Monthly Archives: July 2012
With the Waitangi tribunal speaking out about the water rights issue here is a story about what happens if a state claims ownership over what falls out of the sky for free. From Natural News There’s nothing more refreshing than standing in a cool, summertime rain shower. Or bathing in the warm sunlight on a […]
Nobody likes a dictator and least of all me. But what if Democracy means Genocide? More that 200.000 people have fled Aleppo in the run up to what could be a determining battle for the Assad regime or the foreign backed Rebel forces. The people entering Lebanon are terrified. Not because of Assad but because […]
This from the Slog: The US Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for International Finance Charles Collyns had a meeting with Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras in Athens on Wednesday morning. The official Greek media version was that Collyns ‘expressed the support of US-Finance Secretary Tomothy Geithner to Greece and his confidence in Greek efforts. Yinannis Stournas briefed […]
Let me start with a disclaimer: I don’t know how the National Business Review gathers its intelligence with regards to the rich listers. I do think that they are in the business of knowing and they would not be much of a publications if they did not do some due diligence. And added to that […]
The US farming community is suffering major draughts and herds have been killed of as the price of grain is becoming prohibitive so the logical conclusion is that Kiwi farmers will be able to fetch a higher price for their milk solids. But is it? Here is another example of Main stream media bizarro land. […]
Debt out of control has in ancient times been dealt with in a very simple fashion on many occasions: a Jubilee! That changed during the Roman empire. A debt was a debt and you repaid it end of story. It crushed economies, countries and people but the pound of flesh would be extracted. No matter […]
I personally favour the French solution. By Joe Brewer Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born with an emotional deficiency that keeps them from feeling bad about hurting others, or they are traumatized early in life in a manner that causes them to […]
According to Mark Harcourt of Waikato University bosses need to be able to punish their workers when not complying to their wishes as the good little slaves they are. Silly me, I thought that we were all equal and that having a job did not automatically make the boss the judge, jury and executioner who […]
On June 17, 2012 at the Vancouver 911 Hearing flight data recorder expert Dennis Cimino who is also a professional Pilot made a presentation. He tells the audience about how the alleged data found on the data recorder which was allegedly found at the “crash site” at the Pentagon. This is the first time this […]
Standard & Poor’s announced that the UK will keep their coveted triple A rating and while Chancellor Osborne, he of Bully boy fame, enthused about the announcement as the confirmation that the globe still had confidence in England after the disastrous 0.7 $ shrinkage of UK’s GDP here is why you might conclude that […]
I haven’t seen it but it seems that the Olympic Games would be more accurately named the “Adidas games” as the Adidas logo is prominently visible in most of the shots. Adidas it should come as no surprise has “sponsored” the games and it has done so to the tune of US$122 million, making the […]
I gloriously missed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic games and judging by the un-ignorable volume of photo’s of the “queen’s” knickers as she parachuted down to the Mr. Bean act I haven’t missed much. Instead I have read the stuff that should be on anybodies mind instead of what we in coming years […]
Today according to my stat counter I breached the 20.000 unique Kiwi IP address visitors. Awesome!!! Between 60 and 80 new Kiwis find my blog everyday and I have found my blog at the 39th place of a list of Kiwi blogs last month. It seems to me that there is a whole bunch of […]
Around the world Pension funds are being exposed as underfunded and unable to cope with demand. In 2002 a Merrill Lynch investment and wealth management banker named Ira Bing took place on the first board of Guardians of a new founded Sovereign Wealth fund we now call “the Cullen fund”. He stayed on the board […]
As usual Max and Stacey nail it with their show. Something they touch on today is something I have been writing about recently: How all of a sudden all these pensions funds, now that they have to start to support the babyboomers who thought they had been wise to invest in all these newfangled safe […]
According to a report from the Coroner who investigated the Kahui case the father Chris Kahui was solely responsible for the death of his two young sons. I’ll take his worth for it because as the situation stands we will never hear it from Chris himself. It should come as no surprise that Sensible Sentencing […]
No surprise there! When big lies must be told, BBC is there. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya and now Syria, BBC has paved the way for Western disinformation meant to mange public perception around a war the public would otherwise never support or tolerate. The BBC, caught on record producing entire “documentaries” on behalf […]
One hundred Million people are considered poor in the US. 50 million of those are on food stamps allowing them a couple of dollars worth of food a day. Just think about that! That is 25 Americans for every Kiwi. 50 million Americans are on food stamps, that is 12.5 persons for every Kiwiw and […]
We can solve this problem in one foul swoop. Declare independence and start printing our own money again. Iceland told the bankers to shove it were the sun don’t shine and hired themselves a posse to find the scumbags who ruined their economy and financial sovereignty and they are doing just fine. One can only […]
Spain like Greece is bankrupt. Not because it spend to much but because it thought it would earn enough on its investments to pay for the normal necessities of life but with the LIBOR rate down (as it now shows artificially) Spain like Greece, Italy and many US cities are going bankrupt and there is […]
As we are hearing more and more MSM Pundits calling for the public hanging of bankers and the world finally wakes up to the utter depravity of our international financial “elite” I have decided to add the RSS feed of one of the most underrated New Zealand Financial blogs: Public Credit or Bust Public Credit […]
If the Barclay traders could earn US $ 44 million daily by rigging the LIBOR, just think how much the traders of all the other LIBOR setting banks will have stolen from the rest of us. Here is a nifty Infograph explaining the LIBOR scam so that even the thickest person can understand. I wouldn’t […]
Update: A reader (hattip Rose) send me a link to a BBC web page. It appears that the government of Ireland is beginning to find its backbone back and three Irish top bankers have been arrested in connection with irregularities and the exposure of the Irish banking system to the unfettered Derivatives trade and the […]
When the News broke that in Aurora James Holmes had barged into a late night showing of the latest Batman movie shooting indiscriminately into a dark theatre after throwing in a tear gas grenade, it was generally accepted that once again a madman who picked up one of those easily available guns and engaged in […]
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, […]
Americans should lose faith in their government. They should deplore the captured politicians and regulators who distributed tax dollars to the banks without insisting that they be accountable. The American people should be revolted by a financial system that rewards failure and protects those who drove it to the point of collapse and will […]
by F. William Engdahl WHo is also responsible for an excellent analysis of the financial system called the Financial Tsunami. Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation […]
While Italy (here is the blacklist of the 10 Italian cities most likely to collase) and Spain (which has only 40 days worth of funds left) are clamping down on Short selling (Betting that the value of their currencies will go down) in order to protect what’s left of their economies, Moody’s is downgrading Germany, […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 