Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Ireland Backs EU’s Lisbon Treaty
October 3rd, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: BBC: Irish voters have strongly endorsed the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty – 16 months after their first vote rejecting it plunged EU reforms into deadlock. About 67% voted “Yes”, official results from the latest referendum showed. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen hailed a “clear and resounding” endorsement. Political leaders across the EU […]
Just Get Your Damn Vaccine
October 1st, 2009A Semi-Pisstake Look at Freemasons in Congress
September 30th, 2009Via: Politico: The Knight Templar was standing in the back of the House chamber, chatting amiably with his fellow Democrats. This was it. The moment the reporter had been working for. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) emerged, briefly, from the chamber. A genial 60-year-old with bushy eyebrows, the diminutive Rahall didn’t look anything like a medieval […]
When Farming Is Just About Money: New Zealand’s Biggest Dairy Farmer Allows Calves to Starve to Death
September 29th, 2009If you’re outside of New Zealand, chances are that this isn’t all over your mainstream media. In New Zealand, this is a very big story. Anytime food production is turned into an industrial process that involves commoditization and absurd commitments to international bankers, there are going to be atrocities. Predictably, much of the outrage is […]
G20 Post Mortem / Open Thread
September 27th, 2009A few people seem surprised that the U.S. is a police state. Oh the cops. Oh the poor students. Oh boo hoo, we just want to wave our signs. The don’t taze me bro generation is obviously going to have to figure this one out the hard way. My position has always been that people […]
Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez Threatens the U.S. with Economic Terrorism
September 26th, 2009Some people may not like my headline. I don’t care. Make up your own headline, if you like. Call it whatever you want. Barney Frank doesn’t want to rock the boat. Oh no. Appearances need to be maintained on the Ship of Fools. Well, the only thing that’s certain is that the Ship of Fools […]
Change: Buy Obamacare or Face Jail or a $25,000 Fine
September 26th, 2009Via: Politico: Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or […]
‘Two Bodies’ on Mafia Waste Ship
September 25th, 2009Via: BBC: Investigators in Italy examining a shipwreck containing possible radioactive waste say they may have found two bodies on board. An underwater camera also showed pictures of orange barrels, with the word “toxic” on their side. The boat lies in 500m of water off the south-western coast of Italy. Officials say they believe the […]
G20 Members Will Subject Economic Policies to “Peer Review”
September 25th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: The Group of 20 nations is close to an agreement that would require members to subject their economic policies to a type of “peer review,” according to several senior G-20 officials, in a shift that would expose the U.S. and China to broad scrutiny of the way they run their economies. […]
Federal Reserve Admits Hiding Gold Swap Arrangements, GATA Says
September 24th, 2009Via: GATA Press Release: The Federal Reserve System has disclosed to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. that it has gold swap arrangements with foreign banks that it does not want the public to know about. The disclosure, GATA says, contradicts denials provided by the Fed to GATA in 2001 and suggests that the Fed […]
