Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Plane Carrying Former Senator Ted Stevens Crashes in Alaska
August 10th, 2010Update: Ted Stevens Killed In Plane Crash Via: CBS News: Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history who lost his seat after a corruption conviction that was later dismissed, was killed Tuesday in a small plane crash in Alaska. He was 86. A family friend said Stevens was among five people killed in […]
Many Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 7, 8
August 10th, 2010See: Child Diabetes Blamed on Food Sweetener: Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis. Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs […]
U.S. to Sell $30 Billion Worth of Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia
August 9th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration plans to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia but won’t equip them with long-range weapons systems and other arms whose inclusion was strongly opposed by Israel, diplomats and officials said. The proposed $30 billion, 10-year arms package, which would be one of the biggest single deals […]
Goldman Sachs Involved with Despicable Bucket Shop Education Scams
August 9th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Carrianne Howard dreamed of designing video games, so she enrolled in a program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a for-profit college part-owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Her bachelor’s degree in game art and design cost $70,000 in tuition and fees. After she graduated in December 2007, she found a job […]
“The U. S. patent code was never meant to cover your genes, your cells, your blood, or the marrow in your bones. But it does.”
August 9th, 2010Via: Esquire: Like, for example, the gene called BRCA1. There’s a chance you have that gene. There’s an even better chance your wife has it, or your sister or your mom, because that’s the gene for breast cancer. If you could test yourself for BRCA1 right now, or if you could test your wife or […]
Matt Simmons Dead “Of An Apparent Heart Attack”
August 9th, 2010Update: Reader Email F writes: You probably want to avoid wild speculation but do you have any possible insights into this, assuming it’s not “natural causes” or an accident? All along, I never really knew what to make of Matt Simmons. I didn’t post the Bloomberg video below because (no offense intended to family and […]
TheAntiTerrorist on The Big Business of Being Behind Bars
August 9th, 2010Via: TheAntiTerrorist: Related: Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
The Ministry of Oil Defense
August 6th, 2010The article opens with: It’s not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn’t stand for it. Oh really? How Many Millions are in a Trillion? from Econ4U on Vimeo. Tell us all another one about what “Americans” won’t stand for. […]
Telling Swiss Secrets: A Banker’s Betrayal
August 6th, 2010Via: Global Post: It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking — the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names — and it’s the rare American that is allowed entry. Bradley Birkenfeld was one of the few Americans who held the keys to the kingdom. A Boston-born, high-flying, cross-border banker at […]
U.S. Government Funding Program to Train Foreign Workers So American Firms Can Outsource Jobs
August 5th, 2010In other news: The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Via: Information Week: Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English […]
