The annual meeting of the Illuminati/Bilderberger cabal in Davos has come up with a new motto: "Responsive and Responsive Leadership". Sounds nice and timely, what with the inauguration of President Douche who has vowed to shake up the existing world order, whatever that's supposed to mean.

So, the Davos smart-heads are unanimous that the main ( Read more... )

And the ripples start rippling across...

George Soros NGOs to face crack down in Hungary thanks to Donald Trump's victory

Bold move, or just batshit insane? Orban seems to have ganked a few lines out of Putin's book, including his paranoia about the Bilderberger/Illuminati global conspiracy. Or could there be a grain of truth in all these ( Read more... )

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/ttip-obama-merkel-101.html

Merkel and Obama are trying hard to push TTIP through, the article basically says.

Rough translation of some parts mine:

"Chancelor Merkel has defended the secrecy of the TTIP negotiations. She claims it couldn't be done in public because the other party (the US) are bound to get ( Read more... )

brucenstein's recent contribution regarding tariffs set on Chinese-made solar panels got me to thinking. There are not just one issue to discuss here - the more obvious and immediate being the way China's government funds industrial activity - but two. We must also consider what kind of electrical grid we have and what kind we want for the future ( Read more... )

Western culture always considers something to be new when it does it for the first time. Globalization is one of those supposedly new things that is actually quite old. There was a time when textiles manufactured in India were worn by people in central Africa without the intervention of a British middle man. That was not considered global by ( Read more... )

A governmental Las Vegas. Thats how a US journalist called Astana during the global economic forum which was held earlier this year in the new Kazakh capital city. In just 12 years the former Tselinograd (literally: New Soil Town) has been transformed completely from a typical small town amidst the Kazakh steppe. Now weird-looking high-rise ( Read more... )

"On a small island 750 miles off the coast of India, one woman's death marked the end of an ancient civilization ( Read more... )