Archive for the 'Elite' Category
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, […]
Change: Rice Says That Obama Will Follow Bush Foreign Policy
December 22nd, 2008The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election […]
Banks Not Disclosing What They Did with Bailout Cash
December 22nd, 2008Total, blatant, shameless, top to bottom fraud. Via: AP / CNBC: It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation’s largest banks say they can’t track exactly how they’re spending the money or they simply refuse […]
‘The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History’
December 22nd, 2008The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History by Tyler Gray Ponzi schemes? Check. Aircraft leasing? Check. Questionable activities with young boys? Check. Florida? Check. It’s an unfortunate choice for a title, with the Madoff situation just coming into view… Via: Orlando Sentinel: Credit for the biggest American […]
And Now… A New Star Will Appear in the Sky and Maitreya Will Unfurl???
December 21st, 2008Benjamin Creme has been shoveling the same bullshit since 1982. What’s fascinating to me is that this somehow garners straight laced treatment from the mainstream press, even now!? For years, I’ve been expecting some kind of Jim Jones style Maitreya mind control operation to commence, but it never happens. Does the balloon finally go up […]
Madoff Can’t Leave Apartment, Prosecutors Fear ‘Harm or Flight’
December 20th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff, accused in a $50 billion investment fraud, was placed under 24-hour house arrest in his $7 million New York City apartment after prosecutors warned of his “harm or flight.” Madoff, 70, had been subject to electronic monitoring and a 7 p.m. curfew under a Dec. 17 court order. Now […]
