Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Gordon Brown: ‘Globalisation is Not an Option , it is a Fact’
March 2nd, 2009I have obtained secret surveillance video from inside Number 10 that sheds some light on Gordon Brown’s “Global New Deal”: Via: Times Online: Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began. The […]
Dear Mr. President, With All Due Respect
February 27th, 2009Via: Mish: Dear Mr. President, I read your New Era $3.6 Trillion Budget Proposal. I also listened to your speech Tuesday night. You made a great campaign speech. However, the campaign is over. You won. And the reason you won is you offered hope as well as a promise of change. With all due respect […]
The Anti-Bono: Dambisa Moyo and “Dead Aid”
February 25th, 2009Via: New York Times: Q: As a native of Zambia with advanced degrees in public policy and economics from Harvard and Oxford, you are about to publish an attack on Western aid to Africa and its recent glamorization by celebrities. “Dead Aid,” as your book is called, is particularly hard on rock stars. Have you […]
Stanford Had Links to a Fund Run by Bidens
February 25th, 2009HAHA Do you get it yet? Via: Reuters: A fund of hedge funds run by two members of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion (5.5 billion pound) fraud, the Wall Street Journal said. The $50 million fund […]
Fears for IMF’s Ability to Raise Rescue Funds
February 24th, 2009Let me guess: Sovereign gold sales? Via: Times: Fears are growing that the International Monetary Fund will struggle to raise enough cash to help all the countries that need emergency aid as the global financial crisis unfolds. The leaders of Europe’s wealthiest countries pledged on Sunday to help the IMF to raise at least a […]
Brown: World Needs ‘Global New Deal’
February 23rd, 2009Tell me another one, Gordon. Via: CNN: The world needs a “global New Deal” to haul it out of the economic crisis it faces, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said Sunday. “We need a global New Deal — a grand bargain between the countries and continents of this world — so that […]
Taxpayers Could Own Up to 40% of Citi’s Common Stock, Diluting Value of Shares
February 23rd, 2009But before you read about that, here’s the setup: Would CNBC Let Gasparino Say This On-Air? Earlier this year, high-flying hedge fund Paulson & Co. retained [former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan] for its “advisory board.” The firm is a noted “short seller” of banks and financial stocks – meaning it makes money when these […]
Warning Against Adverse Health Effects From the Operation of Digital Broadcast Television
February 22nd, 2009PDF download is available, but you need a free ScribD account. Via: ScribD: Warning Against Adverse Health Effects From the Operation of Digital Broadcast Publish at Scribd or explore others: Engineering Research digital broadcast DVBT
Czech President Compares EU to Soviet Union
February 21st, 2009Via: AP: The European Union has turned into an undemocratic and elitist project comparable to the Communist dictatorships of eastern Europe that forbade alternative thinking, Czech President Vaclav Klaus told the European Parliament on Thursday. Klaus, whose country now holds the rotating EU presidency, set out a scathing attack on the EU project and its […]
Robert Allen Stanford, Under Investigation for Laundering Drug Money, Was a Major Political Donor
February 20th, 2009You might need to take an extra hit of Hopenosis after reading this one. Via: Christian Science Monitor: Until 2000, Robert Allen Stanford had no record of giving money to anyone in Washington. But then the Clinton administration introduced legislation to crack down on international money laundering. Suddenly Mr. Stanford, whose company ran a bank […]
