Category Archives: Kleptocracy

Afghanistan Has Trillion Dollar Deposits Of Iron, Copper, and Lithium

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So now we know the real reason for the Afghan war.. I wonder how long the Pentagon has had this information? BBC reports on June 14, 2010:

“Afghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits, a spokesman for the ministry of mines has suggested. The statement came after reports in the New York Times of the work of a team of Pentagon officials and US geologists. They discovered large quantities of iron and copper as well as valuable deposits of lithium. However, questions are being asked about the timing of the release of the latest information. Continue reading →

Agenda 21 Alert: Cap & Trade’s Scoping Plan Will Crush Small Business

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Cassandra Anderson at Freedom Advocates sounds the alert about the underhanded push for “sustainable development” –  Agenda 21 – through ‘Cap and Trade”.

(By the way, we’re all for sustainable development as long as it’s voluntary and comes without the heavy hand of the kleptocracy. So too we’re all for caring for the environment, choosing your family size wisely, reusing resources, and cultivating modesty, restraint, and thrift as essential components of the supremely capitalist moral virtue of prudence. But we’re not for any of these things when they’re hustled through surreptitiously as part of an agenda of top-down control and expropriation of people’s wealth and work). Continue reading →

Rahm Got Free Housing From BP Greenwasher and Democrat Consultant

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Conservative author Jerome Corsi suggests that Rahm Emanuel and BP are linked :

“White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, WND has learned, lived rent-free in Washington, D.C., for years, thanks in part to a friend under contract with oil giant BP.

While the White House approaches “day 50” of the environmental disaster caused by an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, unable yet to stop the flowing crude in the Gulf, several media sources have questioned the administration’s efforts to regulate BP prior to the incident. Continue reading →

Steve Cohen To Leave Trading, Says Vanity Fair

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Well, well, well. It looks like Patrick Byrne, Judd Bagley, Mark Mitchell and the rest of the estimable team at Deep Capture are having more than some effect.

Not only have the Germans and Austrians banned naked short- selling, Vanity Fair, our least favorite low-class, high-gloss magazine of the DC twitterati, tells us that Steve Cohen is closing up shop as a trader. Sith Lord Cohen doesn’t like the spotlight, it seems.  Maybe he remembers all too well what he was up to in the 1980s……even if Reuters wants to keep it buried.

Vanity Fair:

In the July issue of Vanity Fair, legendary hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen tells special correspondent Bryan Burrough that he might be ready to walk away from active trading. How big would that be? Well, says Burrough, it’s “a little like saying that God is ready to walk away from Earth.” In this video, Burrough takes the measure of Cohen’s controversial careeer—and offers his theory on why the reclusive banker granted the second in-depth interview of his 30-year career to Vanity Fair.

Rothschild (Dec. 2008): Buy Bonds, Oil, and Raw Materials

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Video 1: An interesting interview by Maria Bartiromo of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild on the financial crisis (December 2008). Here’s a quick break down of his main points: Continue reading →

9-11 Related Stock Fraudster Elgindy Tipped Off By SEC Officers

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Dow Jones

“Two U.S. Securities and Exchange enforcement officers released nonpublic SEC information to a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a short seller who were convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in 2005, an SEC watchdog’s report said Tuesday. One SEC officer on several occasions talked with the FBI special agent about the progress of agency probes of companies, Inspector General David Kotz said in his semi Continue reading →

Kleptocrat Megabanks, Municipalities In $2.8 Trillion Bid-Rigging Fraud

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Bloomberg reports on the nation-wide bid-rigging fraud in the municipal bond-market that accompanied the credit crisis:

“A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. by Wall Street banks in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market.

The call came less than two hours before bids were due for contracts to manage $90 million raised with the sale of West Virginia bonds. On one end of the line was Steven Goldberg, a trader with Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. On the other was Zevi Wolmark, of advisory firm CDR Financial Products Inc. Goldberg arranged to pay a kickback to CDR to land the deal, according to government records filed in connection with a U.S. Justice Department indictment of CDR and Wolmark.

West Virginia was just one stop in a nationwide conspiracy in which financial advisers to municipalities colluded with Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Wachovia Corp. and 11 other banks. Continue reading →

Why Not Build Barrier Reefs To Protect Coast From Oil Spill?

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AP reported on May 17 that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and others want to build barrier reefs to protect the coast from the BP oil spill. Sounds like a good idea at this point, now that pumping the well with mud hasn’t worked:

“Gov. Bobby Jindal and leaders from several coastal parishes are pushing a $350 million barrier island repair plan as a way to protect Louisiana’s coast from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and reduce the ultimate cleanup and its costs.

Sand dredged from the gulf’s floor would be built up in 86 miles of the gaps between islands, returning land eaten away by decades of storms and slower erosion.

Jindal said Monday that the project could start within days after the Army Corps of Engineers approves it. He is asking for quick approval, and says he has been told that a decision could come in days.

Jindal says the price tag is much less than it would cost to try to remove oil from marshlands.

Barack Obama: Liar, Warlord, and Corporate Shill

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Stephen Lendman on why it’s time to IMPEACH Obama

(Note 1: Earlier, I posted the Obama bisexual story that claims that Obama’s history suggests someone who could easily be targeted for blackmail or other forms of arm-twisting. BP has been one of Obama’s biggest contributors, giving more to him than to any other candidate in the last twenty years).

“It shouldn’t surprise because no one gets the top job or any government position of power unless they’re safe, yet, naively, most people thought Obama was different. Many still do. Continue reading →