“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
Does the future need cops?
“The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.
The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history may collect punitive damages from Exxon Mobil Corp., but not as much as a federal appeals court determined.
Justice David Souter wrote for the court that punitive damages may not exceed what the company already paid to compensate victims for economic losses, about $500 million compensation.”
You cannot today feed the world without genetically modified organisms,” Peter Brabeck, chairman of Nestlé, told the Financial Times. “We have the means to make agriculture sustainable in the long term. What we don’t see for the time being is the political will.
Prof. Quigley’s work on monetary systems and power in government has greatly, and silently, influenced American politics for years.
This link is to a complete interview on his research. Unfortunately, the interview is being promoted on Alex Jones’ site, but that does not take away from its significance or legitimacy.
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences…”
“Susumu Oda, a psychiatrist at Tezukayamagakuin University in Osaka Prefecture, cautiously pointed to the widening gap between rich and poor: “Young people may feel they are at a dead end, with no way out.” Oda added that as a lonely person spending much of his spare time on anime and Internet games, Kato might have regarded a random act of murder as a means of participating in society, and achieving something special…
Interesting thoughts on the nature of sin and how it may change from race to race, planet to planet.
Also, there are implicit arguments for multiple interpretations of a supposedly singular god.
Conspiracy theorists will argue this is preparation for “Full Disclosure” , ie that “they” are here now, but it might just be that the Vatican is hoping to find ways it can continue to assert it’s power in a world where information moves faster than a horse. Or maybe they are laying theoretical framework to get former christians back into the fold. Probably all three.
“The roster of current and former Family members includes senators, congressmen, Fortune 500 CEOs, generals and at least one Supreme Court justice. The Family does not publish membership lists, and its members are sworn to secrecy, so a full accounting is impossible.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been involved with the Family since 1993 when, as first lady, she joined a White House prayer circle for political wives. Clinton has also sought spiritual counseling from the current head of the Family, Doug Coe. Sharlet argues that Clinton’s longtime association with the Family has helped her forge working relationships with powerful religious conservatives such as Family member and anti-abortion crusader Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas….”
“A new book by photographer Richard Ross, Architecture of Authority, examines the way institutional buildings exert power over people. Ross managed to gain impressive access to all kinds of secretive or high-security buildings, from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to the supermax high-security Pelican Bay prison in California…”
