WikiLeaks How to Make Trillions of Dollars | Raptitude.com Before I get into it, I must say that I don’t recommend that you do this. I’m sharing this strategy for information purposes only, so that you can understand the playing field you’re working with, and can make better personal choices for how you make and manage your money. I do encourage you to become a millionaire, if that’s something that interests you. If it’s billions you’re after, I’m a bit suspicious but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Aspiring to trillions, though, is the domain of the wicked alone and we won’t be able to be friends any more. The big money isn’t in creating products, it’s in creating customers. You can make millions by selling a great product to people who need it, but you make billions and trillions by conditioning an entire nation of people to react to every inconvenience, every whim, and every passing desire or fear by buying something. It does take some capital to get it going. What it takes amounts to an engineered cultural shift. Creativity.
Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment World News Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire - Joseph R. Peden [This is a transcript of Professor Joseph Peden's 50-minute lecture "Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire," given at the Seminar on Money and Government in Houston, Texas, on October 27, 1984. The original audio recording is available as a free MP3 download.] Two centuries ago, in 1776, there were two books published in England, both of which are read avidly today. Gibbon, in looking at this phenomenon, commented that the wonder was not that the Roman Empire had fallen, but rather that it had lasted so long. I've been asked to speak on the theme of Roman history, particularly the problem of inflation and its impact. Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Monetary policy therefore always serves, even if it serves badly, the perceived needs of the rulers of the state. To look at the mentality of the Roman emperors, we can look just at the advice that the Emperor Septimius Severus gave to his two sons, Caracalla and Geta.
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How Does a Free Market Prevent a Monopoly? No, we weren't. At least I wasn't when I said that. The fact that a company could create a monopoly without a trust doesn't equal "nothing stopping them." Sounds like zero competition to me. "Plenty" minus "them all" equals zero. But of course that's not actually true. No, you implied there was a shortage of competitors since the U.S. ran out of them. It was both. Those are not hindrances to a free market, and are not commonly called "regulation" since they are not targeted and apply to everyone equally. I agree. Unchecked? Standard Oil's monopoly was the result of a combination of Standard Oil's actions and government's actions. And if you believe Standard Oil would have become a monopoly in a free market (free from force, fraud, and coercion), then either you are using a different definition of "free market" or a different definition of "monopoly."
Grits for Breakfast Drudge Report Huffington Post NEW YORK -- Investigators cut out a piece of carpet in a painstaking search of a penthouse suite for DNA evidence in IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex assault case, law enforcement officials said Wednesday as he made a new bid to get out of jail. New York detectives and prosecutors believe the carpet in the hotel room may contain Strauss-Kahn's semen, spat out after an episode of forced oral sex by a hotel maid, the officials told The Associated Press. Late Wednesday, Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, according to a letter released by its executive board. In the letter, Strauss-Kahn denied the allegations but said he felt compelled to resign with "great sadness" because he was thinking of his family and also wanted to protect the IMF. Strauss-Kahn, jailed at Rikers Island since Monday, made a second appeal for bail earlier Wednesday and proposed to be confined to his daughter's Manhattan home 24 hours a day with electronic monitoring.
InfoWars.com Mexico Police Violations Seen in Drug War The actions by the security forces drew renewed attention this week when police officers searching for an accused leader of a drug gang stormed into the home of a gentle poet, breaking windows and doors and emptying closets and drawers. The government’s human rights commission said that to justify an illegal entry the security forces sometimes planted evidence or cited vague justifications, like having received an anonymous tip or having spotted a person who looked “unusually nervous.” “Illegal searches have become a common practice in many parts of the country, and they reveal a systematic pattern,” the commission said in a report released on Friday. It said that the security forces “burst into a home looking for illicit objects, they threaten, injure and detain the occupants, they take valuables or money, they alter evidence.” The raid on Mr. But that kind of quick apology is not the rule, the commission noted.