Category: Aggregated

Apple CEO Tim Cook has one big hope for the future – that he lives to see the end of money. “…I’m hoping that I’m still going to be alive to see the elimination of money.” Speaking at a meeting for Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California earlier this month, Cook made it clear that he is firmly on the side of the war-on-cash establishment. “Because why would you have this stuff! Why go through all the expense of printing this stuff and then some people steal it, and you’ve got to worry about counterfeits and all these things,” he continued. As … Continue reading →

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The deluge of recent reporting regarding possible conflict with nuclear armed North Korea has somewhat obscured consideration of the much higher probability that Israel or even Saudi Arabia will take steps that will lead to a war with Iran that will inevitably draw the United States in. Israel is particularly inclined to move aggressively, with potentially serious consequences for the U.S., in the wake of the recent incident involving an alleged Iranian drone and the shooting down of an Israeli aircraft. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been repeatedly warning about the alleged threat along his northern border and has pledged that Israel … Continue reading →

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Since the days of Lord Novgorod, the great merchant city, the Russian lands were adorned with many a gleaming Golden Horde, though that term became far more sinister when it referred to the Mongol Empire that devasted Rus’, rather than that which filled the treasury. Now a Golden Horde has returned to Russia, but this time in the form precious metal, and just as she has eclipsed her ancient Eastern Foe, the Mongol Empire, now Russia’s gold reserves have waxed greater than her oriental ally China. Bloomberg reports: Russia has overtaken China as the fifth-biggest sovereign holder of gold, allowing it to diversify its foreign … Continue reading →

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As Americans continue to rage over the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Florida, expressing indignation at both the atrocity and efforts to impose (or reject) gun control, the U.S. government has acknowledged its own perpetual addiction to violence. According to two letters released by the federal government last week in response to an inquiry from Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, the U.S. plans to maintain its military presence in Syria and Iraq indefinitely, citing vague threats of terrorism. In one letter, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) David Trachtenberg responded to Kaine by justifying continued operations in Syria with the 2001 Authorization for … Continue reading →

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Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology.

Will Trump answer the call?