Archive for the 'Elite' Category
No One Will Charged With a Crime for the MF Global Collapse
August 16th, 2012Lehman? Meh. The Squid? *pfft* AIG? Fuggetaboutit. This MF Global thing is noise level by comparison. Via: Atlantic Wire: Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that […]
California: The Companies Trying to Stop Mandatory Labeling of Products Containing GM Ingredients
August 16th, 2012For a complete list, see the link. Via: California Secretary of State: MONSANTO COMPANY $4,208,000.00 E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. $4,025,200.00 PEPSICO, INC. $1,716,300.00 BASF PLANT SCIENCE $1,642,300.00 BAYER CROPSCIENCE $1,618,400.00 DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC $1,184,800.00 NESTLE USA, INC. $1,169,400.00 COCA-COLA NORTH AMERICA $1,164,400.00 CONAGRA FOODS $1,076,700.00
Lawmakers Suspect Money Laundering Issues at Wal-Mart
August 15th, 2012Money laundering and bribery. In Mexico. Gee, I wonder what other activities this involves? (Rhetorical question of the year.) Via: Reuters: Two U.S. House Democrats investigating bribery allegations in Wal-Mart’s Mexico affiliate said on Tuesday they have obtained new internal records that may point to evidence of tax evasion and money laundering. Reps. Elijah Cummings […]
JPMorgan Spends $500 Million per Data Center
August 14th, 2012Via: Data Center Knowledge: JPMorgan Chase spends $500 million to build a data center, according to CEO Jamie Dimon. That figure places the firm’s facilities among the most expensive in the industry, on a par with investments by Google and Microsoft in their largest data centers.
‘Study Predicts Imminent Irreversible Planetary Collapse’
August 14th, 2012Via: Simon Fraser University: The authors recommend governments undertake five actions immediately if we are to have any hope of delaying or minimizing a planetary-state-shift. Arne Mooers, an SFU biodiversity professor and a co-author of this study, summarizes them as follows. “Society globally has to collectively decide that we need to drastically lower our population […]
Pics of New Mexican President with Sinaloa Cartel Lieutenant
August 13th, 2012Via: Mad Cow Productions: He hasn’t even taken office yet, but Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto has already got some ‘splainin’ to do. Mexico City newspapers today reported the discovery of pictures of the not-yet-inaugarated new President in which he appears chummy with a man arrested yesterday in Madrid and charged with importing 337 […]
Trapwire
August 10th, 2012Via: Privatepaste 1, 2: From: Justin Ferguson Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {6221} Domain Awareness System To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com, jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly abraxas applications– a subdivision […]
U.S. Not Seeking Goldman Charges
August 10th, 2012Shocker. Via: Wall Street Journal: After a yearlong investigation, the Justice Department said Thursday that it won’t bring charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or any of its employees for financial fraud related to the mortgage crisis. In a statement, the Justice Department said “the burden of proof” couldn’t be met to prosecute Goldman criminally […]
Kremlin Wiretaps Dissident Blogger — Who Tweets the Bug
August 9th, 2012Via: Wired: Alexei Navalny showed up to work in Moscow on Monday to discover he was being bugged. He called the police, like many perhaps would, but not before tweeting photos and video of himself and his colleagues taking the Kremlin’s monitoring devices apart. It’s not hard to figure out why Navalny was bugged. He’s […]
Treasury’s Secretive $2.4 Trillion Fund Guarantee
August 9th, 2012Via: CNBC: Details about a secretive government program to bail out money-market mutual funds are finally coming to light. Acting without any explicit Congressional authority, the U.S. Treasury guaranteed in excess of $2.4 trillion of money market funds after the giant Reserve Primary Fund “broke the buck” following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The program, […]
