Tag Archives: George Soros

billion dollar bash

Living in dangerous times. Currency wars have been on the fringe of public consciousness for some time, mainly as as an echo of anti-China sentiment on their dumping practices into north American markets. However we are on the verge of … Continue reading

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sheldon,enough already with the charity

The house always wins. Thats the underlying credo in gambling. And if you own the house, you get to form the policies, structures and procedures that give you the natural bias to exceed the returns of the participants. Does the … Continue reading

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good men in a storm?…raising canaan

It was believed that secular Zionism of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century was conceived to offer something distinct from the assimilationist currents that the Enlightenment and secular humanism was conceptually formulated to bring about. It was a ruse, … Continue reading

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drifters escape

To watch these debates between two sides that speak a foreign language to each other. The Peace Now camp links their success to the apparatus of the legal and legislative tools of the nation state. The rule of law and … Continue reading

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Pat robertson: reefer madness

Pat Robertson. Certainly an unlikely candidate for the legalization of Marijuana. An odd juxtaposition that places him shoulder to shoulder with the likes of George Soros, who as an ardent advocate, should arouse more than passing suspicion. Soros talks about … Continue reading

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Havel enough

There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading

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the fab four

Is Occupy Wall Street an authentic movement or just a fad? Or, is the “real” just a metaphor for mass-produced and generic with an expiry date? Can an authentic movement lose its eternal qualities and become a fad? It is … Continue reading

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WMD: cook the books

Leveraged exchange traded funds or ETF’s….These financiers. Morbidly earthbound figures, weighed down by the heavy change in their pockets. Without that primitive anchor of coin rooting them to the soil, they would float away into a void, a kind of … Continue reading

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like necking with siamese twins

Why should violence be disavowed? After all, its just part of a tragic narrative seen within the context of the world’s greater failure and shortcomings. Perhaps, if we can remove the varnish of its mythology, we can, as Jean Genet … Continue reading

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the attraction of youth

There is, one can imagine very few among us that are attracted to creepy, old wrinkled flesh. What is the attraction of youth. The quest for the younger mate. Is attraction to beauty built into our psychological makeup? That volatile … Continue reading

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