Archive for the 'Elite' Category
How to Get $12 Billion of Gold to Venezuela
August 24th, 2011I think the more immediate and pressing matter will be: How to Get $12 Billion of Gold in the First Place. Dear Leader Chavez doesn’t actually believe these banks actually kept all of Venezuela’s gold on hand, does he? He can’t be that stupid. So, I see this as a pretty cunning bit of economic […]
A Huge Housing Bargain — but Not for You
August 24th, 2011Via: The Street: The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to begin. The federal government will be bulk-selling the massive portfolio of foreclosed homes now owned by HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to private investors — vulture funds. These homes, which are now the property of the U.S. […]
Strauss-Kahn Criminal Sexual Assault Case Dropped
August 24th, 2011Via: Reuters: A New York judge dropped all criminal sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, leaving him free to return to France and rebuild a shattered career. The decision ended a case that brought three months of sordid headlines on both sides of the Atlantic about a hotel maid who […]
New National Debt Data: It’s Growing About $3 Million a Minute
August 23rd, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Swallow all liquids in your mouth before reading any further. Updated numbers for the national debt are just out: It’s now $14,639,000,000,000. When Barack Obama took the oath of office twice on Jan. 20, 2009, CBS’ amazing number cruncher Mark Knoller reports, the national debt was $10,626,000,000,000. That means the debt […]
Blankfein Lawyers Up
August 23rd, 2011Luxury residence overlooking Central Park: $26 Million U.S. Taxpayer Bailout of Goldman Sachs: $10 Billion Criminal Defense Team Used by the Worst Corporate Scumbags: Priceless. (Or maybe just expensive, given the track record.) Via: Daily Beast: On Monday, Goldman shares took a 6 percent beating during final and extended trading hours on the announcement that […]
Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Fed Loans
August 22nd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to take more than […]
The Network of Global Corporate Control
August 22nd, 2011In Fiat Currency Hell, people who have managed to accumulate savings have to become speculators in an attempt to preserve what will otherwise be taken away from them through inflation. They will often hand their savings over to companies that will attempt to do this for them. So, below, here’s a paper that includes a […]
Monsanto and the Mortal Danger to Traditional Agriculture
August 21st, 2011Via: Axis of Logic: The greatest threat to the future of food production in the world is the introduction of genetically engineered foods from the bio-tech industry. Contrary to their mendacious propagandized promises of solving the problem of world hunger through the so-called second green revolution, the bio-tech companies are instead in the process of […]
Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
August 19th, 2011Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth:
Goldman Sachs VP Changed Name, Now a Top Congressional Staffer
August 19th, 2011Via: Think Progress: Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then later went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect […]
