Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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 […]
U.S. Treasury Exchange Stabilization Fund
June 20th, 2011There are more parts at the link. (I’m almost out of bandwidth for this billing cycle, so I only watched part one.) It’s helpful to think of U.S. Treasury as Goldman Sachs. Via: Market Skeptics:
Federal Judge Dismisses Third Party Environmental Claims Against Transocean and BP
June 19th, 2011Via: Courthouse News Service: Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant. “The injunction at this stage would be useless, as not […]
Eisenhower’s Worst Fears Came True: We Invent Enemies to Buy the Bombs
June 19th, 2011Via: Guardian: Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain’s borders and British people have not been under serious threat for a generation. Yet time and again […]
An Idea for the Billionaires Who Claim to Love New Zealand: How About an Electric Water Kettle?
June 18th, 2011The economy in Northland is in a state of collapse: The recession in Northland has had most impact on young people, with 29 per cent of the region’s 18- to 24-year-olds now on welfare, and on Maori, with an extraordinary 48 per cent of Maori aged 18 to 64 on benefits. Now, in New Zealand, […]
