Archive for the 'World politics' Category
In Gaza you Burn summer camps for Girls
June 8th, 2010What a wonderful culture and people to support:
“Masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza on Sunday, Army Radio reported, the top UN aid official in Gaza said.”
“During the past month alone, five Gazans have been executed with formal sanction from the Strip’s Hamas rulers, three […]
We Con the World
June 4th, 2010This is great.
Nixon and the Jews
June 3rd, 2010This is a chilling audio recording of Nixon asking for Haldeman to see what he can do about the Jews and how “disloyal” the “bastards” were.
Nixon audio tape
These are not peace activists
June 1st, 2010This was planned for full effect by Turkey to embarrass Israel. This is disgusting. The claim that people wielding metal pipes were peace activists is a crock.
Union power in California
April 21st, 2010This is an excellent article explaining how California got into so much trouble and how unions and pension problems are the chief cause of the problems. Must read:
California unions
On a Knife’s Edge
April 15th, 2010“The Greek tragedy of being unable to pay for the debt built up during the years of unprecedented low yields reads across to the rest of our governments all too well. The fact is most of us are living on the same knife edge.”
Read here: Greece is not that different
China’s Property Bubble
February 3rd, 2010This is a must watch video from Jim Chanos on the property bubble in China. My favorite line:
“There is roughly 30 billion square feet of non-residential property under construction in China. This means that there is enough office space being built to have a 5 by 5 foot cubicle for every man, woman and child […]
Public Employee Unions Bankrupt California
January 26th, 2010“There are now more than 15,000 government retirees statewide who receive pensions that exceed $100,000.”
That statement right there from an eye-opening editorial in the Wall Street Journal is not getting enough attention. How about these figures:
1) Policemen, firefighters, and prison guards can retire at age 50 and receive 90% of their last year salary for […]
Triple Digit Oil Will Radically Change World Economy
January 17th, 2010This is a fantastic talk by Jeff Rubin, the former economist from CIBC about peak oil, triple digit oil prices and the changes coming to the world economy.
This talk is basically an encapsulation of his book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization.
English Court and Israel
December 14th, 2009I’m honestly stunned by this. A court in Britain issued an arrest warrant against former foriegn minister Tzipi Livni? What jurisidiction do they have? How is this possible? I am totally stunned by this.
Here is the link: Tzipi Livni Arrest Warrant