Archive for the 'Elite' Category
NZ Asset Sales Policy Began On Wall Street
January 18th, 2012Both National and Labour are clear and present dangers to New Zealand. National’s goal is sell our country’s assets to Australia and China. Labour’s goal is get us saddled with debt to those country’s banks. In other words, the ultimate goal of both of the main parties is to sell us out, to make us […]
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
January 16th, 2012Update: Apple’s Chinese iPhone Plants Employ Forced Interns, Claim Campaigners Via: Guardian: Apple’s factories in China are employing tens of thousands of students, some of them on forced internships, according to campaigners lobbying for better labour conditions at Foxconn plants, which assemble iPhones. Some students could be as young as 16. The Foxconn chairman, Terry […]
UN Soldiers Brought Superbug Strain of Cholera to Western Hemisphere
January 15th, 2012Via: ABC News: Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera — a super bug — into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers […]
Russia Says NATO, Persian Gulf Nations Plan to Seek No-Fly Zone for Syria
January 15th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Russia received information that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and some Persian Gulf countries are preparing military intervention in Syria, the head of the Russian Security Council said. Turkey, a NATO member, may play a key role, Nikolai Patrushev, who used to head the country’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, […]
The Rise of the New Groupthink
January 15th, 2012Via: New York Times: SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people […]
Value Afghan Opium Yield Rose 133 Percent from 2010
January 14th, 2012Via: AFP: Production of opium and the illicit crop’s value soared in Afghanistan last year, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday. According to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, farmer income derived from Afghanistan’s opium crop in 2011 was $1.4 billion (1.09 billion euros), representing nine percent of GDP. “Opium is […]
Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake, Where Did the Money Go?
January 13th, 2012Via: Global Post: Where those billions went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left a government-estimated figure of 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery. … “In the end,” says Robert Fatton Jr., professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a son […]
George Lucas: Hollywood Wouldn’t Back Film About Tuskegee Airmen Due to All Black Cast
January 12th, 2012Via: Washington Post: In a series of interviews in recent days Lucas has said he himself had to bankroll “Red Tails,” a movie 23 years in the making about the Tuskegee Airmen opening Jan. 20. Lucas invested $93 million of his own money for the making and distribution of the film, according to “Speakeasy,” a […]
MF Global: Account Holders Sue Jon Corzine Over Missing Millions
January 11th, 2012Via: ABC: Montana farmers have filed a class action suit against former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, charging that the failed financial firm run by Corzine stole millions from their accounts to pay off its spiraling debts, and that Corzine’s “single-minded obsession” with making MF Global a big player on Wall Street led to the […]
North Carolina May Pay Eugenics Victims $50,000 Each
January 11th, 2012Via: AP: As many as 2,000 people forcibly sterilized decades ago in North Carolina should get $50,000 each, a task force said Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of eugenics programs that weeded out the “feeble-minded” and others deemed undesirable. The payout, which could amount to as much as […]
