Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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 […]
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 […]
