Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Rice Meets with Obama, then Defends Regime
October 18th, 2010It’s all one regime, of course. Here’s the classic quote, which I’ve probably cited dozens of times over the years: The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, […]
Inside Job
October 18th, 2010Who Got Stimulated?
October 17th, 2010Thanks to BD for sending this one over:
Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese
October 15th, 2010Via: Poor Richard’s Blog: Morningland Dairy is the latest attempt by the FDA to fulfill the Healthy People 2020 objective to kill raw dairy. Morningland is owned by Joseph and Denise Dixon, who operate the cheese plant and make raw cheese from cows kept right on the property and managed by one of their eldest […]
Alan Grayson to FBI: Bring Criminal Charges Against Banks Over Foreclosure Fraud
October 15th, 2010Via: Market Ticker: October 14, 2010 Robert S. Mueller III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535 Robert O’Neill U.S. Attorney Middle District of Florida 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200 Tampa, FL 33602 Dear U.S. Attorney O’Neill and Director Mueller, When it comes to foreclosures, there is mounting evidence […]
India’s Richest Man Moves Into “Home” with 27 Stories
October 14th, 2010You have to see the picture of this thing. I was thinking, “Where have I seen this. I looks somehow familiar.” Check out the cover of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Note to self: Consider a Future Dystopias Today category. Via: Telegraph: The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into his new […]
50 State Attorneys General Announce Foreclosure Probe
October 13th, 2010Via: Washington Post: The attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states announced Wednesday that they are joining to probe mortgage loan servicers who are accused of submitting false affidavits, but they stopped short of calling for a national moratorium. The multistate investigation will initially focus on whether Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ally Financial […]
Super Soaker Inventor May Hold the Key to Affordable Solar Power
October 13th, 2010Take this graph into consideration as you read the piece below. Via: The Atlantic: From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art […]
Incarceration’s Impact on Society
October 12th, 2010Via: McClatchy DC: You won’t need a calculator, but get ready to decipher a bunch of numbers — data that ought to make Americans feel both sadness and shame. … While the costs of housing prisoners — $50 billion annually for state correctional costs alone — should be enough to cause us to rethink our […]
