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  • US plans for militarisation of megacities

    US plans for militarisation of megacities

    Scene from Megacities, a movie by the US Army
    US Army video warns that war in the megacity will be very messy

    The Pentagon is preparing US police and armed forces for a brutal and anarchic future in which the apparatus of the state is in locked in constant battle with the people.

    This is the premise of a 2014 video made by the US Army called Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity currently being shown at the Pentagon Joint Special Operations University.

    The five minute movie encourages various armed forces to prepare sophisticated military responses against hundreds of thousands of disposessed citizens.

    Author Mike Davis describes the movie is a military fantasy. “It’s absurd to think that special ops can be used to control a mega-city,” he told web publisher, The Intercept.

    Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities

    According to a startling Pentagon video the future of global cities will be brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. That’s the scenario outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University.

    https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities/

    and the video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9ZV_eFd3I

     

  • The Cage redefines nomenclature for the uber-wealthy

    The Cage redefines nomenclature for the uber-wealthy

    A dollar in the cage
    Who is the one per crore?

    Philip Adams is interviewing Brooke Hamilton in repeat as I type. Listen here. They are discussing the theft of wealth by those running the neo-liberal agenda. Both broadcasters keep referring to “the one percent”.

    One percent of the world’s population is 70 million people. There are many more millionaires than that in the world, so the 70 million wealthiest people in the world represent a serious pile of gold bars but they are not the ones calling the shots.

    The one per lakh, on the other hand, is the 70,000 people who control wealth beyond what you or I can imagine. A lakh is the Vedic name for our 100,000.

    In the number system used across South Asia, the next order of magnitude that gets a name is the Crore. The Crore is ten of our million, or 100 lakh, it is written, 1,00,00,000. The Vedic system uses commas ever two orders of magnitude after the first three.

    The one per crore, then, is the 700 people who actually control the wealth. The Rothschilds, the British Royal Family and so on. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have probably made it into this particular elite, the oil sheiks and major arms dealers will be in there as well.

    The Cage, therefor has decided to talk about the one per crore and the one per lakh when appropriate and use the one percent when we specifically want to refer to the very wealthy 70 million who are stinking rich, but who are really just ordinary people with a lot of money.