Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Interpol Chief Calls for Global Electronic Identity Card System
April 6th, 2011Papelles. Via: Help Net Security: The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management. Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that […]
Solar Costs May Already Rival Coal, Spurring Installation
April 6th, 2011Barring a major wildcard event (global nuclear war, massive asteroid impact, etc.), the horror show will grind on, now with even more Clean and Green. Via: Bloomberg: Solar panel installations may surge in the next two years as the cost of generating electricity from the sun rivals coal-fueled plants, industry executives and analysts said. Large […]
Saudis Switch to Solar, Nuclear at Home, Saving Oil for Export
April 5th, 2011Via: Forbes: Sunny Saudi Arabia plans to shift most of its domestic energy use to solar and nuclear power, diverting more oil to exports, a Saudi official said yesterday at the Third Saudi Solar Energy Forum in Riyadh. “The use of alternative sustainable and reliable resources reduces dependency on hydrocarbons and keeps them as a […]
Google Said to Be Possible Target of U.S. FTC Antitrust Probe
April 5th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a broad antitrust investigation into Google Inc.’s dominance of the Internet-search industry, two people familiar with the matter said. Before proceeding with any probe, the FTC is awaiting a decision by the Justice Department on whether it will challenge Google’s planned acquisition of ITA Software Inc. […]
‘It’s very hard to spend $20 million a year, even $10 million’
April 5th, 2011Via: AP: While most of the country is still dealing with the daily realities of a struggling economy, University of California, Berkeley professor Robert Reich said the super-rich are richer today than they have ever been. “It’s very hard to spend $20 million a year, even $10 million,” said Reich, former Secretary of Labor during […]
How a Big U.S. Bank Laundered Billions from Mexico’s Murderous Drug Gangs
April 4th, 2011Bloomberg ran a great piece about this back in June 2010. What has happened since then? Of course, there was some wrist-slapping, but, “Now that the year’s ‘deferred prosecution’ has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear.” Via: Guardian: On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad […]
Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human-Milk-Like Products’
April 3rd, 2011When I saw this story in the Telegraph, I thought that it had to be the tail end of some April Fool’s antics. Nope. Apparently, this is actually happening. The article below is from March. Via: Good: Earlier this month, China held an exhibition to showcase major technical achievements during its 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). […]
Ivory Coast: Aid Workers Find 1,000 Bodies in Duekoue
April 3rd, 2011Is a NATO invasion going to follow? Via: Telegraph: The single biggest atrocity in the long battle for control of Ivory Coast has emerged after aid workers discovered the bodies of up to 1,000 people in the town of Duekoue. Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a […]
A Murder Foretold
April 1st, 2011Via: The New Yorker: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he […]
Libya-Owned Arab Banking Corp. Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed in Crisis
April 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed. The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Libyan state, had aggregate borrowings in that period of […]
