Archive for the 'Elite' Category
High Level Member of Sinaloa Cartel Claims Multi-Ton Cocaine Trafficking Activities Were Sanctioned by DOJ, DEA and DHS/ICE
April 26th, 2011Via: Narco Sphere: A high-level player with one of the most notorious narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the Sinaloa “cartel,” claims that he has been working with the U.S. government for years, according to pleadings filed recently in federal court in Chicago. That player, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, is the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada […]
USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
April 24th, 2011Via: Grist: In early April, the USDA made what I’m reading as a second response to Judge White, this one even more craven. To satisfy the legal system’s pesky demand for environmental impact studies of novel GMO crops, the USDA has settled upon a brilliant solution: let the GMO industry conduct its own environmental impact […]
JFK Directives Regarding Sensitive UFO Information Ten Days Before Assassination
April 19th, 2011Even as complex as the JFK assassination milieu is, over about 25 years of personal interest and investigation into the event, I never thought it would go there. Click through for the source documents. Via: AOL News: Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here’s one for you. And it’s ongoing, so we […]
Britain: Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and Invasion of Iraq
April 19th, 2011Via: Independent: Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair’s […]
The True Finns: Finnish Anti-Euro Party Sees Large Gains in Recent Election
April 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: The True Finns, the anti-euro party voted into a powerful role in the Helsinki parliament at the weekend, expect the European Union to change plans for a bailout of Portugal, its leader said on Monday. “Of course there will have to be changes,” Timo Soini told reporters a day after his party more […]
Texas University Takes Delivery of Nearly $1 Billion in Gold Bars; Vaulting it in New York
April 17th, 2011That’s a lot of shiny. Which other funds are going to ask COMEX to cough it up? Via: Bloomberg: The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and is storing the bars in a New York vault, according to the fund’s board. […]
Jingle Mail: Morgan Stanley Failed to Make $3.3 Billion Debt Payment by Friday Deadline, Handed Over Keys to Central Tokyo Office Building to Blackstone; Largest Ever Repayment Failure of Its Kind in Japan
April 17th, 2011Via: Reuters: A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan. It marks the latest fallout from a series of highly […]
Belarus: Central Bank Halts Sales of Gold for Roubles
April 15th, 2011This is what the beast looks like when the mask finally comes off. Via: Reuters: Belarus’ central bank has stopped selling gold to local retail customers for Belarussian roubles, it said on Friday, after demand for precious metals soared due to expectations of a currency devaluation. The bank did not explain its decision. Belarus is […]
BRICS Take Aim at Dollar
April 15th, 2011The U.S. Dollar Index has not yet crossed into the crisis territory that I wrote about recently, but here’s what I thought might happen if it does: I’d say that capital controls, some kind of IMF SDR (Special Drawing Rights) ‘Global Reserve’ confetti bucks, and a global financial crisis management organization, like the IMF on […]
‘Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?’
April 13th, 2011Via: Rolling Stone: But if you want to get a true sense of what the “shadow budget” is all about, all you have to do is look closely at the taxpayer money handed over to a single company that goes by a seemingly innocuous name: Waterfall TALF Opportunity. At first glance, Waterfall’s haul doesn’t seem […]
