Archive for the 'Elite' Category
What Do You Call it When a Four-Week Civil Contingency Exercise, to Prepare for a Flu Pandemic, Has to Be Cancelled Due to the Outbreak of a Flu Pandemic? A “Sheer Coincidence”
April 27th, 2009This was in the Scotsman last week: Rehearsal of Flu Pandemic Set to Begin: A FOUR-WEEK exercise to prepare Scotland for a flu pandemic is to start next week, it was announced yesterday. The Scottish Government will be running the emergency exercise, called Cauld Craw, involving health boards, the ambulance services and other organisations who […]
Monsanto Sues Germany Over GM Ban
April 26th, 2009Via: Food Production Daily: Monsanto has filed a lawsuit against the German government after the EU member state banned planting of its genetically modified MON810 maize last week. MON810 maize is genetically engineered to produce Bacillus thuringiensis, which is toxic to the corn borer pest. Permitted in Europe since 1998 for animal feed, it is […]
Wired on Georgia Guidestones
April 22nd, 2009Via: Wired: The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. Approaching the […]
U.S. Recession Linked to More Abortions, Vasectomies
April 22nd, 2009This is not quite Kill Off, but it’s close enough. Via: Reuters: The recession may be a factor influencing more Americans to opt out of parenthood with abortions and vasectomies, although there is no data available yet to suggest a trend Even so, there is some anecdotal evidence that would-be parents are factoring the rough […]
Feinstein Sought $25 Billion for Agency that Awarded Contract to Spouse
April 21st, 2009Via: Washington Times: On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention […]
Bank Bailout May Hurt Taxpayers, Be Open to Fraud
April 21st, 2009No shit? Had me going there for a second… Wake me up when someone can tell us where all of that money went. Via: AP: Taxpayers are increasingly exposed to losses and the government is more vulnerable to fraud under Obama administration initiatives that have created a federal bank bailout program of “unprecedented scope,” a […]
Edgar Mitchell: “Our destiny … is to become a part of the planetary community.”
April 21st, 2009I have no idea what to make out of this. What do you think? Via: CNN: Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere. Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, […]
Food, Inc: “A Civilized Horror Movie”
April 20th, 2009Via: Variety: With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry. Yes, it has a deceptively cheery palette, but helmer Robert Kenner’s doc — which does for the supermarket what “Jaws” did for the beach — marches straight into […]
The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
April 20th, 2009Via: Global Research: In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote: “A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. “‘We have agreed to support […]
Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Pharmaceuticals LEGALLY Released Into Waterways That Provide Drinking Water
April 20th, 2009Via: AP: U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation. Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium […]
