Archive for the 'Elite' Category
G20 Deputies to Hold Crisis Call Saturday
August 6th, 2011Via: Reuters: Deputy finance ministers from the Group of 20 leading economic powers will hold a conference call on Saturday to discuss the crises in Europe and the United States, a Brazilian finance ministry official said. The official told Reuters the call was scheduled for 2230 GMT. “It will be an exchange of information and […]
China: “America Needs To Accept The Painful Fact That The Good Old Days Are Over”; Calls for International Supervision of Issuance of U.S. Dollars and the Creation of a Global Reserve Currency
August 6th, 2011One more time: I’d say that capital controls, some kind of IMF SDR (Special Drawing Rights) ‘Global Reserve’ confetti bucks, and a global financial crisis management organization, like the IMF on steroids are possible. At a minimum, states will try unilateral capital controls in an attempt to prevent their currencies from disorderly appreciation vs. the […]
China to New Zealand: Embrace Your Status as an Authorized Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong Franchisee
August 4th, 2011*sigh* Via: New Zealand Herald: China is launching a public relations offensive in New Zealand and the rest of world, saying the West has nothing to fear from China’s rapid economic growth and investment. The Chinese embassy’s political counsellor Cheng Lei held a rare press conference this morning at the embassy in Wellington, reading out […]
Central Banks Join Rush to Gold
August 3rd, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal: Central banks are ramping up their gold buying as they seek to diversify their reserves away from the dollar and other beleaguered currencies. South Korea became the latest government to disclose a big bullion purchase, saying Tuesday that it recently bought 25 metric tons – more than doubling its holdings to […]
Someone Strapped a Bomb Around the Neck of a Girl Who Is Part of One of Sydney’s Wealthiest Families
August 3rd, 2011Update: ‘Safe and Well’ Via: Sydney Morning Herald: An 18-year-old Sydney schoolgirl is safe and well after a ten-hour bomb ordeal in her Mosman house. —End Update— Via: Daily Telegraph: POLICE are trying to defuse a bomb strapped to a teenage girl at a multimillion dollar house at Burrawong Avenue in Mosman, Sydney. The drama […]
Internet Archivist Seeks One Copy of Every Book Ever Published
August 2nd, 2011Here’s one for your Svalbard Seed Vault Gives Me The Willies file folder. Via: AP: Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of […]
New Zealand Medical Establishment Attempted to Murder Man Rather Than Let Him Recover from Terminal Pneumonia With High Doses of Vitamin C
August 2nd, 2011Watch and learn. Via: 3News: The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died.
Obombya Regime Wants Changes to Arms Export Licensing Process… To Export More Arms
August 1st, 2011Via: Aviation Week: The Obama administration is proposing to shift tanks, trucks and other military vehicles currently controlled on the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the less-restrictive U.S. Commerce Control List (CCL) by year’s end as part of a broader effort to reform the U.S. arms export licensing process. The licensing process governs foreign sales […]
Useless Studies, Real Harm
August 1st, 2011Via: New York Times: In an age of for-profit clinical research, this is the new face of scandal. Pharmaceutical companies promote their drugs with pseudo-studies that have little if any scientific merit, and patients naïvely sign up, unaware of the ways in which they are being used. Nobody really knows how often companies conduct such […]
Japanese Monitor Radiation On Their Own
August 1st, 2011Via: Times Union: Kiyoko Okoshi had a simple goal when she spent about $625 for a dosimeter: She missed her daughter and grandsons and wanted them to come home. Local officials kept telling her that their remote village was safe, even though it was less than 20 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power […]
