Archive for the 'Elite' Category
The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium
February 18th, 2009What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. My theory will be confirmed if we hear that Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan includes counter-narcotics operations. Why now? First of all, heroin is cheap. Too cheap: A gram of […]
The New Depression: “This is the mother of all postwar crises, which has barely started and remains out of control.”
February 18th, 2009This article starts off well enough, but it goes off the rails. The problem is not “unregulated capital.” There are volumes of regulations related to capital and we don’t need an additional Soviet Ministry of Money Rules. The problem is the composition of the capital in the first place. The problem is the arbitrary ability […]
Biggest Fraud Ever: Iraq “Reconstruction”
February 17th, 2009Fraud. Top to bottom fraud, as we already knew. Via Independent: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of […]
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
Legatus and Reinhardt
February 11th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I follow a lot of deeply strange information as a matter of routine. Almost none of it gets mentioned here. I’m sufficiently weirded out by something that I’ve been watching unfold over the last couple of days and thought I’d open […]
Saturday Night Live: Conspiracy Theory Rock
February 10th, 2009A minor glitch in the matrix…
Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse
February 10th, 2009Via: Infowars: Giant flames engulf every floor of 44-story building and it remains standing, yet limited fires across just 8 floors of WTC 7 brought down building within 7 seconds on 9/11. How can NIST’s “new phenomenon” explain this one? A fierce fire consumed all 44 floors of a skyscraper in Beijing today, shooting 30 […]
Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in “Electronic Run On the Banks”
February 9th, 2009It gets pretty good at about two minutes in. By pretty good, I mean, you might want to be wearing a diaper as you watch this. I wonder where Henry Paulson has slithered off to now…
Another Trillion Dollars for the Banking System?
February 9th, 2009Oh sure. Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama’s struggle to push an economic stimulus bill through Congress may seem easy compared to what he’ll encounter when he returns to Capitol Hill for additional funds to rescue the banking system. Obama will likely need to ask Congress for more money to recapitalize banks, as much as $1 […]
Wikileaks: A Billion Dollars Worth of Quazi Secret Congressional Reports
February 9th, 2009For those who want to cut right to the chase: Torrents. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from […]
