Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Opium Fields Surround Main Australian Base in Afghanistan
October 11th, 2010Via: The Age: MORE than half the fields surrounding the main Australian base in Afghanistan are being used to grow opium poppies, as coalition forces struggle to ween locals off the lucrative crop. Locals question why troops and police have failed to crack down on the semi-open sale of the poppies, according to the report […]
Surprise — The Very Dark Side of U.S. History
October 11th, 2010Via: Alternet: There is a dark — seldom acknowledged — thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests […]
Hal Lewis: My Resignation From the American Physical Society; Global Warming, “Is the Greatest and Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud I Have Seen in My Long Life as a Physicist”
October 11th, 2010Via: The Global Warming Policy Foundation: From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the […]
‘Dying Communities See Salvation in New Prisons’
October 10th, 2010Hope and Change: Replacing collapsed industries with prisons. Via: AP: Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community college, the 20-year-old Berlin native plans to apply for a corrections officer job at the federal prison expected to open in the city next summer. There aren’t […]
Spain: Child Pornography Ring Involved Police, Business Owers
October 10th, 2010Via: BBC: Police have arrested 57 people over child pornography allegations in Spain, including business owners and local police officers, the authorities say.
Tom Donilon: Obama’s New National Security Adviser and Fannie Mae Fraud
October 10th, 2010Via: Politico: To many in the foreign policy community, Tom Donilon’s selection Friday as national security adviser to President Barack Obama was a deserving reward for a consummate professional, a corporate lawyer who worked his way up through the foreign policy ranks over the years and is credited with holding the National Security Council together […]
Has Obama Ever Met an Industrial Food Shill He Didn’t Appoint?
October 9th, 2010Via: Grist: Earlier this month, Congress approved Obama’s nomination of Catherine Woteki, the USDA’s undersecretary for research, education, and economics. The appointment drew little attention in the press, including the sustainable-food blogosphere. That’s surprising, because Woteki comes to her new position after a five-year stint as global director of scientific affairs for Mars, Inc., the […]
Bank of America Halts Foreclosures in All States
October 8th, 2010See: MERS/MBS/Foreclosure Goes RICO Via: Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, will halt foreclosures in all 50 U.S. states to determine whether documents used to seize homes from people had the correct data. “We will stop foreclosure sales until our assessment has been satisfactorily completed,” the Charlotte, North Carolina- based company said […]
California: State Cancels Access to Welfare Benefits on Cruise Ships and Casinos
October 7th, 2010I should have a California category to complete with Florida. Via: Los Angeles Times: California officials are cutting off use of state-issued welfare debit cards at casinos across the country and on cruise ships, in the wake of Times reports that the aid cards have been used to spend or withdraw millions of dollars in […]
White House Blocked Government Scientists from Warning American Public of the Potential Environmental Disaster Caused by BP Oil Spill
October 7th, 2010See floridaoilspilllaw.com for full time coverage of the ongoing disaster in the region. Via: Guardian: The White House blocked government scientists from warning the American public of the potential environmental disaster caused by BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, a report released by the national commission investigating the oil spill said yesterday. The […]
