Category Archives: International

Business/Economics, International

Evil Elites & What Economic Recovery? Bank of England says Royal events bankrupting British taxpayers! Proof the Elites are the true Welfare bums!

March 27, 2012, the Bank of England’s governor, Mervyn King, warned the U.K. House of Lords that upcoming celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee could bankrupt the kingdom.

King said the celebrations come at the worst time, an economic recession. He also pointed out that it was the expense of last year’s Royal Wedding that actually killed any hope of economic recovery!

The anti-Royal Family group, Republic, revealed that every year it costs U.K. taxpayers 202 million pounds (about $326 million USD) to support the Evil Elite Royals, and that’s not counting their taxpayer funded Royal celebrations!

This proves that the Royal elites are an economic burden, not benefit, upon the people!!!  They are nothing but ultimate welfare parasites!

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Corporate Evil & What Economic Recovery? U.S. Alcoa to close factories worlwide, thousands of people to lose jobs. It’s all because Alcoa wants higher Aluminum prices

March 27, 2012, Sardinian workers are protesting the planned closing of Alcoa’s Portovesme aluminum smelter on the island of Sardinia.  The move could cost Italy the loss of at least 1,500 jobs.

U.S. media last reported that U.S. based Alcoa was making a deal with union workers to keep the factory open, however, European media says that ain’t so.

In fact three potential investors are now suing Alcoa.  The Italian government has been demanding Alcoa keep their factory open.  The Spanish government is also upset because Aloca has plans to reduce smelter operations there.

This is evidence that Corporate America is partly to blame for the continuing economic disaster in Europe!  But it’s not just Europeans losing their jobs, Alcoa is hitting Australians as well.

In Geelong, Australia, Alcoa says it’s closing down operations there, because it doesn’t want to pay its electricity bill!  Alcoa wants a deal from the Australian government, and utility suppliers, in order to keep its Point Henry smelter open.

Alcoa also blames the pending closing of their Australian smelter on the need for $100 million AUD (Australian Dollars) to upgrade the smelter to meet environmental regulations.  600 people could lose their jobs.

But the real reason for the closings of all these Aloca operations worldwide, is that the price of aluminum is not high enough for Alcoa executives.

Recently Alcoa officials said the recent drop in aluminum prices “…will result in a global aluminum industry deficit of 600,000 metric tons in 2012.” Why would that be?  Because the aluminum industry will cut back production until aluminum prices go back up. That means closing down factories, creating thousands more unemployed people.

Interestingly, despite aluminum prices being low, on March 1, 2012, Alcoa announced they were actually raising prices (by 5%) on some of their aluminum products!

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Global Economic War: Obama attacks Argentina with Tariffs, another case of shooting yourself in the foot!

On March 26, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama declared a trade war with Argentina.  This comes two days after Argentina sponsored a mission to increase trade relations with the U.S.

Obama says Argentine companies own two U.S. companies, Azurix and Blue Ridge, $300 million USD.  Obama dropped Argentina from “trade preferences”, which essentially put the South American country on the same standing as North Korea and Syria.

The two U.S. companies are owed money, but Argentine officials say every time they try to make a payment those U.S. companies refuse the terms of payment: “The U.S. trade authorities did not accept our proposal to resolve the disagreement of interpretation on the rules of ICSID [International Center Settlement of Investment Disputes]…”-Hector Timerman, Argentine Foreign Ministry

Obama’s decision goes into effect in 60 days.  Argentina is a member of CELAC, maybe that’s the real motivation behind Obama’s action?  The imposition of high U.S. tariffs on Argentina will affect at least $18 million USD in business with U.S. companies!

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: NATO convoy attacked, NATO soldiers killed, more foreign fighters helping Mujahideen

U.S./NATO/ISAF officials said that on the morning of March 27, a NATO soldier was killed after stepping on a mine (aka roadside bomb, IED) in southern Afghanistan.  They did not give the exact location or what country the NATO soldier was from.

ISAF and Afghan government forces claim to have killed and captured more allies of the Mujahideen. Those foreign fighters are coming from Uzbekistan.

The latest firefight took place on March 26, 2012, in Faryab Province.  ISAF officials say they were ambushed by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) while on patrol with Afghan forces.  ISAF did not indicate if they suffered casualties, but said they killed or captured several IMU troops.

Meanwhile, U.S./NATO/ISAF and Afghan Security officials say in the past 24 hours they’ve killed at least 14 Mujahideen.  The battles took place in Kabul, Nangarhar, Faryab, Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul, Ghazni and Paktia provinces.

On the night of March 26, a NATO fuel supply convoy was ambushed in Farah Province.  The convoy was operated by a private security company.  Five of the security company’s employees were killed, they were Afghans.

 

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Evil Elites & the War on Drugs: Evidence the Queen of England is a drug dealer, U.K. bank regulator says so! This comes as the U.S. cracks down on suspicious bank accounts of lowly individuals in the name of the War on Terror

On March 21, 2012, a candidate running for the office of President of France, told interviewers that: “No, not all her fortune. There are many other sources, but it’s a series of trafficking operations within which, yes, there were drugs.”-Jacques Cheminade

Now, March 26, 2012, the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) is backing up Cheminade’s claims against the Queen!  The FSA says the Royal family is involved in what looks like money laundering and possibly drug trafficking!

The FSA fined Coutts, which is the official bank of the Royal family, 8.75 million pounds ($13.8 million USD), for failing to prevent money laundering among other things: “The failings at Coutts were serious, systemic and were allowed to persist for almost three years. They resulted in an unacceptable risk of Coutts handling the proceeds of crime.”– Financial Services Authority statement

Coutts is a division of RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland).  RBS officials say they’ve tried to comply with years of FSA regulations: “Since the FSA first raised its concerns, we have implemented a number of improvements to prevent any recurrence of these failings. Regulatory reforms continue apace.”-Rory Tapner, RBS

The thing is the FSA brought up the issue of money laundering, which would include the possibility of drug dealing, back in 2007!  FSA says about 75% of Coutts accounts are suspicious.  FSA also says about 75% of all British banks fail to check the legitimacy of their clients deposits!

Coutts began in 1692, and had clients such as Charles Dickens, William Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, David Livingstone, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Chopin and King George III.   If you don’t think the Royal family could be involved in drug dealing go study the Opium Wars.

The United Kingdom is supposed to be an ally of the U.S. in the so called War on Terror.  Part of that ‘War’ includes fighting money laundering and drug trafficking, because it supposedly funds terrorists.  This is more proof that the elites are actually running the money laundering and drug trafficking operations, while screwing us commoners over!  They are the real terrorists!

International, U.S.

Evil California Christians: Iraqi mother of 5 children stabbed to death in her California home, killer left hate crime note

“…she was hit with some kind of a tool about eight times in the head. She was knocked on the floor and was found in a pool of blood.”-Hanif Mohebi, San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations

A 32 year old woman, and mother of five children was beaten, stabbed and left to bleed to death in her California home on March 21, 2012.  She died on March 24.

A note was found next to her body, it said: “go back to your country, you terrorist.”

“A week ago they left a letter saying ‘this is our country not yours you terrorist’, and so my mom ignored that thinking it was just kids playing a prank. But the day they hit her, they left another note again, and it said the same thing.”-victim’s 17 year old daughter

The victim’s husband worked for the U.S. Army, training U.S. soldiers before deployment to the Middle East.  The victim had lived in the U.S. for 20 years!!!

Some people think she was targeted because she continued to wear a scarf over her hair when outdoors!  You know there was a time when even Christian women wore scarves over their hair!

Read up you sick Mother F***ing Ass Hole right wing American christian bastards and bitches! Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!  You Sons of Bitches and Bastards U.S. of A. christians are the real terrorists!!!

Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!

Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!

Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!

Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!

Not one single Iraqi has ever committed an act of terrorism against the United States!!!

And this isn’t the first time U.S. christians killed someone for not being christian.  Don’t forget the christian Texas family that killed a former U.S. Army soldier for refusing to accept christianity!

International, U.S.

World War 3: Libyan Rebel leader says Western Powers wanted Gaddafi killed, because of his knowledge of the evil secrets of Europe & United States

“There are just too many parties who have real interests that Gaddafi doesn’t talk, that he should be silenced forever.”-Mahmoud Jibril, former Interim Prime Minister Libyan NTC

In an exclusive interview with Russia Today, Jibril said Gaddafi was not killed under NTC orders, they wanted him alive. He says it was Western Powers (United States and European Union) that wanted him dead.

Jibril even said: “I would love to know who was behind [Gaddafi’s] killing.”

Those who killed Gaddafi even used their cell phones to record video of their torture and finally killing of Gaddafi.  It was obviously meant to send a message (as was the cell phone video of Saddam Hussein’s ridicule before he was executed).

Jibril says the proof that the war in Libya was not about oil, but about killing Gaddafi, is the fact that Europe was getting oil while Gaddafi was in power. This is backed up by Jibril’s belief that Western Powers suddenly ignored Libya once Gaddafi was killed: “What I am saying is that after the regime fell down [Gaddafi killed] most of the Western countries felt that ‘mission has been accomplished’…we need the help to re-establish our national army…to re-establish our police…and prepare the country for elections…unfortunately the kind of assistance provided by our potential friends…are not a priority for the time being.”

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Three U.S./NATO troops killed by Afghan government forces!

March, 26, 2012, several U.S./NATO/ISAF troops being killed by Afghan government forces, or police officers!

British media reporting at least two British troops killed by a man who “tricked” his way onto a British base in Helmand Province.  He was killed by U.K. troops.

Afghan officials say the man traveled from Nangarhar Province, and had been in the Afghan army for 4 years.

A third ISAF troop, from the U.S., was killed by a local police officer at a police checkpoint in Paktika Province.

International

Japan’s Jomon older than Sumerians

March 26, 2012, Chuo University associate professor Kenichi Kobayashi reporting that dating of cooked plants and beans, found in ruins in southwestern Japan, indicates they are at least 13,000 years old.

Dishes and grain grinders made of stone have also been found at the Ojiyama ruins in the city of Miyakonojo.

Anthropologists believe the Jomon people survived the last Great Ice Age, their civilization is older than the Bronze Age Sumerians.

The latest findings of preserved cooked food shows the diet of the Jomon was changing due to global warming.

Some researchers believe the Jomon might have built a sacred mountain site, near the Island of Yonaguni Jima, during the Ice Age.  That site is now underwater.  During the Ice Age it would have been above sea level, because sea levels were much lower during the Ice Age.  There is debate whether the site was built by Jomon, or that it was a natural formation used by the Jomon.

The Jomon, like many ancient societies, viewed rocks and mountains as sources of spiritual power.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Oil & Gas Prices: Argentina raises prices, Quantas uses cooking oil to fuel planes, Sinopec looking to rival U.S. shale oil production

Daniel Cameron, Argentina’s Energy Secretary, is proposing to raise the price of Argentine oil exports to $63 per barrel.  Currently Argentina sells their oil at $42 per barrel.

Decades ago the Argentine government froze their export oil prices.  Now oil production is way down, because it’s not worth it to the Argentine oil companies.

To make the economic situation worse, Argentina imports most of its refined fuel, and that’s been going up, in price as well as volume.  Cameron wants to increase their export oil prices to offset the growing demand and cost of imported fuel, and to build up reserve funds in Argentina’s Central Bank.

The Australian airline Quantas, will be using a mix of kerosene based jet fuel, and used cooking oil.

Two of their airliners will be using the mixed fuel.  It’s being supplied by a Dutch company called SkyNRG.

Don’t be too concerned, the turbine (jet engine) is a glorified diesel engine.  In 1893 Rudolph Diesel designed the diesel engine specifically to run on peanut, or vegetable oil.  He succeed, however he was sued by Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.

Today’s diesel fuel is actually Petrodiesel, meaning fuel for diesel engines made from petroleum, not plant oils.

So, turbines and piston diesel engines should run fine on cooking oil, unless they were specifically made to run on Petrodiesel only (and don’t forget the bogus U.S. EPA rules that force you to use Petrodiesel in your diesel powered vehicle).

Virgin Airways Australia is also about to run their airliners on plant based fuels.  The fuel will be based on a type of Eucalyptus, called a Mallee tree in Western Australia.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) will increase oil production and natural gas extraction.  This is partly because their profits dropped by 23% in their fourth business quarter.

The drop in profits came as corporate officials tried to shift from producing fuel, to buying fuel from other refiners.  Officials said Sinopec refining operations were actually costing more than refiners in other countries.

Sinopec is also exploring possible shale oil in western China, which could rival shale oil production in the United States.