Archon (Gnosticism) ... any of a number of world-governing powers... In the last decade we have seen an exponential change in the manipulation of basic human instincts through a technological and...
‘I've implied the junction of the organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange – and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined .’ Anthony Burgess explaining the title...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/the-coronavirus-test-are-you-a-clock-or-an-orange/
Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Directed by George Romero "I have always liked the 'monster within' idea. I like to think of zombies as being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters." - George...
Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Ga...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/what-if-the-children-dying-in-gaza-were-jews/
Contemporary baptized, corporatized and sanitized man rarely has the occasion to question his identity, and when he does a typical response might be, “I am product manager for a large retail ch...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/the-seven-pillars-of-the-matrix/
As gold broke below the psychologically important level of $1,200 an ounce late in December of 2013, the mainstream financial media burst with headlines like this one fromMarketwatch, "Gold’s S...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/gold-will-break-below-960-its-in-the-script/
Bill Keller, editorialist for The NY Times and former executive editor of the paper, has recently penned a strong attack on Vladimir Putin arguing that Putin’s leadership “deliberately distan...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/vladimir-vladimirovich-and-the-grey-lady/
Criminals leave signatures. There is consistency in their motives, methods, alibis and techniques. A detective from the Spanish National Police said that investigators knew within minutes of reac...
September was not a good month for the U.S. dollar. The world’s reserve currency is sustained in large part by the Petrodollar, the agreement by the Saudis and OPEC to price oil in dollars and ...
The Tide has Changed Since 9/11 the state’s power has grown exponentially and it’s ability to wage war and infiltrate a digitized populace has reached epic proportions, but the pendulum has r...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/syria-and-the-swinging-pendulum/
The Trayvon Martin affair was one of the most important media events in recent memory. The major networks spent endless hours of prime time discussing it, but what made the episode so exceptional...
A very small yet conscious minority has come to the realization that the current world regime is one giant corporate infomocracy that needs to be terminated with “extreme prejudice”, disengag...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/the-infomocracy-dilemma-revolution-or-disengagement/
Both Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann have extreme religious views. In Cantor's Zionism God expressly desires a piece of land in Middle East be ruled and occupied by Jews. Bachmann's Dominionism ...
The recent financial fireworks in the US and in Europe have made it clear that QE3 is close at hand. The third installment described herein is much more than just another revving up of the printi...
Bankers, War Mongers, Drug Dealers, The New York Times, The Military Industrial Complex, the Neo-Cons, The Wall Street Journal, The DEA, Organized Crime, The CIA, the FBI, The FDA, The Department...
After a tense week with world markets teetering on the edge of collapse Angela Merkle finally met with her French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy and they ended the seventh month chill in their once...
Arthur Rimbaud - 1872 All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some...
José TomásThe SP 500 hit an apocryphal low of 666 during the financial crisis in March of 2009 from which point it has surged to more than double in price in about two years. This bull market i...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/the-fake-bull-market-a-dollar-mirage/
The Money Lenders by Quentin Metsys - 1466 "I'm just a banker do doing God's work." Lloyd Blankfein Much has been said about both the moral hazard of banks being bailed out and people bailing out...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/the-moral-hazard-of-modern-banking-how-banks-create-and-destroy-money/
America’s once vibrant Republic has morphed into an imperial oligarchy. The regime has weaved a new dogma preached faithfully by pundits and politicians of both parties. As that dogma crumbles ...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/from-liberal-to-libertarian-bush-obama-and-the-final-bubble/
All the Usual Suspects In the last few years Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, Norman Podhoretz of Commentary, Charles Krauthammer of The Washinton Post, Bill Kristol from the The Weekly Standard...
https://www.unz.com/rbonomo/banging-the-drums-of-war-iran-and-the-neo-cons/
You know that screeching sound a balloon makes as it's about to burst? The world economy is the balloon and the slew of trillion dollar bailouts over the last two years were of the last bursts of...
It is a sad state of affairs for the Republic when the only people willing and able to speak the truth, the relevant truth, are its generals. In the last few months the USmilitary has taken the i...
In 1967 Time Magazine named the Baby Boomer Generation “Man of the Year”. It was the Summer of Love; they were trying to reach Nirvana by various means, fighting a war in Southeast Asia while...
Poster Says “Warning! A PLO agent in the White House.” In March of 2010 the the Israeli Interior Ministry decided to announce the construction of 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem while Unite...