Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Goldman Sachs Steals Open Source Code, Jails Coder
April 13th, 2014This is an excerpt from, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis. Via: Cryptome: He didn’t fully understand how Goldman could think it was okay to benefit so greatly from the work of others and then behave so selfishly toward them. “You don’t create intellectual property,” he said. “You create a program that […]
‘The Astounding Conspiracy Theories of Wall Street Genius Mark Gorton’
April 12th, 2014Via: Gawker: This week, we were forwarded documents that Gorton was sending out to employees at Tower Research. These documents—embedded at the bottom of this post—are essays by Mark Gorton, laying out his theories on the secret high-level murderous criminal “Cabal” that is responsible for, among other things, the JFK and RFK assassinations, the presidential […]
SEC Trial Lawyer: Agency’s Penalties Have Become, “At Most a Tollbooth on the Bankster Turnpike”
April 11th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too “tentative and fearful” to bring many Wall Street leaders to heel after the 2008 credit crisis, echoing the regulator’s outside critics. James Kidney, who joined the SEC in 1986 and retired this month, offered the critique in a speech […]
Sebelius Finished
April 10th, 2014You’ll love the replacement, Sylvia Mathews Burwell: Walmart Foundation: Check Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Check Rhodes Scholar: Check Via: BBC: US health secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning following the problematic launch of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, US media report. The law – regarded by the president’s supporters as one of his main domestic […]
Britain: Students Paying Back Loans Into Their 50s and Beyond
April 9th, 2014Via: BBC: Most students will still be paying back loans from their university days in their 40s and 50s, and many will never clear the debt, research finds. Almost three-quarters of graduates from England will have at least some of their loan written off, the study, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, says. The trust says […]
Hundreds of Millions of Pounds Wasted on Tamiflu
April 9th, 2014Via: BBC: Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said. The UK has spent £473m on Tamiflu, which is stockpiled by governments globally to prepare for flu pandemics, The Cochrane Collaboration claimed the drug did not prevent the […]
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
April 9th, 2014Via: Reader Supported News: Ever since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, Washington and its European allies have worked openly and covertly to extend NATO to the Russian border and Black Sea Fleet, provoking a badly wounded Russian bear. They have also worked to bring Ukraine and its Eastern European neighbors into the neoliberal […]
Takeda, Lilly Jury Awards $9 Billion Over Actos Cancer Risks
April 9th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. were ordered to pay a combined $9 billion in punitive damages after a federal court jury found they hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine in the first U.S. trial of its kind.
Catherine Austin Fitts: The UFO Economy
April 5th, 2014Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Trevor Paglen
The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves
April 4th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: The rallying cry of the Occupy Movement was that the richest 1 percent of Americans is getting richer while the rest of us struggle to get by. That’s not quite right, though. The bottom nine-tenths of the 1 Percent club have about the same slice of the national wealth pie that they had […]
