Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Shocker: House G.O.P. Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
January 19th, 2013Endless can kicking. Via: New York Times: Backing down from their hard-line stance, House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal government’s statutory borrowing limit for three months, with a requirement that both chambers of Congress pass a budget in that time to clear the way for negotiations on long-term deficit […]
Fed Needs Seven Years to Deliver Germany’s 300 Tons of Gold
January 18th, 2013Via: ZeroHedge: But the biggest news of the day comes from the official Buba announcement that, in its official capacity as a prudent central bank, it – as first of many – is looking to repatriate some 300 tons of gold from the New York Fed. That, however, is not today’s news – that was […]
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
January 17th, 2013Via: NPR: What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, […]
Spain Plunders 90% Of Social Security Fund To Buy Its Own Debt
January 15th, 2013Via: ZeroHedge: Spain has been quietly tapping the country’s richest piggy bank, the Social Security Reserve Fund, as a buyer of last resort for Spanish government bonds – with at least 90% of the €65 billion ($85.7 billion) fund has been invested in increasingly risky Spanish debt. Of course, this is nothing new, the US […]
After You’ve Been All You Could Be Serving The Empire, Walmart Is Hiring
January 15th, 2013.mil should really talk this one up during the recruitment process. Via: Reuters: Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, said it plans to hire more than 100,000 veterans in the United States over the next five years, a move supported by First Lady Michelle Obama. Most of the veterans will be placed in […]
Number of Working Poor Families Grows as Wealth Gap Widens
January 15th, 2013Via: Reuters: The number of U.S. families struggling with poverty despite parents being employed continued to grow in 2011 as more people returned to work but mostly at lower-paying service jobs, an analysis released on Tuesday shows. More working parents have taken jobs as cashiers, maids, waiters and other low-wage jobs in fast growing sectors […]
And Now… Bookless Libraries
January 14th, 2013Via: My San Antonio: Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff is an unabashed book lover with 1,000 first editions in his private collection, but even he sees the writing on the wall. Paper books have lost their allure, and future generations may have little use for them, Wolff contends. So when he embarked on a mission […]
Chuck Schumer Asks Businesses to Stop Selling Guns While Congress Debates
January 14th, 2013This is one for your Comedy Gold file folder. Actually, many retailers have stopped selling semi-automatic rifles and handguns—because they’re completely out of stock. Via: CBS: Sen. Charles Schumer says retailers that sell assault weapons should stop offering them for purchase while Congress discusses gun regulation legislation. Schumer on Sunday released a letter he sent […]
Secrets and Lies of the Bailout
January 10th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you’d think […]
Secret Government Documents Reveal Vaccines to be a Total Hoax
January 9th, 2013Via: Natural News: Through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Dr. Tomljenovic was able to obtain transcripts of private meetings that were held between the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), a so-called “independent expert advisory committee” that makes recommendations to the government about vaccine policy, and various British health ministers over the […]
