Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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May 13th, 2009Via: Edmonton Sun: The World Health Organization and leading influenza research groups are investigating unpublished claims that the new H1N1 swine flu virus may have evolved in a laboratory, not in nature.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 […]
U.S. Federal Reserve Inspector General on Who Received the Bailout Money
May 12th, 2009Via: YouTube: Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is.
Elsevier Published Six Fake Medical Journals
May 11th, 2009Via: Guardian: The relationship between big pharma and publishers is perilous. Any industry with global revenues of $600bn can afford to buy quite a lot of adverts, and pharmaceutical companies also buy glossy expensive “reprints” of the trials it feels flattered by. As we noted in this column two months ago, there is evidence that […]
Allen Stanford: “May Have Been a U.S. Government Informer”
May 10th, 2009This has to get rolled up. This has to go away. —Cryptogon, 2/21/09 Allen Stanford would be very familiar with the story of how Barry Seal met his end; shot dead as he sat in his Cadillac, with George H.W. Bush’s personal phone number in a box of documents in his trunk. So, what precautions […]
Telegraph: MPs’ Expenses
May 10th, 2009Someone has leaked a series of documents to the Telegraph that detail MPs’ living expenses. It looks like pretty standard stuff to me; possibly suitable for your files on political fat bastardism. Via: Telegraph: The Telegraph’s investigation into how politicians – from Gordon Brown and his Cabinet to backbenchers of all parties – exploit the […]
Madoff Protecting Others
May 7th, 2009Via: New Zealand Herald: Bernard Madoff’s longtime secretary says the disgraced financier is not cooperating with authorities in order to protect others, and that he was a flirtatious boss who frequented massage parlors. Eleanor Squillari, Madoff’s secretary of more than 20 years, told The Associated Press she thinks her former boss carefully orchestrated his arrest […]
