Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life
November 11th, 2009Via: AP: E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether […]
Key Oil Figures Were Distorted by U.S. Pressure, Says IEA Whistleblower
November 10th, 2009Via: Guardian: The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the […]
TV Footage Shows Afghan Insurgents with U.S. Ammo
November 10th, 2009Via: AP: Television footage broadcast Tuesday showed insurgents handling what appears to be U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that American forces left last month following a deadly firefight that killed eight troops. The U.S. military said the forces that left the area said they removed and accounted for their equipment. Al-Jazeera […]
I’m Doing ‘God’s Work’; Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs
November 10th, 2009Via: Times: It’s the site of the best cash-making machine that global capitalism has ever produced, and, some say, a political force more powerful than governments. The people who work behind the brass-trim glass doors make more money than some countries do. They are the rainmakers’ rainmakers, the biggest swinging dicks in the financial jungle. […]
Council On Foreign Relations Symposium on Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy: Fake Scarcity of H1N1 Vaccine to Convince People to Take It (Laughter)
November 9th, 2009Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director, Department of Global Health, George Washington University: I think what would work better would be to say that there was a shortage and people tend to buy more of something that’s in demand. (Laughter.) We saw that — there was one season where, really, people lined up all […]
Profit ‘Not Satanic,’ Barclays Says, After Goldman Invokes Jesus
November 8th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that “profit is not satanic.” The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing […]
Pentagon: A Third of U.S. Youth Too Fat, Sickly to Serve in the Military, Most of the Rest Are Too Dumb or Have Used Too Many Drugs
November 5th, 2009Oh well, they’re not too fat and sickly to go to private prisons. And this is sure to result in much more funding for the terminator robots. Good news all around for the criminals who run the show. Via: USA Today: More than a third of American youth of military age are unfit for service, […]
Delaware Beats Switzerland as Most Secretive Financial Center
November 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: Move over Switzerland. The tiny state of Delaware beats the Alpine country in a contest for the most secretive financial jurisdiction, a tax justice rights group said on Saturday. The United States, led by the eastern seaboard state, took in $2.6 trillion in deposits from non-resident corporations and individuals in 2007, according to […]
International Tax Evasion Crackdowns Threaten Swiss Banks
November 1st, 2009Via: The Australian: WHILE the spotlight has been on the aggressive drive by the US government to flush tax dodgers out of Switzerland, bankers there are instead grappling with the loss of a much richer clientele: Europeans. Americans have made up no more than 5 per cent of Switzerland’s $US1.8 trillion ($1.97 trillion) offshore-banking business. […]
Dozens in Congress Face Inquiries About Defense Lobbying and Corporate Influence Peddling
October 30th, 2009Via: Washington Post: House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, […]
