Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Caption Contest: Bill Gates Promotes Vaccinations
May 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: Research Credit: Noble
NATO in Libya: Besides the Oil, Is It Also a Gold Robbery?
May 17th, 2011Pookie let me know about issue #5 of The Gold Standard (.pdf), which includes an interesting comment from this Wall Street Journal piece about Gaddafi’s vast gold holdings. The comment is no longer posted at the Wall Street Journal: PvC from Belgium comments on Wall Street Journal Blog: “It seems to me that the war […]
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Head of IMF Arrested for Sexual Assault in New York
May 15th, 2011Via: Guardian: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and the man French Socialists hope will be the next occupant of the Elysée Palace, was arrested at JFK airport in New York on Saturday afternoon accused of a sex attack on a Times Square hotel maid earlier in the day. He was taken […]
Billionaire Found Guilty of Insider Trading
May 12th, 2011Via: BBC: US hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam has been found guilty of making tens of millions of dollars from insider trading. The unanimous verdict, which he plans to appeal, ends an eight-week trial in what prosecutors call the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history. Central to the prosecution’s evidence were tapped phone […]
The God of High Places
May 12th, 2011Via: Declarations of Interdependence: It is time for you to hear this, whether it be dangerous knowledge or not. Understanding the methods and motives of the worship of the God of High Places is very important for the future viability of the human race. I am just a squirrel, eating an acorn in the boughs […]
Father Secretly Used Full THC Cannabis Oil to Cure Son’s Terminal Brain Cancer
May 12th, 2011For the complete story about full THC hemp oil, how to make it, dosages, testimonials, etc., see: phoenixtears.ca. Via: ABC News: Doctors said 2-year-old Cash Hyde would likely die after they found a stage 4 brain tumor surrounding his optic nerve just a year ago this week. And he nearly did. After being subjected to […]
Britain: Babies to Be Given Anti-Obesity Drugs in the Womb
May 12th, 2011Via: Telegraph: One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births. Patients at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supply to their unborn babies, although it will not help the mums themselves to […]
Algorithms Trying to Swindle Each Other
May 12th, 2011Via: London Review of Books: The deals that used to be struck on trading floors now take place via ‘matching engines’, computer systems that process buy and sell orders and execute a trade if they find a buy order and a sell order that match. The matching engines of the New York Stock Exchange, for […]
Gunter Sachs: German Billionaire Kills Himself
May 9th, 2011Via: BBC: Gunter Sachs – the German-born billionaire, art collector and former husband of Brigitte Bardot – has killed himself at the age of 78. Sachs’s family said he shot himself at his chalet in the Swiss resort of Gstaad on Saturday. A grandson of car manufacturer Adam Opel, Sachs’s wealth helped him to become […]
Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone
May 6th, 2011Via: Spiegel: The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone. The common currency area’s finance ministers and representatives of the European Commission are holding a secret crisis meeting in Luxembourg on […]
