Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Secret Meeting of Top Bankers in Australia
February 6th, 2010Via: Herald Sun: THE world’s top central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets. Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank landed in Sydney to meet tomorrow at a secret location, […]
Mysterious Danish Group Builds Exotic Compound on Baja Coast
February 5th, 2010This is a weird one. Via: San Diego Reader: Tvind Alert says that the complex cost $10 million to build. The watchdog website says that a Mexican-Danish company bought the land from local landowners between 1999 and 2003. Attorney Morachis informed me that the landowner is a Mexican company. Allegations have been made that title […]
Ex-BofA Chief Lewis Charged with Fraud
February 5th, 2010Via: CNN: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday it was bringing civil charges against senior Bank of America executives, including former company CEO Ken Lewis, for their role in the company’s controversial purchase of Merrill Lynch. Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it had struck a $150 million settlement agreement with BofA […]
Bernanke Says Federal Reserve Faces ‘Enormous Challenges’
February 4th, 2010Slather on an extra layer of warpaint on Maria Bartiromo and let’s hear more about the jobless recovery and the green shoots. Via: Bloomberg: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told his staff today that the U.S. central bank faces “enormous challenges” as he was sworn in for a second four- year term. “This institution, […]
Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion
February 2nd, 2010More Change. Via: Wired: The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” […]
Obama Budget Seeks More Money for Nuclear Weapons
February 2nd, 2010Even I never thought Change we can believe in would include the biggest increase in nuclear weapons related activities since the, “Early years of Ronald Reagan.” Via: Canadian Press: President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security next year, even as his administration has pledged to reduce the world’s stockpile […]
The Fed as Giant Counterfeiter
February 2nd, 2010Via: Ludwig von Mises Institute: San Jose State economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel tells all his students that the easiest way to understand the Federal Reserve is to think of it as a giant, legalized counterfeiter. I had always known that the Fed and other central banks were like counterfeiters, but I still thought that […]
CIA Officers Working for Private Corporations
February 2nd, 2010Related: They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market Via: Politico: In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and […]
Jim Cramer: Illuminati Not That Bad
February 1st, 2010It’s the usual nonsense for the first couple of minutes, but then, “And you know what, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, Goldman Sachs and the Queen of England are not all bad.”
White House to Paint Grim Fiscal Picture
February 1st, 2010For a much more meaningful translation of the story below, see: America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship: One stark and sobering way to frame the crisis is this: if the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America’s citizens since the nation’s founding 235 years ago, […]
