Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Princess ‘Tried to Flee Three Times’ [???]
July 4th, 2011Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Princess Charlene of Monaco tried to flee home to South Africa three times before her marriage to Prince Albert II, according to reports in French newspapers. Fairytale turns sour The couple’s glittering religious wedding drew crowds of thousands to the Mediterranean principality on Saturday and the guest list included a host […]
Case Against Strauss-Kahn Collapsing
July 1st, 2011Update: Accuser Worded as a Hooker Via: New York Post: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser wasn’t just a girl working at a hotel — she was a working girl. The Sofitel housekeeper who claims the former IMF boss sexually assaulted her in his room was doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from […]
Hopey/Changey: Obama Awards Defense Chief Gates Medal of Freedom
July 1st, 2011Via: Reuters: President Barack Obama awarded retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a farewell ceremony on Thursday morning. “A humble American patriot; a man of common sense and decency; quite simply, one of our nation’s finest public servants,” Obama said of Gates. Obama spoke at a departure ceremony outside […]
French Woman Sues Opus Dei, Claims Brainwashing
June 29th, 2011[???] Via: AFP: A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday. Catherine T., who asked not to be identified by her family name, said she joined a hoteliers’ school in northeastern France […]
Congress May Allow Oversight of Investment Advisers by FINRA, a Financial Industry Corporation
June 29th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Congress may hand oversight of almost 12,000 investment advisers to Wall Street’s self-funded regulator as a cost-saving measure. The price could be paid by investors. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, deputized by the government to oversee brokers, is lobbying to replace the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a regulator of registered investment […]
The “E-Uterus”
June 28th, 2011I’ll be looking for a Sinister Sites update on this. Via: Telegraph: While Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, has described his “Europa building” as a “jewel box”, David Cameron has been less enthusiastic dubbing it a “gilded cage”. But perhaps even more unfortunate is the moniker the edifice, which will house Mr Van Rompuy’s […]
U.S. Government Launching Antitrust Investigation of Google
June 24th, 2011Oh sure. I bet Google is quivering with fear. Via: Wall Street Journal: Federal regulators are poised to hit Google Inc. with subpoenas, launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, people familiar with the matter said. The civil probe, which has the potential to reshape […]
China: Central Bank Finds Officials Stole Billions
June 23rd, 2011Via: MarketWatch: Corrupt Chinese officials and employees of state-owned companies have absconded with about 800 billion yuan ($123.7 billion) of public money over 15 years through 2008, much of it making its way to the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, according to Chinese news reports citing a central bank study. The 67-page report, completed […]
Thailand: Corporate-Funded “People’s” Movement
June 22nd, 2011Via: Land Destroyer: So then it is alarming when these nefarious agents of the global corporate-financier elite have now aligned against yet another nation, Thailand. More alarming is how the progressive activists committed to Thaksin and his political party, are seemingly so profoundly ignorant of the nature of the movement they are helping to propel […]
Infant Mortality Rates and Vaccine Doses Tend to Increase Together
June 22nd, 2011If you are a university faculty member who would like to comment on this piece, email me your comment from your university email account. I will publish your comment here. Know that your comment will appear in full, along with your name. Via: Human & Experimental Toxicology: These findings demonstrate a counter-intuitive relationship: nations that […]
