The ruling elite derives its power from the state. It is the state that helps the ruling elite to obtain various privileges such as subsidies, cartels and monopolies. Most big businessmen are not defenders of free competition but almost always want to try to protect themselves from competition with cartels and monopolies. It is usually the Big Business and especially the Big Banks who are the biggest monopolists. Thus revisionists from both the left and right point out that the basic structure of history has not changed. It is still a battle between freedom and state granted privileges.
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Study: China Soon to be World Leader in Artificial Intelligence
China is set to become the world leader in AI research, according to a ground-breaking study. Tech site VentureBeat had this to say: China will overtake Europe in artificial intelligence research paper output within the next four years if current trends continue, according to a report released today by business analytics company Elsevier. The report found that the U.S., home to tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, has ...
B of A’s 2018 Homebuyer Insights Report: More Millennials think it’s a Priority to Buy a Home than to Get Married or Have Kids
Millennials want to become homeowners more than they want to get married or have kids. A full 72 percent of millennials list owning a home as a top priority, according to Bank of America’s 2018 Homebuyer Insights Report, which surveyed 2,000 adults who currently own a home or plan to in the future. By contrast, 50 percent list getting married and 44 percent say having children ...
Study Shows Google Manipulating Search Results, Despite Promises
Over the years, there has been considerable discussion of Google's "filter bubble" problem. Put simply, it's the manipulation of your search results based on your personal data. In practice this means links are moved up or down or added to your Google search results, necessitating the filtering of other search results altogether. These editorialized results are informed by the personal information Google has on you (like ...
Huawei Technologies CFO, Ms. Meng Wanzhou, Arrested by Canadian Police at U.S. Request for Violating US-Iran Sanctions
Huawei Technologies chief financial officer (CFO) Ms. Meng Wanzhou was arrested by Canadian police on Saturday, while changing planes in Vancouver. Meng is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, who was previously an officer and engineer in China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ( “7-Dec-18 World View – Canada arrests the chief financial officer of China powerhouse Huawei”) Meng appeared in a Vancouver court on Friday, where ...
UK Parliament Seizes Internal Facebook Documents
In an attempt to hold Facebook accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, the U.K. Parliament has seized a cache of internal Facebook documents from an American software executive visiting the country for business. The Guardian reports that the U.K. Parliament has used their legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempts to hold the social media giant accountable for ...
Freelance Journalist Laura Loomer was Banned from Twitter for Criticizing a Politician’s Support of Female Genital Mutilation.
Laura had posted the following tweet addressing Muslim Democrat Ilhan Omar’s record of arguing against a bill banning female genital mutilation. Laura’s tweet stated: Isn’t it ironic how the twitter moment used to celebrate “women, LGBTQ, and minorities” is a picture of Ilhan Omar? Ilhan is pro-Sharia Ilhan is pro FGM. Under Sharia homosexuals are oppressed and killed. Women are abused and forced to wear the hijab. Ilhan ...
Report: Billionaire George Soros’ Investment Management Firm Sold Off Shares of Facebook, Netflix and Goldman Sachs just Before they Tumbled
Billionaire George Soros’ investment management firm has saved millions after completely selling off its shares of Facebook and slashing its stakes in Netflix and Goldman Sachs just before the stocks nosedived, a report said Wednesday. Soros Management Fund saved $17.7 million in the fourth quarter by dumping the three stocks, Barron’s reported. Goldman tumbled 15 percent in the fourth-quarter, while streaming-content giant Netflix plunged 29 percent since ...
Study: Safety of Safety Evaluation of Pesticides (Dow Chemical Faked Safety Studies on Brain-Damaging Chlorpyrifos)
We’ve known for a while that Monsanto buried the truth about Roundup weedkiller by ignoring concerns by its own scientists. Now it seems Dow Chemical Co. has been using the same playbook. Dow (renamed DowDuPont after its 2017 merger with DuPont) likely knew for decades that its widely used chlorpyrifos insecticide is harmful to humans—especially children and developing fetuses. But the company hid that information from ...
Muslim Terrorist Attempts to Murder Holder’s Fast and Furious Fall Guy in Black Site before being Saved by Another Political Prisoner
Former-U.S.-Army-soldier—turned—radical-Islamic-fighter Rodney Hamrick took 68-year-old former insurance executive Robert David Neal hostage inside of a federal facility. He bound Neal's hands behind his back, as well as his feet, and then executed him, ISIS-style, nearly severing his head. Next, Hamrick rushed 77-year-old Richard Warren and stabbed him a dozen times before his cry for help led Kurt Johnson, a fellow Christian, to run into the room ...
JPMorgan Gold-Spoofer Admits “Manipulating Precious Metals Markets” For Years
There was a time when the merest mention of gold manipulation in "reputable" media was enough to have one branded a perpetual conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil farm out back. That was roughly coincident with a time when Libor, FX, mortgage, and bond market manipulation was also considered unthinkable, when High Frequency Traders were believed to "provide liquidity", or when the stock market was said to ...
