Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Corexit: Countless Gulf Residents with Symptoms Resembling Something from a Sci-Fi Horror Film, Bleeding from Nose, Ears, Breasts, Anus; Others Complain of Cognitive Damage
April 26th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Three years ago, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon began leaking some 210 million gallons of Louisiana Crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government allowed the company to apply chemical “dispersants” to the blossoming oil slick to prevent toxic gunk from reaching the fragile bays, beaches, and mangroves of the coast, where […]
U.S. Sues Novartis, Alleging Kickbacks to Pharmacies
April 24th, 2013Via: Reuters: The U.S. government filed a civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis AG on Tuesday, accusing a unit of the Swiss drug maker of causing the Medicare and Medicaid programs to pay tens of millions of dollars in reimbursements based on fraudulent, kickback-tainted claims. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp had […]
Top French Lawyer Olivier Metzner’s Body Found Near Private Island
April 24th, 2013Via: Guardian: One of the giants of the French legal system was found dead near his private island in Brittany on Sunday morning. A suicide note was discovered at his home nearby. Olivier Metzner, 63, nicknamed the “gangsters’ lawyer”, was a larger-than-life figure known for his spirited defence of high-profile and controversial defendants including the […]
Merkel: Euro Members Must be Prepared to Cede Sovereignty
April 22nd, 2013Via: Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that euro zone members must be prepared to cede control over certain policy domains to European institutions if the bloc is truly to overcome its debt crisis and win back foreign investors. … “We seem to find common solutions when we are staring over the abyss,” […]
They’re Still Talking About the Gold Wreck
April 17th, 2013Via: Daily Ticker: The speed and depth of gold’s decline drew comparisons to the 1987 stock market crash and prompted veteran trader Dennis Gartman to declare: “We’ve never… ever… ever… seen anything like what we’ve witnessed in the past two trading sessions.”
Cyprus: Government Plans to Sell Part of Its Gold Reserves
April 17th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: The Cypriot government plans to sell part of its gold reserves within the next months, a decision that needs to be approved by the country’s central bank, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades said. … Central bank chief Panicos Demetriades said last week that the Cypriot government didn’t have the right to sell gold without […]
‘News Is Bad for You – And Giving up Reading it Will Make You Happier’
April 15th, 2013“I hear from people who had read Cryptogon for years, and report to me how their quality of life improved dramatically since shutting out this type of information.” —Comment to Cryptogon reader Via: Guardian: News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. […]
Hacked Photos Show Colin Powell at Bohemian Grove
April 14th, 2013Via: cryptome (.pdf): Guccifer: Colin Powell and Bohemians April 9, 2013 Related: Guccifer Emails Link Tony Blair to Top-Secret Bohemian Grove Gathering
Shocker: Solar Panels Could Destroy U.S. Utilities, According to U.S. Utilities
April 14th, 2013Via: Grist: Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the assessment of the utilities themselves. Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute […]
Cliodynamics
April 14th, 2013Via: Wired: In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory. Drawing on mathematical models that describe what happened in the past, he anticipates what will happen next, including the fall of the Galactic Empire. That may seem like fanciful stuff. But Peter Turchin […]
