‘New world Order’ Archives
2010 Earthquake Frequency Graphic »
We’ve gone from a couple Mag 7 earthquakes every other month to 2-3 per month. I can predict right now that September will have at least three Mag 7+ quakes. Before the end of the year, not a week will go by without a Mag 7+ quake. In a sane world, CERN would be shut down right after that. In our world, the CERNiacs will continue to insist [...]
Ripping Off Dead War Vets’ Beneficiaries »
A letter explained. As his beneficiary, she was entitled to $400,000 in death benefits along with something looking like a checkbook. The funds "would be placed in a convenient interest-bearing account, allowing her time to decide how to use" them, the letter saying: "You can hold the money in the account for safekeeping for as long as you like," [...]
Iraq: End of Combat Yields Surge of Contractors »
Even as President Obama claimed this week that the end of combat operations in Iraq "completes’’ a transition in which Iraqis have taken responsibility for their own security, he knows that the US pullout is not as thorough as he let on. The American presence takes the form not just of uniformed personnel — tens of thousands of whom will [...]
What Is ‘Dark Ecstasy’ And How Is It Used »
A lot of people wonder what makes humans capable of astonishing violence and savagery. Why is human history littered with war, violence, and brutality in so many forms? How come when we turn on the news we hear tales of serial killers, war, government insanity, rapists, arsonists, pedophiles, nuclear weaponry, vaccines and any other number of [...]
Let Stewardesses Land the Plane in a Crisis, Says »
Ryanair's ever-controversial boss has called for the second pilot to be dumped from the flight deck of aircraft to save money. Michael O'Leary suggested air stewardesses could be trained to take over and land the plane in the event of a crisis. The idea is the latest in a long line of cash-saving wheezes from the budget airline boss who once [...]
Churchill Was Like Hitler? »
Leo Amery, former UK Secretary of State for India, could see a similarity between Churchill's attitude to Indians and Hitler's attitude to Jews. (Churchill's Secret War.) In 1943, millions of people were dying of starvation in Bengal, in India. The UK prime minister Winston Churchill could easily have stopped the famine by arranging a few [...]
Guilty After Six-Year Trial, Portugal’s »
To most people Portugal's state-run orphanages seemed like a safe haven for thousands of children who had been robbed of their parents. They were called the Casa Pia, or Houses of the Pious. But for an elite paedophile ring, which included a former ambassador and a prominent television celebrity, Casa Pia orphanages were something entirely [...]