Wednesday, June 03, 2015
wikileaks offers $100K reward for secret chapters of the TPP
By CNu at June 03, 2015 0 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy , micro-insurgencies , People Centric Leadership , wikileaks wednesday
who does the state work for?
paecon | States acting as lenders of last resort in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial crisis clearly illustrated the central role that states have in the operations of financial markets. Despite their active roles, however, states continue to be presented as passive actors that dance to the tunes of the financial markets. This paper, however, takes a close look at how states’ geopolitical concerns influence financial regulation.
States are perceived as serving the interests of their citizens, yet future rescue operations (as lenders of last resort) at the costs of the taxpayers remain a strong possibility in particular, Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks persist and their leverage ratios have not greatly improved.
To better understand why this is the case, this paper argues that geopolitical concerns influence the triangular relationships between the (democratic) state, the financial sector, and the state’s citizens (and taxpayers) in favour of the financial sector. Accordingly, the paper argues that we should more explicitly ask ‘what drives states (and politics) in their approaches to finance?
By CNu at June 03, 2015 0 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy
how the richest .0001 pay income taxes
By CNu at June 03, 2015 0 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
the unrealized horrors of population explosion
By CNu at June 02, 2015 7 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , Great Filters , reality casualties
why did they invade iraq?
'Some of the warmongers believed that deploying shock and awe in Iraq would enhance American power and influence around the world. Some saw Iraq as a sort of pilot project, preparation for a series of regime changes. And it's hard to avoid the suspicion that there was a strong element of wagging the dog, of using military triumph to strengthen the Republican brand at home.'
'The most important strategic interest lay in expanding global energy supplies, through foreign investment, in some of the world's largest oil reserves – in particular Iraq. This meshed neatly with the secondary aim of securing contracts for their companies.'
'Some of them, I suppose, may have been duped: may have fallen for the obvious lies, which doesn't say much about their judgment. More, I suspect, were complicit: they realized that the official case for war was a pretext, but had their own reasons for wanting a war, or, alternatively, allowed themselves to be intimidated into going along. For there was a definite climate of fear among politicians and pundits in 2002 and 2003, one in which criticizing the push for war looked very much like a career killer.'
'On top of these personal motives, our news media in general have a hard time coping with policy dishonesty. Reporters are reluctant to call politicians on their lies, even when these involve mundane issues like budget numbers, for fear of seeming partisan. In fact, the bigger the lie, the clearer it is that major political figures are engaged in outright fraud, the more hesitant the reporting. And it doesn't get much bigger — indeed, more or less criminal — than lying America into war.'
'But truth matters, and not just because those who refuse to learn from history are doomed in some general sense to repeat it.'
By CNu at June 02, 2015 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , killer-ape , Living Memory , necropolitics , propaganda
the global land-ownership network
This phenomenon of large-scale global land acquisitions, sometimes called “land grabbing,” is receiving increasing international attention because of its potential to contribute to development and raise yields in developing countries, but amidst concerns about local land rights and livelihoods.
One-third of countries both import and export land ownership. Of the 80 countries that export land ownership, most export to only a handful of trading partners, with a third having just one import partner. On the other hand, Ethiopia exports land to 21 different countries, and the Philippines and Madagascar both export land to 18 countries.
By CNu at June 02, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Farmer Brown , food supply , food-powered , Livestock Management
macroscale musical chairs on the deck of the titanic...,
By CNu at June 02, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Farmer Brown , food supply , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , Livestock Management
Monday, June 01, 2015
is there a case for treason?
By CNu at June 01, 2015 0 comments
Labels: accountability , Obamamandian Imperative
american house and senate rife with corruption
- Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.
- The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
- The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.
- In just 24 hours, Wyden and five of those Democratic holdouts – Michael Bennet of Colorado, Dianne Feinstein of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Patty Murray of Washington, and Bill Nelson of Florida – caved and voted for fast-track.
- Bennet, Murray, and Wyden – all running for re-election in 2016 – received $105,900 between the three of them. Bennet, who comes from the more purple state of Colorado, got $53,700 in corporate campaign donations between January and March 2015, according to Channing’s research.
By CNu at June 01, 2015 0 comments
Labels: American Original , corporatism , egregores , Obamamandian Imperative
mexican military, federal, state, and municipal police rife with corruption
By CNu at June 01, 2015 5 comments
Labels: Collapse Crime , domestic terrorism , narcoterror , necropolitics , What IT DO Shawty...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
cheating and incompetent overseers messed up the simple task of confirming gang affiliation...,
By CNu at May 31, 2015 6 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , complications , Rule of Law
evolutionary criminology: towards a comprehensive explanation of crime
By CNu at May 31, 2015 0 comments
Labels: ethology , killer-ape
Saturday, May 30, 2015
thoughts on ross
By CNu at May 30, 2015 1 comments
Labels: common sense , Living Memory
renew patriot act with blanket application to all politicians, judges, flag officers and members of the senior executive service...,
By CNu at May 30, 2015 0 comments
Labels: accountability , governance , People Centric Leadership
Friday, May 29, 2015
is genocide human nature?
By CNu at May 29, 2015 0 comments
Labels: ethology , killer-ape , necropolitics
almost half of all people released from the prison system become homeless...,
By CNu at May 29, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , musical chairs
Thursday, May 28, 2015
hbd cats shame Bro.Feed the devil and swing for the fences..,
By CNu at May 28, 2015 13 comments
Labels: assimilate , change , clampdown , Possibilities
overseers bound and determined to be unseen...,
By CNu at May 28, 2015 0 comments
Labels: just-us , killer-ape , Rule of Law
inside the complex legal infrastructure that encourages — and covers up — overseer violence
By CNu at May 28, 2015 0 comments
Labels: FAIL , governance , Livestock Management
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
looking for the kill switch...,
By CNu at May 27, 2015 26 comments
Labels: cognitive infiltration , ethology , killer-ape , musical chairs
in a state of nature a strong man always eats first...,
The Justice referred in our conversation to his own years of trying civil rights claims. All you could hope for, he remarked, was that a court didn’t rule against you for illegitimate reasons; you couldn’t hope, and you had no right to expect, that a court would bend the rules in your favor. Indeed, the Justice continued, it was the very existence of rules — along with the judiciary’s felt obligation to adhere to them — that best protected unpopular parties. Contrary to some conservative critiques, Justice Marshall believed devoutly — believed in a near-mystical sense — in the rule of law. He had no trouble writing the Torres opinion.
By CNu at May 27, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , musical chairs , Rule of Law , unintended consequences
teleb an'em fitna school pinker...,
Contrary to current discussions, all statistical pictures thus obtained show that 1) the risk of violent conflict has not been decreasing, but is rather underestimated by techniques relying on naive year-on-year changes in the mean, or using sample mean as an estimator of the true mean of an extremely fat-tailed phenomenon; 2) armed conflicts have memoryless inter-arrival times, thus incompatible with the idea of a time trend. Our analysis uses 1) raw data, as recorded and estimated by historians; 2) a naive transformation, used by certain historians and sociologists, which rescales past conflicts and casualties with respect to the actual population; 3) more importantly, a log transformation to account for the fact that the number of casualties in a conflict cannot be larger than the world population.
By CNu at May 27, 2015 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , school
rotflmbao..., wattles and their "family research" council...,
By CNu at May 27, 2015 0 comments
Labels: CSC as ESS , de-evolution , the wattles , theoconservatism
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
who stands to profit from gunning down omgs in waco?
Talk
By CNu at May 26, 2015 2 comments
Labels: clampdown , Collapse Casualties , Collapse Crime , propaganda , Rule of Law
america cannot lock its poor people problem away
By CNu at May 26, 2015 2 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , musical chairs , What Now?
pensions and politics in illinois
By CNu at May 26, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , musical chairs , What Now?
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