Archive for the 'Fraud' Category
Open Thread: Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dead at 94
December 1st, 2018Where does one even start? I was going to write, “Christmas comes early to the world,” and leave it at that, but when I saw what the Washington Post had up on the front page, I almost couldn’t believe it. Most people have absolutely no idea what the Bush criminal dynasty has been up to […]
Former Federal Prosecutor Behind Jeffrey Epstein Deal Is Now Trump’s Secretary of Labor
November 28th, 2018Via: Miami Herald: Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life. But on the morning of the breakfast meeting, a deal was struck — an extraordinary plea agreement that would conceal the full extent of Epstein’s crimes and the number of people involved. Not […]
U.S. Closes Mexican Border Crossing, Repels Some Migrants with Tear Gas
November 25th, 2018Via: Reuters: The United States closed its busiest border crossing with Mexico on Sunday after Mexican police broke up a protest of Central American migrants massed in Tijuana, scattering some demonstrators toward the border where U.S. officers hurled tear gas from the American side. Traffic in both directions was suspended at the San Ysidro port […]
“The Greatest Manmade Disaster in History”
November 25th, 2018Via: Guardian: A decade after the Communist party took power in 1949, promising to serve the people, the greatest manmade disaster in history stalks an already impoverished land. In an unremarkable city in central Henan province, more than a million people – one in eight – are wiped out by starvation and brutality over three […]
Apple and Samsung Fined for Deliberately Slowing Down Phones
November 19th, 2018Via: Guardian: Apple and Samsung are being fined €10m and €5m respectively in Italy for the “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. An investigation launched in January by the nation’s competition authority found that certain smartphone software updates had a negative effect on the performance of the devices. Believed to be the first ruling of its […]
Inside the British Army’s Secret Information Warfare Machine
November 19th, 2018Via: Wired UK: They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Official Leading Efforts to Lower Prescription Drug Prices Found Dead
November 19th, 2018Via: cleveland.com: The Nov. 1 death of Daniel Best , a pharmaceutical executive from Bay Village who led U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts to lower prescription drug prices, has been ruled a suicide, officials in Washington, D.C., said Thursday. Police say Best was found “unresponsive” near the garage door exit of an […]
Pentagon Fails Its First-Ever Audit
November 16th, 2018Shocker. Via: Reuters: The Pentagon has failed what is being called its first-ever comprehensive audit, a senior official said on Thursday, finding U.S. Defense Department accounting discrepancies that could take years to resolve. Results of the inspection – conducted by some 1,200 auditors and examining financial accounting on a wide range of spending including on […]
U.S. Has Spent Nearly $6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
November 14th, 2018WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as […]
NGO Teaching Migrants to Lie to Border Guards
November 13th, 2018Via: Russia Today: A group that helped over 15,000 refugees and migrants to get into Europe has been caught on tape admitting to systematically training asylum seekers to exploit screening interviews by feigning trauma and persecution. Ariel Ricker, the executive director of Advocates Abroad, a major non-profit NGO which provides legal aid to migrants, has […]
