A contrast in democracy, between modern Norway and what modern America has come down to, by someone who has seen both worlds, and also experienced the battlefields of America's wars in the Middle East. Tomgram: Ann Jones, Social Democracy for Dummies Very revealing. Come on, read it. You know you owe it to yourself to... Continue Reading →
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Image credit: A home in El Salvador being fumigated to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future - Bill McKibben I have long said, agreeing with others like Bill McKibben in this Guardian article, that the ravaging of our environment and climate... Continue Reading →
Interesting Manoeuvres
Oh dear, things are becoming so very complicated, and events are happening so fast that it is hard to keep up. The IMF (the banking arm of the US Financial Elite) is giving BRICS a bigger say in world monetary decisions by increasing their voting share. China becomes the third biggest voting bloc after the... Continue Reading →
Battling The Masters Of The Universe
A war already being played out in front of our very own eyes. Read all about it: Rumble in the ruble, fire in the markets Image credit: © Alexandr Demyanchuk / Sputnik Oh Boy! This I like. This I like, very much. Reporting on the battle against The Masters Of The Universe aka US Financial... Continue Reading →
Collected Works on an In-between Day
Today is an in-between day, laying between a weekend on the one side and a public holiday on the other side. A day when those who are organised enough to have engineered it beforehand, or those who made the late decision to 'take a sicky', will be relaxing on an extra, extra long weekend in... Continue Reading →
Defeat Is Victory
I think this just may be one of Dmitry Orlov's finest blog posts: Defeat is Victory You really must read it for yourself but I could not resist including here this quote, a rather long one but quite amusing (well, if you are not an American that is, or even if you are an American... Continue Reading →
Ninth Planet? Or Tenth?
At the risk of being thought a nutter, which I am sure some people already do, I would like to speculate a little hypothesis. The search is on for a ninth planet almost certainly known to be orbiting our Sun: Evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past Pluto at solar system's edge This artistic rendering... Continue Reading →
Zombie Future
We have heard of zombie banks, zombie finance, zombie money. We've seen zombie movies, played zombie games. Now we are faced with a fleet of zombie ships dropping anchor: People are afraid these 'zombie ships' are the first sign of global economic collapse Photo: An abandoned cargo ship in the polluted Guanabara Bay on July... Continue Reading →
It’s All Bulls And Bears To Me
I came across this Bloomberg article: Global Shareholders Have $27 Trillion Locked in Bear Markets Someone has been doing a roundup of the global share markets and has come up with some interesting figures. I have no idea if they are correct or not, but I have no reason to doubt it so let's play... Continue Reading →
