The Congo maintains the second lowest GDP per capita despite having an estimated $24 trillion in untapped raw minerals deposits [17]; it holds more than 30% of the world’s diamond reserves [18] and 80% of the world’s coltan [19], the majority of which is exported to China for processing into […]
Corporate Corruption
“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 […]
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 […]
[ … … 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 […]
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Nearly one week after Italy’s BNI froze their customer’s accounts an Italian news source finally confirms that the accounts of thirty thousand customers have been frozen. The bank’s customers are saying they were completely unaware of the notice being posted and are just now finding out about it when they […]
[ … and Dr Paul Buchanan does his level best to publically perpetuate some cultural myths ] Serious analysis of government policy is a vital function of the media in a democratic society. But in New Zealand we are often poorly served because the mind set of many journalists and […]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an R2P humanitarian military intervention in Syria to curb the atrocities allegedly ordered by the government of president Bashar Al Assad. In a twisted logic, Clinton recognizes that while “opposition forces” are integrated by Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists, the government rather than […]
Ever since Iceland’s economy collapsed in 2008, the country has been busy reinventing itself. The first step was to restore democracy through a turbulent nonviolent struggle, then to force resignations in the financial sector and secure a criminal conviction of their prime minister for dereliction of duty. Now they are […]