Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Deutsche Bank Faces U.S. Fraud Lawsuit Over Mortgage Lending
May 3rd, 2011via: Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Germany’s biggest bank, was sued for more than $1 billion by the U.S. government, which claims it “repeatedly lied” so that thousands of risky mortgages qualified for a government insurance program. The Frankfurt-based bank and its MortgageIT unit falsely certified that borrowers didn’t face risk of default, qualifying the […]
Your Location ‘Extremely Valuable’ to Google
May 2nd, 2011Via: International Business Times: Then, just weeks ago Los Angeles-based researcher Samy Kamkar illustrated that Google Android based smartphones were sending precise GPS location and other data back to Google “several times an hour.” “I cannot stress enough how important Google’s wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy,” Google location manager […]
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship at United Nations
April 29th, 2011Via: Comics Alliance: The key scene takes place in “The Incident,” a short story in Action Comics #900 written by David S. Goyer with art by Miguel Sepulveda. In it, Superman consults with the President’s national security advisor, who is incensed that Superman appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian […]
A More Militarized CIA for a More Militarized America
April 28th, 2011Adam B. left an important comment on this story: Petraeus had been working for the past several years as overseer of drug production and export in volatile countries. This is perfect job experience for a CIA director, no? Hopefully the knowledge he has gained in Afghanistan will apply in South America and South-East Asia as […]
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Class Action Lawsuits
April 28th, 2011Via: Legal News Line: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, in a 5-4 vote, that companies can enforce contracts that bar class action lawsuits.
Federal Reserve Will Stop Buying Treasury Bonds; Keep Interest Rates Near Zero
April 27th, 2011Warning: this is not a recommendation to buy, sell of hold any financial instrument. In other news, gold hit a fresh record high as the dollar tanked. Spot gold touched $1523.69. Via: Washington Post: The Federal Reserve will end its program of pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy in June but will […]
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 […]
