Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Bayou Corne: The Biggest Ongoing Disaster In The U.S. You Haven’t Heard Of
August 26th, 2013Via: Mother Jones: What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana.
‘Either Write the Software that Eats the World, or Be Eaten’
August 24th, 2013Via: TechCrunch: Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the “widening gap between rich and poor” is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse. Or maybe the idea that all the homeless need are old laptops and a few JavaScript textbooks is […]
Documentary: Terms and Conditions May Apply
August 23rd, 2013Via: Terms and Conditions May Apply: Terms and Conditions May Apply (trailer) from ro*co films on Vimeo.
The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis
August 23rd, 2013Via: Vice: When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots […]
United States Military Interest in New Zealand Cable
August 22nd, 2013Via: Stuff: The United States Defence Department could help pay for a new cable linking New Zealand, Australia, the United States and several Pacific Islands, an Auckland source says. He said the department had an interest in spending about US$100 million (NZ$120m) to directly or indirectly acquire a pair of optical fibres between the US, […]
Scotland Yard Examines Claims that Diana, Princess of Wales Was Murdered by a Member of the British Military
August 18th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into new claims that Diana, Princess of Wales was murdered by a member of the British military. It said that it had asked specialist detectives to examine new allegations and evidence passed to it “recently”. The move was approved by Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, its most senior officer. […]
Democracy Now On Amazon and Jeff Bezos
August 14th, 2013Disclosure: I have an affiliate relationship with Amazon. The Democracy Now discussion below contains some legitimate gripes about Amazon, which I’ve covered on here in the past. The most disturbing thing about Amazon (to me) is their work with CIA to build the agency’s new cloud computing infrastructure (news circa March 2013). That’s bad. But […]
Saudi Prince Defects, Discusses Dictatorship
August 13th, 2013Via: Russia Today: Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most. “Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents, and responded […]
Clintons Rent Republican Donor’s $11 Million Hamptons Mansion
August 13th, 2013More “Change” on tap for 2016? haha Via: Daily Mail: The Clintons have rented an $11 million Hamptons mansion owned by a wealthy Republican donor for the summer, MailOnline can reveal today. Former president Bill, 66, and ex-Secretary of State Hillary, 65, are expected at the six-bedroom property in Sagaponack – owned by Michael Saperstein […]
JPMorgan Faces Criminal and Civil Investigations Related to Mortgage Securities Scam
August 8th, 2013Via: New York Times: JPMorgan Chase disclosed on Wednesday that it faced a criminal and civil investigation into whether it sold shoddy mortgage securities to investors in the run-up to the financial crisis, the latest legal threat to the nation’s biggest bank. JPMorgan acknowledged for the first time the existence of the investigation — one […]
