Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Top U.S. Commander for Afghan War: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure’
September 21st, 2009Failure? Someone wound up with a whole lot of opium and heroin, and a bunch of corporations made a killing from a gusher of absurd and lucrative contracts. That sounds more like just another day at the office than failure to me—considering the criminal organizations involved and their blood soaked gravy train. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s […]
Putin Says U.S. Dollar Issuance ‘Uncontrolled’, Calls for Diversified Reserves
September 19th, 2009Via: The Canadian Press: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday said other currencies besides the dollar should be used as global reserves to reduce the risks posed by swelling U.S. debt. Putin, who spoke at an international investment forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, chided the United States for “an uncontrolled issue […]
CNBC Poll: Should the Fed be Abolished?
September 19th, 2009Via: CNBC: “Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve,” writes Texas Congressman Ron Paul in his latest book hitting shelves this week, titled “End the Fed.” “It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle […]
U.S. Justice Department Investigates Former Secretary of the Interior’s Ties to Shell
September 19th, 2009Via: New York Times: The Justice Department is investigating whether a former secretary of the interior, Gale A. Norton, violated the law by granting valuable leases to Royal Dutch Shell around the time she was considering going to work for the company after she left office, officials said Thursday. The officials said investigators had recently […]
Police Detain Man at Center of Berlusconi Prostitution Scandal on Drug Charges
September 19th, 2009Via: Reuters: Italian police detained the businessman at the center of a prostitution scandal surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, on charges related to drug dealing, judicial sources said. Gianpaolo Tarantini, an entrepreneur who reportedly told prosecutors in the southern city of Bari he supplied 30 escorts for parties hosted by Berlusconi, was detained […]
60 Minutes: Cold Fusion Is Hot Again
September 16th, 2009Watch CBS Videos Online
Former Beneficial CEO Finn Caspersen Dies in “Apparent Suicide”
September 16th, 2009Update: New York Times: Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad: He seemed, in many ways, like a man from another time, a Gatsbyesque figure who glided through a world of old money, private clubs and pedigree horses, his family name emblazoned on Ivy League halls. Then, in an instant, he was gone — his […]
Rockefeller & Co CEO Dies in “Apparent Suicide”
September 16th, 2009Via: Reuters: James McDonald, a prominent adviser to wealthy families as chief executive of investment management group Rockefeller & Co, died in an apparent suicide, on Sunday, local authorities said on Tuesday. McDonald, 56, was found with a single gunshot wound in his car near a strip mall in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon. Police […]
Brzezinski: Western Powers Going Down Same Road as Soviet Union in Afghanistan
September 15th, 2009Via: Herald Tribune: Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In a speech opening a […]
Wells Fargo Executive Squats in Home of Madoff-Duped Couple
September 14th, 2009UPDATE: Fired: Moving to contain a public relations mess, Wells Fargo & Co. fired a top executive accused of using a bank-owned Malibu beach house to entertain her family and friends. Cheronda Guyton, a senior vice president responsible for commercial foreclosed properties, broke company rules barring personal use of bank property, Wells Fargo said in […]
