Archive for the 'Elite' Category
No Climategate Prosecutions
January 26th, 2010Via: Bishop Hill: However, when the Climategate emails were released I noticed several email from Mike Hulme predating 2005, which appeared to contradict the earlier assertion that all such emails had been lost. Intrigued, I wrote to the Information Commissioner asking that this be investigated and today I had my response. First off, I was […]
Nanosecond Trading Strains Infrastructure: Firms Failing to Control Their Algorithms
January 26th, 2010See: Trading Shares in Milliseconds Via: Financial Times: An explosion in trading propelled by computers is raising fears that trading platforms could be knocked out by rogue trades triggered by systems running out of control. trading-thumb.jpgTrading in equities and derivatives is being driven increasingly by mathematical algorithms used in computer programs. They allow trading to […]
SEC Mulled National Security Status for AIG Details
January 25th, 2010Via: Reuters: U.S. securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve’s bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reuters. The request to keep the details secret were made by the New York Federal […]
Kucinich on Democrats: “Are you kidding me?”
January 24th, 2010Welcome to the desert of the real, Representative Kucinich. Via: Raw Story: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Wednesday said the Massachusetts election was a “wake up call” for Democrats and that his party had better change course or it could suffer devastating losses come November. “People elected Democrats in 2008 to change the country’s direction,” […]
Australia: Millionaire Businessman, Herman Rockefeller, Disappears
January 24th, 2010Update: He Was Murdered Via: Sydney Morning Herald: The slaying of multi-millionaire Herman Rockefeller has been linked to Melbourne’s underground swingers’ network. The body of the 52-year-old was found in a junk-strewn suburban backyard eight days after he was reported missing. While a missing person’s investigation into his business activities across Australia and New Zealand […]
Ron Paul: “Great Danger Lies Ahead”
January 24th, 2010Here are several perspectives that you’ll never hear in a State of the Union speech:
Children Disappearing from Hospitals in Haiti
January 24th, 2010With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. Via: France24: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced Friday that several children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti in the aftermath of the killer earthquake, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad. “We have documented let’s say around 15 cases of […]
America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship
January 23rd, 2010Holy shit, this one will scorch your eyeballs! Forget my excerpts. Click through and read the whole thing. Highly recommended. Via: Kitco: Thanks to the endless barrage of feel-good propaganda that daily assaults the American mind, best epitomized a few months ago by the “green shoots,” everything’s-coming-up-roses propaganda touted by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, the […]
Taking Tea with the Lizards
January 22nd, 2010Via: Joe Bageant: But we know the truth. And the truth is that the same pack of greaseball oligarchs have done it again. Managed to slip the schnickle to the proles – again. Because in the big picture, the one where the money is counted (and money is the only thing that counts in capitalism’s […]
Supreme Court: Corporations Can Spend What They Want in Political Races
January 22nd, 2010Via: MSNBC: In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down laws that banned corporations from using their own money to support or oppose candidates for public office. By 5-4 vote, the court overturned federal laws, in effect for decades, that prevented corporations from using their profits to buy political campaign ads. […]
