Archive for the 'Elite' Category
More Than 40% of President Obama’s Top-Level Fundraisers Given Posts in His Administration
October 30th, 2009Via: USA Today: More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic postings in countries such as France, Spain and the Bahamas, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama’s campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been […]
Stimulus Money Going to Contractors That Are “The Most Egregious Offenders of State and Federal Laws”
October 29th, 2009Via: Washington Post: President Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government. But that isn’t happening at numerous agencies, a Washington Post analysis shows. So far, 33 federal departments and […]
GMAC May Receive Third Bailout From U.S. Government
October 28th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: GMAC Inc., the lender that received two government bailouts totaling $13.5 billion, is in talks with the Treasury Department to receive a third lifeline, a person familiar with the matter said. The U.S. government may inject an additional $2.8 billion to $5.6 billion into GMAC, the person said, declining to be identified because […]
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
October 28th, 2009Via: The Bulletin: Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age […]
FDA Fails to Pull Worthless Drugs from Marketplace
October 26th, 2009Via: AP: The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators. A report due out Monday from the Government Accountability Office also shows that the FDA has never pulled a drug off the […]
Asian Leaders Eye EU-Style Bloc
October 24th, 2009Via: BBC: Asian leaders meeting in Thailand are discussing plans to “lead the world” by forming an EU-style community by 2015. Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama argued nations should take advantage of the region’s more rapid recovery from the recession than the West. “It would be meaningful for us to have the aspiration that East […]
T. Boone Pickens on Iraq: ‘We leave there with the Chinese getting the oil’
October 23rd, 2009Seems fair, since the Chinese financed the atrocity in the first place. Via: World Tribune: A leading energy developer said the United States has been excluded from Iraq’s revived energy market. T. Boone Pickens told Congress that U.S. companies were losing opportunities in the Iraqi crude oil and natural gas sectors to competitors from China […]
The Big Picture: 2009 UN World Drug Report
October 23rd, 2009Oblivion. Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: (WARNING: Graphic content.) The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. […]
Police Probes, Mafia Allegations in the ‘Palermo’ of Canada
October 23rd, 2009Via: Globe and Mail: Allegations of corruption have been swirling like effluent through Montreal’s body politic in recent weeks, and today Montrealers have reason to wonder just how deep the muck really goes. In a single day Thursday, Mayor Gérald Tremblay admitted in a report that he feared for his family’s safety. An opposition politician, […]
Sid the Science Kid Gets a Flu Shot
October 22nd, 2009Stalin could learn a thing or two about propaganda from the present day U.S. Government. Via: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
