Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Booz Allen Hamilton Received $400 Million in Cyberwar Contracts in the Past Six Weeks
May 19th, 2010My guess as to which goon will have the largest role in recovery efforts following any major network centric false flag operation: Mike McConnell. —IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way” Via: Wired: Coincidences sure are funny things. Booz Allen Hamilton — the defense contractor that’s […]
Goldman Sachs Hands Clients Losses in Seven of Nine ‘Top Trades’
May 19th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. racked up trading profits for itself every day last quarter. Clients who followed the firm’s investment advice fared far worse. Seven of the investment bank’s nine “recommended top trades for 2010” have been money losers for investors who adopted the New York-based firm’s advice, according to data […]
Conspiracy of Banks Rigging States Came With Crash
May 19th, 2010I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Bloomberg: A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was […]
Plug in and Be Lit up by the American Hologram
May 18th, 2010Via: Joe Bageant: Ahhhh … Safely in the American national illusion, where all the world’s a shopping expedition. Or a terrorist threat. No matter, as long as it is colorful and wiggles on the theater state’s 400 million screens. Plug in and be lit up by the American Hologram. This great loom of media images, […]
New York Midwives Lose Right to Deliver Babies at Home
May 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: As residents of the world’s consumer capital, New Yorkers can have anything delivered to their door at any time. They can have their hair cut in the living room, have champagne and caviar rushed to them on a whim, enjoy a shiatsu massage in their own bed or invite a clairvoyant […]
Prominent Mexican Politician Kidnapped
May 16th, 2010Via: Reuters: A major figure in Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s conservative party was missing and feared dead on Saturday after his abandoned car was found with signs of violence, the attorney general’s office said. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, 69, an outspoken lawyer who was a presidential candidate for Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, in […]
Detroit to Use Federal Money to Demolish Thousands of Abandoned Homes
May 14th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Detroit is finally chipping away at a glut of abandoned homes that has been piling up for decades, and intends to take advantage of warm weather and new federal funding to demolish some 3,000 buildings by the end of September. Mayor Dave Bing has pledged to knock down 10,000 structures in […]
Sarkozy Threatened to Quit Euro in Showdown with Germany
May 14th, 2010Via: EUbusiness: French President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to pull his country out of the euro currency group to force Germany to help Greece with its debt crisis, El Pais newspaper reported Friday, quoting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Sarkozy made the threat at a Brussels summit of EU leaders last Friday that sealed […]
Morgan Stanley Conjured Doomed CDO Product, Shorted It
May 14th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: In June 2006, a year before the subprime mortgage market collapsed, Morgan Stanley created a cluster of investments doomed to fail even if default rates stayed low — then bet against its concoction. Known as the Baldwin deals, the $167 million of synthetic collateralized debt obligations had an unusual feature, according to sales […]
Volcker Sees Euro ‘Disintegration’ Risk From Greece
May 14th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said he’s concerned that the euro area may break up after the Greek fiscal crisis that sparked an unprecedented bailout by the region’s members. “You have the great problem of a potential disintegration of the euro,” Volcker, 82, said in a speech in London yesterday. “The essential […]
