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LinkedInThere's and old adage out there that's been around for years that has it that modern central bank-issued paper money - Federal Reserve notes, Bank of England pounds, euros, yen, etc - are nothing but "monopoly money," the worthless scrip that is used to play the famous board game. Well, in a certain sense, the adage is truer than most people using it are aware: our money is indeed loaned into circulation (not issued, there's a difference) by what is effectively a "money monopoly". It is a command and centralized economic system in one very important respect: money itself is not responsive … [Read more...]
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN AFGHANISTAN?
April 26, 2012 By 16 Comments
By now we've all heard the horrible story of the cold-blooded murder of 16 Afghanis by an American soldier, and by now we've also all heard of the disarming of American soldiers during Secretary of Defense Leo Panetta's recent visit to that suffering country. But there are now reports coming out of there that the Afghanis are not buying the story that this was all the act of one "lone nut" soldier on a shooting spree: Is the U.S. covering for additional troops involved in Afghan massacre? The Afghanis are correct, how indeed does one person do this within a short span of time in two … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA…AGAIN: NEUROSCIENCE
April 21, 2012 By 23 Comments
A bout two weeks ago I did a little series of video blogs that I called "Playing DARPA," an exercise of the imagination of what it would be like to be a part of an organizational culture dedicated to thinking outside the box, and to brainstorming new technologies and thinking carefully about how they would transform culture, society, economics, and political and other institutional structures. With that in mind, here is one from the Washington Post to ponder carefully: Is neuroscience the new ‘Freakonomics’? Rather than focus on business and advertizing applications of the emerging … [Read more...]
GERMANY AGAIN: ANTI-KEYNES, PRO-MIDDLE CLASS
April 12, 2012 By 14 Comments
Yesterday I blogged about the German point of view during the European economic woes, and I'd like to follow yesterday's reference to articles appearing in the Christian Science Monitor with another one: European debt crisis: Germany's fight against Keynes There are again some paragraphs here that deserve closer attention: "Twenty years ago, the German people reluctantly sacrificed the Deutsche mark for the euro, even as then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl championed it as a step toward European unity. To reassure domestic skeptics, Germany insisted that the European Central Bank be sited in … [Read more...]
YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO RUSSIA…
April 5, 2012 By 15 Comments
You have to hand it to Russia. Not only did they re-elect Vladimir Putin, but did so in a large majority, turning their backs on the nutcase Communist Party, Limonov's unusual combination of militant Bolshevism and Nazism (seriously folks, his party's symbol is a bizarre mix of Communist and Nazi symbols), and other extremist groups, to put back into office the man who helped end the demolition of Russia by Western-sponsored former apparatchiks. Well, here's one that RT TV found, talking about The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness's release of a a new document … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA: PART TWO: METHODS AND AREAS
April 2, 2012 By 10 Comments
Joseph continues his mini-series of video blogs on "Playing Darpa" commenting on the "combinational method" employed by such agencies: … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA: PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS
April 1, 2012 By 10 Comments
Joseph's first video blog on the historical context and matrix behind the formation of such agencies as DARPA. … [Read more...]
SPYING THROUGH TELEVISION NOW
March 30, 2012 By 44 Comments
While we're talking about electronic eavesdropping and the technologies associated therewith, here's another article that I found and that a few of you also sent to me. It seems that the CIA (and that means MI-5, Surete, SISME, BND, Mossad, etc) want to spy on you through your television now: The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillance Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115871/The-CIA-wants-spy-TV-Agency-director-says-net-connected-gadgets-transform-surveillance.html#ixzz1pR7TNkWh Now many of you, I suspect, … [Read more...]