Archive for the 'Elite' Category
British Tycoon Impaled on Spikes Following 60ft Fall from Luxury London Penthouse
December 10th, 2014Update: Scot Young Via: Telegraph: A financier at the heart of one of Britain’s biggest divorce battles has died after falling from his £3 million home and impaling himself on iron railings. Scot Young, 52, suffered horrific injuries after plummeting four storeys from a window of his luxury central London penthouse. His death comes almost […]
Why Elon Musk’s Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company
December 9th, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: Bloomberg: At a sagebrush-strewn industrial park outside of Reno, Nevada, bulldozers are clearing dirt for Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s battery factory, projected to be the world’s largest. Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, sees the $5 billion facility as a key step toward making electric cars more […]
Betting On The ‘Other’ Oil Black Swan
December 9th, 2014Via: ZeroHedge: That said, if oil prices go “too low”, there are some very powerful State actors who could become incentivized to precipitate a geopolitical crisis in order to get oil prices back up. E.g. a Saudi Arabian spring, or an attack on a major pipeline? The ISIS-sponsored attack in November in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich […]
Energy Crisis: Turn the Wind Turbines Off When the Electricity Prices Get Too Low
December 7th, 2014What we’re dealing with in New Zealand is sort of mini, South Pacific version of Enron. —New Zealand: Commercial Solar Boom Underway Most people in New Zealand haven’t heard of Enron’s numerous and insidious scams, but they should familiarize themselves with what happened: Before passage of the deregulation law, there had been only one Stage […]
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
December 6th, 2014Oh yes, the big “mystery” as to why the Taliban cut off opium production baffles Rolling Stone. 9/11 scratches more itches than anyone in the corporate media could possibly imagine. I’d say that one of main purposes of 9/11 was to restart the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of heroin money into the […]
As Oil Prices Plunge, Wide-Ranging Effects for Consumers and the Global Economy
December 2nd, 2014Via: Washington Post: Tumbling oil prices are draining hundreds of billions of dollars from the coffers of oil-rich exporters and oil companies and injecting a much-needed boost for ailing economies in Europe and Japan — and for American consumers at the start of the peak shopping season. The result could be one of the biggest […]
U.S. Navy Pushes Solar Energy Storage Solution
December 1st, 2014Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. Via: CleanTechnica: We just got wind of a major new oil industry campaign to tear down California’s clean energy rules, but we’re thinking these guys are going to be outflanked by the shockingly rapid growth of the energy storage sector. Case in point: the Navy Mobile […]
Jeb Bush’s Four Mysterious Companies Share The Same Address And Have Never Done Any Known Business
November 30th, 2014Via: Think Progress: Jeb Bush and his capital investment company have set up several companies that, despite being registered to his office and being approved for “any and all lawful business,” have seemingly not yet done anything. A ThinkProgress review of corporate registration records with the Florida Department of State revealed several companies registered in […]
Who’s Making Money Off The War On Drugs?
November 28th, 2014Via: AJ+:
Oil Down 6.88% On OPEC Strategy to Destroy U.S. Shale Business
November 27th, 2014Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’ll be dusting off some capital for an eventual long side play. However, there’s a part of me, a gut feeling, that thinks that the shale apocalypse will just continue on somehow. Crude Oil Jan 15 (CLF15.NYM) -NY Mercantile 68.62 Down […]
