Reblogged from The Currency War: When the Japanese stock market lost more than six percent of its value on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in a massive sell-off, pundits jumped on the move to try to explain… Read More
Well, you have to admit one thing. The United States Senate certainly has its priorities straight. Early last week the US Senate passed “S.743, the Marketplace Fairness Act“ (sic!!). This bill requires US-based online… Read More
I’m not much of a fiction reader, but about two years ago a friend turned me on to a couple of books by Daniel Suarez – Daemon, and its sequel Freedom. I won’t… Read More
Clean Clothes Campaign launches a spoof campaign called ‘Unconscious Collapses’. The campaign targets H&M’s launch of the new ‘Conscious Collection’, criticizing the working conditions in Asian garment factories. In Cambodia alone, more than 2900 workers… Read More
Alea iacta est – The Cyprus Deal and its consequences. In these days Euro zone means crisis and bailouts. Cyprus is now your turn. But this time the single currency nations have crossed the… Read More
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been named new pope. Bergolio, who is of Italian descent, is currently the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. His new name will be Pope Francis. The announcement is… Read More
Camouflaged Ships: An Illustrated History of mainly US vessels. The recent deployment of USS Freedom (LCS 1) will revive a tradition of camouflaging warships. Outside of smaller patrol boats, the U.S. largely abandoned elaborate color schemes and… Read More
This is not an “American” problem. It is planet-wide. The solution must be elaborated on that level. And that is why a worldwide currency war has started. No politician will ever admit this in… Read More
New York Times Criticizes Obama’s Drone Murders. On one level, there were not too many surprises in the newly disclosed “white paper” offering a legal reasoning behind the claim that President Obama has the… Read More
A near-Earth asteroid - called 2012 DA14 by astronomers – will pass very close to Earth on February 15, 2013. Astronomers estimate that, when it’s closest to us, it’ll be within the orbit of… Read More
