Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Home Depot Must Actually Pay Inventor For Invention
May 13th, 2010Via: Consumerist: Home Depot had a problem: their employees kept sawing off their own extremities with the saws they used to cut lumber for customers. Michael Powell invented a gadget which fixed the problem, and offered to sell the device to the chain for $2,000 each. Then, the inventor’s lawsuit alleged, Home Depot simply stole […]
Fungus Hits Afghan Opium Poppies
May 13th, 2010What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. —The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium Sure, the article says that the fungus occurs naturally… Maybe that’s what happened. Maybe not. Who benefits from […]
Barrick Gold Moves to Block Mining Book
May 13th, 2010Via: CBC: The threat of legal action from mining giant Barrick Gold has forced Vancouver-based Talonbooks to postpone publication of a book about the Canadian mining industry. Publisher Karl Siegler calls it a clear case of “libel chill” by one of Canada’s largest mining companies. The book, Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for […]
Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Company That Will Make Clouds Out of Sea Water
May 12th, 2010Via: Mother Nature Network: Basically a fleet of ships equipped with screens & vacuums pump up millions of gallons of ocean water and using high-powered water canons introduce the water some 3000 feet in the air, where clouds are formed. The added moisture content would increase the thickness of the water vapor, making the clouds […]
Europe Rewrites its Rule Book in Creating Fund to Contain Financial Crisis
May 12th, 2010Via: Washington Post: The massive emergency fund assembled to defend the value of the euro is backed by a political gamble with an uncertain outcome: that European governments will rewrite a post-World War II social contract that has been generous to workers and retirees but has become increasingly unaffordable for an aging population. The trillion-dollar […]
Senate Votes 96-0 to Audit Federal Reserve
May 12th, 2010Senate Passes Watered Down Sanders Amendment to Audit the Fed 96-0 Via: Los Angeles Times: The Senate voted 96 to 0 on Tuesday to authorize a congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve Board’s emergency aid program and full disclosure of who got the money, a plan that could reveal more details about government help […]
Feds Probing JPMorgan Silver Trades
May 10th, 2010Via: New York Post: Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned. The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to depress the price of silver, sources said. […]
Christian Right Leader George Rekers Takes Vacation with “Rent Boy”
May 10th, 2010Via: Miami New Times: On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened […]
Confetti Schredder Rally Time
May 10th, 2010UPDATE: FEDERAL RESERVE OPENS EMERGENCY CREDIT LINE TO EUROPE Via: AP: The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent. Other central banks, including the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the […]
EU Crafts $928 Billion Loan Package in Attempt to Halt Euro Decline
May 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: European finance ministers put together an unprecedented loan package that may be worth 720 billion euros ($928 billion) for debt-swamped governments in a bid to restore faith in the euro and prevent Greece’s fiscal woes from unleashing a global crisis. Jolted into action by last week’s slide in the currency to a 14-month […]
