Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Cannabis Oil Cures Cancer: “Run From The Cure” The Rick Simpson Story
September 22nd, 2009Change: U.S. Charges Obama Fund-Raiser in $290 Million Fraud
September 22nd, 2009Via: Reuters: Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. The announcement follows last month’s indictment of Nemazee, head of a private equity firm and […]
ADM: The Fix Is In
September 22nd, 2009Via: This American Life: We hear from Kurt Eichenwald, whose book The Informant is about the price fixing conspiracy at the food company ADM, Archer Daniels Midland, and the executive who cooperated with the FBI in recording over 250 hours of secret video and audio tapes, probably the most remarkable videotapes ever made of an […]
Iceland: “This Was No Ordinary Crash”
September 21st, 2009“The smallest central bank in the world is central to a financial scandal that threatens to engulf much of the West. What secrets must the larger banks hold?” — The Daily Bell: Iceland: What Ugly Secrets Are Waiting to Be Exposed in the Meltdown? From August. Via: Telegraph: Almost a year since the collapse of […]
The Dark Years Are Here
September 21st, 2009Good reading from July. Via: Matterhorn Asset Management: In this newsletter we will outline what is likely to be the devastating effect of the credit bubbles, government money printing and of the disastrous actions that governments are taking. Starting in the next 6 months and culminating in 2011-12 the world will experience a series of […]
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 […]
