Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Probably No Civil or Criminal Charges Over Lehman Brothers’ Activities
March 13th, 2011*Shaking head* *Mumbling incoherently* Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S. government’s investigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has hit daunting hurdles that could result in no civil or criminal charges ever being filed against the company’s former executives, people familiar with the situation said. In recent months, Securities and Exchange Commission officials […]
WORLD’S LARGEST BOND FUND DUMPS ALL U.S. GOVERNMENT DEBT
March 10th, 2011Via: Reuters: The world’s largest bond fund has gone ultra bearish on the United States, dumping all of its U.S. government-related debt holdings. The move by Bill Gross’s $236.9 billion PIMCO Total Return fund completed last month comes in the wake of a vicious Treasury market sell-off and just days after he questioned who will […]
Prison Labor Used to Build Parts for Patriot Missiles
March 9th, 2011Via: Wired: This spring, the United Arab Emirates is expected to close a deal for $7 billion dollars’ worth of American arms. Nearly half of the cash will be spent on Patriot missiles, which cost as much as $5.9 million apiece. But what makes those eye-popping sums even more shocking is that some of the […]
Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side
March 9th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy Journal: In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “black,” meaning hidden from public […]
Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire Pedophile Kept Secret Journal Which Listed Under-Aged Victims, Celebrity Guests He ‘Entertained’
March 6th, 2011Context: isgp.eu Mirror Update: FBI to Reopen Case It was a honeypot. Via: Daily Mail: The FBI is to reopen its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein following Mail on Sunday revelations about his sexual exploitation of teenage girls and his links with high-profile individuals, including Prince Andrew. The Bureau wants to interview Esptein’s former […]
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget
March 4th, 2011Via: Alternet: If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. … A country with a gross domestic product of $1.2 trillion would have the 15th largest economy in the world, ranking between Canada and Indonesia, […]
Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged with Insider Trading
March 3rd, 2011Via: Globe and Mail: On the afternoon of September 23, 2008, in the midst of some of the darkest days in American financial history, a handful of people dialled into a conference call and learned a piece of good news. Legendary investor Warren Buffett was about to invest billions in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a […]
Congo Gold Smuggling Ring’s Big Texas Ties
March 2nd, 2011Via: Mad Cow Productions: A Dallas-based Gulfstream V luxury jet seized for gold smuggling last month by authorities in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also under investigation for drug running by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Gulfstream implicated in gold trafficking in Goma was on the DEA’s […]
Ideas for a Television Show About ‘Conspiracy Theories’
March 1st, 2011The executive producer of a television show that deals with conspiracy theories emailed me. He stated that he reads Cryptogon and likes it. He then went on to ask me for ideas for his show. I responded with some ideas. For whatever reason, the person no longer wishes to communicate with me. That’s fine. The […]
U.S. Helicopters, Colombian Money Laundering
February 28th, 2011Via: Colombia Reports: To get a sense of just how interconnected the formal and illicit dimensions of international political economy are, take a peek at this brief cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota published by WikiLeaks Sunday. The cable details then-Ambassador William Woods’ hunt for two missing helicopters that had originally been sold to […]
