Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Goldman Fined $650,000 for Fraud Disclosure Lapse
November 9th, 2010$650,000. Is that more or less than Blankfein’s annual cufflink budget? Via: AP: Industry regulators have fined Goldman Sachs $650,000 for failing to disclose that two of its brokers, including the executive accused of leading the mortgage securities deal that brought civil fraud charges against the firm, were under investigation by the government.
German Finance Minister: ‘The U.S. Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long’
November 9th, 2010Demand payment for BMWs in gold. *chortle* Via: Spiegel: Schäuble: The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis. The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating […]
Financial Manager May Not Face Felony Charges for a Hit-and-Run Because it Could Jeopardize His Job
November 6th, 2010Via: Vail Daily: A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday. Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, faces two misdemeanor traffic charges stemming from a July 3 incident when he allegedly hit bicyclist Dr. Steven Milo from behind then sped away, according […]
Nuclear Bunker Houses World’s Toughest Server Farm
November 4th, 2010Via: Wired: Deep inside the Swiss Alps, a former nuclear bunker is now the ultimate hiding place for the world’s most sensitive secrets. Wired gains access to the server farm designed to survive a full-scale military attack. … “Sixteen years ago, nobody took us seriously,” Oschwald says. “They said to us, ‘Storing data under a […]
Did Somebody Just Try to Buy the British Government?
November 3rd, 2010Update: Video —End Update— Wow, oh wow. Here’s one for your Double Plus WTF? file folder. It’s in the Lords Hansard. That’s the link. Scroll down to 1 Nov 2010 : Column 1538. Tell me this is simply a case of a codger and too many single malt drinkies. If not, this is the most […]
Is a Federal Nordic State on the Cards?
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Today the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some […]
Back to the Scene of the Crime: A Return to Jekyll Island: The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
November 2nd, 2010See: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. Via: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: This special conference marks the centenary of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that resulted in draft legislation for the creation of a U.S. central bank. Parts of this draft (the Aldrich plan) were incorporated into the 1913 Federal Reserve […]
Sarkozy: “Britain and France have pooled their sovereignty.”
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Britain and France today signed a landmark 50-year treaty on defence and security that envisages the joint use of aircraft carriers, a 10,000-strong joint expeditionary force and unprecedented new levels of co-operation over nuclear missiles. … Cameron disclosed that the two treaties would: * Create a joint expeditionary task force in which around […]
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
Randy Quaid Speaks Directly to Press
November 1st, 2010I avoided posting this story, initially, but it has become somewhat interesting, from a Beware-Of-Crooked-Lawyers perspective, and maybe other perspectives.
