Our Thanks, To Nikki Finke EXCLUSIVE: The auction ended late Friday night and I’ve been putting together what happened ever since. Certainly you’ll recall the big cool quotient around Machete, that famously fake trailer by Robert Rodriguez from Grindhouse. It was considered the single best thing about that Weinstein Co double-feature flop that also included …
CIA Deploys a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? Prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month …
Reaching out during pain and loss, Thank You Jessica AMERICA SUPPORTS SOLDEIRS Since being crowned Miss Teen Minnesota International in 2009, a position she will hang onto until March 6, 2010, 17-year-old Jessica Scheu has been promoting her platform – Soldier’s Angels – and its message: “May no soldier go unloved.” In her work with …
Submitted by Econophile on 01/22/2010 >>UPDATE 2-‘Avatar’ replaces ‘Titanic’ in record books Q: Is Avatar a metaphor for “capitalism? Q: Is the rape of another planet capitalism? Q:Is the movie left wing Hollywood schlock propaganda? Q: Is the movie marvelous entertainment? Q: Is it also something else? * * * * * Here are some …
ONCE INSIDE THE WALLS THEY PLUNDER EVERYTHING BY STEALTH In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users’ privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only …
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It is important to put a price on nature Jan 18th 2010 THE insight that nature provides services to mankind is not a new one. In 360 BC Plato remarked on the helpful role that forests play in preserving fertile soil; in their absence, he noted, the land was turned into desert, like the bones …
Editors Choice Jeff Rubin, former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller January 19, 2010 Triple Digiit Oil and Economic Change Triple digit oil and the economic change that it would bring is something that intrigues, and will have a cascading …
Editors Comments Yeah, I’ll admit it. I still like Tiger Woods. Tiger Before the barrage of accusations and floozies exploded all over every media outlet, I was a casual Tiger Woods fan. But I was a fan, no less. When I’d watch golf on TV, it would be to watch Tiger, because he was always …
Editor’s Comment: The writing below is now 15 years-old. But it is as true today, and will be into whatever future humanity has left, as it was when written. It isn’t a message about the futility of our existence, but about the stupidity of our devices and desires. It is meant to signal that we …
AFGHANISTAN: The Grand Chess Game for Control of Central Asian Resources By Michael Cayne Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 Though not being reported in the mainstream American press, there is a very intense struggle going on between the U.S. and China to determine which nation will emerge as the dominant presence in Central Asia. These two …