Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Wealthy Investors Shift Funds from Global Banks to Reduce Risks
June 19th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: High-net worth individuals, those coveted financial-services customers with at least $2 million to invest, are shifting assets from brokerages and large global banks to smaller, more conservative alternatives. “For the first time in my career, I saw concern about the location of one’s assets,” said Robert Balentine, the head of Wilmington Trust Corp.’s […]
Giant Oil Companies to Return to Iraq Under No Bid Contracts
June 19th, 2008Imagine my complete and total shock. Via: IHT: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in […]
Ireland to EU: Enough
June 13th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Ireland has voted No to the Lisbon Treaty, plunging the European Union into a new crisis. With results coming in from across the country, a final result of 52 per cent against and 48 per cent in favour of the treaty was rapidly hardening. A final declaration is not expected until after 4 […]
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
June 11th, 2008Via: ieet.org: Connelly decisively confronts the historical baggage of reproductive rights by detailing the confluence of social Darwinists, Malthusians, racist eugenicists, public health advocates and feminists who coalesced around the century-long effort to control world population. Like Betsy Hartman’s pioneering critique Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control, Connelly’s principal narrative is […]
New York Fed Chief Urges Global Bank Framework
June 9th, 2008Why now? Below is a screen shot of Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve: So, what happens after the banks default on the loans that they’ve taken out from the Federal Reserve (that unprecedented, nearly vertical blue line on the chart above)? Ah, yes. The phrase, Global Bank Framework might make a […]
Australian PM Wants Europe-Style Asia-Pacific Union
June 8th, 2008Sure. Via: Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday that he wants to see an Asia-Pacific Community by 2020 structured similar to the European Union. Rudd said there was a “brittleness” in bilateral ties, and that while regional bodies like ASEAN and APEC had achieved much, there was a need for a region-wide […]
Bilderberg 2008 Photos
June 8th, 2008Via: Cryptome: The Bilderberg Meeting is taking place at the Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, VA, June 6-8, 2008.
Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa
June 6th, 2008Must Read Related: Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’ Via: Der Spiegel: No one has to starve in Africa. Hunger there results from the failures of unscrupulous rulers — and their friends in the West. Paradoxically, it is the aid workers who are standing in the way of progress. If you follow the […]
Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming
June 5th, 2008One of two things is about to happen to people who can’t or won’t take responsibility for the food that crosses their own lips: 1) They’re going to be ripped off; or 2) They’re going to be killed off. Hmm. Why not both? Via: New York Times: “Farmland can be a bubble just like Florida […]
Four Japanese Gang Figures Got Liver Transplants at UCLA
June 4th, 2008Follow-up on, This Mob Is Big in Japan. Via: Los Angeles Times: UCLA Medical Center and its most accomplished liver surgeon provided a life-saving transplant to one of Japan’s most powerful gang bosses, law enforcement sources told The Times. In addition, the surgeon performed liver transplants at UCLA on three other men who are now […]
