Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Obama’s Neocon Dinner
January 14th, 2009Here’s yet another one for the Yes-We-Can-KoolAid-Cult to forget about, or simply ignore in the first place. Via: Yahoo / McClatchy: This could ruin their reputation: President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday evening attending a dinner party at the home of conservative columnist George Will, attended by fellow conservatives William Kristol and David Brooks. The press pool […]
Operation Blackjack: The Story of Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Major Western Cities
January 13th, 2009Update 1/20/2009 I think that this is some sort of viral marketing stunt. I can’t really imagine what the product might be. At best, there can’t be more than a couple of thousand people paying attention to it. If you’re interested in following this, whatever it is, the thread to watch is here. —END UPDATE— […]
GERMAN BOND AUCTION FAILS
January 13th, 2009I haven’t gotten around to writing my 2009-year-ahead post. In the interim, here’s what I wrote to a core Cryptogon supporter a few days ago: The phase we’re into now is akin to a car on an icy road that’s gone into a turn too fast. We’re in the “Oh shit” stage of the wreck. […]
Bush and Obama Teams Coordinating Theft of Additional Billions for Bankers
January 10th, 2009Change we can believe in. Via: Washington Post: Senior Bush administration officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue package despite intense opposition in Congress and then use a presidential veto if the request is voted down, sources familiar with the matter said. The initiative, which is […]
Auto Bailout Federal Loan Deals Bar Strikes
January 9th, 2009Oh sure, bankers buy new palaces with their bailout money, but if autoworkers get any funny ideas… Via: AP: Provisions of General Motors’ and Chrysler’s $17.4 billion in federal loans automatically places them in default if union workers go on strike. A General Motors Corp. filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailed […]
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 […]
