Our leaders would like you to believe that what is going on in Syria is simple – a bad man has gassed innocent victims and it is up to good people to punish him (take out his air defenses), prevent him from ever doing it again (regime change) and serve notice to other bad men […]
Syria – Cui bono Part 2 – Qatar, Saudi, Russia and Gas Read More »
Once again the current rulers of the USA have decided some little dusky-brown skinned people need to be saved from some other dusky-brown skinned people. Once again they’ll be saving them by bombing. Carefully, of course, and with every effort made to kill only the bad brown ones and not the good brown ones, and
Syria – Cui bono? Part 1 Read More »
It has been clear for some time now that the ideal of equality before the law has been buried. The US. Department of Justice made it clear a few months ago, after it had declined to press criminal charges against a string of banks (Citi, Wachovia and HSBC), that ‘Too Big To Fail’ meant while
When Irish people do what their government won’t Read More »
There are many paradoxes in economics. To an outsider it is full of contradictions and inconsistencies. Not least of which is its utter failure to predict the current financial crisis. If the great and the good didn’t spot this crisis coming then perhaps they don’t qualify to be called the great and the good. Economics
Illogical Economics – Guest post by Hawkeye Read More »
You can either believe that we’re all in this together and it’s all getting better. Or you can believe, as I do, that it is getting better for the few (5%) who own 50% of the worlds’ financial wealth and worse for the other 95% of us. Remember, the next time you see the Dow
The Too Big to Fail Insurers – the next bail outs, another nail in Democracy’s coffin. Read More »
According to a report by RT Israel used a Turkish base from which to launch a bombing raid on Syria. Since that first report claims, counter-claims and denials have been launched on all sides. Richard Silverstein at Canada’s Global Research was one of the first to offer an analysis of the story. As he says, …this
Israel bombs Syria from Turkish base – claim and counter-claim Read More »
In a democracy rule is by consent. In a dictatorship it is by control. Which do we have in the West? It seems to me, it is no longer clear. We certainly still have the rituals of rule by consent. But behind the elected front men and women is a shadow state. It’s people ritually
NSA/GCHQ – The New Praetorians and the New Cold War Read More »
Every credit has its debit, every positive its negative. So for every secret there must be a lie, and every lie must be kept secret. This is the currency of power today. Fiat truth. We are not allowed to have any secrets any more. And yet those who insist they must know the truth about
Some time ago (May 2012) I wrote two articles about ETFs suggesting they were The Next Accident Waiting to Happen. In that first part I described how they work and who owns and runs them. My argument was that, I think the signs are already there to suggest ETFs are where the instability and risk
The head of the U.S. FED is one of the most powerful jobs in the world. The current head, Ben Bernanke, is stepping down, Who will be next? The financial world, led by America’s big banks will want to be sure whoever it is ‘understands’ their needs. Even before the nomination proceedure gets underway we
The Head of the FED – who will it be? Read More »
