Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Afghani$cam: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline
December 7th, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal: Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense for the foreseeable future, especially given the recent deterioration in […]
Class of Homebuyers Claims BofA Found a New Dirty Trick
December 7th, 2011This one will take your breath away. Via: Courthouse New Service: Bank of America found a new way to illegally extract money from customers, according to a federal class action: deduct taxes and insurance from mortgage payments, even though the homebuyers make those payments themselves, then call the mortgage in default for the unauthorized deductions, […]
Harnessing Desert Sun to Power Europe
December 7th, 2011Is it just a coincidence that several of the countries that will be supplying Europe with power derived from the sun are experiencing regime change and riots? Via: BBC: It is a beguiling idea – harvest sunshine, and a little wind, from the empty deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and use it […]
BP Claims Halliburton Destroyed Gulf of Mexico Spill Evidence
December 6th, 2011Via: BBC: Oil giant BP has accused oilfields services firm Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence relating to last year’s oil well blast in the Gulf of Mexico in which 11 people were killed. At a hearing in a New Orleans’ court, BP said Halliburton had “intentionally” destroyed test results on its cement product used at […]
Fed May Give Loans to IMF to Help Euro Zone
December 5th, 2011Meh, what’s another couple of trillion dollars between friends… Via: Reuters: The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said. Die Welt cited sources close to the negotiations as saying the […]
Division of Cerberus Capital Management Buying Large U.S. Firearms Companies
December 5th, 2011Via: New York Times: LINED up in a gun rack beneath mounted deer heads is a Bushmaster Carbon 15, a matte-black semiautomatic rifle that looks as if it belongs to a SWAT team. On another rack rests a Teflon-coated Prairie Panther from DPMS Firearms, a supplier to the United States Border Patrol and security agencies […]
Regrets of the Dying
December 4th, 2011In other news, Six in 10 Kiwis hate or dislike their job. Via: Inspiration and Chai: For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People […]
New Zealand Government Wants to Rein In Access to Raw Milk
December 4th, 2011New Zealand is a company town and that company is Fonterra. It makes them insane knowing that farmers are cutting them out of the equation by selling directly to consumers. Other parasitic middlemen (the diabolical Foodstuffs and Woolworths duopoly) are cut out of the deal when people buy goods directly from farmers. In short, farmers […]
Wall Street’s “Secret Government”
December 2nd, 2011Via: Alternet: We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for […]
Armed U.S. Police Officers Will Be Allowed to Operate in Canada
December 1st, 2011Via: The Star: Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in Canada along with the RCMP as part of far-reaching changes in Canadian-American border operations to be unveiled next week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama. The joint action plan to be announced at the White […]
