Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Yakuza: Organized Crime Represents The “Biggest Private Equity Firm in Japan”
October 5th, 2008I’ve said it before: The setting in Snowcrash is the best guess about where we’re headed. Maybe with hints of Syndicate Wars… Via: Times Online: Japan’s powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread assault on the country’s financial markets that may have left hundreds of listed companies riddled with mob connections. In a […]
Buckingham Palace Butler ‘Ran Paedophile Sex Ring While Working for the Royal Family’
October 2nd, 2008Via: Daily Mail: A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family. Bachelor Paul Kidd, 55, groomed at least one of his teenage victims for sex by taking him for tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House, it has emerged. To […]
Global Monetary Authority
September 28th, 2008Via: Financial Times: Even if the US’s massive financial rescue operation succeeds, it should be followed by something even more far-reaching – the establishment of a Global Monetary Authority to oversee markets that have become borderless. Washington recognises that the crisis has become global. Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, has said that foreign banks operating in […]
Palin Meets with Kissinger
September 24th, 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 […]
Few Limits Proposed for Paulson in Aftermath of Economic 9/11
September 22nd, 2008Dems squealing flaccidly, as usual. Via: Wall Street Journal: If the Bush administration has its way, anyone harmed by the Treasury Department’s handling of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout might have no remedy. Draft legislation proposes sweeping powers for Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy and sell mortgage-related securities however he sees fit. Aside […]
Hank Paulson: Robber in Chief
September 21st, 2008Via: Housing Panic: The Patriot Act of Finance, otherwise known as Paulson’s $700 billion bailout bill, if passed in its present form will be the nail in the coffin for an America by, for and of the people. Just like the Patriot Act appeared to be written before 9/11, so does this Patriot Act of […]
U.S. TAXPAYERS ALSO ON THE HOOK FOR FOREIGN BANKS
September 21st, 2008Sure, Hank. Tell us another one. Via: Politico: In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night. The theory, according to a participant in the negotiations, is that […]
“There is going to be a new financial world order that will be born of this”
September 16th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: In the biggest reshaping of the financial industry since the Great Depression, two of Wall Street’s most storied firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., headed toward extinction. New York-based Lehman, founded 158 years ago, said early today that it filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to find […]
U.N. Agency Eyes Curbs on Internet Anonymity
September 14th, 2008The NSA and the Chinese government are working together, through the U.N., to draft plans for systems that would enable all Internet sessions to be authoritatively traced back to their origins. Man, if this one doesn’t get your tinfoil in a knot, nothing will. If you want to know what anonymous on the Internet actually […]
Obama, McCain to Appear at Ground Zero on 9/11
September 10th, 2008Make ready the robes, masks, black candles and pyramid trinkets. Via: Reuters: Presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama will appear together on Sept. 11 in New York at the site where the World Trade Center collapsed after being hit by hijacked planes in 2001. “All of us came together on 9/11 — not as […]
