Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Lockheed Martin’s ‘Got Their Fingers Everywhere’; Firm Costs Each U.S. Taxpaying Household $260 Per Year
January 4th, 2011Fingers… or tentacles? Via: Yahoo / Tech Ticker: That’s been the key question asked of Wall Street’s biggest banks since the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, which sent shock waves through the global financial system and led to the worst recession this country has seen since the Great Depression. But, there is another firm […]
Italian Banks Upset with Level of Cash Use; Underground Economy 22% of GDP
January 4th, 2011Via: Reuters: The Italian Banking Association has declared “war on cash” in a country where credit-card usage is less than half the European Union average, according to the Bank of Italy. The association, known by its Italian acronym ABI, says it costs banks and companies as much as 10 billion euros ($13.3 billion) a year […]
Sweetos: Neotame Artificial Sweetener in Feed Approved for Organic Livestock; No Labeling Disclosure Required
January 4th, 2011Via: Farm Wars: Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto asset, has developed a new and improved version of this neurotoxin called […]
John P. Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Member of Council on Foreign Relations, Consultant to Mitre Corporation Found Dumped in Landfill
January 3rd, 2011Update: Wheeler’s Widow Thinks it Was Assassination; “Sounds Like a Pro to Me” Via: Salon: The silence strengthens a hunch Klyce has had since the beginning: That Wheeler’s death wasn’t random. “I think perhaps no one has been on the reward because they’ve already been paid,” she said. Then there’s the way Wheeler’s body was […]
Britain: Whitehall Policy Unit Dreaming Up Psychological Tricks to Alter Behavior; Default Policy Options for Passive Citizens to Bring About ‘Benevolent Outcomes’
January 3rd, 2011Ahh, the diabolical Cass Sunstein is in the news again. You’ll love this. Via: Independent: The public will have “social norms” heavily emphasised to them in an attempt to increase healthy eating, voluntary work and tax gathering. Appeals will be made to “egotism” in a bid to foster individual support for the Big Society, while […]
Weather Project in Abu Dhabi Resulted in Dozens of Man-Made Rainstorms
January 3rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: A secret £7 million weather project in Abu Dhabi has resulted in dozens of man-made rainstorms, according to reports. Scientists employed by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE and leader of Abu Dhabi, successfully created more than 50 rainstorms in the state’s Al Ain region last year, mostly in […]
Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’
January 1st, 2011A few terms that don’t appear in the story below: Oil, diamonds, cobalt, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Cocoa, however, is mentioned. Via: Guardian: Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba also claimed that some houses […]
Letter from Poland
December 30th, 2010Via: Letter from Poland / YouTube:
Dawn of the Age of the Robot
December 30th, 2010This article reminded me of reading OMNI magazine in the 1980s, when I should have been doing my homework. Hopefully, much of this stuff will remain as science fiction / grant swindles for another 20 years… but I doubt it. Via: Guardian: The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see […]
California Woman Charged with Insider Trading; Selling Secret Information for Over $200,000
December 30th, 2010International Criminals Launder Billions of Dollars Through U.S. Financial Institutions, and Invest Profits in Publicly Traded Companies Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market Rest assured: This is the chicken feed. Via: AFP: US prosecutors have charged a California woman […]
