Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Change: Right-Wingers and Neocons Love Obama’s Cabinet Appointments
December 3rd, 2008Here’s one for your I-Only-Told-You-So-About-10,000-Times file folder. Via: Alternet: As Barack Obama’s opus, Team of Rivals, continues its rolling debut, the early reviews are in and the “critics” are full of praise for the cast: “[T]he new administration is off to a good start.” — Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell. “[S]uperb … the best of […]
UK ‘Closer’ to Adopting the Euro
December 1st, 2008What did the most important and influential journal of International Relations in the world just say about the U.S. Dollar and the global economy? In summary: The U.S. dollar is an ‘absurdity’ and the only way to stave off a global disaster is for most countries to join one of three global currencies, based loosely […]
Obama and McCain Teams Worked on Appointee List Together
November 25th, 2008Via: Washington Note: A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of potential personnel for the administration that only one of the candidates would lead. Lists comprised of Democrats and Republicans were assembled, […]
Change: Timothy Geithner, (Fed, IMF, Kissinger Associates, CFR, BIS) Nominated for U.S. Treasury Secretary
November 24th, 2008This is Geithner’s bio from the New York Fed. I’ve emphasized a few little mom and pop outfits that any agent of Change/Hope would obviously be involved with. By some miracle, though, he’s not a former CEO of Goldman Sachs!* *But read the Bloomberg piece below.: Timothy F. Geithner became the ninth president and chief […]
Statement From G-20 Summit: In English
November 20th, 2008Via: Solari: The Editor of Expresso in Portugal wanted my take on the recent G-20 communique. Here is my “translation” of the official statement: 1. Now that the growth of debt and derivatives bubbles has stalled, we are committed to using governmental-central bank mechanisms to cover the positions of any of the large private financial […]
War Criminal and International Fugitive, Henry Kissinger, Says Hillary Clinton Would Be Outstanding Secretary of State
November 19th, 2008Can you feel the Hope and Change yet? I wonder… At what point will the Obama woowoos experience the, “Oh shit” moment? Via: Bloomberg: Henry Kissinger said Hillary Clinton, a leading contender to be the Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, would be an “outstanding” appointment. “She is a lady of great intelligence, demonstrated enormous determination […]
World Asked to Help Craft Online Charter for Religious Harmony
November 15th, 2008The old tinfoil is a fully unfurled, in-your-face fact now. I’m not a religious person, but all of the world’s religions contain memes that, if followed, would produce the rhetorical peace on earth effect that the elite say that they desire. Why not encourage religious people to focus on the “golden rule” aspects of their […]
Hillary for Secretary of State?
November 14th, 2008I’m sick of this already, by the way. No more posts about Obama cabinet rumors. The final selections will be horrible enough to have to consider. But if this doesn’t get your Change and Hope motor running, I don’t know what will. Via: Guardian: Speculation is rife about the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary […]
“Shaping a New World Order” During “Vigilant Shield”
November 14th, 2008Here’s the CNN headline: G-20: Shaping a New World Order. But look what’s going to be happening at the same time: Vigilant Shield. Via: Progressive: This week and into next, NorthCom and NORAD are conducting a joint exercise called “Vigilant Shield ’09.” The focus will be on “homeland defense and civil support,” a NorthCom press […]
Gordon Brown: Now Is the Time to Build Global Society
November 10th, 2008Via: Reuters: The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday. In his annual speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Brown — who has spearheaded calls for the reform of international financial […]
