Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Greek Lawmakers Approve Austerity Bill as Athens Burns
February 13th, 2012Via: Reuters: The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens as black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament. State television reported […]
Cardinal Dies One Day After Judge Said He Could Be Called to Testify in Child Sex-Abuse and Endangerment Trial of Three Current and Former Priests
February 11th, 2012Via: Philadelphia Enquirer: Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman asked the county coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua last week because the timing of the 88-year-old prelate’s death struck her as “peculiar,” she said Friday. Ferman acknowledged that she enlisted county Coroner Walter I. Hofman because the cardinal died one […]
China: Cans of New Zealand Made Infant Formula Sell for NZ$92 in Shanghai
February 11th, 2012One guess as to the nationality of “offshore buyers” of the land mentioned below… Via: New Zealand Farmers Weekly: Canterbury dairy producer and processor Synlait is negotiating to sell up to 70% of its holding in Synlait Farms, with potential for the near 5000 hectares of prime irrigated Canterbury dairy farmland to be sold to […]
Ron Paul’s Biggest Supporter Is a Bilderberg Group Steering Committee Member
February 10th, 2012Via: BuzzFeed: The largest donor to a SuperPAC supporting Ron Paul is Peter Thiel, the sort of ultra-wealthy, super-national figure Paul and his supporters love to hate. Thiel — who gave $900,000 to the pro-Paul group Endorse Liberty — made his fortune as the co-founder of PayPal; he was also an early investor in Facebook, […]
Google Will Pay People to Authoritatively Root Themselves: Track 100% of Web Usage Via Dedicated Hardware
February 9th, 2012If that black box option doesn’t require the browser plugins… 1) Connect to VPN 2) Let Google collect a bunch of encrypted data that tells them nothing about what you’re doing online 3) Profit? haha. I haven’t read the fine print, though. Via: Ars Technica: Google is working to collect information about Internet users that […]
Britain: Girls, 13, Given Contraceptive Implants at School
February 8th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing. The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies. As many as nine secondary schools in the city are thought to have been involved. But it […]
New York City Surveillance Center Staffed with Employees from Large Wall Street Firms
February 7th, 2012Via: Counterpunch: The New York Times, the worldwide news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), Wired Magazine, the New York City Council had all previously reported the location of the supposedly super secret counter terrorism center on their public web sites: 55 Broadway in the bowels of the financial district. What was a secret about the operation, […]
Quantitative Easing Revisited: You’ve Just Crossed Over Into the Bernanke Zone
February 7th, 2012Via: Omid Malekan:
Major Obama Donors Are Tied to Pepe Cardona, Mexican Fugitive
February 7th, 2012So, Cardona is the Obama regime’s version of Jack Abramoff? Something like that. Fuggetaboutit. Via: New York Times: Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President […]
Bill Gates Backs Climate Scientists Lobbying for Large-Scale Geoengineering
February 6th, 2012Via: Guardian: A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change. The scientists, who advocate geoengineering methods such as spraying millions of tonnes of reflective particles of sulphur […]
