Archive for the 'Elite' Category
California Throws Away Enough Food to Fill 35 Stadiums Per Year
May 22nd, 2010Over at Technofascism Blog, Tony writes, “Keep this story in mind next time you hear that nonsense from people like Bill Gates insisting we need GM crops to feed a hungry world.” Besides Atomic Audit, this represents just about the clearest proof that the depth of our society’s madness is infinite. Via: San Francisco Chronicle: […]
BP Admits Underestimating Oil Leaking from Gulf of Mexico Well
May 21st, 2010Imagine our shock. Via: Telegraph: BP was on Thursday accused of seriously underestimating the flow of oil from its Gulf of Mexico well. In a further blow the beleaguered oil giant was also ordered to use less toxic chemicals to disperse its growing slick. It came as more damaging, heavy crude hit Louisiana’s coastal wetlands […]
TD Ameritrade Clients Unable to Log In, Trade
May 20th, 2010Say what? Morningstar analyst Michael Wong said all of the online brokers had similar problems during the sudden market plunge on May 6. There was sharp selling today as well. Still believe that ‘fatfinger’ nonsense from May 6? Via: AP: Some clients of online brokerage T.D. Ameritrade Holding Corp. were unable to log into their […]
‘Artificial Life’
May 20th, 2010Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us Via: BBC: Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. The researchers constructed a bacterium’s “genetic software” and transplanted it into a host cell. The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species “dictated” by the synthetic DNA. The advance, published in Science, […]
Nine Chipmakers Fined by EU for Price-Fixing
May 19th, 2010Via: BBC: Nine chip makers have been fined 331m euros (£283.1m, $404.2m) by European Union regulators for illegally fixing prices. The companies involved are Samsung, Hynix, Infineon, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Elpida and Nanya. A 10th chip maker, Micron, was also part of the price-fixing cartel but escaped a fine in return for alerting the […]
U.S. COAST GUARD THREATENED CBS NEWS CREW WITH ARREST FOR FILMING OIL SPILL DISASTER; COAST GUARD SAID THAT THEY WERE ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF BRITISH PETROLEUM; “THIS IS BP RULES. IT’S NOT OURS.”
May 19th, 2010Via: CBS: Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum. Watch CBS News Videos Online
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, […]
