Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Russia Criticizes U.S., NATO Over Afghan Drugs *wink* *wink*
March 18th, 2010If the squeals out of Russia about drug trafficking are real, and I have serious doubts about that, why not mention this bridge? In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed […]
Biden in Israel: A Gift of Broken Glass and More Weirdness
March 17th, 2010* Queue Twilight Zone Music * Via: Reuters: In the region where symbolism may matter most, the signs for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit were inauspicious. First Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak cancelled talks in Cairo and flew to hospital for gallbladder surgery. Then came an Israeli gift of broken glass and an eerie power […]
The Lehman Brothers Swindle
March 15th, 2010Lehman’s $50 Billion Conjuring Trick
March 15th, 2010Via: Times Online: In May 2008, as the world span towards the worst financial crisis in living memory, Matthew Lee, a senior vice-president at Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, decided to make a stand. After 14 years with the firm, the New York-based Edinburgh University graduate was convinced the bank was heading for disaster. […]
Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies
March 12th, 2010Via: Time: Amnesty International may be best known to American audiences for bringing to light horror stories overseas such as the disappearance of political activists in Argentina or the abysmal conditions inside South African prisons under apartheid. But in a new report on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal health […]
Papal Aide Linked to Vatican Gay Prostitution Ring
March 11th, 2010Via: Irish Times: “AT WHAT time does he have to be back in the seminary?” The question might seem innocent enough, were it not for the fact that the man asking it is a Papal Gentleman, Angelo Balducci, and the man of whom he is asking it is his pimp, Vatican chorister and Nigerian, Chinediu […]
Chief Exorcist: “The Devil Is at Work Inside the Vatican”
March 11th, 2010Via: Times: Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist. Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican’s chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said […]
The World’s Most Expensive Military Cemetery
March 9th, 2010I don’t think much about what could have been, but it’s hard not to when looking at this abomination. Via: Telegraph: The world’s most expensive military cemetery, a £22.6 billion centre dubbed “The Boneyard”, has been pictured in a spectacular series of new high-resolution Google Earth satellite images. The 2,600 acre facility, officially known Davis-Monthan […]
The Pentagon’s Runaway Budget
March 8th, 2010Via: antiwar.com: With his decision to boost defense spending, President Obama is continuing the process of re-inflating the Pentagon that began in late 1998 — fully three years before the 9/11 attacks on America. The FY 2011 budget marks a milestone, however: The inflation-adjusted rise in spending since 1998 will probably exceed 100 percent in […]
Beijing Studies Severing Dollar Peg
March 8th, 2010Via: Financial Times: China’s central bank chief laid the groundwork for an appreciation of the renminbi at the weekend when he described the current dollar peg as temporary, striking a more emollient tone after months of tough opposition in Beijing to a shift in exchange rate policy. Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of […]
