I think the world's biggest mining corporation (that's BHP Billiton) is in big trouble this year, although it may not surface until next. At the very least, it is a huge gamble. BHP is banking on a big turnaround in the price of oil to something like $50 dollars a barrel over the next year... Continue Reading →
Stirring Recep’s Recipe For Madness
I like Zero Hedge. I especially like Zero Hedge when he is talking about real stuff and not just wallowing through the mire of financial collapse (well, that is what it looks like to me), important as that is. It gets a little boring waiting for the world of national economies to go belly up,... Continue Reading →
A Year In The Life… Of The Sun
Amazing time-lapse video of our very own star. Absolutely wonderful. ...and brought to you in stunning Ultra HD (if you have the capability), from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory by NASA Heliophysics, courtesy of Russia Today: Solar explosion timelapse: A year in the life of the sun (VIDEO) https://cdn.rt.com/files/2016.02/original/56c44e05c361881d698b45a8.jpg This image is a composite of 23... Continue Reading →
“There’s No Understanding Anything Without A Grasp Of Its History”
"There’s no understanding anything without a grasp of its history—which, of course, is the American failing over and over again." The above is a quote by Patrick L. Smith, interviewer in this piece: “Intelligent people know that the empire is on the downhill”: A veteran CIA agent spills the goods on the Deep State and... Continue Reading →
Oh What A Lovely War
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Global War - Armageddon style. At least, what the popular conception of that word is. It's the war that we have to have. We haven't had a really good one this century, so far. But it's coming. I can feel it. Not much different from 100 years... Continue Reading →
Want A Dose Of Reality?
Want a dose of reality? You're not going to like it. I'm always happy to share Jim Kunstler's outlook on life from his ClusterfuckNation blog. Here's the latest: Repricing Reality (and, no, he hasn't misspelt 'lede'). Supporting, to some extent, my own prediction that 2016 is going to be a year that begins a Dark... Continue Reading →
Follow The Arrows To Find Gold
Who fights who in Syria? Image credit: Not sure who owns this. I got it from the TAE Facebook page What do you see there? Hmmmm... So, what's this thing between ISIS and the Israeli Air Force? It seems that ISIS is fighting everybody except the Israeli Air Force. It seems that everybody is... Continue Reading →
A Russian Secret, For All
Hush! Don't tell anyone. I won't say a word, except "please read this".
Giving It All Away
US, NATO ‘very nervous’ about Corbyn’s disarmament plans – reports Photo credit: Britain's leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn © Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters At last. Someone with a sensible solution to the risk of war. Of course the US and NATO won't like it, but it seems the majority of British voters... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 
