Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Berlusconi Promises to Resign
November 9th, 2011Via: AP: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi conceded Tuesday he no longer had the support to govern and announced he would resign like his Greek counterpart, becoming the biggest political casualty yet of the European debt crisis. Berlusconi promised to leave office after Parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union to keep Italy from […]
North Carolina’s Eugenics Victims Speak Out
November 8th, 2011Via: MSNBC: Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. “I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live […]
Foxconn Wants to Build “Intelligent Robotics Kingdom” to Replace Human Workers with Robots
November 7th, 2011I love how they mention that this facility will create jobs! Yeah, 2000 jobs for people who are tasked with figuring out how to eliminate millions of other people’s jobs. This is definitely one for your Arbeit Macht Frei file folder. Via: Cnet: iPhone maker Foxconn aims to manufacture its own robots and automation equipment […]
ISGP Updates
November 5th, 2011Joël van der Reijden let me know that he has updated ISGP, which is now being hosted on wikispooks.com: You may like to see them: Three-establishment-model The first photocopies of Cercle documents I did these updates in response to David Teacher making the Third Edition available of his book Rogue Agents. Unfortunately, David hadn’t seen […]
GlaxoSmithKline Will Pay $3 Billion to Resolve U.S. Criminal and Civil Investigations
November 3rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve U.S. criminal and civil investigations into whether the U.K. company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters, its biggest legal settlement. Negotiations over the terms are ongoing and will be completed next year, the London-based company said in a statement today. The […]
GREEK MILITARY CHIEFS REPLACED
November 2nd, 2011Via: Telegraph: As Greek poltics grew ever more chaotic strong political protests erupted as the government moved to replace military chiefs with officers seen as more supportive of George Papandreou, the prime minister. In a surprise development, Panos Beglitis, Defence Minister, a close confidante of Mr Papandreou, summoned the chiefs of the army, navy and […]
Markets Dive on Greek Referendum
November 1st, 2011Via: BBC: US and European markets have fallen following Monday’s announcement of a Greek referendum on the latest aid package to solve its debt crisis. Eurozone leaders agreed a 50% debt write-off for Greece last week as well as strengthening Europe’s bailout fund. But the Greek move has cast doubt on whether the deal can […]
MF Global: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Missing from Customer Accounts
November 1st, 2011Via: New York Times: Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the company’s operations as it filed for bankruptcy on Monday, according to several people briefed on the matter. The revelation of the missing money scuttled […]
New Zealand: Keep MMP
November 1st, 2011There are some very dangerous crooks in New Zealand who want to get rid of MMP. Don’t let that happen. Via: Campaign for MMP: At the 2011 general election New Zealanders will be asked to vote on whether to keep MMP as our voting system. MMP is the fairest and most representative voting system available […]
MF Global’s Collapse Ripples Through Futures Exchanges
November 1st, 2011Via: Reuters: The fallout from the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd rippled through global exchanges on Tuesday, as operators moved to suspend the U.S. futures broker or limit trades of its customers. MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday following bad bets on euro zone debt. London clearing house LCH.Clearnet declared it a […]
