Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Cost of America’s Latest War in Iraq Could Grow to More than $6 Trillion
March 18th, 2013Via: Reuters: The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said. The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may […]
EU: GOVERNMENT THEFTS FROM BANK ACCOUNTS MAY HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES
March 17th, 2013The Washington Post took the words right out of my mouth: The best the rest of the world can hope for is that Cyprus’s case is sufficiently unique that it won’t spark panic in Athens and Madrid (or in Lisbon, Dublin and Rome). Via: New York Times: In a move that could set off new […]
The Internet Is a Surveillance State
March 17th, 2013Via: CNN: The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks […]
CYPRUS: GOVERNMENT TAKES UP TO 10% OF INDIVIDUALS’ FUNDS ON DEPOSIT WITH BANKS AS PART OF BAILOUT AGREEMENT
March 16th, 2013Via: BBC: People in Cyprus have reacted with shock to news of a one-off levy of up to 10% on savings as part of a 10bn-euro (£8.7bn; $13bn) bailout agreed in Brussels. Savers could be seen queuing at cash machines amid resentment at the charge. The deal reached with euro partners and the IMF marks […]
This Is Anarcho-Herbalism
March 15th, 2013Via: Alchemy Works: A society of people who are responsible for their own health and able to gather or grow their own medicines is a hard society to rule. These days we are dependent on the power structure of industrial health care – the secret society of the doctors, the white-male-dominated medical schools, the corporate […]
‘Lean Times at the Pentagon’: U.S. Air Force Considering Building Network of Tunnels for Mobile Doomsday Trains
March 14th, 2013The reason why I haven’t been is because it’s a trivial event, either way. Soviet America is so far gone, so dependent on insane state expenditures, that the propaganda outlets lose their mind at the prospect of any budget cuts at all. —Spending: With Sequestration and Without Sequestration And now… Via: Danger Room: The Air […]
Doubts About Johns Hopkins Research Have Gone Unanswered
March 13th, 2013This one would make a great addition to your Bullshit-As-Science and Academic Grant Swindling file folders. In this situation with Nature and Johns Hopkins, note what happened to the guy who tried to expose it. Via: Washington Post: The numbers didn’t add up. Over and over, Daniel Yuan, a medical doctor and statistician, couldn’t understand […]
Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan
March 12th, 2013Is this Karzai’s way of negotiating better terms? Via: RIA Novosti: Almost 21 tons of heroin have been seized in an operation in eastern Afghanistan , the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) said on Tuesday. “An operation was carried out yesterday in the province of Nangarhar, during which several drug production labs […]
Is HSBC Really ‘Too Big to Jail’?
March 12th, 2013Via: Yahoo Finance / The Exchange: In December, HSBC (HBC) admitted to money laundering violations covering $200 trillion worth of transactions involving Mexican and Columbian drug cartels, groups allegedly aligned with terrorist organizations, sanctioned nations and others. The Department of Justice (DoJ) explained it could not exact a penalty greater than one month’s profits because […]
Private Prisons: The More Americans They Put Behind Bars The More Money They Make
March 12th, 2013Via: InvestmentWatchBlog: How would you describe an industry that wants to put more Americans in prison and keep them there longer so that it can make more money? In America today, approximately 130,000 people are locked up in private prisons that are being run by for-profit companies, and that number is growing very rapidly. Overall, […]
