Category Archives: Globalism

Those Nazi bastards, again?

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The Archbishop of Canterbury. Photo: CC/Stephen Punter

The head  of the Anglican church warns many economies are going the way of Nazi Germany.

(Hitler boasted that his form of socialism was superior to that of the Soviets.)

Cue the “shocked” and “disappointed” pols, who will decry the mention of the Nazis in the same breath as the mega-rich.

LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams warned Monday that governments should not pursue dogmatic solutions to the financial crisis at the risk of the most vulnerable, saying that is what the Nazis did.

via AFP: Archbishop warns of dangers of economic dogma.

The Queen: "I'm in charge here."

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Tough lady. Photo: CC/Edgley Cesar

Just as Alan Watt said last week in his Republic Broadcasting Network radio show, Cutting Through the Matrix, the Queen of England is fully in charge of the Commonwealth’s parliaments.

Her Royal Highness broke up Canada’s scrum through the end of January, to protect her boy in the PM’s office…

Governor General Michaelle Jean — the representative of Queen Elizabeth, Canada’s head of state — agreed to Harper’s request to shut down Parliament until Jan 26. Parliament was reconvened just weeks ago after the October 14 election.

Harper’s request for suspension was unprecedented. No prime minister had asked for Parliament to be suspended to avoid a confidence vote in the House of Commons.

via Canadian PM wins suspension of Parliament | International | Reuters.

Google + P&G = RFID + data mining

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Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement.

All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu

This item (excerpt, link, below) is about more than a cross-cultural exchange between two of the largest data-gathering giants on Earth.

I say, welcome to the Internet of Things. P&G wants all of its goods to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each of us to the individual items we purchase with credit or customer loyalty cards.

Google is also already in the locative business, through Google Flu Trends, and as the co-investor (with former CIA, Bechtel and Bin Laden family officials) in a company deploying a wireless grid over San Francisco.

Now, imagine a search engine, accessible to government agencies only, which could light-up a Google Earth map with everything you ever paid for, anywhere on the planet.

At Procter & Gamble Co., the corporate culture is so rigid, employees jokingly call themselves “Proctoids.” In contrast, Google Inc. staffers are urged to wander the halls on company-provided scooters and brainstorm on public whiteboards.

Now, this odd couple thinks they have something to gain from one another — so they’ve started swapping employees. So far, about two-dozen staffers from the two companies have spent weeks dipping into each other’s staff training programs and sitting in on meetings where business plans get hammered out. The initiative has drawn little notice. Previously, neither company had granted this kind of access to outsiders.

via Media Info Center

2012: "Internet interrupted"

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The internet is doomed. But £96 billion can fix all that.

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Nemertes Research reckons that 2012 could be a crunch year for the web, as the exaflood (my emphasis–mb) – an exponential explosion of online content resulting from new applications and video – causes slower responses and time outs, ultimately triggering an ‘innovation slowdown’.

via Internet needs £91bn to avoid ‘brownouts’ | News | TechRadar UK

Nemertes has made similar calls for governments to fund the growth of the net.

WaterMill gadget: Not-so-cost effective?

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Some readers of my Boston Globe column today caught a glitch (and a few of those got their knickers twisted) over my thoughts about the WaterMill, a device that sucks drinking water out of the air.

Here’s one very reasonable remark, from “Dave-P-2“:

The WaterMill, although sounding like a good idea, costs $2,000 and takes 11.0 cents of energy to produce a gallon — up to three gallons per day.

I’m all for alternative energy sources, but Mark, do you really think this cool device “should take a bite out of the water bill for most families”?

via These retro phones won’t bust the budget – The Boston Globe

Touché. In my piece, I should have written, “bottled water costs.” But with the solar panel powering the WaterMill, which I do mention, you could theoretically begin making potable water for free.

I also understand that many people prefer the taste, the fluoride and the low costs they get with their municipal water supplies. They also trust the government more than themselves to provide clean water for their families.

Coming soon: Mark Baard's "Fret Level"

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No one is immune from the fret agenda. CC/Kerys

No one is immune from the fret agenda. CC/Kerys

I’m starting this week on a new site for my new show, “Fret Level.” And when I read stories like this one, from the Las Vegas Sun (excerpt, link, below), I am reassured that my timing is good.

The show, streamed via Live 365 and downloadable via iTunes, will focus on the electronic means used by governments to control the behaviors of large populations. (Personal technologies, and ubiquitous computing devices are a part of that.)

Terror has served governments well: the fear of it, the witch-hunter’s desire to stamp it out, the corporations’ desire to capitalize on it. All are behind what is making us feel ill, with no apparent reason.

“We are bombarded with information about our alert status and we’re told to report suspicious-looking characters,” Penn said. “That primes people to be more paranoid.”

Traumatic events can make people more vulnerable to having paranoid thoughts. Since the attacks, Penn said Americans have been conditioned to be more vigilant of anything out of the ordinary.

While heightened awareness may be good thing, Penn said it can also lead to false accusations and an atmosphere where strangers are negatively viewed.

That can result in more social isolation, hostility, and possibly even crime. And it can take a toll on physical health. More paranoia means more stress, a known risk factor for heart disease and strokes.

Still, some experts said that a little bit of paranoia could be helpful.

“In a world full of threat, it may be kind of beneficial for people to be on guard. It’s good to be looking around and see who’s following you and what’s happening,” Combs said. “Not everybody is trying to get you, but some people may be.”

via Paranoia on the rise, experts say – Las Vegas Sun

UN uber alles: Rules establish reign from outer space

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Note: This is a lightly edited version of the piece Alan Watt read last night on his radio program, Cutting Through the Matrix (Fri., Nov. 7, 2008).–mb

Announcement encourages lowly earthlings to salute global governance

The European Space Agency next Friday will launch a copy of the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to a permanent spot aboard a space lab orbiting the Earth.

It’s a symbolic gesture, celebrating an empty promise, which the UN made 60 years ago to protect the world’s most vulnerable people.

“In recognition of the fact that human beings are at times downtrodden, the Declaration can symbolically find its place ‘above’ all the peoples of the world,” ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts said in an announcement (link, below).

The Universal Declaration promises freedom from bondage, and a handful of other rights that only a psychopath could find objectionable.

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Secretary-General Trygve Lie and Chief Architect W.K Harrison depositing copies of the UN Charter and the UDHR while laying the corner stone for the secretariat building, NY, 1949. Credit: UN Photo

But the Universal Declaration is more than a list of shared values.

It also includes passages that strip away individual liberties and increase the power of the State.

One example:

According to Article 29 of the Universal Declaration, if exercising your human rights brings you into conflict with “the purposes and principles of the United Nations,” your rights become null and void.

via ESA Portal – Universal Declaration of Human Rights flies into space

"Wheelchair guy" to humanity: "You can't win"

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The Corpus Clock, designed by Professor Stephen Hawking and Dr. John C. Taylor, is meant to remind us that time eats everything, it always wins. The U. of Cambridge video, below, details the occult-styled clock, which features a gargoyle eating up the seconds on a monstrous, metal flywheel.

Note: The T.V. character Homer Simpson once greeted Hawking, in a guest appearance by the world’s most famous physicist, as “that wheelchair guy.”

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That's rich: Lady de Rothschild calls Obama "elitist"

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It’s the strongest signal yet from the global elite about who they want in the White House.

Former Hillary Clinton backer Lynn Forester de Rothschild (right) threw her support behind Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain today, after calling Democratic candidate Barack Obama an “elitist.”

That’s got to be a first for a Rothschild, unless there is a “down-to-earth” member of the family I haven’t heard about.

From her Lady de Rothschild’s bio, at the Financial Access Initiative, where she is an advisor: (de Rothschild) is a member of the Chatham House, Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association, and she served as a member of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and as the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under President Clinton.

Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.

In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

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