Category Archives: Global Finance

Moscow to UN: We’re not happy

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1718528.ece to which the UN United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon replied “So are you going to support my reelection”?

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Tunisia Sandwich

Libyan Mortars land in Tunisia “Free” Tunisia sits between Algeria and Libya. Algeria is making it clearer they intend to help the Qadaffi regime. Tunisia used to be under the colonial control of Italy, but was invaded by France in … Continue reading

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The ReColonization of Africa

Newspaper opinion From Namibia – this is the first account I’ve read where someone has pointed to the big elephant in the room. Are the events in Libya and Ivory Coast the Europeans using the pretext of “Duty to Protect … Continue reading

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Belarus – the next Libya

http://blogs.voanews.com/russia-watch/2011/04/18/belarus-bombing-in-the-police-state/ Belarus is out of money. As it devalues its money, it has to increase the amount paid to government employees and pensioners, creating a larger deficit and feeding the death spiral. The country is ruled by a brutal dictator … Continue reading

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Monitor Group and “dirty hands”

Harvard and Libya The Monitor group is affiliated with Harvard University and for the past few years was advising Libya how to improve Libya’s economy – and now embarrassed that they took money to assist the Libyan “regime”. You know… … Continue reading

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France says “no” to documented migrants

BBC story One of the principles of the EU is that if a person has the right to live in one EU country, they can travel in any EU country without a visa or special permission. Countries still have some … Continue reading

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France’s regime change effort

Here are a few surprises for you Canadian news story Some of the pilots and support people flying off the sole French Aircraft carrier are Americans on loan. Training France’s own pilots on their own carrier was deemed too expensive … Continue reading

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John Batchelor’s perspective

During the 9:00 hour on Friday, John was discussing the situation in Ivory Coast, and brought up the odd alliance of Christians supporting the ousted President – specifically Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck and Jim Inhofe. That is the same list … Continue reading

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Keep your damn dollars

IMF ministers push back That’s the message being shouted at Tim Geithner at the semi-annual meeting of the IMF. Developing countries see a real threat from surges in Dollars flooding their countries be the Federal Reserve. Their concern is that … Continue reading

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The Brink of Default

I’ve now heard Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachman both repeat the message that failing to raise the debt ceiling does not mean the US defaults on it’s existing debt. It does mean stopping all but emergency spending, selling off assets … Continue reading

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Choosing sides for the World War

The BRICS met and decided they support the efforts of the African Union to end the conflict in Libya via negotiation and stop outside military intervention in the issue. At the same time, Qatar has announced it will lend the … Continue reading

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Good Morning Chernobyl!

Japan has formally raised the Fukushima disaster to a 7 on the INES scale that rates the severity of nuclear incidents. That’s currently the top number on the scale. I’m getting more serious about the idea of opening up immigration … Continue reading

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Algeria to UN/NATO – Cease fire or else!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j8vnqhPb6AUbO7PR4YfKOPMomYrw?docId=6506638 This just in – the “regime” in Algeria has seen enough and wants NATO and the UN out of Africa. Algeria has a relativrly modern air force comparable to Egypt and within easy striking range of France. There goes … Continue reading

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Welcome your new Canadian overlords

This morning, $1.00 US will buy you only $0.95 Canadian. Brent Crude oil is $124.66 a barrel. I was hoping someone would notice this in the table the other day that I created of Per Capita Oil Reserves by Country … Continue reading

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China Disneyland

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/business/media/08disney.html?_r=1&hp With something like 19 million empty houses in the United States, maybe we should import Chinese people instead of exporting Disneyland.

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