Award winning author and economics professor, Michel Chossudovsky, is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, which hosts the critically acclaimed website www.globalresearch.ca. On November 26, he will discuss the implications of the US-NATO military alliance on the Middle East and Central Asia. He will demonstrate how the global economic crisis is intimately related to the alliance’s war agenda.

Michel Chossudovsky is professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He has taught at universities and academic institutions in North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. He has also worked for several United Nations organizations and has acted as adviser to governments of developing countries. He is the author of several international best sellers including, “The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order” (2003), and “America’s War on Terrorism” (2005). His writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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It is worth considering just ‘what is’ cyberspace.  There’s a lot of stuff coming out now about human consciousnessand how the human mind is actually an electromagnetic field.  If true, then the Internet may not just be a tool for getting your daily dose of news, but a bridge between fields of consciousness.  An incredible “inner technology” may soon be accessible to all information geeks, and perhaps everyone in the future, called “telepathy”.  But, if so, we must take heed Postman’s warning: while it might be an exciting discovery to find that our wildest dreams may be coming true, we have to ask: what’s the problem to which this technology provides a solution? Who is going to use it?  And, what are the repercussions of it?  What kind of a world will it be, if our very thoughts are readable?  I surmise that this kind of technology will only serve humanistic objectives if the people themselves are in control of it.  How people will wrest control from those who currently monopolize the tools of modern society may be the penultimate struggle of our times.  There remains no doubt anymore that the monopolization of media by the corporatist oligarchy must end.  The old journalism is dead.  We need to manufacture our own dissent, rather than have consent manufactured for us. It seems to require self-design, which is appropriate for the birthing of a new global society, one which is truly autonomous and which breaks down the old propaganda that tribalized and demonized the world for us for so long.  An antidote to the psyops, meme warfare attacks and disinfo is the taking up of the tools into our own hands.

For more perspective, read here.

Anglo-Saxon Warlord’s Stash

Perhaps this fellow’s discovery is a harbinger of things to come for common men who’ve been fleeced by the big banks for several decades, intimating better times ahead for us all.  It’s like a symbol of all the elements of history coming together – the hoard is dated at around the 8th or 9th century, the era of the rule of kings and their gold-encrusted goblets, of feudalism and serfdom, debt slavery much like the debt slavery we have being foisted upon us now.  It has all the elements of a good historical novel.  Some warlord, in his greed,  had to stash away one of the biggest bags of loot in history, and probably died never having been able to enjoy the spoils at all.  I hope that’s what’s in store for our modern day feudal lords who are the beneficiaries of all that looting that went on in the Dark Ages.  That’s their karma for having done away with fundamental rights the common man had to give his blood for, such as the writ of  Habeas corpus. But as they strip away our human and civil rights one by one, the minutes tick by as well, making a mockery of the heists they pull off, and making the tricks they use to hide the truth of their subversion of the rule of law and true free market principles fully transparent.  There are many, like the hundreds of thousands who marched on Washington just ten days ago, or the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, or the UN General Assembly, who see through the facade of the mainstream propaganda, and know that it doesn’t matter anymore how much they debase the US currency, monetize their debt which continues to finance violence and destruction, or how multifaceted a tapestry of lies they erect around them, for the gold which they have forsaken long ago will eventually surface again sometime, perhaps in a field in Staffordshire, perhaps as a backing for a new ‘basket of currencies’, or as the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee infers, as empty inventories in the big central bank gold vaults – gone – used in swaps to suppress the price of gold.

Many of the world’s elite still live in castles, real or imagined.  They’re still fascinated with the warlord’s power and gilded shields.  But, theirs is a home of darkness, a lonely promontory of greed and guilt.  They can take all the riches they like from the world, because as all material things must, the loot will one day be buried as deeply as the evil men who stole it.  As one of my favorite historical novelists, Henry Treece,  penned in 1959,

“They call it a castle, the men who created it,”

His cold eye a-glittering, said eagle to lark.

“Be still and you’ll hear all the gold trumpets speaking-

But not the deep groans of the men in the dark.”

Here is the original article from the Times Online.

Here’s a list of suppliers of solar equip. Could be useful one day!

I just read this article which mentions the latest moves of the world’s leading producer, Barrick, then found this old coot’s interesting perspective on youtube. This was back in January. Now, the Chinese are encouraging their citizens to invest in precious metals.