Archive for March, 2007
The Federal Reserve Bank
The Bilderberg Group. The Rothschild’s. The Federal Reserve. The Rockefeller’s. London. Chase-Manhattan. Citibank. Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial Nation is controlled by a system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation, therefore, and all its activities [...]
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Solving the top problems
The Copenhagen Consensus has made a list of the worlds top problems in order of priority. Their question is if we had 50 billion dollars to solve a problem, where would we be able to affect the biggest change.
This is one of those ideas that strike you as obvious once you’ve seen it but took [...]
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A video on global warming
I hope this doesn’t make anyone feel less guilty than they’d like to.
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“The war in Iraq is inflicting a much greater emotional toll on U.S. troops than most Americans realize.”
That’s how the article “Death of a Marine” is introduced. The article then goes on to give the sad story of how one marine was driven to suicide by his wartime experience.
What? Where does this have anything to [...]
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Paul Krugman argues in the NYT that the Republican party of today is no different from what it was under Reagan (contrary to what Time Magazine says this week) based on the following:
Both administrations supported private healthcare
Both had bad attorney generals
Both administrations served the wealthy
Both were against big government
Both appointed people based on loyalty rather [...]
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Baseball’s concious brainwashing
Interesting take on the sub-conscious. He cites On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins which was a great book.
Your Brain on Baseball – New York Times
Over the decades, the institution of baseball has figured out how to instruct the unconscious mind, to make it better at what it does. As we know the automatic [...]
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I thought this was pretty funny:
ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Walters Interviews Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Chavez refuses to endorse an American presidential candidate for 2008, saying that his support would be a burden for the candidate. He does, however, express great confidence that if he could run for president in the United States, he [...]
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David Brooks, my new favorite columnist, makes a great case for staying in Iraq until the job is done. Basically he criticizes those who are for immediate withdrawal for their naive position of “if we leave the Iraqi government will buck up and take control.” As if us leaving would infuse them with some sudden [...]
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Where did the Republicans go?
I definitely don’t agree with everything in this article, but the gist of it, that the Republican part of Regan is not the Republican part of today, definitely rings true to me.
How The Right Went Wrong — TIME
But everything that Reagan said in 1985 about “the other side” could easily apply to the [...]
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It’s a fairly negative view of the world but an interesting take nonetheless.
Hurrah for Capitalism, Its Many Warts and All – New York Times
In his novel “I Married a Communist,” Philip Roth writes: “He tells you capitalism is a dog-eat-dog system. What is life if not a dog-eat-dog system? This is a system [...]
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This time a highly accomplished French socialist scientist who was one of the original proponents of the theory.
Allegre’s second thoughts
Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.
His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled [...]
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Madness from Russia and Germany
Wow. Examples of insanity in the ‘civilized’ world.
Russian Expert Shot Near D.C.-Area Home
An expert on Russian intelligence was critically injured in a shooting in front of his suburban Washington home, authorities said.The shooting of Paul Joyal, 53, came days after he accused the Russian government of involvement in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander [...]
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A Consensus?
More global warming skepticism:
‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ – backed by eminent scientists – is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans.
The programme … will see a series of respected scientists attack the “propaganda” that they claim is killing the world’s poor.
Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, [...]
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