Month: September 2010

Autumn thoughts

Here we are, you and I, at odds with those who hold power over us. But without power ourselves,or the hope of attaining it.  So why bother?  This is the question you ask yourself sooner or later, isn’t it? Why sit here reading impotent diatribes against those who would be unmoved even if they condescended …

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Romanian protests

Well the biggest demonstrations may have been in France but the most effective were in Romania. Romanians were in the streets several times last week, culminating Friday in a protest led by 6000 police officers in uniform.  They marched to the capital building where they proceeded to shout fantastic abuse, “Get out you miserable dog”, …

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US/China Trade wars, Japanese debts, German Banks, Dubai developers and British Biscuits

The trade war between America and their good friends, the Chinese, is coming along nicely. Latest addition is China imposing up to 105% duties on American Chicken products. which it claims America has been dumping on the Chinese market.  How is anyone supposed to incubate the latest version of bird flu if foreigners are flooding …

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Our new reality

Even the Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, now agrees the recovery ‘is slower than policy makers would like’ or had expected. And yet, unconcerned by this admission of fact,  at the same time, US stock markets have shot up by 8-12% in one month.  The most phenomenal September in 50 years. So the new reality, constructed …

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