Archive for April, 2007
Doomsday for the Greenback
April 13th, 2007This guy’s Magic 8 Ball is saying the same thing as mine. Via: Information Clearing House: The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to they’d be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, we go our business like nothing is wrong. […]
New Zealand Dollar Gaps Through 73
April 13th, 2007You might have thought I was exaggerating when I wrote, “New Zealand farmers are going to get nailed to a cross made out of yen and euros.” If anything, that statement wasn’t strong enough. And what are they proposing in Wellington? Raise rates, making the carry trade action even more severe!? Driving the thing even […]
Gold: Switch Off Your Targeting Computer
April 13th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I don’t like calling the action in the pits of the most diabolical casino that the world has ever seen, but I’m being forced to pay attention to this. I’m just trying to hold on to as much of the little […]
Digging In: Britain’s Green Revolution on the Home Front
April 12th, 2007Once people understand the complex of issues related to food, the rest falls into place pretty damn fast. Via: Guardian: During the second world war the government famously urged every able man and woman in Britain to “dig for victory” – to grub up their flower beds and tear up their lawns to grow vegetables […]
‘Water Police’ Crack Down in an Ever-Drier Australia
April 12th, 2007Via: Christian Science Monitor: At first glance it looks like a police car – a white vehicle with a black-and-yellow checkerboard stripe running along its flanks. But as the patrol vehicle turns a corner in the leafy district of Paddington, in central Sydney, its true purpose becomes clear from the bold black lettering across its […]
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April 12th, 2007Thank you, Pookie.
America’s Plan for Baghdad: Carve City Into Sealed Areas
April 12th, 2007Via: Independent: Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad – despite President George Bush’s “surge” in troops – US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing only Iraqis with newly issued […]
Three Generals Spurn the Position of War ‘Czar’
April 12th, 2007Via: Washington Post: The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation. […]
Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
April 12th, 2007Via: Seattle Post: Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84.
Pentagon Plans Troop Extension for Iraq
April 11th, 2007Via: AP / San Francisco Chronicle: The Pentagon will lengthen tours of duty for all active-duty Army units in Iraq to 15 months from the current 12 months as the military struggles to supply enough troops for the conflict, two defense officials said Wednesday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates planned to announce the decision Wednesday afternoon, […]
