The following quotes are from Major General Aharon Ze’evi Farkash, former Israeli Defense Forces intelligence chief
“An attack is not a single strike and once it happens we are in a whole other world. Iran will pull out of the [nuclear] Non-Proliferation Treaty…..and it will be clear that they need a bomb now so that […] Continue Reading…
“I don’t think the Syrian regime would collapse, but if it gets close to collapse, a new world war will erupt because China and Russia won’t let the regime in Syria collapse!”-Michel Aoun, Free Patriotic Movement
04 August 2012, a member of the Lebanese parliament warned that a third world war was guaranteed if Syria was […] Continue Reading…
Lebanese media saying the Syrian government has notified the Lebanese government that it is moving surface to air missiles to the border with Syria and Lebanon.
“This is not part of the global program, it’s just a quarterly cull.”-unnamed government source
03 August 2012, news media in the United Kingdom have discovered that Hewlett Packard (HP) has told the British government they will let go at least 268 employees.
British law requires companies that are laying off more than 20 employees to […] Continue Reading…
28 July 2012
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced: “Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today.”
ISAF also said a U.S. occupier died from a non-combat incident, in northern Afghanistan.
In Paktiya Province, local Afghan government military leaders claim they fought battles with militants from Pakistan. They claim […] Continue Reading…
In a press conference, at the United Nations in New York City, a Syrian UN rep stated that U.S. made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles were being shipped in to rebels, via NATO member Turkey.
Syrian rep states the United States is glad Kofi Annan resigned because the U.S. was against Annan’s six point peace plan. Syria, […] Continue Reading…
“The LIBOR situation is on our agenda and is a stark reminder of the damage that individual wrongdoing and inadequate systems and controls can have in terms of financial and reputational impact.”-Stephen Hester, CEO RBS
03 August 2012, the Royal Bank of Scotland announced it has fired several employees for their involvement in the LIBOR […] Continue Reading…
“December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division. December 21 should be the end of Coca-Cola.”-David Choquehuanca, Foreign Minister of Bolivia
This recent statement by officials from the South American country has been interpreted as meaning Coca Cola was banned from Bolivia. But David Choquehuanca has come out and stressed that […] Continue Reading…
“We went fifty years without any municipal bankruptcies in the United States, and now we are going to get dozens of them. The governing class did not get stupid fast.”-Richard Brodsky, former 14-term New York State assemblyman
(Actually, contrary to Brodsky’s statement, I think there was one chapter 9 bankruptcy in 1994, and another in 2008 […] Continue Reading…
“We think this is a situation that we will have to deal with for the foreseeable future.”-Bob Shanks, Ford CFO
“We have overcapacity now in Europe. It isn’t going to come back fast and we aren’t going to be saved by volume.”-Alan Mulally, Ford CEO
02 August 2012, Ford and General Motors (GM) reporting falling profits […] Continue Reading…