Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Why Is The Federal Government Running Ads Secretly Created & Owned By NBC Universal?
June 9th, 2011Via: Tech Dirt: We certainly suspected this when New York City first announced that it was running a series of silly and misleading videos as part of a media campaign to “Stop Piracy in NYC,” but now it’s been confirmed that these videos were not, in fact, New York City’s, but are purely NBC Universal’s. […]
Saudi Regime Delays Revolution with Payouts
June 9th, 2011Via: New York Times: As one nation after another has battled uprisings across the Arab world, the one major country spared is also its richest — Saudi Arabia, where a fresh infusion of money has so far bought order. The kingdom is spending $130 billion to pump up salaries, build housing and finance religious organizations, […]
Steve Jobs Proposes Eco Temple Headquarters for Apple as Factory Workers Who Make the Company’s Products Die from Explosions and Suicides
June 8th, 2011Can you believe this guy? Here you go, Steve, read up, I bet your employees are: The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t. Via: NBC: Skip ahead about 2,000 years and think of the ruins of buildings that humans (or otherwise) might experience — much like travelers see the […]
California: SWAT Team Breaks Into Home, Detains Family Over Student Loan Default
June 8th, 2011Update: Questions, Questions News10 dissappeared the first story about this. Via: News10: A federal education official Wednesday morning offered little information as to why federal agents raided a Stockton man’s home Tuesday. The resident, Kenneth Wright, does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe why what he thought was a […]
Lehman Could Escape with Just a Public Rebuke
June 7th, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald / Bloomberg: United States Securities and Exchange Commission investigators may issue a public rebuke of Lehman Brothers Holdings and its former executives instead of suing them for actions that led to the firm’s 2008 failure, say three people with knowledge of the matter. SEC enforcement lawyers, who have struggled for more […]
The Secret History of Boeing’s Killer Drone
June 7th, 2011Via: Wired: When the pilotless, wing-shaped warplane lifted off a runway at California’s Edwards Air Force Base for the first time on the morning of April 27, it was like the resurrection of the dead. The Boeing Phantom Ray — one of the most advanced drones ever built — came close to never flying at […]
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 […]
