Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Britain: Children Reaching Age 3 Without Being Able to Say a Word
January 4th, 2010The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind: A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in the same room. […]
Theft of Death Camp Sign Possibly Linked to a Plot to Bomb Swedish Parliament
January 4th, 2010Via: Guardian: It sounds like the plot of a Steig Larsson thriller: a band of eastern European criminals is contracted to steal an iconic piece of Nazi memorabilia, which is then sold to a mysterious collector to finance a neofascist bomb attack on the Swedish parliament. But today it emerged that Swedish investigators are helping […]
“The Crotch Bomber” Is Another Dupe
January 4th, 2010Via: Veterans Today: When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed “the crotch bomber” is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the […]
New Zealand Licks Uncle Scam’s Toes: Total Network Surveillance System Operational
January 4th, 2010I suppose the news here is that they admit it. Related: NZ Plugs Into Secret Pentagon Intranet NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.” US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database World Spy Chiefs Gather in New Zealand Secret Power, […]
Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank
December 30th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: I quickly discovered why members of Congress rarely read legislation like this. At 1,279 pages, the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” is a real slog. And yes, I plowed through all those pages. (Memo to Chairman Frank: “ystem” at line 14, page 258 is missing the first “s”.) The reading was […]
Bubbles, Bubbles and More Bubbles
December 30th, 2009Par for the course in Fiat Currency Hell. Via: AP: A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009. And it looks like the next decade will be no different. It doesn’t seem to matter to many hedge fund traders […]
National Irish Bank Moves to Cashless Banking (Not The Onion)
December 29th, 2009What if you want more cash than whatever pissant amount they allow you to remove from the ATM each day? Oh, I almost forgot, only criminals need that much cash. Via: Irish Times: IT MIGHT sound like a contradiction in terms, but for the first time one of the main Irish consumer banks is moving […]
Balance of Terror: From Detroit City to Ghazi Khan
December 29th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: A lone man on an airliner makes a badly botched attempt to ignite what appears to be some kind of hastily cobbled-together device that might or might not have caused some kind of unspecified but apparently non-crippling damage to the plane. The plane lands safely; no one is killed. Yet the reverberations […]
China: Clean Green Apocalypse
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times: Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast. Just one problem: These elements come almost entirely from China, […]
“I don’t understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list.”
December 27th, 2009More: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport: A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked […]
