Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Children in Care of Irish Government Ended Up Working in Brothels
June 5th, 2011Via: Irish Independent: Children have been going missing from State care and ending up working as sex slaves in brothels for at least three years, leaked US embassy cables reveal. Health Service Executive (HSE) officials made the shocking admission during a private briefing of diplomats from the American Embassy in Dublin. Details of the disclosure […]
Canada: Brigette DePape Protests Harper Government on Senate Floor
June 4th, 2011I’m no fan of sign waving, but this was pretty good. Brigette DePape’s protest was different from the run-of-the-mill pink tutu and bozo wig nonsense that has no chance of ever causing the corporate state to change course. Seeing her in her official uniform, standing there in defiance in front of the Queen’s goon squad, […]
ECB’s Trichet Pushes for a European Finance Ministry
June 3rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Jean Claude Trichet has called for the creation of a European finance ministry whose powers to intervene in national economic policy would be “well over and above the reinforced surveillance that is presently envisaged”. The boss of the European Central Bank (ECB) said that “strengthening the institutions of economic union” was vital to […]
Major Israeli Shipping Firm Accused by Washington of Doing Illicit Business with Iran
June 3rd, 2011Update: And now: Scandal-Hit Israeli Billionaire Sami Ofer Found Dead Via: BBC: Sami Ofer, an Israeli billionaire at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, has died at his home in Tel Aviv. Israeli media reported the 89-year-old had passed away after a long illness. The US last month imposed sanctions on […]
Dozens of Child Sex Victims of Belgian Catholic Church Are Launching Legal Action Against Holy See
June 2nd, 2011Via: AFP: DOZENS of victims of a child-sex scandal in the Belgian Catholic Church are launching legal action against the Holy See, the first such suit in Europe. Lawyers and victims said on Wednesday at a news conference that a summons was on its way to Rome, as well as to Belgian bishops, to appear […]
Injections Can Sterilize Men for Ten Years
June 2nd, 2011You can almost tell who’s name is going to come up in a story like this. Via: Wired: Ever since the birth control pill was approved by the FDA in 1960, scientists in the West have been looking for a male equivalent. It’s been a rocky road, in part for biological reasons: Hormonally, it’s much […]
Nigel Farage: Trapped Inside an Economic Prison
June 2nd, 2011Largest Banks Profited by Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending to Federal Government
June 2nd, 2011Via: Huffington Post: A newly-released study from the Congressional Research Service bolsters claims that the nation’s largest banks profited off the Federal Reserve’s financial crisis-era programs by borrowing cash for next to nothing, then lending it back to the federal government at substantially higher rates. The report reinforces long-held beliefs that the banking system in […]
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
June 1st, 2011Via: Lew Rokwell: In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty gang. On the superficial level of presidential politics, Obama and Bush appeared […]
Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done with Goldman Sachs
May 31st, 2011But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales — showing, at least to me, how horrible a […]
