Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Budget Problems? Just Use Prison Labor
February 26th, 2011The New York Times outdoes itself with this one. “Financial experts agree.” Oh sure. See, Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little, for a bit of context. Via: New York Times: Before he went to jail, Danny Ivey had barely seen a backyard garden. […]
‘Who Did We Issue Those To? Who Bought Those Bonds?’
February 26th, 2011Solution to the debt crisis? According to Damon Vickers, author of, The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order, a sort of globalist debt jubilee would be carried out as a part of implementing the New World Order. Note: Vickers wants to see the New World […]
New Pathogen Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops Causes Spontaneous Abortions and Infertility in Livestock?
February 24th, 2011Via: Institute of Science in Society: An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US [1, 2]. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns of a pathogen “new to […]
Saudi Regime Will Attempt to Maintain Power with $37 Billion Lolly Scramble
February 23rd, 2011Via: Reuters: Saudi King Abdullah returned home on Wednesday after a three-month medical absence and unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.
Wealthy Businessman Linked to Congo Gold Smuggling Jet [Wait for It] ‘Was Recently Appointed to an Advisory Post in the Obama Administration’
February 23rd, 2011Update: Kenyan Killed in Congo Gold Smuggling Probe Via: 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 […]
Cables Show China Used Debt Holdings to Press U.S.
February 22nd, 2011Duh. Via: AFP: Leaked diplomatic cables vividly show China’s willingness to translate its massive holdings of US debt into political influence on issues ranging from Taiwan’s sovereignty to Washington’s financial policy. China’s clout — gleaned from its nearly $900 billion stack of US debt — has been widely commented on in the United States, but […]
Ex Judge Convicted of Racketeering; Taking Bribes from For-Profit Juvenile Detention Centers
February 19th, 2011Via: AP: A former juvenile court judge was convicted Friday of racketeering in a case that accused him of sending youth offenders to for-profit detention centers in exchange for millions of dollars in illicit payments from the builder and owner of the lockups. Luzerne County ex-Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, left the bench in disgrace two […]
New Zealand: Rural Broadband Scheme ‘Destructive’
February 17th, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald: John Key says he wants to “streamline and improve” bureaucracy. Bill English says the country can’t afford waffly policy. Great. They can do away with the Ministry of Economic Development. That should save billions and get rid of policy that is not only waffly but downright destructive. The decision to start […]
Curveball’s Nonsense Led U.S. to War in Iraq?
February 16th, 2011We’re to believe that al-Janabi made it all happen. It’s fascinating how Project for the New American Century, with its vigorous agitating for regime change in Iraq, wasn’t mentioned in this piece at all. The U.S. was going to whack Iraq, al-Janabi or no al-Janabi. Via: Guardian: In a small flat in the German town […]
Is Mubarak a Mason?
February 15th, 2011I went to read, How The Mubarak Family Made Its Billions, and there it was: See: The Hidden Hand that Shaped History: Has the course of History been directed by a small group of people with common interests? The paintings and pictures of the great men of the past centuries reveal a common thread which […]
