Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
April 20th, 2009Via: AP: Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for the country’s largest publicly traded companies. Fortune’s closely watched list, released Sunday, ranked companies by their revenue in 2008. Irving, Texas-based Exxon took […]
1,500 Farmers Commit Mass Suicide in India
April 17th, 2009Via: Independent: Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels. “The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago,” […]
Jesus Missing From Obama’s Georgetown Speech; Nice Pyramid Symbolism, Though
April 16th, 2009I didn’t even notice that at first, but because of the nature of the story, I took a closer look at the picture that went along with it. And… Boo! I threw the lines on there to make it stand out a bit more. See the story for the original. Obviously a coincidence. The full […]
ORGANIZATION ISSUING BONDS BASED ON GUARANTEED PAYMENTS FOR THE VACCINATION OF POOR POPULATIONS
April 16th, 2009There is no limit to the brazenness of the elite! There are now AAA rated bonds based on poor people receiving vaccinations! That’s right. Interest payments on these “Vaccine Bonds” are guaranteed by France, Italy, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Britain. Who buys these bonds? The International Finance Facility for Immunisation says the following […]
How to Get a No-Bid Contract for Russian Choppers
April 13th, 2009Via: Wired: How did a company best known for its communications gear manage to get a $322 million, no-bid contract to supply the Iraqi military with Russian helicopters? Not even the Pentagon can come up with a convincing explanation. Yesterday, I spent an hour on the phone with two Defense Department officials who tried to […]
Goldman Sachs Hires Law Firm to Shut Blogger’s Site: GoldmanSachs666.com
April 12th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Goldman Sachs is attempting to shut down a dissident blogger who is extremely critical of the investment bank, its board members and its practices. The bank has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action […]
U.S. May Enlist Small Investors in Bank Bailout
April 11th, 2009Buy Obama’s Banker Bailout Bonds! Yes, we can! Via: New York Times: During World War I, Americans were exhorted to buy Liberty Bonds to help their soldiers on the front. Now, it seems, they will be asked to come to the aid of their banks — with the added inducement of possibly making some money […]
Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare
April 10th, 2009Via: Politico: The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis. The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a […]
Former U.S. Lawmakers to Join Lobbyists
April 10th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Lobbying, scorned during the 2008 campaign, is an occupation of choice among former members of Congress looking for jobs. Barack Obama shunned political contributions from lobbyists and, on his second day as president, announced new ethics rules to reduce their influence. Republican nominee John McCain disdained lobbyists as “birds of prey.” Still, about […]
Obama Wants Another $83 Billion for Iraq, Afghanistan
April 10th, 2009Via: CNN: The Obama administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September, Democratic congressional sources said Thursday. The request is expected to pay for those conflicts for the rest of the 2009 budget year, two Democratic congressional sources said. The money would […]
