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He heads a repressive homeland police state apparatus. He's waging war on free expression. He prioritizes intellectual property protection over Internet freedom.
You have to be wearing shades to believe such hype. Specifically of the rose-colored variety. Sadly, all of these factoids and random bits of economic good news fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.
Well, we know that this conglomerate which we call the main stream media is now totally controlled and is a virtual lapdog for the political process of the Democratic party. But, until the mid to late 90’s we didn’t have any efficient way around it. We were stuck with very few alternatives and they weren’t that easy to find.
Unfortunately for the people of Ukraine, they happen to lie on some very strategic pipeline routes linking rich Russian gas fields to gas-hungry Eastern Europe. Even more unfortunately for the people of Ukraine, they have become used to tapping into those lines for their own purposes.
For those who are still locked in the mindset that moves on the geopolitical chessboard are essentially random, with countries scattering this way and that like billiard balls at the break, this poses a puzzling question: why would the NATO allies be backing Russia into a corner to the point that it starts engaging in these alliances?
The tech sector has already lost 6% of its value since early March, and unfortunately there are signs that it still has further down to go. In some ways the tech sector might be a victim of its own success. After years of outperforming expectations, raised expectations and slowing growth make for disappointing quarterly earnings reports...
By “isolating” Russia, the US government would force Russia to not only abandon use of the fiat dollar, but also to help accelerate the establishment of another monetary system for global trade that does not rely on fiat dollars.
This is in fact not a new law, nor unique to Bitcoin. According to existing law, when anything other than Federal Reserve Note funny money is used to make a payment of any sort, there is a taxable gain that needs to be calculated and declared for the transaction.
Obama's announcement may not be good news for Ukraine, but it is for the rest of the world. President Obama isn't dumb enough to go to war with Russia over the Crimea. Thank God. The World War III that some predicted will have to wait for another day.
Russia is starting to hit where it counts: the pocketbook of the average European. Russia is slowly turning off the natural gas spigot as shipments to Europe are down 4% from the previous week. And now Russian Gazprom is asking nearly $500/1000 cubic meters of gas, almost one third more than it charges other clients around the world.
Remember, this is just one data broker operating in an industry that is estimated to include thousands of similar companies. “Estimated” because, of course, the industry flies almost completely under the radar.
For years now we’ve been mired in this recession. They have to cook the books like mad genius’s to get us anywhere near a 2% GDP. But here’s this guy screaming about a 5% GDP which on the surface would look like the economy is really firing on all cylinders and actually flirting with “too hot”.
...the powers-that-shouldn't-be have long understood that the crisis effect works whether the crisis is genuine and spontaneous, or a manufactured event they themselves have staged, manipulated, or allowed to occur. No matter the origins of the crisis, they use the panic that follows any spectacular event to implement their agenda.
According to a June 2013 Bloomberg report, the 4:00 PM London “fixing” on the FX exchange was being manipulated by traders who were sharing client order information in online chatrooms.
And yet, as impressive as Rumsfeld's credentials as wheeler-dealer of our era are, they pale in comparison to the man who towered over late 19th and early 20th century America: J. P. Morgan.