Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Pentagon Ready to Brief Incoming Administration Immediately
November 5th, 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 […]
The GM Genocide
November 4th, 2008Via: Daily Mail: Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead. Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he […]
Ordo Ab Chao: Scandinavian Countries Consider Move to Euro
November 1st, 2008Via: Independent: The Danish and Swedish governments have begun preparing the ground for referendums on joining the euro, as part of a huge political reversal across Europe’s northern fringes in favour of the single currency. Although voters have overwhelming rejected the euro in the past, both countries are now pointing to the recent damage inflicted […]
European Countries Tired of ‘Difficult’ Irish Says Eurocrat
October 31st, 2008People standing in the way of a greater Soviet Europe will need to be made offers they can’t refuse. Via: Belfast Telegraph: European countries are in no mood to renegotiate the Lisbon Treaty just to accommodate the “difficult” Irish, according to the highest-ranking EU civil servant from Ireland. Secretary General of the European Commission, Catherine […]
Massachusetts State Senator Accepted Bribes, Stuffed Cash Into Bra
October 29th, 2008I don’t normally pay any attention to corruption cases involving elected officials, any more than I pay attention to taking a dump or thinking about the sun rising in the sky each morning. All of these things just happen. They’re not newsworthy. But this one just made me chuckle. Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson stuffed […]
Broken Securities Industry Still Has $20 Billion to Pay Bonuses
October 27th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven’t stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, both still on track for profitable years, have set aside about $13 billion for bonuses after three […]
‘Out of Control’ CEOs Spurned Davos Warnings on Risk
October 27th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Once upon a time, the World Economic Forum was the ultimate Wall Street jamboree. Now, in the riptide of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, WEF officials and delegates say many of the chief executive officers who gathered in Davos, Switzerland, over the last five years didn’t listen to warnings from […]
Top International Military Officials Meet in Adirondacks?
October 24th, 2008I haven’t been able to find any confirmation of the information presented in this story at all. Maybe someone out there knows more. Via: Adirondack Daily Enterprise: SARANAC LAKE – Powerful generals and admirals from some of the most powerful nations on Earth are reportedly meeting somewhere in the local area this weekend after flying […]
Bill Gates Funds Research Into ‘Flying Syringe’ Mosquitoes to Deliver Vaccines
October 23rd, 2008Madness. Via: AFP: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into “flying syringes” delivering vaccines. The charitable foundation created by the founder of software giant Microsoft said in a statement that the grants were designed to […]
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
October 22nd, 2008Via: Uruknet: One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under “freedom” and “democracy,” would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. … What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since […]
