Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Investigators Suspect Vatican Bank Used Clergy to Act ‘As Fronts for Corrupt Businessmen and Mafia’
December 13th, 2010Via: Independent: The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.25m) in September. The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a “misunderstanding” and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But fresh court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted […]
A Secretive Banking Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives
December 12th, 2010Via: New York Times: On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan. The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. […]
Bernard Madoff’s Son Mark Found Hanged
December 11th, 2010Update Via: Gothamist: Yesterday morning, the body of Mark Madoff was found hanging from a dog leash in his Soho apartment, while his two-year-old son was sleeping in another room. While no note was found, it’s believed the 46-year-old son of infamous Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff committed suicide, based on desperate e-mails he sent to […]
No Escape from Sauron’s Ever-Watching Eye
December 11th, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: When a man can’t put a simple roof over his head, trap and hunt game, grow food, defecate in a hole and raise and educate children without fending off an endless onslaught of permits, fees, licenses and hordes of heavily armed orcs, he is already living in Mordor and there truly is […]
Madoff Trustee Launches $19.6 Billion Lawsuit
December 11th, 2010Via: CBS News: As Saturday’s deadline looms to file claims in the recovery of assets from Bernard Madoff’s massive fraud, the trustee seeking money for the swindler’s victims has sued an Austrian banker, claiming she masterminded a 23-year conspiracy that facilitated Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and funneled billions of dollars into her “deliberately Byzantine” network of […]
$500 Million to Keep Cheney Out of Nigerian Prison?
December 10th, 2010I keep thinking that someone is taking the piss out of all of us with this one, but… Via: Global Post: Halliburton is planning to make a plea bargain in former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s corruption case, Nigerian officials told GlobalPost. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency charged Cheney as the head of Halliburton when its engineering […]
Ron Paul, Author of ‘End the Fed,’ to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank
December 10th, 2010Hell, at this late stage of the game, why not? Via: Bloomberg: Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve. House Financial Services chairman-elect Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, selected Paul, 75, to lead the panel’s domestic monetary policy subcommittee […]
Video from London Riots
December 10th, 2010Related: Looks Like Prince Charles Soiled His Union Suit
Saudi Arabia: U.S. TV Effective for Countering Jihad
December 8th, 2010In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
Haiti Cholera: UN Peacekeepers to Blame
December 8th, 2010Wow. I actually didn’t think much of a cholera outbreak in Haiti. Thousands of people, packed close together in camps without proper sanitation—it’s not much of a stretch to think that cholera could result. Weirdly, though, my dad was cryptically trying to tell me something about cholera on the phone a few weeks ago, but […]
