So I was on the way home with Mouse and bumped into Andrew Colbert playing outside the Bagel Shop. Since I had my Zoom on me, I flipped it on. Check it out. Continue reading “Bagelshop Blues”
Nigel Farage strikes again!
This guy knows how to spout truth about the EU! I couldn’t agree more about the poor Irish, who have been suckered by the bankers. If they, like Iceland, defaulted and restructured around a new Irish currency instead of lining up at the EU trough, they (and everyone else!) would be much better off.
Let’s get physical!
Having seen that cute animation about “the quantitative easing”, I just had to give it a shot. So I went to XtraNormal.com, signed up, and the content grew out of the limited selection of settings and characters I could use for free, and it morphed into a Max Keiser video. I think Max Keiser’s idea to crash JP Morgan by buying silver is hilarious, and I am in. Everyone, give someone a silver coin for Christmas! If it is to hell in a handbasket we go, we might as well have some fun along the way. Over to Queenie and Tex…
The scary thing, of course, despite my trying to make fun of it all, is that it is all true. The west is imploding, the east won’t, can’t and should feel no obligation to save us, and it sure feels to me that the end of at least some stuff is nigh, despite myriad failed similar prophecies. Step one is to stabilize money. So put some physical precious metal (ie real money) under the mattress! Our central banks are having a fire sale, and it would be a shame if it was in their vault instead of your basement when the implosion occurs.
Some inconvenient truths – Hot tempers at EU hot air
I bumped into this at zerohedge.com and have to share. Nigel Farage, British MP and leader of the UK Independence Party, tells it like it is to the bozos who just don’t get it at the EU. I have spent a bit of this slow trading day (US is closed for Thanksgiving) surfing Euro-news. It is getting ugly over there, folks. I feel like the mood is swinging, and people will no longer put up with the deceit, disinformation, and the devaluing of their lives in favour of the political elites and in particular the bankers. The people now know, or at least are now finding out, that the massive debts that their governments incurred in bailing out the banks will be theirs to pay, and they are tired of it. I can only watch so many videos of demonstrations and clashes with police before I am full, and I don’t want to re-post them all here, it is too depressing, but this one rant is worth it.
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The American Experiment in Government
I have been watching an excellent set of interviews on a website called Uncommon Knowledge, conducted by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Focussing on economics and current world affairs, the quality of the interviewees is astonishing. From Thomas Sowell to the very interesting Prince Hans-Adam II, who has reigned in Liechtenstein since 1989, the conversations range through time from the Romans to present day, and cover the planet, from China to the Middle East to North America. They discuss forms of government, policy, war and jurisprudence. I highly recommend watching these. Each interview is about 30 minutes long, and well worth the time. Here is an interview with economist Gary Becker, to whet your appetite:
Uncommon Knowledge can be found at http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uncommon-knowledge
Crash JP Morgan, buy silver: The first google-bombing
Max Keiser offers up a very different world view than you’ll get on any of the major media. So does Alex Jones at InfoWars (!). The combination has recently proven explosive. A quick googling just now for the exact phrase “crash jp morgan buy silver” produced 266,000 hits. The variant “buy silver crash jp morgan” returns just 3930 [ed: Nov 24 google hit update – 330,000/20,400]. Try it when you read this to see if the numbers are growing or shrinking. This video should explain what is happening. Basically, a new viral mechanism has just been spawned on the ‘net. Watch the videos (even if you think Alex Jones is a kook), then I will follow up by explaining why this is happening, and what it means. Shorting JP Morgan might be a good idea around now…
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Vote Today October 25th, 2010
McGuinty’s Men – Voter Beware
In two of the most prominent Ontario cities, Toronto and Ottawa, the McGuinty Liberals are trying to get their men in. In Ottawa it looks like a done deal for Jim Watson, a testimony to the short memories and fiscal imprudence of Ottawa voters. In Toronto, it is a tight race, with Ontario Minister of Health, George Smitherman battling it out with business man Rob Ford. Grab hold of your wallets, Ontarians, we are in deep trouble. Smitherman has overseen a flurry of scandals in the Minstry of Health, at a time when patients, not bureaucrats, could really have used the money. Instead it is gone – gone to consultants and used to pay ludicrous severances. Let us hope that at least in Toronto the McGuinty’s are foiled. Cities in debt, the province in debt, all that money is going to come out of our pockets eventually. Thank goodness provincial governments can’t print money.
Vote Today – even if you cannot prevent a Watson Mayoral victory, you can send a message. If you don’t vote, you lose your voice.
American Liberalism Wakens Sleeping Conservatism
Ramesh Ponnuru & Rich Lowry have written a brilliant account of current American politics in National Review Online. Here is but a sample:
The liberal journalist Peter Beinart noted that for decades Democratic leaders had treated the American public’s latent conservatism as a sleeping bear: The chief imperative was to avoid sudden moves that would rouse it. But the Reagan era was now over, and Democrats no longer needed to live in fear. That’s what Obama’s “yes we can” slogan meant to liberals: Yes we can move past both conservatism and Clintonian triangulation. Liberalism was living in its favored political tense: the future perfect.
The full article can be found here.
Ski, Snowboard, and Travel!!!!
We are shortly heading off the to ski, snowboard and travel show to pick up some gear for the youngest lad, who has grown like a weed since last year.
Show opens at 10am this morning, at Lansdowne Park. Check it out!
ben
WHO Striving for Fairness, not Good Health
There has long been much suspicion about the value of many international organizations, particularly those with three letter acronyms. The IMF and the World Bank have arguably done much more harm than good, saddling the Third World with unmanageable debts, while their tyrants drive golden Rolls Royce’s. So it comes as no surprise, though it still horrified me, to read the WHO’s Director-General, Margaret Chan, musings on H1N1 and the future health of the planet.
She is quoted in the National Post, speaking to the Regional Committee for Europe (I assume some sub-branch of WHO): “Gaps in health outcomes will be reduced and health systems will strive for fairness only when equity is an explicit policy objective, also in sectors well beyond health…. [We need] changes in the functioning of the global economy.”
Now, I don’t know about you, but I assumed the WHO was hoping not so much to “reduce gaps in health outcomes” but to improve health outcomes in general. At least, when I go to the doctor, I am concerned about improving my health outcome, not in seeing it approaching that of my neighbour. Perhaps that explains her initial enthusiasm for H1N1: “It is all of humanity that is under threat.” At least that virus attempted to be fair, targeting all, not just the poor.
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