Archive for the 'Elite' Category
MTV Real World Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street Protestors
October 20th, 2011An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will. —Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind So, Obombya, the Goldman Sachs’ shill, and MTV are now behind this Occupy Wall Street situation. [Update: Mikhail Gorbachev: Protests leading to […]
Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America’s Derivatives Trades
October 19th, 2011Via: Daily Bail: This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC. This means that the investment bank’s European derivatives exposure is now backstopped […]
Spain: Catholic Church Child Trafficking Network
October 18th, 2011Via: BBC: Spain is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking. The trade began at the end of the Spanish civil war and continued for 50 years – hundreds of thousands of babies are thought to have been traded by nuns, priests and doctors up to the 1990s. This World […]
Geithner: U.S. to Play ‘Very Major Role’ In Helping Europe
October 15th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: CNBC: The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday. … Geithner said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has “very substantial” resources to fund a device that could look like the Troubled Asset Relief […]
Obama Regime Deploys U.S. Troops to Uganda
October 15th, 2011Uganda: Scramble for Minerals Begins: Firms from China, India, Australia and South Africa have shown interest in exploring and producing the minerals. … The revelations come shortly after an aerial survey report confirmed that Uganda is endowed with copper, iron ore, cobalt, tin, gold as well as platinum. Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama authorized about […]
115-Year-Old Electric Car Gets Same 40 Miles Per Charge as Chevy Volt
October 15th, 2011Via: Daily Caller: Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.” The executives at Chevrolet can rest […]
Pentagon Can’t Demonstrate Funds Are Being Spent as Intended
October 13th, 2011I wonder if “the terrorists” will blow up the accountants and auditors again… Via: Center for Public Integrity: The Pentagon, which previously warned that reliable military spending figures could not be produced until 2017, has discovered that financial ledgers are in worse shape than expected and it may need to spend a billion dollars more […]
Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken from Ancient Corpses Buried Under Royal Mint
October 13th, 2011Don’t look at me. I just work here. Via: BBC: The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed by scientists for the first time. The researchers extracted DNA fragments of the ancient bacterium from the teeth of medieval corpses found in London. They say the pathogen is the ancestor […]
‘No Food Rights’ Judge Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
October 13th, 2011There ought to be a RICO investigation into that f*cker. Via: Food Freedom: The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms. Former judge Patrick J. Fiedler now works for Axley Brynelson, LLP, which defended Monsanto against […]
AOL Launches New Unmanned ‘Lights Out’ Data Center
October 12th, 2011They role all the hardware issues into batch jobs that get dealt with by contractors. I wonder how many years it will be before they build Ikea warehouse style data centers, where robots will actually pull and replace the defective server units? You could have a data center the size of a couple of football […]
