Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Federal Reserve Creative Accounting to Avoid Insolvency?
January 23rd, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: Concerns that the Federal Reserve could suffer losses on its massive bond holdings may have driven the central bank to adopt a little-noticed accounting change with huge implications: it makes insolvency much less likely. The significant shift was tucked quietly into the Fed’s weekly report on its balance sheet and phrased […]
Situation at Cairo Airport Involving Gold and Cash Smuggling to Netherlands
January 23rd, 2011Readers capable of doing high confidence translations from Arabic to English are welcome to submit them. So far, there is no English language source for this. Here’s the Google machine translation to English. Via: Google Translate / egypt.com: Cairo Airport Authority announced today the state of emergency to re-examine the expulsion of 59 gold and […]
FAA Warns of Ongoing GPS Issues in Southeastern U.S. Due to Defense Department ‘Tests’
January 21st, 2011Interestingly (instinctively?), Cryptogon readers have been buying Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty for years. This one gets a tick in the Social Engineering box because of how the machine gets people to internalize and rely on whiz bang technology that can then be withdrawn with the flip of a switch. […]
Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command Are, “Members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.”
January 18th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy: “What I’m really talking about is how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government. Took it over,” he said of his forthcoming book. “It’s not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it — how Congress disappeared, how the press became part […]
Vatican Warned Irish Bishops Not to Report Abuse
January 18th, 2011Via: AP: A newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police — a disclosure with the potential to fuel more lawsuits worldwide against the Vatican, which has long denied any involvement in cover-ups. The letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to […]
Ex Tunisia President’s Wife Left with 1.5 Tons of Gold
January 18th, 2011Via: CNBC: The French government suspects that former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family may have fled the country with 1.5 tons of gold, French daily Le Monde reported Monday. According to the French secret service, Leila Trabelsi, the wife of the ex-president, went to the Central Bank of Tunisia to fetch […]
David Rockefeller Greeted by Adoring Fan Upon Arrival in Chile
January 18th, 2011Rudolf Elmer, Former Julius Baer Banker, Hands 2,000 Private Banking Files to WikiLeaks
January 17th, 2011Via: Sydney Morning Herald: THE Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer has provided WikiLeaks with two CDs containing information on more than 2000 bank clients suspected of tax evasion. The disks were handed over in London last night to the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. They are said to contain secret bank details of clients, including politicians, multinationals, […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
January 16th, 2011Please click through and read the whole thing. Via: The Atlantic: Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. […]
Third-Largest Maker of Solar Panels in the U.S. Moves Factory to China
January 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States. But now the company is closing its main American factory, laying off the […]
