Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Britain: Question a Doctor and Lose Your Child
September 10th, 2009Via: Sunday Times: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who […]
Family Values: California Republican Assemblyman Has Sex with Utility Company Lobbyist, Brags About It—Woops, the Mic is On
September 10th, 2009Via: AP: Mike Duvall’s second term as a member of the California Assembly was progressing pretty much like his first — in relative obscurity, with few notable legislative accomplishments. The Orange County Republican is now a YouTube hit after his racy comments about his sexual conquests were caught on an open microphone in a Capitol […]
Good Billions After Bad
September 9th, 2009Via: Vanity Fair: Last October, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, putting $700 billion into the hands of the Treasury Department to bail out the nation’s banks at a moment of vanishing credit and peak financial panic. Over the next three months, Treasury poured nearly $239 billion into 296 of the nation’s […]
Cayman Islands Heads for Bankruptcy
September 8th, 2009How about if they just tax the money related to the drug trade? *wink* Via: Guardian: The white sands of Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman have long caressed the toes of the world’s wealthiest financiers, who flock to this balmy spit to avoid the taxman’s prying eyes. But the world’s biggest hedge-fund venue and […]
UN Wants New Global Currency to Replace Dollar
September 8th, 2009Around 70.79, two doors emerge: Behind Door #1: The dollar will stage a massive rally/dead cat bounce/short squeeze from Hell. (Don’t ask me how this would happen.) Behind Door #2: A wildcard event; a system transformation. System transformation is lingo from International Relations. It means paradigm change; a break from past normative assumptions about the […]
The Fall of Lehman Brothers
September 7th, 2009Via: Independent: It is time to “spray foam on the runway”, Tim Geithner told his sleep-deprived officials on Sunday afternoon. Lehman was going to crash. … The best defence of the decision to let Lehman fail is that it shocked Congress into providing funds to recapitalise the banking system – something it might not have […]
Go Long the Death Bonds: Wall Street to Securitize Life Insurance Policies That Elderly People Sell for Cash
September 6th, 2009The purpose of expanding the regulatory machinery is to facilitate even vaster amounts of fraud. This is what happens when big organizations fail, but aren’t allowed to die. A small number of people makes off with unthinkable amounts of plundered money—and then the government gets bigger! The people who are left walking funny at the […]
Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power: GQ Censors Article About False Flag Bombings in Russia
September 6th, 2009Gawker: Scans of English Version and Attempts at Russian Translation The article is definitely worth reading. Via: NPR: For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn’t the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found. […]
China: Six-Year-Old Aspires to Become a Corrupt Communist Party Official
September 4th, 2009She’ll go far. Via: Independent Online: A six-year-old girl has become a media darling in China on her first day of school by expressing her aspiration to become a “corrupt official” when she grows up, state media said on Friday. The young student stated her aspirations in a televised interview that was posted on a […]
Pfizer Directed Doctors to Use Drugs at Eight Times the Recommended Dosage and for Conditions Different to Those for Which They Were Approved
September 4th, 2009Via: BBC: A whistle-blower in the Pfizer healthcare fraud scandal has said he felt he was “swimming upstream” when the firm was illegally promoting drugs. “It’s hard to do what’s right when everyone else around you is following management sales directive,” John Kopchinski told the BBC’s World Today. Mr Kopchinski was awarded $50m (£31m) for […]
