well, this kind of thinking kills them. Read on. What does that say? Cuba Redux. The separatist map of Africa: interactive | World news. 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. Rioting that occurred last year during a platinum miner’s strike in South Africa—in which 34 strikers were killed by government forces—coincided neatly with a spike in the global price of maize. Reach this writer at michaelb@motherboard.tv. WHILE YOU WERE ASLEEP. The Story of the 2012 Revolution By HopeGirl | hopegirl2012. Given the current state of the world today, it is clear to just about anyone that something is going to happen.
But just what will happen? I’ve been chasing down some interesting information, most of which can only be presented in theory form. The reason for this is that the mainstream media is heavily controlled, and the only way to try to get to the real information is through a variety of alternative news sources and the internet. When gathering information in this way, it is not always packaged together in an easy-to-digest format. I am attempting to do that now for you in this document. So given all of these factors, my goal here is to present you with theoretical pieces of the bigger puzzle, help you put those pieces together, give you a summarized extent of how far I got with my research in each area, and then ultimately it is up to you to make a decision on what you choose to believe.
Follow the MoneyWhether you consider yourself to be a “money person” or not is irrelevant. 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! But listen carefully, listen to the words with your heart AND mind. As the article I published a while ago about Russian DNA discoveries (even though they were really discovered much earlier than this), words have a direct effect on us on a microcosmic level.
As I have said in response to several comments, this conversation was only the very first. This IS the New Paradigm. JOURNEY DOWN THE RABBIT HOLEUnderstanding The One People’s Public TrustBy Nicole MatthewsJanuary 4, 2012 To some extent, I was always awake to much of the corruption on our planet. I was a financial advisor from 1988 until 2000. There is another truth I have always known. 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.
He was also killed because he opposed Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons and opposed enlarging the Vietnam war. Even in that day Judaica wanted America to enter the Vietnam war and to lose it to prepare the way for the downfall of America and the rise of the Jewish World Order. When this Depression is over, the Rothschild Criminal Network will buy everything for pennies in the dollar with money they stole from us. That betrayal continued from World War II to 911 and the present day. Like this: 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 A few jaws dropped among the young activists at a training camp outside Seattle where preparations for the WTO blockade were in high gear. The man who had just joined the circle looked like he might be on his way to a Chamber of Commerce luncheon. But the young activists soon learned that David Korten is a leading critic of corporate globalization. Many credit him with opening their eyes to the threat to democracy, the environment, community, and our common future posed by transnational corporations, global finance institutions, and the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and IMF. David Korten didn’t always hold these views. Gradually, he found that the US development model was benefitting US corporations, not those it purported to serve. I have been privileged to be a colleague of David’s for some years.
David: Corporate power has become even more concentrated and rapacious. Www.theyrule.net. 139 QUOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER US CATTLE. 1. "If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long. " -- President George Bush (January 1991) 2.
"The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. " -- George Herbert Walker Bush 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43 . 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49.
"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. 50. 51. 52. 53. Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world | Business. The world's wealthiest people aren't known for travelling by bus, but if they fancied a change of scene then the richest 85 people on the globe – who between them control as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population put together – could squeeze onto a single double-decker.
The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population. The wealth of the 1% richest people in the world amounts to $110tn (£60.88tn), or 65 times as much as the poorest half of the world, added the development charity, which fears this concentration of economic resources is threatening political stability and driving up social tensions.
Byanyima explained: 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. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,'' he says.
Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback loop and the takeover of political power in America by the ''corporatocracy''. First is the well-known military-industrial complex. Advertisement ''Since the days of John D. 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. They lost their shirts and won't do it again.
Don't believe that for an instant. It's true their political investments didn't exactly pay off this time around. "Right now there is stunned disbelief that Republicans fared so poorly after all the money they invested," said Brent Bozell, president of For America, an Alexandria-based nonprofit that advocates for Christian values in politics. "Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle," Donald Trump tweeted. Rove's two giant political funds -- American Crossroads (a Super PAC) and Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (a so-called nonprofit "social welfare organization" that doesn't have to report its donors) -- backed Mitt Romney with $127 million spent on more than 82,000 television spots.
Among Rove's investors was Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire who owns the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. Exactly. 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 lesser-of-two-evils crazy train has left the station once again. Fool me once, shame on you. The unwitting divide and conquer pawns have fallen into the same old trap and are doing that partisan dinosaur dance yet again. Yes, there are some differences between Democrats and Republicans on the surface, in social issues and certainly in their rhetoric, but when it comes to the multi-trillion dollar heist, global Ponzi economics, foreign policy, systemic corruption… you know, all the things that are at the root of our problems, they are two heads of the same monstrous beast.
We are in the last days of the partisan dinosaur era, global revolution is sweeping the planet. That’s what the ghost of Tom Paine told me last night. 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 fact is that a significant percentage of the threads on this forum aggressively promote the notion that "separateness" - or awareness of one's unique identity relative to all else that exists as physical and/or perceived - is the root of human failure. And it's this notion that I want to challenge with this thread. The New Republic. Podcasts: Iceland: Where Citizens Govern via Facebook. 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.
Oliver Stone: The Problem With America's History Books. Geoffrey R. Stone: Why Did the Republicans Win the House? Al Jazeera Frames - Tax Dollars at War.
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