Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Lawsuit Alleges Whole Foods Sold Frozen Vegetables from China Grown in a Polluted Region by Prisoners and Certified as Organic
June 17th, 2011Ahh, imagine my shock. Rant mode: On. We buy some organic foods in bulk from wholesale distributors here in New Zealand. Increasingly, if we want to buy these ‘certified organic’ bulk foods, the country of origin is China. We refuse to buy any food from China, regardless of which organic certification it has. We’ve indicated […]
Change: First Lady Wants Hollywood to Excrete Even More Pro Military Propaganda
June 15th, 2011Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford: Hollywood is often characterized as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive U.S. corporate and political forces. Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are […]
Secret Grand Jury Looking Into Atrocities at Abu Ghraib
June 14th, 2011Unless Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld wind up behind bars, it’s just another distraction. Come to think of it, even if they were thrown in prison, the other members of the Project for a New American Century would still be free to kill again. Via: Time: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an […]
Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business
June 14th, 2011Via: burzynskimovie.com: Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business from BurzynskiMovie on Vimeo.
‘The War You Don’t See’: A Film You Won’t See — An Open Letter to Noam Chomsky and the General Public
June 13th, 2011Via: Common Dreams: Dear Noam, I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See‘, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in […]
Investigation Into IMF Cyber Attack
June 12th, 2011In other news: Hacker Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by Government Via: RTE: The FBI is helping the International Monetary Fund investigate a cyber attack on its computer systems. It is understood the breach was designed to install software which would create a ‘digital insider presence’. The IMF, which holds sensitive economic data about many countries, said […]
Italian Politician ‘Bloodied’ Sneaking Into Bilderberg Hotel
June 12th, 2011Via: TheLocal: Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz. Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltrate the luxury Suvretta House hotel where the conference is taking place. […]
Hillary Clinton to Run World Bank?
June 10th, 2011Via: Telegraph: Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about stepping down from her job as Secretary of State to become head of the World Bank, according to reports. Mrs Clinton, the former First Lady, Senator for New York and rival to President Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary race, is […]
Farmageddon
June 9th, 2011Via: Farmageddon: Farmageddon Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Research Credit: R
Surprise: Cost of War in Libya Exceeding Estimates
June 9th, 2011Via: Financial Times: US military operations in Libya are on course to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than the Pentagon estimated, according to figures obtained by the Financial Times. Robert Gates, the outgoing secretary of defence, said last month that the Pentagon expected to spend “somewhere in the ball park of $750m” in […]
