Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Enduring Priorities in an Age of Change: War and Profits Over People
January 9th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: Yet it is here, on “entitlements,” that Obama wants to make a “tough stand” on government spending. It will be a “central part” of his entire economic program. Getting “entitlements” under control will be one of the first major campaigns of his administration, he says, promising plans in February, just days after […]
Kissinger on Obama: “A New World Order Can Be Created”
January 6th, 2009Change we can believe in.
Ron Paul: We’re in for Big Trouble, Big Trouble, Big Trouble
January 4th, 2009Blair, His Catholic Assistant… And Their New Yale Office Near Her Opus Dei Father’s Office
January 4th, 2009Tony Blair, who has recently converted to Catholicism, is teaching classes on “Faith and Globalization” at Yale. Meanwhile, the former Nazi Youth member and Sith Lord look-a-like Pope just said that the financial crisis should be seen as a “test-case” about the future of globalization. What do you guys make of this situation? I mean, […]
Which Texan Was Going to Buy a Young Girl for Three Hundred Thousand Dollars?
December 30th, 2008I used to think that I could mentally handle any subject matter, no matter how horrible. What could be worse than what happened to Native Americans? The Soviet Union under Stalin and then what the Russians went through during World War II (estimates of the number of dead vary by millions)? The extermination programs of […]
Madoff Probe Focuses on Tax Havens
December 28th, 2008Via: Guardian: The hunt for funds allegedly cheated out of investors by Bernard Madoff, who faces fraud charges in New York, has turned to offshore tax havens where investigators believe he may have salted away hundreds of millions of dollars. Stephen Harbeck, chief executive of America’s Securities Investor Protection Corporation (Sipc) and official receiver of […]
Israel Attacks Gaza, Hundreds Dead: Who Made a Killing?
December 27th, 2008What did the Benazir Bhutto assassination and the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have in common? There was a strong move higher on gold immediately preceding both incidents, which were spaced one year apart, to the day. Remember how gold moved before Bhutto was killed? Check out this Bloomberg piece from yesterday (a day before […]
Hiring Window Is Open at the Foreign Service
December 25th, 2008Besides the rhetorical reasons for this, it might also indicate A) that the U.S. is increasingly going to be relying on the kindness of others to survive, which will require diplomatic personnel at multiple levels, and B) that some very major changes are afoot with regard to the North American Union, the Amero and other […]
Will the North American Union Happen Under Obama?
December 24th, 2008Fund Manager Tied to Madoff Case Found Dead
December 24th, 2008For the first time, I’m preemptively adding a story, this story, to the Assassination category. —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud Via: AP: A fund manager who lost more than $1 billion of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Manhattan office, […]
