Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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 […]
Police Seeking Missing Yale Student Find Body Inside Wall
September 14th, 2009Maybe the authorities should interview people who hang out inside the tomb. Possibly Related: Dead Scientists Via: New York Times: It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building […]
Vladimir Putin Signals Plan to Reclaim Old Job as Russian President
September 13th, 2009Via: Guardian: Vladimir Putin dropped the heaviest hint so far that he aims to return to his former post as president in 2012, a move that could see him still in the Kremlin in 2024 – aged 72. Speaking to a group of international scholars and journalists at his country residence, the Russian prime minister […]
Christopher Kelly, Key Figure in Blagojevich Corruption Probe, Is Dead
September 13th, 2009Oh Sure: Possible Overdose on Over-the-Counter Medicines Via: Chicago Tribune: Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office today confirmed that Christopher Kelly of Burr Ridge was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m. The office said Kelly died […]
The Coming Consequences of Banking Fraud
September 12th, 2009Via: Seeking Alpha: The Double Dip Recession, or the “W” shaped recovery that a minority of economists, such as Joseph Stiglitz, is now stating as a strong possible outcome of this current rally, should not be discussed in the realm of economics but rather in the more apropos realm of financial fraud. The fact that […]
Glock’s Secret Path to Profits
September 11th, 2009You can’t even shake a stick at all the weird stuff in this one. Via: Business Week: Allegations of corruption permeate Gaston Glock’s empire. His former business associate, Charles Marie Joseph Ewert, now resides in a prison in Luxembourg, having been convicted in 2003 of contracting to have Glock killed. The murder plot—thwarted when the […]
