When a group of Swiss scientists wanted a control group in a psychological study about psychopathic behavior of inmates they chanced upon a group of traders, like our own Prime Minister John Key. To their utter surprise it turned out that the traders showed higher marks for the very personality disorder they where trying to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
In April 2012 I reported that New Zealand was accumulating Derivative swaps at an alarming rate. When I reported on this the amount of money in Derivatives was already an alarming $ 112 Billion and I have no reason to assume that is anything less as I write this. At the time Dr Sue Newberry […]
A funny thing happened only about two weeks ago. Someone gave us about the entire series of Justified: The series about US Marshal Raylan Gibbons set in Harlan County. For some reason I decided to read up on it and found some interesting information about the backgound of the series which explained the origin of […]
I know it’s happy Auckland day and all that but for the rest of the world it’s business as usual. So here are a few headlines you might want to check up on: China stops bank transfers. HSBC (of Rockstar economy infamy) Was forced to end the limitations on cash withdrawals after it tired to […]
Here is an excellent Max Keiser Stacy Herbert Show on why we should stay well clear of HSBC “NZ is a rockstar economy” Bank: Lying is in the Bankers DNA!
This week Mickey from the Standard blog published an article asking its readers and commentators what they wanted to hear from David Cunliffe in his state of the Nation speech. Suggestions ranged as far and wide as more taxes for the rich, no asset sales, stop fracking, living wages, less pollution, no TTP, Stronger laws […]
It has been a while since I awarded the Guillotine award to a deserving human being. Not that there was a lack of candidates. In fact there really are too many to mention but here are a few candidates who more than made the grade. There is the entire Kardashian family for example and that […]
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it! By Matt Taibbi The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice […]
Today I want to share a story with you here that I find most disturbing. I have no way of checking the veracity except that it was brought to my attention by an elderly gentleman and Kaumatua of the utmost integrity and whose standing in the Maori community is above reproach. He has been a […]
Last year I started posting about Chemtrails. I did so after it became undeniable that strange white trails crossed the sky over my house and Karioi mountain near Raglan. Ever since I started publishing about them the trails have increased in numbers and now not a day goes by that the sky isn’t subdued by […]
Little over a year ago I published and article called “On six packs And Foreign Bankers Or Why We Are Losing The Battle For A Better World“. I wrote it as a critique of course to point out why the likes of Mark Carney, a Canadian banker liked to Goldman Sachs and responsible for the biggest housing […]
I have been following Eric Prince and his adventures fo quite a while now. In fact his frim Blackwater and his connection to the CIA and Rumsfeld and Cheney through his internship at the first Bush presidency was the reason I started blogging in the first place. Here is that blog for those of you […]
Most people think our leaders are stupid and they very well may be but they also have something most of us don’t have. They have been raised to believe that no matter how stupid they are, they are entitled to the best treatment, the best food, the best service and the best of everything generally. […]
Here is a nice little animation explaining the current situation in the Middle East in a minute or so.
Feel like having your life run by a faceless corporations? Our sovereignty abolished? Our healthcare plundered? Our way of life compromised and the profits of corporations put above the rights of human beings? You love it when a small group of uber rich secretly make deals that you have no say in? Well, then the […]
Just in: Sergei Shoigu @DefenceMinRu 9h RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG CONFIRMS: LEADER KIM JONG UN ASSASSINATED. NO DETAILS.
All you need to know about schrinkflation, leveraged buy outs, the TPP.
Fish with deadly levels of radioactive cesium have been caught just off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, as scientists continue to assess the damage caused to the marine food chain by the 2011 nuclear disaster. One of the samples of the 37 black sea bream specimens caught some 37 kilometers south of the crippled power […]
What can I say? +1. And I didn’t even have to watch it. Watching Paula Bennett spouting her evil crap and people like John Key saying that beneficiaries made bad lifestyle choices is enough for me.
Kalashnikov has a tiny problem. He felt quilty. Well… with 1 AK-47 for every 70 human beings. I reckon he most definetly was part of the problem. This in the newspapers this morning: In the months before his recent death, the world’s greatest gun-maker Mikhail Kalashnikov suffered ‘unbearable’ pain over the lost lives caused by […]
When you ask the average Kiwi about why the Reserve Bank is such a good thing I bet you most of them will answer: It is independent. My question is: Independent from what? Why and why is that a good thing. And are they really independent? The most common reason given as to why Reserve […]
Ariel Sharon was a terrorist. He terrorized Palestinians. He terrorized his own people with the fear mongering he needed to justify his twisted, criminal and murderous outlook on life. He was kept alive to terrorize the people he terrorized in life. He has lived in purgatory for the last 8 years while his body was […]
A couple of days ago HSBC chief economist for Australia and New Zealand Paul Bloxham told us that NZ’s economy was poised to grow dramatically in 2014 and would be a veritable Economic “Rock star”! Here are some pointers as to why you won’t feel the difference other than that you will feel poorer and […]
Energy giant Shell will go ahead with drilling for gas in the Great South Basin. A government-imposed deadline gave Shell until Friday to decide if it would start test drilling or forgo its claim. The drilling programme is yet to be decided but ”will most likely target the early 2016 summer period”, the joint venture […]
Kevin Ryan is and expert in the difficult and much maligned art of asking questions. He asks them about what happened on 9/11, who was involved and who should be on the accused bench when we finally get a new and independent investigation. It got him fired from a good job, maligned and dumped on […]
Remember when a couple of years ago I mentioned that the NZ Army had drones high on their list of “must haves” and then they got some and it turned out NZ was en route for US army drones? Drone aircraft, which we first heard of as weapons of war used by the United States […]
Aaargh, It’s official, I hate Windows 8. I hate Microsoft with a vengeance of course as anyone with a brain ought to but so far Linux hasn’t come up with the goods and it seems even that is now infiltrated with a backdoor for the NSA but this morning they outdid themselves. My mouse stopped […]
Over the last week or so an internet storm started about an alleged new melt down of Reactor 3 has started. Now I don’t think that we should be complacent about what is happening there but here is something Fukushima Diary, one of the most consistently correct Fukushima bloggers has to say about it. I […]
About 5 weeks ago a childhood friend arrived on my doorstep. I had not seen her for 8 years and only rekindled my relationship a year before she decided to come to NZ for a visit after breaking of our relationship as a result of a stupid fight or so I thought. After three weeks […]
Preface by Washington’s Blog: We documented in 2009 that fascism and our current crony capitalist economy are indistinguishable. We noted in 2011 that America’s public resources are being raped and pillaged … just like those of small debt-saddled countries like Greece. The following short – but important – piece by Eric Zuesse shows that looting […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 