Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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Pass the Next Phase of the “Bailout” Now, or the Whores Face Catastrophe
February 8th, 2009Hope… For high end prostitutes? Via: Telegraph: A New York madam who ran one of the city’s biggest escort agencies claims that prominent bankers and businessmen paid for her prostitutes with corporate credit cards. … ABC News said Davis provided it with a print-out of her computerised client list, a copy of which she offered […]
Obama Sent Kissinger to Russia
February 7th, 2009* chortling * Via: Telegraph: Henry Kissinger, the pioneer of Cold War detente during the Nixon era, has made a return to frontline politics after President Barack Obama reportedly sent him to Moscow to win backing from Vladimir Putin’s government for a nuclear disarmament initiative. The Daily Telegraph has learned that the 85-year-old former US […]
Another Day, Another Article in a Mass Circulation Publication Calling for a New World Order
February 7th, 2009Via: Time: In the view of many outside the U.S. (and some within), the only way to limit such excesses is through a bigger, more powerful IMF that can act as a central bank to the world–and knock heads when needed. While everybody agrees that this new IMF needs to be less dominated by the […]
Tony Blair: World Needs More Religion
February 6th, 2009If you haven’t read the one about The Family, don’t miss it. (Also, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet.) They’re the people behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Via: Independent: Tony Blair gave an extraordinary speech about the global importance of religion yesterday, telling an audience which included […]
Wall Street Pay Caps: The Old CEOs on the Dollar Menu Trick
February 5th, 2009Update: Goldman, JPMorgan Won’t Feel Effects of Executive-Salary Caps Duh. Via: Bloomberg: Executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and hundreds of financial institutions receiving federal aid aren’t likely to be affected by pay restrictions announced yesterday by President Barack Obama. The rules, created in response to growing public anger about the […]
Analyst Who Tried to Get the SEC to Investigate Madoff Is Worried About His Safety
February 5th, 2009Via: Atlanta Journal Constitution: The man who waged a decade-long campaign to alert regulators to problems in the operations of fallen money manager Bernard Madoff told Congress Wednesday that he had feared for his physical safety. Harry Markopolos also assailed the Securities and Exchange Commission in his first appearance before lawmakers. The SEC failed to […]
Financial Coup d’Etat
February 5th, 2009This one kinda sneaks up on you. Make that you read it all the way through. Via: Solari: Slowly, as the pieces fit together, we shared a horrifying epiphany: the banks, corporations and investors acting in each global region were the exact same players. They were a relatively small group that reappeared again and again […]
Obama Requested $40 Billion in Additional “Defense” Spending for 2010
February 3rd, 2009Making the world safe for Hopenosis? Via: Salon: Obama’s 2010 fiscal year budget calls for $527 billion in defense spending (not including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan). That is more than the U.S. allocated for defense in 2009 and equals what the Bush administration budgeted for 2010: The Obama administration has given the Pentagon […]
Obama Has Appointed Nine Members of the Trilateral Commission to Top-Level and Key Positions
February 3rd, 2009Via: August Review: For anyone who doubts the Commission’s continuing influence on Obama, consider that he has already appointed no less than nine members of the Commission to top-level and key positions in his Administration. According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only 87 members from the United States (the other 337 members […]
