“For all the fearmongering we hear out of our politicians about how heaven forbid we’re going to turn into Greece, the one country you never hear them talk about any more . is Iceland. . The reason they don’t is that after -their- financial crisis Iceland took a different path […]
Month: April 2023
[ or, put another way : Four Toxins Within Global Society : Fossil Fuel, Nuclear Fission, Central Banking, & War. ] Little surprise that these four bedfellows have in their reins the fate of humanity, even life on Earth. Profit and conquest are all that matter. There is no such […]
News agencies continue to broadcast video about the situation in the Syrian city of Homs, where airstrikes performed by armed opposition continue lashing the southern province. [youtube]bEczSaj8uD8[/youtube]
China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, carrying the country’s first ever female astronaut along with her two male colleagues, blasted off earlier from the steppes of Gansu province in the north west, to cheers from a crowd at a special seeing-off ceremony. The three astronauts will have to link up with Beijing’s laboratory […]
Earlier this month, The Observer reported that “The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich ‘consuming’ countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn ‘producing’ nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed.” Journalist Ed Vulliamy informed […]
US foreign military sales have shot over $50 billion. Another record-breaking year is expected thanks to US ally Saudi Arabia, which accounts for three-fifths of the sum. The US is expected to continue expanding into key markets, including India, which is considering a $1.4 billion deal for 22 Apache helicopters. […]
The unthinkable looks possible: a global financial crisis reminiscent of the one in 2008: A full-blown crisis to start in Greece, quickly move to the rest of Europe and then hit the US. Stocks and oil would plunge, the euro would sink against the U.S. dollar, and big banks would […]
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has run two articles alleging that Syrian Sunni rebels committed the Houla massacre, reporting that the victims were largely from Alawi and Shia minorities in Houla. . This is important because the Syrian government has been blamed for the massacre and the massacre has […]
The first joint US-NZ military exercises on New Zealand soil in decades have recently finished. . Read the rest here
[ … … neat … like in THX-1138 ] A recent Supreme Court ruling on the appeals of Gitmo detainees leaves them with no ‘legal’ option but to die in detention. By not taking any of these cases, the Supreme Court has ensured that the government does not need to […]