Matlock Report
Where MARKETS ↔ TECHNOLOGY ↔ GOVERNMENTS Interconnect
Engaging with Persians living in the West, colleagues, friends and lovers, I have seen and experienced Persia’s beauty and passion! But before one dances “Through the Looking-Glass” of Persia does one really need to first fly down rabbit holes to be surprised? Not so. Learning Farsi is its own sweet reward. U.S. State of Maryland’s …
Watching the 1940 film “Virginia City,” circa U.S. Civil War, brought back memories of my visit to the actual Virginia City in Nevada – eerie feeling of a ghost town’s dead silence. Braving myself, I walked slowly to the grave yard. At first glance, the earth appeared to be rejecting the solid pieces of concrete …
“The importance of economic facts may not be obvious to Americans. ‘What does the fish know about the water in which it swims?’ asked Albert Einstein … Because they’re not recorded in public memory systems, they cannot be written up as facts and are, in effect, invisible. All we have are shadow markets.” – Hernando …
“The alliance between American capitalism and Nazi Germany helped Hitler implement an armaments program that was unprecedented at the time, and to begin the world war in which the Holocaust took place.” – Nadan Feldman DuPont, let’s remind the world of what you’ve done these past hundred years since your founding two centuries ago. In …
“If there were machines which bore a resemblance to our body and imitated our actions…we should always have two very certain tests by which to recognise…they were not real men.” – Descartes In any case, we need to ask ourselves: Who is really the monster? The creature or its creator? Cryonics “captivates the hearts and …
Steve Jobs, the man behind the “iPhone,” is himself a product of a time and an idea of having the “Whole Wide World in your Hands.” A beautiful illusion of how with a “smartphone” you can “hold your life in your hand” – texting and sharing it all. When in reality, it is the toymaker …
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” –Voltaire Facebook’s Founder stated “We are not a media company, we’re a tech company.” Zuckerberg’s remark is like a porn director saying, “We’re not a porn company, we’re a film company.” Each runs a business using technology – computer and camera. One sells sex …
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned . . . to ministries of propaganda, newspaper …
Man is not the “measure of all things.” WoMen have both power and ability to create you or end you – Heroes and Monsters. No matter your primitive papered laws. Man spends his entire life looking to his Father’s approval. But when fear sets in, he calls to his Mother. In the high seas and …
Voz de la guitarra mía Al despertar la mañana Quiere cantar su alegría A mi tierra mexicana Yo le canto a sus volcanes A sus praderas y flores Que son como talismanes Del amor de mis amores México Lindo y Querido Si muero lejos de ti Que digan que estoy dormido Y que me traigan aquí Song by Jorge Negrete Source Lyrics Our …