Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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 […]
Ex-Egypt Bank Head Arrested on Sex Charges
May 31st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria was charged with sexually abusing a maid at the Pierre Hotel in New York, police said. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested yesterday after a 44 year-old female maid alleged he attacked her May 29, according to a police […]
The Whistleblower
May 30th, 2011If you don’t know what this is about, see the handy Employee involvement in child sex slave traffic section on the Wikipedia page for DynCorp. And remember: “We Serve Today For a Better Tomorrow.” Related: The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice by Kathryn Bolkovac Bolkovac, who worked as part […]
Greece: Massive Outside Intervention Over Bailout
May 30th, 2011Via: Financial Times: European leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatisation of state assets, in exchange for new bail-out loans for Athens. People involved in the talks said the package would also include incentives for private holders of […]
UK Training Saudi Forces Used to Crush Arab Spring
May 29th, 2011Via: Guardian: Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard – the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain – in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point out that the Foreign Office recognises that the kingdom’s human rights record is […]
