Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Geithner: Auditing the Fed Is a “Line That We Don’t Want to Cross”
August 26th, 2009Via: Corbett Report: In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating “I’m sure people understand that you want to […]
Goldman Sachs “Trading Huddles”
August 25th, 2009I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: Securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in which research analysts […]
Fed Must Release Reports on Emergency Bank Loans, Judge Says
August 25th, 2009In other news, Obama to Nominate Bernanke for Second Term as Fed Chief. Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve must make records about emergency lending to financial institutions public within five days because it failed to convince a judge the documents should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta […]
Massachusetts: $1,000 Fine Per Day, 30 Days Prison for Refusing to Obey State Officials During Swine Flu “Emergency”
August 24th, 2009Legislation: AN ACT RELATIVE TO PANDEMIC AND DISASTER PREPARATION AND RESPONSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
Madoff Dying of Cancer?
August 24th, 2009Update: Bureau of Prisons Denies Madoff Has Cancer Via: Reuters: Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources. Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence […]
“In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.”
August 24th, 2009Via: Huffington Post: The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “economic royalists,” who choose our elected officials […]
The Continuing Militarization of Biological Sciences
August 24th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Nature: In 2003, military analysts from the Counterproliferation and Technology Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC predicted that emerging biotechnologies were likely to lead to a “paradigm shift” in the development of biological warfare agents. They warned that it would soon become possible to engineer agents […]
Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
August 21st, 2009Via: New York Times: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation’s top medical schools have been attaching their names and lending their reputations to scientific papers that were drafted by ghostwriters working for drug companies — articles that were carefully calibrated to help the manufacturers sell more products. Experts […]
California spends $216,000 annually on each inmate in the juvenile justice system. It spends $8,000 on each child attending the Oakland public school system.
August 21st, 2009I’m definitely not for the expansion of the public indoctrination and lobotomy system, but this is Batshit insanity of the highest order. Via: New York Times: It’s time for a fundamental re-evaluation of the criminal justice system, as legislation sponsored by Senator Jim Webb has called for, so that we’re no longer squandering money that […]
Live Attenuated Swine Influenza Vaccine May Create New Pandemic Strains
August 21st, 2009Via: Institute of Science and Society: The live attenuated swine flu vaccine intended for millions of children has dangerous side effects and is genetically unstable, risking generation of new pandemic strains should mass vaccinations go ahead. … A potential problem was observed in studies of LAIV as it encounters restrictive temperature in the lung. The […]
