The details of the EU driven raping of Greece to save the European banks reveal some interesting consequences as in this from ZeroHedge : Salary cutbacks (called “unified payroll”) for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to [...]  There is a lot of prodding and poking of Iran from all sides these days and the MSM is not a very good guide, what with all the recycled government propaganda, but at least we are free to read excellent opinion from outside and make our own minds up as is the case with [...] Amongst the comments on a very readable ZeroHedge article on the future of Greece and the somewhat underhand Germans (the video of the German Finance Minister in the article demonstrating that it is indeed all politics) comes this little gem : Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room [...] After getting to the end of the photo strip, the only thing I could think of (whilst trying not to laugh like a drain) was the line from The Blues Brothers – Does the cigarette lighter (still) work?
In amongst a very interesting article over at ZeroHedge on what may play out soon enough in the Straights of Hormuz, the following video caught my attention due to the novel launch control manoever shown around 00:15 to 00:20 – pretty neat I think. _ _ I just wish I had chosen Aeronautical engineering [...] An interesting ramping up of what governments consider extremism from ZeroHedge : Just when we thought the US could not sink any further in its usurpation of civil rights, here comes the FBI to advise all those who tend to think that the broken economic model of the past century is the cause for [...] A brief extract from a ZeroHedge article entitled “This is Europe’s Scariest Chart” : Some may be surprised to learn that while Portugal, and Greece, are quite bad, at 30.7% and 46.6% respectively, it is Spain where the youth unemployment pain is most acute: at 51.4%, more than half of the [...] Whilst the MSM speak constantly of cuts, the reality is that the UK has never owed more money and is now neck and neck with the Eastern basket case that is Japan. The following chart from a ZeroHedge article shows just what state we are now in, with debt continuing to climb while the [...] Whilst hanging around waiting for the witching hour, the following from Zerohedge tickled my fancy … you may have seen the first version of the story but the second is much more like the reality of the EU today … It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating [...] From Urban Dictionary via Infectious Greed comes this handy term Banker’s Dozen : Banker’s Dozen 4688 up, 4372 down December 15, 2011 Urban Word of the Day The opposite of a Baker’s Dozen where the customer receives 13 of a product for the price of 12; in a Banker’s Dozen the customer receives 11 [...] One little chart from an FT Alphavile article clearly showing just what happens when a war ends and all the soldiers come home again. The chart is from the US and shows the number of people reaching the age of 65 over the next decade. The interesing snippet for me is the jump in [...] There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...] Given the BBC’s newly exposed lack of impartiality on green matters it doesn’t really surprise me that they would put a positive spin on a poll about nuclear and renewable power. The impartiality bit comes out in one of the newly released Climategate emails : date: Wed Dec 8 08:25:30 2004 from: Phil Jones [...]
In a Spectator interview back in 1990, Nicholas Ridley had this to say on the subject of the EU and the Germans (emphasis mine) : I was still taken aback by the vehemence of Mr Ridley’s views on the matter of Europe, and in particular the role of Germany. It had seemed [...] Via ZeroHedge – is this how wars start? That headline being the response to a leaked document whereby German lawmakers have received confidential information on Ireland before the Irish parliament : Reuters is reporting the leak of confidential Irish budget information by German lawmakers and Irish parliamentarians are seething – viewing the leak [...]  |
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