Archive for the 'Elite' Category
China Holds Relatives of One Child Rule Breakers Hostage
April 22nd, 2010Via: Times Online: Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they […]
Goldman Sachs Hires, Gregory Craig, Barack Obama’s Former White House Counsel
April 22nd, 2010Via: Politico: Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel, Gregory Craig. The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig — now in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — in recent weeks […]
IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way”
April 21st, 2010Cryptogon Flashback to 2002: Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won’t In the years since I wrote that, I started to think that a massive attack on the physical network infrastructure would make increasing sense to the elite if the financial scams became totally untenable, and the perpetrators needed a distraction […]
The Psychiatric Drugging of Children
April 21st, 2010Via: Counterpunch: Of all the harmful actions of modern psychiatry, “the mass diagnosing and drugging of children is the most appalling with the most serious consequences for the future of individual lives and for society,” warns the world-renowned expert, Dr Peter Breggin, often referred to as the “Conscience of Psychiatry.” “We’re bringing up a generation […]
Top Contributors: Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
April 20th, 2010Via: OpenSecrets: This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates. Because of contribution limits, organizations that […]
Janet Tavakoli: Did Goldman Sachs Commit Fraud?
April 20th, 2010Via: Jesse’s Café Américain: Yes. The only thing that was surprising how long the SEC took to do it. The complaint does not go quite far enough. It was a blatant fraud, more than just a failure to disclose information. And this may be the beginning of a lot of questions about a lot of […]
Elliot Spitzer: “There are no coincidences in this world. None.”
April 20th, 2010Update: AIG-Goldman Sachs Trades Should Be Probed by SEC, Cummings Says Via: Business Week: The regulator suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for fraud should widen its probe to determine whether securities backed by bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. were improperly created, said two lawmakers. It is “not beyond the realm of comprehension” that Goldman […]
Poll: Four Out of Five Americans Don’t Trust Washington; One Third View Government as Major Threat
April 19th, 2010Via: AFP: Nearly one out of three Americans view the US government as a “major threat” to their freedoms, and four out of five say they don’t trust Washington to solve their problems, according to a new poll out Monday. Just 19 percent say they are “basically content” with the federal government, against 56 percent […]
Goldman Lawyers Advised Lehman
April 19th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The US law firm supporting Goldman Sachs against fraud allegations was Lehman Brothers’ legal adviser as it crashed into bankruptcy two years ago. Rodgin Cohen, the senior chairman at Sullivan & Cromwell, was the man who made the fateful call on Sunday September 14, 2008 to Dick Fuld, the boss of Lehman, to […]
100 Years of U.S. Medical Fascism
April 19th, 2010Via: Ludwig Von Mises Institute: As far as other conservative Republicans go, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has repeatedly stated that he sees “some good things” in Obamacare, especially the expanded use of Medicaid. Voters naïve enough to think they will get a complete repeal from the Republican Party appear to be in for a […]
