Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Attempts to Replace Confetti Currency Federal Reserve Notes with Precious Metals Are, ‘A Unique Form of Domestic Terrorism’
March 20th, 2011The source for all the quotes in this post is a U.S. Department of Justice Press Release that appears on the web site of the Charlotte field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm I didn’t link directly to this because my guess is that you wouldn’t be doing yourself any favors by clicking […]
Obama Regime Understates Deficits by $2.3 Trillion
March 19th, 2011Maybe they’re anticipating finding the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: AP: A new assessment of President Barack Obama’s budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade. The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if […]
G7 Intervention on Yen
March 18th, 2011It had to happen. Anyway, there’s the “free market” for you. There’s a lot of mythology about free markets in mainstream texts books and corporate media, but when the wheels come off the cart in Fiat Currency Hell (and have no doubt about it, the wheels came off the cart with this Yen thing), the […]
White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown
March 16th, 2011Via: Cnet: The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
Japan’s Disastrous Nuclear Operators
March 15th, 2011Via: Greg Palast: I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don’t know the law in Japan, so I can’t tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about […]
Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor
March 14th, 2011Via: Wired: Building parts for Patriot missile systems was just a warm-up, apparently, for a government-owned company that relies on federal inmates making as little as 23 cents an hour. On Wednesday, the U.S. Army announced that it handed Federal Prison Industries a no-bid, nearly $20 million contract to build body armor. It’s the latest […]
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 […]
