Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Yes, Mildred, the People Who Run the World Have Private Meetings
May 21st, 2009Via: Guardian: So who is the paranoid one? Me, hiding in stairwells, watching the pavement behind me in shop windows, staying in the open for safety? Or Bilderberg, with its two F-16s, circling helicopters, machine guns, navy commandos and policy of repeatedly detaining and harassing a handful of journalists? Who’s the nutter? Me or Baron […]
Brazil and China Eye Plan to Axe Dollar
May 19th, 2009Via: Financial Times: Brazil and China will work towards using their own currencies in trade transactions rather than the US dollar, according to Brazil’s central bank and aides to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president. The move follows recent Chinese challenges to the status of the dollar as the world’s leading international currency. Mr […]
Chart of the Day: S&P 500 Earnings Plunge
May 18th, 2009Via: Chart of the Day: While the stock market is up sharply since early March, the economy as well as corporate earnings continue to suffer. Today’s chart helps provide some perspective as to the magnitude of the current economic decline. Today’s chart illustrates that 12-month, as-reported S&P 500 earnings have declined over 90% over the […]
Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
May 18th, 2009Via: Fox News: Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president. According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a […]
China’s Yuan ‘Set to Usurp U.S. Dollar’ as World’s Reserve Currency
May 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned. Professor Roubini, of New York University’s Stern business school, believes that while such a major change is some way off, the Chinese government is laying the ground for the yuan’s ascendance. Known as […]
Geithner at Bilderberg
May 15th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: Intrepid Bilderberg investigator and reporter Jim Tucker of the American Free Press confirms that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will attend this year’s Bilderberg meeting in Athens, Greece. Geithner’s presence will be in violation of the Logan Act, intended to prohibit American citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United […]
U.S. ‘Sham’ Bank Bail-Outs Enrich Speculators, Says Buy-Out Chief Mark Patterson
May 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The US Treasury’s effort to stabilise the banking system through the TARP programme is a hopelessly ill-conceived policy that enriches speculators at public expense, according to the buy-out firm supposed to be pioneering the joint public-private bank rescues. “The taxpayers ought to know that we are in effect receiving a subsidy. They put […]
Did the Swine Flu Evolve in a Lab?
May 13th, 2009Via: Edmonton Sun: The World Health Organization and leading influenza research groups are investigating unpublished claims that the new H1N1 swine flu virus may have evolved in a laboratory, not in nature. The Geneva-based agency was informed of the pending publication over the weekend by the author, a retired Australian virologist named Adrian Gibbs. It […]
Russia Stockpiles Diamonds, Awaiting the Return of Demand
May 12th, 2009Via: New York Times: The global recession sapped demand for all kinds of commodities — like steel and grain — yet small burlap bags are still arriving by the planeload at Russia’s state-owned diamond company. Each day, the contents of the bags spill into the stainless steel hoppers of the receiving room. The diamonds are […]
Spitzer on New York Fed: “The Most Powerful Financial Institution Most Americans Know Nothing About”
May 12th, 2009Via: Slate: A quasi-independent, public-private body, the New York Fed is the first among equals of the 12 regional Fed branches. Unlike the Washington Federal Reserve Board of Governors, or the other regional fed branches, the N.Y. Fed is active in the markets virtually every day, changing the critical interest rates that determine the liquidity […]
