Archive for the 'Elite' Category
States Considering Laws That Would Make it an Act of Terrorism to Report on Abuses at Factory Farms
February 4th, 2013Via: Global Possibilities: How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products. And who better to write […]
Hackers in China Attacked The New York Times for Last 4 Months
January 31st, 2013Via: New York Times: For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have […]
The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy
January 31st, 2013Via: New York Times: Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,” but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being created. Yet this clearly matters: According to the Census Bureau, one-third of adults who live in poverty are working but do not earn enough to support themselves and their families. […]
The Hugo Chavez ‘Socialist Revolution’ Nets Goldman Sachs et al. About 15% a Year
January 31st, 2013Same as it ever was: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Anthony C. Sutton Via: Bloomberg: Since taking office in 1999, Hugo Chavez has spread his socialist revolution in Venezuela by seizing more than 1,000 companies. For bondholders that stuck by […]
Libor: ‘We will never know the amounts of money involved, but it has to be the biggest financial fraud of all time’
January 30th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Where Libor is set each day affects what families pay on their mortgages, the interest on savings accounts and returns on corporate bonds. Now, banks are facing a reckoning, as prosecutors make arrests, regulators impose fines and lawyers around the world file lawsuits claiming the manipulation pushed homeowners into poverty and deprived brokerage […]
U.S. Senate Approves John ‘Skull & Bones’ Kerry as Secretary of State
January 30th, 2013Via: BBC: The US Senate has approved Senator John Kerry’s nomination as secretary of state, after he was backed unanimously by the foreign relations committee. His confirmation after a 94-3 vote was met with applause on the Senate floor. President Barack Obama chose the Massachusetts Democrat to succeed Hillary Clinton, who is stepping down after […]
Wal-Mart Accused of Using Mexican Governor to Push Bribes
January 29th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) Mexican unit used a current state governor there to facilitate $156,000 in bribes meant to help open stores, an ex-lawyer for the retailer told company officials in 2005, according to documents released by members of the U.S. Congress. The payments were negotiated by Graco Ramirez Garrido Abreu, who at […]
Canadian Special Forces on Ground in Mali
January 29th, 2013This is from CBC News, What Canada Is Doing in Mali: Canadian bilateral trade with Mali doesn’t amount to much. In 2011, we exported about $26 million worth of goods to Mali, most of that machinery and equipment. Imports from Mali came to less than $1 million. But Canadian investment in Mali amounts to considerably […]
Frontline: The Untouchables
January 29th, 2013I haven’t watched this yet, so I don’t know if it’s any good. Via: PBS: FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages. Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Bill Gates: The Better Than Cash Alliance
January 25th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Billionaires are known for not keeping a lot of spending green in their wallets. But that’s not why Bill Gates hates cash. He hates it because of its effect on people at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum—the world’s poor and unbanked. The Better Than Cash Alliance, which was founded last September […]
