For pennies on the (worthless fiat) dollar! Just like Royal Mail Source A New York bank has emerged as one of the largest shareholders in Meridian Energy. A disclosure to the NZX today showed The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation owns 102,014,447 Meridian shares, an investment which once fully paid, would cost $153 million. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Here is my choice for 31-10-1013: On India: India: Taken Over by Foreign Banks? Mass Poverty and Social Inequality in India: The Devastating Impacts of the Neoliberal Economic Development Model On Freedom of press, information and will conspiracy theories end democracy? Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy? General Alexander doesn’t like your freedom of speech US […]
While NZ embarks on a military exercise with the US, France and other assorted countries most Kiwi’s still don;t get the significance of the presence of countries other than the US. While one of the the Standardistas predictably makes the exercises about subservience to the US even otherwise well researched bloggers such as Ben Vidgen […]
Here is my choice of links for this day: Banking scandals widen: HSBC exposed in massive data leak in Belgium Hat tip Rose: Libor Scandal: Rabobank To Pay £663m Fine JP Morgan tries it on (Once again) JPMorgan Slides On “Deal” Breakdown Chatter The economic collapse is progressing nicely: The Ten US Cities With Less […]
Once again the some Standardistas on the whole think that the asset sales are a failure proving once again that they haven’t got a clue about who John Key really is and why the asset lootings sales from his point of view are a huge success. Just like in the US, UK, Greece, Italy and […]
It recently came to my attention that WordPress inserts adds into it’s free sites. I have really enjoyed being on wordpress and have always thought it was a great platform but I have also paid for a while for my own domain name and a website on a server which allows me to do much […]
Here is my choice of links for today: Poverty: 29 signs poverty is exploding in the USA Wall street is a slumlord (no surprise there) Wealth: Nobody Should Shed a Tear for JP Morgan Chase BofAML Warns “US 10Y Yields Have Reached Massive Resistance” Spy scandals: Obama is shocked, shocked to hear everybody’s phone was […]
Something was bugging me. I couldn’t put my finger on it but it had something to do with a recent MSM article which was called something like: Storm turns corner. It was about the fact that a Typhoon approaching Japan had all of a sudden veered off to the North. I tried to find it […]
Update: I just found some photos made at the concert I am talking about and my God how sad he looks in these photos. I remember Lou Reed. It was 1974 and I was only 18. I was at my most IT girlish and had made my way into the music hall in my usual […]
Here is an interview between Leuren Moret and Christins Consolo AKA as Rad Chick about Fukushima, the Pacific and more. Enjoy and spread it around!
To many people NZ still is that nice nuclear free country but here is the thing: We no longer are! We may not have large nuclear reactors or nukes to bomb people with but what we do have is much more insidious and creepy. It goes largely under the radar but it is something that […]
In the “freest” country in the world you go to jail for five years if you send your kid to a “wrong” school. What is a wrong school? One that is not in your district has better teachers and a higher succes rate than the schools in your district. So if you are a black […]
Update: Here is the link to the New Statesman Magazine article Russell Brand wrote as the quest editor Oh my, Russell keeps coming up with the goodies! I do love this guy! And Jeremy Paxman with his two boring comeback lines : “You don’t vote you have no right to speak” and: “You’re calling for […]
Obamacare or the affordable care act as it is officially called seems to turn into a total disaster. Of course this does not surprise those of us who where of the opinion that legislation written by the for profit big insurance companies can not in any form or shape be good for the little man […]
Now with the deliberate man-made intervention of our marine environments, we can only look-forward to having our eco systems decimated, controlled and regulated by man. It’s called marine geoengineering and ocean fertilization and likely it’s not a good idea. But since when has anything regulated by the government been a good idea? According to the […]
In the scenario, Mainlandiar has held an election with the ousted prime minister refusing to go, supported by a militia. Timaru Herald. So let me get this clear. The US Army is training the NZ Army how to interfere with the political process within their own country. But that’s OK cause it will put big […]
My choices of news for today and per request I will add some more links to the NZ Connection to my list. Terror here, terror there, terror everywhere: U.S. Army Hones Anti-terror Strategy for Africa, in Kansas. CIA Operated Aerial Spraying Plane Carrying “Mutated” Virus Shot Down In China. Homeland Security Spends $80 Million On […]
(Update: My Comment has now been published a part of a whopping 4 comments! ) 😆 Ok that was fun. Bombers blog the Daily blog started an open mike feature today and I thought I’d write about JPMorgan Chase which currently advices the Cullen fund and which is being sued left right and center for […]
With as my examples the Zero hedge Forerunning column and the Scott Report compiled by the Contrail administrator and friend of mine Rose, I thought I’d introduce a selection of the articles that pass my eyes in the morning to give my readers an idea of the plethora of news that doesn’t make the MSM […]
While the English Queen was just awarded the highest dole payout of the land seeing as somehow she was down to her last million, thousands of her poorest subjects were called to a mass court hearing to fight the changes in welfare law which, while rewarding the monarch for her bad financial management, threatens to […]
It is no surprise really that like the Roman empire in it’s dying days the US empire can only maintain itself through brute force of the most expensive army this world has ever seen but when the US default theater came to town it became clear that like the Roman empire’s currency the dollar is […]
Oh, the irony of a US president who totally relies on misery to be able to glorify himself and a country that wile miring itself in the worst economic meltdown this globe has ever seen still thinks of itself as the best country in the world! Here he is saying that we should not pay […]
“I went bankrupt in two ways, first slow and then all of a sudden” the character Mike from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. People always ask me when, when I say that the collapse of the dollar is a mathematical certainty. I could never answer that question leading to many a frustrated […]
E-bay billionaire Pierre Omidyar wants to start a new News outlet. He is prepared to spend $ 250 million which as budgets go is quite spectacular. the two people he wants to run this News outlet are non other than Glen Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill. Both have earned their stripes as courageous intrepid journalist bringing […]
When the Russian Communist empire was in full swing the Ruble was worth nothing and many people wanted to buy American dollars to pay for things they could only pay for in dollars. In fact any currency would do other than the Ruble. I remember when we stayed in Czechoslovakia the many people who approached […]
”In essence today the National government has lost a minister from one of our support parties, but the Government hasn’t lost any ballast in terms of its overall voting majority… we won’t be having a snap election.” John Key He praised Banks as ”good, hardworking, diligent and reliable” a ”credible” and ”trustworthy” individual. Let me […]
From one of the makers from Loose Change, one of the most watched videos on the subject of 9/11 and responsible for millions of people waking up from their slumber comes a new film: Shade. On request of the makers share far and wide and make it go viral. Thank you!
I could have called this post: For the love of money is the root of all evil but that would not have gotten your attention I bet as did the above title. But never mind the title and attention grabbing because what I’m really trying to say is that money of course no matter how […]
Update: Who is manipulating the goldprice trying to break the market? Max and Stacey give their insights in the 510 show! Just in case you’re wondering why John Key wants to privatize our assets here is all you need to know about the privatization of the English Royal Mail.
This morning I opened my usual news sites and two articles stood out. The articles were about two kinds of “refugees”. One of the stinking greedy rich kind and one of the poor refugee dying in a boat accident kind. Here are two tales on both ends of the wealth spectrum: “Sir” Richard Branson leaves […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 