DAVOS MAN: "A soulless man, technocratic, nationless and cultureless, severed from reality. The modern economics that undergirded Davos capitalism is equally soulless, a managerial capitalism that reduces economics to mathematics and separates it from human action and human creativity."I've written several posts examining the dangerous cluelessness inherent throughout the ranks of the oligarch class over the past several years. One of my earliest and most viral pieces was published two years ago and titled, An Open Letter to Sam Zell: Why Your Statements are Delusional and Dangerous. That article was a response to the billionaire's appearance on Bloomberg during which he instructed the less financially fortunate to "emulate the 1%," as if their destitution was a result of personal shortcomings as opposed to egregious structural flaws inherent in the rigged, crony, oligarch-controlled Banana Republic economy billionaires such as himself helped mold. Here's an excerpt:
- From the post: "For the Sake of Capitalism, Pepper Spray Davos"
Society's Child
The grand jury deliberated from 9:00am into early evening on Thursday, before indicting Olsen on two felony murder counts, one aggravated assault count, one making a false statement count, and two violation of oath by a public officer counts.
Hill, who was 27 at the time of his death on March 9 last year, was shot twice in the chest by Olsen. The events of that day began with neighbors calling police about a naked man's outlandish behavior. Witnesses said Hill jumped from his second floor apartment balcony twice, climbed the side the building, and ran and crawled around the premises, all while naked and speaking incomprehensibly.
Hill, an Air Force veteran, was mentally ill, and according to his family's attorney was medically discharged after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013.Olsen, who had previously undergone training on dealing with mentally ill people, gave repeated commands to Hill to stop where he was, but when Hill continued toward Olsen, the officer pulled his service weapon and fired twice. Hill was carrying nothing, and Olsen did not use the Taser or pepper spray he was carrying at the time.
Afterward, Olsen said he feared for his life, and that Hill was likely on PCP or a similar drug. Different witnesses at the time said Olsen approached either normally or menacingly.
Comment: A New York appeals court judge once said that District Attorneys have so much influence over grand juries, you could literally 'indict a ham sandwich'. It remains to be seen if any of these bullies in blue will be held accountable for their state-sanctioned terror and the wholesale murder of innocent people.
"My defense was I was trying to save my dogs," Joyner told News 6. "I got out of the house period, and then I realized, 'Oh, wait a minute, my dogs are in there,'" Joyner recalled. "So, I went back in the house to look for my dogs." Joyner tried to go back in the house several times, but was overcome by the smoke.
Joyner told the news station that he eventually grabbed a firefighter's ax off the ground, and smashed it through a front window so that he could rescue the canines. Instead, he was tackled by deputies. Brevard County sheriff's deputies said that Joyner disobeyed orders by firefighters, and kept going inside his own house to save his dogs.
Deputies caused injuries to Joyner's face, took him to a local hospital and then him booked at the Brevard County Jail for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. "I think at the most, he should've took me aside, and if he felt that it needed to be, cuffed me and put me in his squad car until things settled," Joyner said.

Quinn Schansman, a dual U.S.-Dutch citizen killed aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014.
One of the mysteries of the MH-17 case has become why the United States - after asserting that it possessed information implicating ethnic Russian rebels and the Russian government - has failed to make the data public or apparently even share it with Dutch investigators who are leading the inquiry into how the plane was shot down and who was responsible.
Quinn Schansman, who had dual U.S.-Dutch citizenship, boarded MH-17 along with 297 other people for a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014. The 19-year-old was planning to join his family for a vacation in Malaysia.
In a letter to Kerry dated Jan. 5, 2016, Thomas J. Schansman, Quinn's father, noted Kerry's remarks at a press conference on Aug. 12, 2014, when the Secretary of State said about the Buk anti-aircraft missile suspected of downing the plane: "We saw the take-off. We saw the trajectory. We saw the hit. We saw this aeroplane disappear from the radar screens. So there is really no mystery about where it came from and where these weapons have come from."
At the time this screen cap was taken, over 41,000 votes were cast and Donald Trump was, by far, in the lead.
But what's more interesting is where Jeb Bush is.
Considering Drudge is a conservative, it's not that much of a surprise to find Hillary at the bottom of the poll. What is funny, however, is that Jeb has even fewer votes than Hillary.
Because America would rather rake itself naked over a cactus than have either of these two as "Commander in Chief".
The Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center is one of nine... "secure Regional Juvenile Detention Centers that provide secure detention to all counties in Kentucky. The Detention Centers provide programs with a wide range of services including: education, counseling, acute medical and mental health care, behavior management, observation and assessment, as well as continuous supervision. Lincoln Village RJDC is a 44-bed facility and serves youths ages 11 to 18 over a 13 county area."
That came from this job application... and if that's not creepy enough, they're looking for a registered nurse. Top of the list of his/her duties?
Administering and charting medications/injections:
Samuel's public defender asked Tina Samuel to explain what her husband trained her son to do to zombies. "To shoot them in the head and chop off their head," she testified. "That's the only way to kill a zombie."
Eldon Samuel, 16, is on trial for murder in the March 2014 killing of his father and his 13-year-old brother. The Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney's office concluded its case Tuesday, and lawyers for Samuel began calling their witnesses from a list of more than 200 names.
Tina Samuel spoke of her relationship with the boy's father, Eldon Samuel Jr., as well as his habits and demeanor when the family lived together in the Modesto, California, area. She said JR, as she called her husband, was high on prescription medication much of the time, and she admitted she was as well, "off and on."
JR also often played violent video games, she said. "It would be zombie video games - just killing zombies," she said. He also played "Call of Duty," a first-person shooter game, she recalled. JR began playing these games with his son Eldon when the boy was as young as 4 or 5, Tina Samuel said.
The family moved frequently, usually because of eviction. "JR wouldn't pay the rent and bills," she said. JR worked part of the time as a mechanic and had injured himself at work a couple of times. He began taking medication for a shoulder injury and never stopped, she said.
"He was moody. He was high a lot, controlling, physically and mentally abusive," Tina Samuel testified, adding that the behavior grew worse over time. JR owned a 9 mm handgun, which he kept tucked in the back of his waistband, she said. The family sometimes went camping in a trailer in secluded spots high in the California mountains, she testified. JR would bring guns and knives on those trips and show his boys how to use the weapons, including cutting the head and tail off a rattlesnake, she said.
Comment: A surviving the hysteria tip: Ditch the Playstation. See also:
- SOTT Talk Radio: Cosmic Catastrophe, Drones and Social Hysteria
- Is Solar and Cosmic Radiation Playing Havoc With Life on Planet Earth?

Noah Chamberlin's body was found Thursday in Tennessee. He had been missing for a week.
John Gaters, pastor of the church, played Carry Me on the piano while his wife Angela watched.
The words were comforting, Gaters said. "Through the storm keep me safe, through the tears and all my shame, carry me."
After seven days of searching, authorities found Noah's body about a mile and a half to two miles from where he went missing. His body was found between 1 and 4 p.m. in a small clearing. The announcement was made at Pinson Baptist Church, where news conferences had been held during the search. The church was also headquarters for volunteer efforts.
Andy Morris, pastor of The Highlands in Chester County, said Noah's family wants him to be remembered as a boy who brought a community together.
"And they're asking right now that they have time to mourn and to love on each other as they go through this time of loss," Morris said. "But at the same [time], they beg you to continue to pray and continue to keep this heart of service and heart of compassion for other people and other humans.
Comment: Our condolences to the family!
Elements of the disappearance of Noah Chamberlin all to familiar in the book Missing 411: Read:
Mustafa al Shamiri, 37, had been detained under the pretenses of being a senior Al-Qaeda trainer in Afghanistan.
The so-called Periodic Review Board (PRB), however, came to a much different conclusion on December 1 when they heard his case. The board found that "most of the derogatory prior assessments ... have been discredited and the current information shows that the detainee has low level military capability," according to The Washington Post.
Shamiri, who is only in fact a "run-of-the-mill jihadist," was linked to the more high-profile activities of other extremists because of their similar names, and spent 13 years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
"They had three informants in this case that were looking for people to get in trouble," Ashraf Nubani told reporters on Tuesday, after the preliminary court hearing for Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, arrested Friday on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism.
Elhassan, 25, is a US permanent resident of Sudanese origin. The government charges him of aiding Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 28, who allegedly wanted to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The federal complaint against the men says that Farrokh planned to travel via Richmond International Airport, to Jordan and then to Syria.
Comment: The FBI is a one-trick pony. Can't find Islamic terrorists to drum up the hysteria and increase Islamophobia? The answer is simple: manufacture it. Not a week goes by, it seems, that we do not see a similar story.














Comment: The only thing left out of the fine article above, is that many of the attitudes held by the individuals the author is discussing are quite likely psychopaths.