Archive for the 'Elite' Category
U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth $1 Trillion in Afghanistan; “The Saudi Arabia of Lithium”; Eventually “One of The Most Important Mining Centers in The World”; Pentagon “Helping” Afghan Government to Prepare to Seek Bids on Mineral Rights
June 14th, 2010I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. —Fight Club Update: Afghan Mineral Deposits Actually Worth $3 Trillion, Not $1 Trillion —End Update— The Soviets knew about it! They did geological surveys during their occupation of Afghanistan. Which makes you wonder… Did the U.S. actually know about it all this time? This piece says otherwise, but […]
New York Money Manager Chimay Charged With Larceny, Forgery
June 13th, 2010Guy Albert de Swindle. Via: Bloomberg: New York money manager Guy Albert de Chimay was indicted in New York on grand larceny and forgery charges, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Chimay, 47, chairman and chief investment officer of Chimay Capital Management Inc., was arrested yesterday in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on a New […]
Obama Pleads for $50 Billion in State, Local Aid
June 13th, 2010Via: Washington Post: President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery. In a letter to congressional leaders, Obama defended last year’s huge […]
Japan Bribed Small Nations with Cash, Prostitutes to Gain Support for Whaling
June 13th, 2010For your news-not-news file folder. Via: Times: A SUNDAY TIMES investigation has exposed Japan for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes to gain their support for the mass slaughter of whales. The undercover investigation found officials from six countries were willing to consider selling their votes on the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The revelations […]
Bilderberg Group Now Has a Website
June 13th, 2010Via: Guardian: An extraordinary thing happened last weekend. The world’s most secretive strategy group, Bilderberg, poked its nose out of the shadows and launched its own website: bilderbergmeetings.org. For an organisation that prefers to cordon the press a mile from its meetings, whose press relations policy to date has been to arrest, harass and search […]
Obama “Let the World’s Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder”
June 11th, 2010Via: Rolling Stone: On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone was to blame for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf – and […]
Musical Chairs with Peter Sutherland
June 11th, 2010Goldman Sachs Sold $250 Million of BP Stock Before Spill: The brokerage firm that’s faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: the stock of British oil giant BP. According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com […]
“These Are Company Towns”
June 11th, 2010Via: ABC News: Reporting is often about access, but journalists along the Gulf Coast covering the BP oil spill have had some trouble getting it. As BP faces more pressure from the government and from its own shareholders unhappy with the company’s falling stock price, it seems to be clamping down on who can talk […]
Experts Double Estimate of BP Oil Spill Size
June 11th, 2010Experts also tell us what the unemployment numbers are. So, double or triple it again and maybe we’ll be in the ballpark. Via: BBC: As many as 40,000 barrels (1.7m gallons) of oil a day may have been gushing out from a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, doubling many estimates. The US Geological Survey says […]
Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
June 10th, 2010Via: New York Times: When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request. A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune […]
