Archive for the 'Elite' Category
California Raw Almonds Must be Treated, Judge Rules
March 10th, 2009Mmm hmm. Oh, just wait for HR 875. Your clone burger with genetically engineered freedom fries and synthetic pHood perfumes—to hide the rancid smells—will be A-OK. But raw, whole foods that haven’t been saturated in carcinogens, cooked or irradiated… to render them “safe”… This is enemy combatant stuff. Via: McClatchy: A federal judge Monday upheld […]
Treasury Official Who Let AIG Cook Books Is Allowed to Retire
March 10th, 2009Via: ABC News: The man at the center of a fraud scandal at the Treasury Department has been allowed to quietly quit and retire from his job as a government regulator, despite allegations that he allowed a bank to falsify financial records and amidst outcries from investigators who say the case shows how cozy government […]
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
March 9th, 2009Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto Reader CW tipped me off to this. It checks out. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley B. Greenberg. Here’s a bio on Greenberg: Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has served as polling advisor to President Bill […]
World’s Biggest Banks to Meet in London
March 8th, 2009Via: Reuters: Chief executives of leading Japanese, European and U.S. banks will meet in London to discuss the future of the financial system, the Nikkei newspaper reported, as the global financial crisis prompts a barrage of new regulatory proposals for the sector. The Japanese business daily said the British government would host the meeting on […]
Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
March 7th, 2009Via: Solari: The full page ad in Ruppert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for its “Future of Finance Initiative” starts off by saying that the financial system has stopped working. I completely disagree. The financial system is working for the first time since Bob Rubin and his colleagues created the “strong dollar policy” complete with gold […]
Obama Says to Buy Stocks
March 6th, 2009Via: Automatic Earth: President Obama must be starting to sweat, maybe hyperventilate and perhaps even panic. In a move that is prone to kill a political career if it turns out wrong (and it will), he suggested today that this may be a good time for Americans to buy stocks. Now, I don’t care if […]
The International
March 5th, 2009The International – Official Site Via: Wikipedia: Plot Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of […]
Fed Refuses to Release Bank Lending Data, Insists on Secrecy, Says it Isn’t Subject to FOIA Law
March 5th, 2009HA. Bloomberg is trying to apply FOIA to the Federal Reserve. Well, to those of you who still believe that the Fed is part of the U.S. Government, pay close attention: The Board of Governors contends that it’s separate from its member banks, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York which runs the lending […]
Russian Scholar Says U.S. Will Be Under Martial Law in 2009
March 4th, 2009I was going to ignore this, like I did the last time it came up, but the emails are already rolling in… I just don’t think that it’s going to go down this way. Why? Because Americans are like mushrooms. In general, they like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit. They’re absolutely content […]
Australia and New Zealand Working on “Common Border” Policy
March 2nd, 2009What will they call the money? Hmm? The KiwAussie Dollar of Greater Oceania? A few months ago, I emailed the NZ Reserve Bank and asked them if there was a common AU/NZ currency on the horizon. They assured me, “No.” Mmm hmm. Via: New Zealand Herald: Trans-Tasman flights could be reclassified as domestic routes by […]
