Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Hitmen Contracts to Bust Comex?
June 2nd, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I read these types of articles about gold all the time, but I rarely post them. However, if Colonel Kurtz himself wrote about gold from his renegade compound, deep in the jungle, with heads on stakes and all of the other […]
Government Motors: Majority of GM Bondholders Back Debt-for-Equity Deal
May 31st, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: General Motors Corp. moved a step closer to what it hopes will be a smooth bankruptcy process after a majority of investors holding $27 billion in the company’s bonds agreed to forgive the debt for equity in the new company, people familiar with the situation said. A battle with the group […]
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
May 27th, 2009This has only been standard operating procedure for about the last 62 years. Via: Congressional Quarterly Politics: A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency’s congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers. “They mumble, they dissemble, and there’s a lot of ‘on the one hand . . .’” […]
Las Vegas Man Facing Life in Prison for Paying Employees in Gold and Silver Coins
May 26th, 2009Keep this in mind as you read the piece below: Via: Las Vegas Review Journal.
Poor, Misunderstood, Bewildered Hank
May 26th, 2009Newsweek is complicit in the crimes of Henry Paulson and the gang. Oh yes, poor, misunderstood, bewildered Hank. Sure, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs didn’t know what was happening with the securitization of that toxic waste. Oh sure. Tell me another one. I’ll believe anything this morning! Goldman Sachs made markets in the stuff, […]
Billionaires Meet in Secret to Discuss Population Reduction Strategies – “Don’t Want to be Seen as a Global Cabal”
May 25th, 2009I wonder if Bill Gates released any of his pet flying syringes into the room? (See him practicing his antics at TED.) Via: Times Online: SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health […]
And Now… ABC Resurrects V
May 23rd, 2009Afghanistan: U.S. Forces Seize Almost 15 Tonnes of Narcotics Including Opium, Heroin and Morphine
May 22nd, 2009The commentary for this has already been written. See Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support” and The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium. Via: Reuters: Afghan and U.S. forces have killed 34 militants, almost half of them in air […]
Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern
May 22nd, 2009How screwed of a situation is it if the goal is sustainable deficits? Via: Bloomberg: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner committed to cutting the budget deficit as concern about deteriorating U.S. creditworthiness deepened, and ascribed a sell-off in Treasuries to prospects for an economic recovery. “It’s very important that this Congress and this president put in […]
After Major Florida Bank Fails, Carlyle Swoops In as a Buyer
May 22nd, 2009Via: Washington Post: Florida-based BankUnited collapsed yesterday, the largest bank failure so far this year, as a new federal investigation revealed that the bank’s regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, allowed the firm to cover up its financial weakness. A consortium of investors, including District-based private-equity giant Carlyle Group, agreed to buy and recapitalize BankUnited, […]
