Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Jeb Bush ‘More Than Likely’ Eyeing 2016 Run
October 26th, 2014Via: CNN: Yet another Bush family member is weighing in on whether or not former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president in 2016. “I think it’s more than likely that he’s giving this a serious thought in moving forward,” his eldest son, George P. Bush, told ABC on Sunday. “If you had asked […]
Obama’s Ebola Czar Called Overpopulation Top Leadership Issue
October 23rd, 2014Flashback 2006: Professor: Wipe Out 90% of Humanity with Ebola Via: Gotnews: Democratic operative Ron Klain and his wife, Monica Medina, spoke with a Georgetown interviewer in 2008. “I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource […]
All the Markets Need Is $200 Billion a Quarter From the Central Bankers
October 21st, 2014Via: Bloomberg: The central-bank put lives on. Policy makers deny its existence, yet investors still reckon that whenever stocks and other risk assets take a tumble, the authorities will be there with calming words or economic stimulus to ensure the losses are limited. A put option gives investors the right to sell their asset at […]
Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – IP Chapter
October 16th, 2014Via: WikiLeaks: Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world’s largest economic trade agreement that will, if it comes into force, encompass more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The IP Chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, […]
Our Imperial Rulers Are Deranged: Leon Panetta’s Memoir Proves It
October 16th, 2014Via: David Stockman’s Contra Corner: Which brings us to the question of just what is being “defended” here. It sure isn’t South Korea, which would be obliterated in the event of a nuclear exchange with the North. So then what is it? The answer is the sacred principle of American “world leadership,” which supposedly gives […]
Meet the Prison Bankers Who Profit From the Inmates
October 1st, 2014Even by Cryptogon standards, this one is shocking. Via: Time: JPay and other prison bankers collect tens of millions of dollars every year from inmates’ families in fees for basic financial services. To make payments, some forego medical care, skip utility bills and limit contact with their imprisoned relatives, the Center for Public Integrity found […]
Vatican Archbishop Accused of Storing Tens of Thousands of Child Porn Files on Computer
September 29th, 2014Via: Inquisitr: The Vatican is facing a child porn scandal after former archbishop Jozef Wesolowski was accused of storing tens of thousands of illicit videos and photos featuring children. The 66-year-old Wesolowski was arrested earlier this week at the Vatican, making him the highest-ranking Vatican official to be investigated for child sex abuse. He is […]
Ello: Something’s Missing from the About Page
September 27th, 2014I was looking for some sort of social networking site or software that Cryptogon contributors could use in a post-Cryptogon era. I thought Ello might be worth considering—until I researched it a bit more. Check this out. Via: Aral Balkan: What I didn’t know at the time was that they’d taken $435,000 in seed funding […]
NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman Sachs
September 26th, 2014Via: ProPublica: In the spring of 2012, a senior examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York determined that Goldman Sachs had a problem. Under a Fed mandate, the investment banking behemoth was expected to have a company-wide policy to address conflicts of interest in how its phalanxes of dealmakers handled clients. Although Goldman […]
Scientists Make Airborne Ebola… In Laboratory Conditions Only *wink*
September 24th, 2014Via: Reuters: Ben Neuman, a Reading virologist who has been monitoring the Ebola epidemic since it began in Guinea, noted that under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, scientists have shown it is feasible to make Ebola transmit through air, but added: “So far there is no solid evidence that it actually happens out there in the […]
