Archive for April, 2007
U.S. Dollar in Strong Decline
April 10th, 2007Via: Reuters: The dollar fell towards last week’s two-year low against the euro on Tuesday, reversing gains sparked by a robust U.S. jobs report, while the yen hit a record trough versus the euro as carry trades flourished. As European traders returned from the long Easter weekend, they pushed the dollar down across the board, […]
Bids Drying Up for Alt-A Paper
April 10th, 2007Via: Business Week: At least five Wall Street analysts downgraded shares of American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. after the home lender said its mortgage loans are fetching lower prices from investors. While it has been well publicized that investors are shying away from “subprime” mortgage debt — or home loans to people with bad credit […]
Advice on Being an Expat in Belize
April 10th, 2007There’s some great general information about Belize here, but I found the parts about how he’s helping to improve the situation in the village to be most interesting. Via: Joe Bagent: Well, Tom, I hate like hell to give advice about settling in Belize. After all, though I’ve been there several times and now have […]
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
April 10th, 2007In case anyone is still keeping track… Via: Yahoo / AP: In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation’s “shocking” mismanagement of his country — a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.” […]
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April 10th, 2007Thanks erayjames.com! Cryptogon receives $65!
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And Now: The “Clean Skin” Terrorists from Europe
April 9th, 2007Sure. Via: New York Sun: The American government fears that the next September 11-style attack on the U.S. could be launched by Muslims from Britain or Europe who feel like “second-class citizens” and are alienated by a “colonial legacy,” according to the U.S. Homeland Security chief. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Michael Chertoff, […]
Princeton Professor, Former U.S. Marine Colonel On Terrorist Watch List for Criticizing Bush
April 9th, 2007Via: Balkanization: “On 1 March 07, I was scheduled to fly on American Airlines to Newark, NJ, to attend an academic conference at Princeton University, designed to focus on my latest scholarly book, Constitutional Democracy, published by Johns Hopkins University Press this past Thanksgiving.” “When I tried to use the curb-side check in at the […]
Pearls Before Breakfast
April 9th, 2007Most people are trained, from a very early age, to stop noticing goodness and beauty. People who don’t notice goodness and beauty don’t notice evil and lies either. The Machine doesn’t want you dead, per se, but it wants to rewire your brain so that you forget that you’re alive. It wants you undead, because […]
Failed States in General, and Then a Look at Zimbabwe
April 8th, 2007For most people, preparing for collapse is impossible because they have absolutely no idea what collapse would be like, and no framework within which events may be assessed. Dmitry Orlov writes, “Collapse will not be televised, you will not know that it has happened. You will only know that it has happened to you.” Learning […]
