Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire Pedophile Kept Secret Journal Which Listed Under-Aged Victims, Celebrity Guests He ‘Entertained’
March 6th, 2011Update: 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 personal ‘masseuse’, Virginia […]
$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 […]
Egypt Bans Individuals from Taking Gold Out of Country
February 28th, 2011Thinking about trying to flee from point A to point B with gold after the shit hits the fan? Via: Reuters: Egypt on Sunday banned the export of gold for the next four months, a measure bankers said seemed aimed at preventing businessmen and former government officials who acquired capital illegally from transferring it abroad. […]
Kenyan Official, Investigating Congo Gold Smuggling Case, Shot and Killed
February 28th, 2011Via: Reuters: A senior Kenyan official has been shot dead while investigating gold smuggling from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenyan police said on Monday. Eric Kiraithe, a police spokesman, said the man was an official at Kenya’s Revenue Authority. “We have not arrested any suspects involved in gold smuggling but we have identified […]
Seymour Hersh and The Knights of Malta: A Look at the Aftermath
February 28th, 2011Definitely interesting. Via: WhoWhatWhy: It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank. It […]
Take a Closer Look at Those Obama Posters
February 27th, 2011*chortle* Via: io9:
