New International Gold Contract Denominated in Chinese renminbi
Decisions to buy gold, silver and oil against terrifyingly inflationary floods of money
DAVOS: Celebrity Executives pay $500,000 plus for Photo ops
“chasing successful people who want to be seen with other successful people. That’s the game.” Chief executives, government leaders and academics around the world are headed to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting this week — a heady power gathering that mixes business, politics and Champagne in the Swiss Alps. It is…
Chinese Style Swindles: Ripping Off Investors
“There is a sucker born every minute”
Brazil : The doublecross of ex-president “Lula” da Silva
Brazil, and not the U.S., is the main cop on the beat.
Kill the “Peace Game”: Palestine cannot survive 21st century global politics
The Palestine-Israel conflict is no pesky regional skirmish. This century-long battle over territory threatens to draw the entire global community into its bowels if it is not dealt with soon, and the only way out of the current paralysis is to kill the “peace process” once and for all. There is no other way to…
WikiLeaks: Israeli tactics in Gaza “Starve the Palestinians”
Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza’s economy ‘functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.’
Prohibition: The grotesque nightmare of cultural folly
Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless. Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a…
Diplomatic Channels: The Israeli Security Concept leads to War
The US’s failure under Barack Obama to impose peace between Israel and the Palestinians makes a new war likely In March 1973 the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir visited US president Richard Nixon in Washington. He told her that the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was prepared to negotiate a full treaty, and Meir assured him…