On that day, God made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites.” – Genesis 15:18-21 Is this why the […]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it “a preintroduction” to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within the year. Before the camera was turned off, Ambassador Rotem said […]
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cites top “decision-makers” as saying the attacks against Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip would continue in spite of the continuing efforts by the international community to negotiate a ceasefire. One source is quoted as saying the attacks were meant to show Hamas that strikes would not go unanswered. […]
Picture courtesy Tumeke the use of private lands to establish or expand them. The painstakingly amassed data was labeled political dynamite. The defense establishment, led by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, steadfastly refused to publicize the figures, arguing, for one thing, that publication could endanger state security or harm Israel’s foreign relations. Someone who is liable […]
The Dow and the S&P both had their worst January in history. This month has been the worst January for the Dow since 1896, and for the S&P since 1928. As both Bloomberg and Market Watch point out, the performance of the stock indices in January tends to forecast stock performance during the rest of […]
The problem with trying to warn people about the disaster pending is that when it happens you’re sort of at a loss of what to put on your blog. I mean now that every other blog worth their business is calling for and to the financial crisis denial it sort of gets boring, doesn’t it. […]
KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of “social capitalism” in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily. In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the 1970s, and […]
So what do you do when you have millions upon millions of unemployed and you want a global empire on the cheap? You train them to be the armies flunkies. Cleaning, cooking and other menial slave jobs while your other cheap cannon fodder, the young males that could overthrow your regime, kill and get killed […]
President Barack Obama and his economic team are being careful to couch all their talk about economic stimulus programs and bank bailout programs in warnings that the economic downturn is serious and that it will take considerable time to bounce back. I’m reminded of an experience I had with Chinese medicine when I was living […]
Ok this was in 2004 and given that he has now spoken out as a supporter of a new investigation into the events of 911 it pays to remember his former stance. LONDON – President Bush has exploited the Sept. 11 attacks, and a timorous American press has not held him to account, former President […]
We are in the biggest economic meltdown this planet has ever seen and this gets airtime. I rest my case about the MSM. I can’t wait for the Guillotines to come back out again. Hotel heiress Paris Hilton believes TV chef Gordon Ramsay is the British Prime Minister. The hotel heiress made the embarrassing statement […]
“If need be we will stay here until Easter. If need be, our tractors will grow roots,” said one farmer. “We are bankrupt. We’ve got nothing to lose.” (Protesting Greek farmers.) “It’s not up to workers to pay for the bankers,” read one banner. “The bosses caused the crisis, let them pay for it!” said […]
Rumours and I mean Wall street journal rumours, you know amongst people in the know have it that the banks will need be accommodated with anywhere between 1 to 2 trillion dollars more to help them out of their predicament and guess who John Key thinks should be paying those trillions. In one dear people […]
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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Sony blamed the global economic slowdown, increased competition and an appreciating yen for a 95 percent drop in third-quarter profits, as the company announced its results Thursday. Customers check Sony’s Bravia brand LCD TVs at an electronics shop in Tokyo, Japan. Profits for the quarter, which ended December 31, fell from […]
With Gordon Campbell finally pointing out what was glaringly obvious to all but the most uninformed of Kiwi’s: There is no difference between our MSM and the PR spinners that shape our public opinion, it is perhaps time for you to find out how far we have come from the reality that surrounds us, a […]
Ok, I said I would not publish anything today after my previous posts but I though you might want to know about this. On Jan. 24, 2006 KBR announced the fact that they had won the contract to build 400 emergency camps for FEMA. I suggest you Google the term and see them for yourself. […]
Ok one more. This means that only the ones the ruling elite deems damaging will be closed down. There is no independent body who will investigate complaints. And if you think that those telecom and other ISP who now do their bit complaining are not complicit think again. They are happily complicit in the spying […]
Today I won’t be posting anything other than this and that is not because there is nothing else to post. Next month this could be all you’re seeing here. The law which will come in effect on the 28th of February will enable any news outlet you quote or any organisation who does not like […]
Justin case your wondering what Banks do with taxpayers money after they have been bailed out from their outrageous gambling practices. Wonder no more. They buy planes give themselves huge bonusses and do up their offices for millions at the time. Just for your information; John Key was one of only four upon invitation only […]
Just have a look at this series of Photos. ANd that is only the beginning.
LABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found. Four peers — including two former ministers — offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash. […]
Iceland’s Minister of Commerce Bjorgvin Sigurdsson has resigned, two days after the prime minister announced his own departure due to pressures from the island nation’s economic collapse. Mr Sigurdsson, a member of Iceland’s junior Social Democrat coalition party, made the announcment at a news conference this morning. ‘I have decided to do this to take […]
In a speech, he will urge countries to avoid “muddling through as pessimists” and “make the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting the new rules for this new global order”, according to his office. Official data confirmed Friday that Britain is in recession. Days earlier, the government unveiled a new package of measures […]
A dirty, but revealing affair By Tom Eley 24 January 2009 John Thain, the CEO of brokerage house Merrill Lynch, who guided his firm’s absorption by Bank of America, was fired yesterday by BOA head Ken Lewis after it was learned that Merrill had brought $15.31 billion in fourth quarter losses onto the bank’s balance […]
A sharp rise in the number of stores being shut by distressed retail groups is fuelling fears that chunks of Britain’s high streets and shopping centres will be left as ghost towns by the deepening recession, which was officially confirmed yesterday. Concern mounted that a rising tide of premises being closed will bring desolation to […]
PAKISTAN received an early warning of what the era of “smart power” under President Barack Obama will look like after two remote-controlled US airstrikes killed 22 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in the border area of Waziristan. There will be no let-up in the military pressure on terrorist groups, US officials warned, as Obama prepares […]
On January 18, 2009, the Associated Press reported that in an interview aired on “Dateline NBC” the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett said that the “US is engaged in an economic Pearl Harbor.” A shiver ran down my spine! There was hardly any comment by any of our national dailies or […]
On a recent visit to Tucson, Arizona, where I was invited to give a presentation on monetary reform, I was disturbed by a story of strange goings on in the desert. A little over a year ago, it seems, a new industrial facility sprang up on the edge of town. It was in a remote […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 